By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 31 January 2000

SCENE 22

SCENE 22-INT.-The apartment. Night.
Karis is sitting on the couch in the
den with all the lights off watching
"The Honeymooners." Derek walks in 
through the front door.
Karis: You aren't wearing your purple
shirt.
Derek: An astute observation! Where's
Becca?
Karis: She's playing Skee-Ball with Adonis.
Did you lose your job already?
Derek: Adonis, huh? And who's this Adonis,
when he's at home?
Karis: When he's at home?
Derek: It's British slang. I don't guess
you've seen "A Hard Day's Night."
Karis: Nope. Becca's the Beatles freak.
Please don't tell me you lost your job.
Derek: I quit. I start tomorrow at Little
Caesar's as a delivery driver.
Karis: I guess tacos get old after awhile.
Derek sits down beside Karis on the couch.
Derek: This is a potentially dangerous
situation.
Karis: How's that?
Derek: You're lookin' extremely edible. I
haven't had sex in five months, two weeks
and three days.
Karis: Poor baby. Well, Becca should be home
in a couple of hours. Skee-Ball always seems
to fire her up.
Derek: Why don't you have a boyfriend?
Karis: I'm too picky. I don't want any bisexuals,
starving artists, misogynists who bow down at the
altar of Howard Stern or illiterate mama's boys
who want to take me to church after the first date.
Derek: Maybe you'll get abducted by aliens when
you least expect it.
Karis: Or maybe I'll find a heterosexual, solvent
man who loves women and can spell and has read
T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller and maybe even Hemingway.
Derek: That's me in a nutshell. Now can we do it?
Karis: I can't believe you still haven't had sex
with Becca.
Derek: Believe it.
Karis: That's weird.
Derek: Has she had bad luck with men or something?
Karis: I don't feel right about discussing Becca's
history with you. That's something you need to talk
to Becca about. Leave me out of the equation altogether.
Derek: At least tell me who the hell Adonis is.
Karis: He's just a guy Becca met in rehab when she
was seventeen. They hang out sometimes.
Derek: What was she in rehab for?
Karis: Talk to Becca. I'm going to bed.