By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 27 December 1999

Seis

SCENE 6- INT. Night. IHOP.
Karis is sitting across from Becca and Derek in a booth.
Becca and David are smoking cigarettes and drinking
coffee. Karis is eating a bacon and cheese omelet.
Derek: Let's take a road trip to Acuna.
Becca: Yeah!
Karis: Road trips to border towns kinda lose their appeal
once you're old enough to consume alcoholic beverages.
Becca: Bullshit! It's not just the bars. It's the shameless 
squalor and the lazy, timeless charm of the lack of progress
and pretension.
Derek: It's the cheap beer and tequila and pharmaceuticals.
It's the horny women and intricately painted walking canes
and switchblades and souvenir shot glasses and t-shirts.
Becca: A wise Mexican man once told me that it is bad
luck for a woman to buy a switchblade for a man she loves.
Derek: Now, darlin', that is a crock of shit. You could buy me
a switchblade and I'd still love you.
Becca: No, no, no! I don't want to die like Nancy Spungen!
Karis: He never said he'd be your Sid, did he?
Derek: I wouldn't kill you if you begged me to.
Becca: Good, then. Let's go to Acuna, damn it!
Karis: You are both certifiably insane. What a bizarre courtship
ritual. 
Derek: Bite your tongue. We're just friends. Right, darlin'?
Becca: Well, yeah. But who knows what can happen
on the way to Mexico?