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Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Characters
Paul Mel
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
America, Present Day
Act/Scene
Act 1

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MEL We had you over for dinner.

PAUL This is inappropriate, Mel.

MEL Don鈥檛 鈥渁ppropriate鈥� me. We鈥檙e going to lose our house.

PAUL You won鈥檛.

MEL I quit my job. When we started on the development, I quit my job so I could help him. We have nothing coming in, Paul.

PAUL I鈥檓 sorry.

MEL Nothing.

PAUL I know. And that鈥檚 why the bank called in the loan.

MEL You called it in.

PAUL No, I didn鈥檛.

MEL You called him into your office. You told him--...

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Our house, Paul.

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I thought you were a friend.

PAUL You should go home.

Paul heads for his car.

MEL He cried. When he got home today, he f##king cried. In front of my f##king kid. In front of his son. He wouldn鈥檛 like me telling you that--

PAUL No, he wouldn鈥檛.

MEL But he did. What about my kids, Paul?

PAUL Goodnight, Mel.

MEL What about them?

PAUL They鈥檒l be fine.

MEL They play with your kids.

PAUL I know.

MEL You want them to starve?

PAUL They won鈥檛.

MEL What am I going to feed them?

PAUL I don鈥檛 believe Derek is going to let that happen.

MEL What is he supposed to do. You call in the loans. You shut down his business. The houses are two-thirds up. Two of them, and the third is on its way. That鈥檚 money. That鈥檚 money we spent. That you鈥檙e taking away.

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