Savage Lines

Linda?

Denise?

Hi.

Hi.

Do you want me not to notice that you're crying?

I don’t care who knows. I gotta situation here, but I don’t know you good enough to talk about it. 

Comon. We went to school together.

Grammar school only.

So we're not friends. Cry by yourself.

No. Hey. I can’t go home. It’s too early. My mother would know something is wrong. She’d be in my face inna minute.

You wanna shoot a game of pool

No.

Why you crying?

It’s my boyfriend Anthony. Something’s gone wrong with him.

That's Tony Aronica, right?

Yeah.

The one who wears leather pants.

Sometimes he does.

Incredibly good-looking.

Yeah, that’s him.

He knocked you up last year.

Where’d you hear that?

I heard it.

Nobody knocked me up.

You're sloppy and you're fertile

Are you bein nasty to me?

So, what's wrong with you? What's the story? Did you get knocked up again

No. It’s Anthony. He’s gone crazy.

Is he hittin you?

No.

What's he doin?

He wants to see other women. (1)

What?

He wants to see other women. (2)

And for this you think he's crazy, huh? You are a pisser.

You don’t understand.

I understand that. That's very common

No, no. You don’t understand.

Have it your own way.

He wants to see ugly women.

They may look that way to you honey, but I guess he sees 'em different

You don’t understand. He told me. He says, Linda, I wanna see ugly girls.

He said that?

Yes.

Well, what did he mean?

He meant what he said.

He's just got too much dog in 'em. He thinks like a dog

What are you tellin me? You're tellin me nothin. I tell you what's goin on, and you tell me it ain't goin on. It's goin on. Anthony wants to see ugly girls cause I don't know why, but that's the fuckin news and don't tell me otherwise. Every Monday night I go to his place and we spend time together, and this night I go and he's got this look in his eye. Like he knows somethin, and like he never seen me before. I got a scared feelin right away. I touch him but he puts my hand away. He says he wants to talk. What's he wanna talk about before we go to bed? Whať's there to talk about? When a woman wants to talk to a man, it's cause she wants the man to see her better. When it's the other way, when the man stops you from touchin to talk, what's there to talk about? It's gotta be bad. I tried to keep him from talkin. I I in turned myself on. But there was somethin in his mind. Even my mother sees what Anthony's got. Even my mother. She'd like a taste. She knows where I'm goin on Monday nights. I don't come home till late, the mornin sometimes, but she don't say anything. Any other time she would. But she knows where I go, and she wants it for me. Once I was goin, and she whispered to me so's my father wouldn't hear, Take it, Linda. That's all. Take it, Linda. And I did. And now he don't wanna see me cause he wants to see ugly women. I said I'd be ugly for him, but he said no. It didn't work that way. I'm so ashamed. I feel ugly. I feel fat. Anthony don't want me no more.

You're not fat. You're almost fat. But you're not fat. You wanna play some cards?

No.