(Lucky and Liz are in Lucky's boxcar, Lucky is writing and Lizzie is drawing. Lucky looks up and is watching her)
Liz: I can feel you staring at me. It's like you're burning two perfect, hot, little holes in my side.
Lucky: I'm was just trying to figure out what you're painting.
Liz: You'll have to wait and see.
{She starts to paint and she sees a pool of red, running down the paper and starts thinking about the rape}
{Knowing what she was thinking about}
Lucky: Hey, stop it...
(Elizabeth holds up the painting)
Liz: So? What do you think?
Lucky: That's cool. Yeah. A lot of action.
Liz: Good. Then this can be the first one you watch.
Lucky: Ok.
Liz: On your tv. As long as you have one, you might as well use it.
Lucky: Thanks, because, you know, it was getting kind of boring watching a blank screen.
Liz: And when you get tired of it, you can just change the channel. Anything else you want? MTV? A baseball game?
Lucky: Surprise me--after you tell me what you're avoiding.
Liz: I'm not.
Lucky: Not that I mind. Any time you want to hide out and paint pictures for my television, feel free. I could use some more furniture while you're at it, too.
Liz: I just didn't feel like going to school today.
Lucky: Elizabeth, don't even try it. You know the grades for Murty's final came out this morning.
Liz: I just felt like sitting here and being humiliated instead of going to school and finding out I flunked in front of the entire class. I notice you're not jumping in to tell me I'm wrong.
Lucky: I checked your student I.D. number--you blew the test.
Liz: I was too busy setting up Murty to pay attention to the test. You know, I really thought we'd catch him that night. I thought we'd prove that he raped me, and then I wouldn't have to worry about my grade. You know sometimes it makes me just want to scream that I actually have to worry about what grade my rapist gives me in English.
Lucky: I thought you wanted olives.
Liz: They're ok. There's another reason why I didn't go to school today. They know, don't they--the kids? They know I was raped.
Lucky: No.
Liz: Well, you heard Nikolas at the Nurses Ball. He said 'he didn't care what your little girlfriend had been through'. He was talking about the rape. And obviously he told Emily because why else would she have said that thing about the Webber girls throwing themselves at all the guys?
Lucky: Listen to me--Emily was mad because you insulted Prince Nikolas. She just said the first thing that came into her head. She doesn't know. I mean, it sounded like it, but she doesn't.
Liz: You can't be sure.
Lucky: Well, Emily is not cruel. Believe me, if she knew something had happened she would have never said anything like that.
Liz: Well, Nikolas knows.
Lucky: Ok. Look--he maybe figured it out when he saw you coming out of the support group, but that was months ago. And the Nurses Ball--that was the first time he said anything.
Liz: That we know of.
Lucky: He has no friends. There's no one he could tell that would be interested. Look, even if the whole town knew, why should you be ashamed, huh? You didn't do anything wrong. The wrong was done to you.
Liz: Right. I was raped, and that's all I'll ever be--the girl who was raped. I'm the one they'll stare at, I'm the one they'll whisper about. I didn't even do anything, and I'm the one that has to pay. That pig used me, and he walked away like nothing happened. No matter what I do, or how hard I try to leave it behind me, I will always be stuck there, trapped in that night, in those bushes. And no matter how hard I fight, I will never get away.
(Lucky holds her hand)
Lucky: You ok?
(Elizabeth nods her head)
Liz: Sometimes it's good to cry. It releases some of the pressure. Sorry you had to watch.
Lucky: No, there's nothing to be sorry about. Elizabeth, no one knows you were raped except the people you've told. And Nikolas, but I'll make sure he doesn't tell anyone else, ok?
Liz: I don't want you to fight with your brother because of me.
Lucky: Nikolas isn't my brother. He's my mother's other son. And I hated him long before this happened to you. We're not going to fight. I'm just going to tell the prince how it is, and he's going to listen to me.
Liz: Sounds like a fight to me.
Lucky: It's not. Trust me.
Liz: I've never trusted anyone more in my life. But it's not enough. I need to do something, Lucky. I need to find the next step. The one that will get me past this.
[MUSIC PLAYS]
(Iris, Goo Goo Dolls)
And I'd give up forever to touch you Cause I know that you feel me somehow you're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be and I don't want to go home right now
(Lucky and Elizabeth are sitting beside each other. Elizabeth focuses on her painting. Lucky looks over to her and brushes the hair out of her eyes. She looks up at him and then they both go back to what they were doing)