ACT ONE, SCENE THREE
Exterior: College Dormitory Apartments, parking lot.
(Kiyah pulls into parking lot, stops car. Ashley gets out. She waves and says bye. The car pulls away and Ashley watches it drive away before turning and heading into her apartment building.)
Fade Into:
Interior: Kiyah's living room
(Kiyah, Samantha, and Laura enter.)
KIYAH
(heading directly into her bedroom)
Laura, I can't even.
(She slams the door behind her.)
LAURA
What? Kiyah, don't be like that. Just say it.
KIYAH
(coming out of her room, standing in the doorway)
How dare you? I asked you if you liked him and you said it was nothing, twenty minutes of nothing...Don't say it, Samantha! Why didn't you just tell me the truth, Laura?
LAURA
I didn't know...I didn't want...I don't want...
KIYAH
Don't want? But you kissed him!
LAURA
He kissed me!
KIYAH
Oh for the love of...why does everything good happen to everyone else?
LAURA
Don't say that, Kiyah. Just don't.
KIYAH
So, he kissed you and now what, you guys are--
LAURA
Nothing...wait, I don't know...I just--
KIYAH
Nothing?
LAURA
(collapsing onto sofa)
I just don't know, okay? I mean, look what we just did today, with Lucy. I'm just gun-shy, all right? Look, I'm sorry I didn't say anything to you but I honestly didn't want to...see it for myself.
KIYAH
Right. Whatever.
LAURA
Look, I am starting at the shop in the morning, for Lucy, so I think I just need a nice hot shower and then just to not think for awhile. I need some time...to myself. I don't want...
KIYAH
Don't want?
LAURA
Love. I guess, I am....
SAMANTHA
Running?
LAURA
Yeah. That.
Fade into: Nate, in his room.
(Nate holds a piece of paper with "Laura's cell 541.226.5886" scribbled across it in one hand and his phone in the other. He stares for along time at the paper, as if willing himself to call or text her. His phone rings, the caller id reads "Jessica", he hesitates and then silences the phone. He puts it down on the table.)
Fade out.
Act one, Scene Four
Exterior: Street
(Laura is in jogging clothes, running and listening to music.)
Fade into: Ashley, waking up in her dorm room bed
She sits up, groggy eyed, then suddenly runs to bathroom.
CUTAWAY: Ashley bending over toilet, vomiting.
CUTAWAY:Laura running down the street, headphones in.
Cutaway: Nate and doodle leaving his granny unit
Nate walks Doodle down the street, sees Laura ahead of him on the other side of the street. He watches her from afar, hesitating.
Cutaway: Laura in foreground, Nate in background with doodle.
Fade into: Lucy and Kiyah's boutique
(Laura and Kiyah are at work together, silently working, after a few beats, Kiyah speaks.)
KIYAH
Hey, Laura?
LAURA
Yeah?
KIYAH
Look, I've been thinking. I mean, I am sorry that I was so harsh with you yesterday...I guess after everything that happened with Lucy and you and Samantha...and even with my ex...I get kind of testy. I just...
LAURA
It's okay. You've been awesome for all of us. We've been through a lot, and its like what they always say--
KIYAH
What do they always say?
LAURA
I'll tell you...'Guys come and go, but friends are forever'. So, let's not let little ol' Nate the Manny come between us. So not worth it.
(Laura freezes with the memory of that last phrase from yesterday. Kiyah doesn't see it.)
KIYAH
Yeah, I just want to know, when its going to happen for me. You know, love, life, everything. I am almost thirty and I don't even know what I am doing with my life. I mean, I got the shop but its really all Lucy, I'm just her glorified assistant.
LAURA
You are so more than that.
KIYAH
Well, yeah, but not legally. I never finished my degree, so it is what it is.
LAURA
Maybe you should.
KIYAH
Should?
Laura
Finish your degree?
KIYAH
Yeah, been thinking about it, actually.
LAURA
Yeah, I need to figure out myself too, what I want and who I am...without.
KIYAH
Without?
LAURA
Without...a guy, without anything. Just me. Just Laura.
KIYAH
Yeah, like who is Kiyah without. Who is Kiyah? Kiyah is?
LAURA
So its settled then? Boys on the side, friends forever?
KIYAH
Friends forever!
(They fist bump and then hug. The door bell opens to signify that someone has entered.)
(Nate approaches the counter.)
(Laura and Kiyah's faces fall.)
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