He drinks.
Lilly stares at him.
LILLY
Wow.
TREY
What?
LILLY
I’ve just – never heard anyone say that.
I mean, I think it all the time but –
I’ve never heard it out loud.
TREY
Well you’re welcome.
He drinks again.
TREY
So why doesn’t your fiancé want you?
LILLY
We…
She hesitates, rolling the beer can in between her hands, avoiding looking at Trey in the face.
TREY
Lilly, you can tell me. I’ll tell you
about my shitty relationship if you want.
LILLY
All right then. You first.
Trey drinks.
TREY
My girl… my ex-girlfriend
just kicked me out of our home.
LILLY
What’d you do?
TREY
(looking down)
I cheated on her.
Lilly is quiet.
TREY
You must think I’m an asshole.
LILLY
If you had told me that a year ago,
I definitely would.
TREY
Why not now?
She looks at him, thinking about her own sexual fantasies she’d had of this very man earlier that day.
She shakes her head and looks away from him.
TREY
Come on. Why not now?
LILLY
I guess I just – don’t judge as much now.
TREY
Have you cheated on your fiancé?
LILLY
No!
TREY
Damn! I was just asking.
SILENCE.
LILLY
We don’t even really have sex anymore.
TREY
You and your fiancé?
She nods.
TREY
That’s too bad for him.
He smiles.
Slowly, she smiles, too.
They each take another drink.
It starts raining, a soft drizzle at first. Then quickly the rain pours.
LILLY
Shit!
Trey stands.
TREY
Come on!
He takes her hand and they run to his truck.
IN TREY’S TRUCK:
Trey and Lilly get inside.
LILLY
There’s rain in my beer!
Trey laughs.
TREY
Who cares?
They pause, staring into each other’s eyes.
A moment…
Lilly thinks about Harry, about their wedding, about their new home they’d be living in, and those thoughts leave her the instant she stares too long at Trey.
She lunges forward and kisses him.
She draws back, shocked by her own action. Trey is rendered speechless and dazed.
But…
They begin kissing each other passionately as she climbs onto his lap.
BLACK SCREEN.
XI
“RICHARD AND HARRY”
RICHARD’S AND BETTY’S HOUSE, IN THE LIVING ROOM:
Sam lies on top of Harry. They haven’t moved since they fell off the ladder.
Richard stands in the living room doorway, motionless, his mouth open and in shock.
SILENCE.
Thunder sounds in the distance outside, and rain begins, a drizzle at first, but then it pours.
Harry pushes Sam off.
SAM
Dad? What are you doing here?
I thought you were working late.
Harry stands and approaches Richard.
HARRY
Baby, please. This isn’t what it looks like.
Richard violently shoves Harry away from him.
RICHARD
Don’t you call me that!
They stand still.
SAM
Dad, what’s going on?
Richard glares at Harry.
RICHARD
Who – who the hell are you?
Why are you in my house?!
HARRY
Richard. That won’t work.
He knows something is up.
But Richard backhand slaps Harry across the face, making his wig shift and taking the poor man aback. He covers his mouth, and the sting of pain renders him speechless.
RICHARD
Who in God’s name are you?!
Get out of my house you pervert!
What are you doing to my son?!
SAM
Dad!
RICHARD
Sam who is this?!Is this some sort of joke?
Are you a fag and this is your fag boyfriend?!
Harry sees the utterly confused expression on Sam. He looks back at Richard.
HARRY
No, Richard… I’m your fag boyfriend!
Richard charges forward and wraps his hands around Harry’s throat.
RICHARD
You son of a bitch!
SAM
Dad stop!
Sam races forward and fights his father.
Richard throws Sam off of him, and Sam crashes into the coffee table. The suicide note that was on it falls to the floor. Sam sees this and quickly puts it in his pocket.
Harry punches Richard across his face until Richard finally releases him, and then he wheezes for air.
Richard looks at the both of them.
Sam stands up.
SAM
Dad, what’s going on?
HARRY
Tell him Richard.
Tell him what’s been going on for three months!
SILENCE.
SAM
Oh my God.
And finally Sam understands it.
SAM
Oh my God.
Dad!
Richard lowers his head.
Harry stands and readjusts his wig and dress.
HARRY
Go to hell, Richard.
Harry picks his purse off the floor and leaves, his high heels clopping across the floor on his way out.
Sam and Richard stand still for a moment.
SAM
Is that true?
RICHARD
Get out.
Sam doesn’t move.
RICHARD
Leave!
Sam stares a moment longer at his father, then slowly backs away and leaves the way that Harry went.
Richard stands alone in the living room, his teeth clenched and his blood boiling.
OUTSIDE RICHARD’S AND BETTY’S HOUSE:
Rain pours down.
Harry marches furiously to his car.
Sam comes out of the house chasing after him.
SAM
Wait! Please wait!
Harry opens the car door and then stops to look at Sam who has reached the other side of the car.
HARRY
I’m sorry, Sam. You shouldn’t
have found out like that.
SAM
Are you – are you having sex with my dad?
Harry looks at Sam and then back at the house. He rubs his throat where Richard had tried to strangle him.
HARRY
Not anymore.
Harry gets into his car and speeds away down the street.
Sam stands still.
SAM
(under his breath)
Holy shit…
Richard comes out of the front door.
RICHARD
Sam!
SAM
Holy shit!
Sam takes off running down the street.
RICHARD
Sam! Get back here!
But Sam is too far gone. He keeps running, and then he turns the corner, and then he runs further.
BLACK SCREEN.
