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| Chapter 7 |
| (Elena drives Nick home and they walk inside and start to unpack his bags) Elena: (grabbing some of his clothes that he threw on the floor) You want me to start the laundry? Nick: (looks at Elena and notices she isn’t looking at him) I want you to talk to me. Elena: Can’t we wait for a few minutes? You just got back home and I thought you might want to check the mail and stuff. Nick: (grabs her hand and brings her to the couch. They both sit down) Talk now. Elena: I don’t know where to start. Nick: From the beginning. What happened? Elena: Ok. (Takes a deep breath) I was late. Nick: Oh. (Thinks about it for a second) OH. Oh god. Ummm…what happened? Elena: I got a pregnancy test and I took it… Nick: Are you…I mean…are we? Elena: No. I’m not. Nick: Thank god. (Starts to kiss Elena) Elena: (pushes him away) That’s all you have to say. Nick: (surprised) What do you want me to say? Elena: I don’t know. What if I was? What would we do then? Nick: We’ll you’re not so we don’t have to worry about it. Elena: God Nick. (Stands up) I just went through the most stressful time of my life without you here and all you have to say is “we’ll you’re not so we don’t have to worry about it?” What the hell? Nick: Come on Elena…(gets up and walks over to her) you know what I mean. I’m happy that you aren’t pregnant. I mean we’re too young. Elena: (walks away from him) That’s right. We are too young to be even thinking about all of this, any of this. I mean if I was pregnant…what then? We’re only 20 and I’m not ready for a baby or for a husband. I’m pretty sure you aren’t ready for a baby and a wife. Nick: No, I’m not. But you aren’t pregnant. Elena: Yeah I know. You said that already. Nick: (sighs) I don’t know what you want me to say. Elena: I don’t want you to say anything. This whole thing is going to fast for me…for us. Nick: What are you talking about? Elena: We have to take a break. Nick: A break from what? Elena: Us. Nick: You…want to…break up? Elena: (walks back towards Nick) Look, things have gone too fast these past couple of months. When I invision myself pregnant I picture myself married and everything. Can you honestly tell me that in a few years you can picture me as your wife? Cause I can’t see you as my husband. Nick: (thinks) No, I can’t see you as my wife. Elena: See that’s what I mean. (Takes his hand and walks him to the couch and they sit down) I love you…don’t think that I don’t, but we can’t, not now. We need this. Do you understand? Nick: Yeah. I understand. (Pause) So now what? Are we officially over? Elena: I guess so. Nick: Oh. (They sit there on the couch for a little while not saying a word to each other) Elena: I guess I better get going. (She reaches over to Nick and hugs him) I’ll be seeing you. (Gets up, turns away from him, and wipes a tear off her cheek) Nick: Yeah. (She walks out the door. Nick watches her car pull away, walks over to the couch, sits down, and starts to cry) Nick: I love you Elena. THE END! |
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