XII
“TREY AND LILLY, PART FOUR”
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INSIDE TREY’S TRUCK:
Trey and Lilly are kissing passionately in the front seat while the rain pours outside.
Trey takes off Lilly’s shirt.
Lilly takes off Trey’s shirt.
He lays her down across the seat and kisses her body, going lower and lower. He takes off her jeans.
She feels more passion for this virtual stranger than she’s ever felt for her fiancé. Feeling this kills her, but she can’t stop it.
He bites her panties and tugs them lower.
LILLY
(moaning)
Oh my God.
Trey undoes his belt.
Suddenly Trey stops. He stays still, looking upon the nearly naked Lilly.
LILLY
What’s wrong?
TREY
I… I’m sorry.
(pause)
I can’t do this.
Lilly sits up.
TREY
Lilly, we shouldn’t do this.
Lilly begins dressing.
Trey sits back in his seat and looks out the window.
LILLY
I guess the problem is me.
TREY
No, no. Lilly, of course the
problem isn’t you.
She finishes dressing and looks out the passenger window.
TREY
You’ve got a fiancé. Trust me, you owe it to
him to talk about…
whatever it is you two are going through.
(pause)
I should’ve done that with Rose- my girlfriend.
(pause)
Maybe then I’d see my little girl more.
LILLY
You have a daughter?
Trey nods.
Lilly sighs heavily. She starts crying.
Trey scoots over to her and holds her.
TREY
Hey, hey. It’s okay.
LILLY
I just screwed everything up!
TREY
No you didn’t. We stopped.
LILLY
You stopped.
(pause)
I would have done it.
TREY
Then consider me doing that as a favor.
As a friend.
After a minute she calms down.
TREY
Trust me. Any guy would be lucky to
have you, and I don’t want to be the reason
why the man who loves you… loses you.
Lilly looks into his eyes.
LILLY
Okay. If you say so.
They pause and realize how close they are to each other.
LILLY
I think I need to go.
Trey moves back to his side of the seat.
TREY
Okay. I understand.
Let me drive you over to your car.
He starts the truck.
In silence, he drives them the small distance over to her car and parks.
TREY
You want me to walk you?
LILLY
I’ve got it.
Lilly looks in his eyes again.
LILLY
Thank you.
Trey smiles and nods.
Lilly gets out quickly to beat the rain.
Trey sits still.
Through the windows, he sees Lilly rush to her car and get inside. She starts looking for something, but she cannot find it. She gets out and comes back into Trey’s truck.
TREY
What’s wrong?
LILLY
Is my phone in here?
She looks under the seat of the truck and in the backseat.
Trey searches for the phone.
TREY
I don’t know.
I didn’t see it on you.
Here.
He hands her his cellphone.
TREY
Call it.
LILLY
Thanks.
Lilly dials her number on his cellphone.
A moment…
There is a vibrating sound from underneath Trey’s seat.
Trey reaches under him and finds Lilly’s cellphone. He hands it to her.
TREY
Must’ve slipped out of your jeans when…
They look awkwardly at one another.
LILLY
When you took off my pants?
They laugh a little.
TREY
Yeah.
She hands him back his phone.
They take a last look at each other, and they say their final words believing they’ll never see one another again…
LILLY
Bye, Trey.
TREY
Bye, Lilly.
She jumps out of the truck and gets quickly inside her own car.
Trey watches as she drives away into the night and the pouring rain.
LATER THAT NIGHT IN ROSEANNA’S TRAILER:
Roseanna is washing dishes at the sink.
Outside, the rain is pouring.
There is a knock at the door.
Roseanna turns the faucet off and comes to the door.
ROSEANNA
Who is it?
TREY
(from outside)
Roseanna, it’s me.
She takes a deep breath and opens the door.
There stands trey on the front steps under the rain. He looks like a lost, sad dog.
ROSEANNA
Trey, what are you doing?
TREY
I wanna come home, Roseanna.
She holds her breath, torn between wanting him back and hating him. She looks inside and sees Marie asleep on the couch.
Finally, she opens the door further and stands back.
Slowly, Trey enters the trailer. He sees Marie and smiles.
Roseanna shuts the door.
They are quiet when they speak.
TREY
Baby girl always did like to sleep to the rain.
ROSEANNA
She gets that from you.
Roseanna takes a step away from him.
ROSEANNA
You smell like beer.
What have you been doing?
Trey stares at her, and he remembers being with Lilly, being on top of Lilly, but he also remembers stopping himself from going further. He should tell her, tell Roseanna what happened, but he thinks twice; he decides not to…
TREY
Thinking. A lot of thinking.
Roseanna studies him, but she avoids eye contact.
ROSEANNA
If you want dry clothes there’s some
still in the dresser.
Trey smiles.
TREY
You said you threw them all out.
ROSEANNA
Yeah well… not all of ‘em.
(pause)
You should probably shower first.
Trey nods.
TREY
Thank you.
She looks away from him before they can make eye contact, before he can flash a smile at her.
Trey understands her reluctance, and he leaves her and goes to the back of the trailer.
Roseanna looks his way, and then she looks at Marie. She kneels next to the couch and kisses Marie on the head.
MINUTES LATER IN ROSEANNA’S SHOWER:
Trey stands under the running water rinsing himself off.
The shower curtain draws back.
Roseanna, naked, enters the shower with him.
TREY
Roseanna, what are you doing?
She puts her hand over his mouth.
They pause and look into each other’s eyes.
ROSEANNA
Don’t make me change my mind again.
They kiss softly and gently.
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