Medi Sometimes you are such a f##k, Zack...

Medi Sometimes you are such a f##k, Zack.

Zack What?

Medi What?

Zack What?

Medi You didn't even give her your ri—

Zack Hey, that's the game. That's how it's played.

Medi C'mon. That's no ex—

Zack I didn't come up with the rules, kid. I just play by 'em.

Medi What about her?

Zack What about her? She was playing, too. Same game. Same rules. Same reward.

Medi What about me?

Zack Same game, same rules, same—

Medi Same what? What do I get?

Zack You didn't enjoy—

Medi No.

Zack At all?

Medi No.

Zack Not even her—

Medi No! Jesus Christ...

Zack Why? She really knew what—

Medi She was doing. Yeah. She sure did. And you know what?

Zack What?

Medi She had great tits, too. And she was an incredible kisser, and she knew just where to lick, just where to nip, just how hard.

Zack Yeah.

Medi And you know what?

Zack What?

Medi She's gone. We'll never see her again.

Zack Yeah? But tonight...

Medi Tonight isn't enough, Zack. I want more.

Zack What? What more? Why?

Medi I have tried. I really have. You wanted to try things and—

Zack What more?

Medi Do you remember when it was just you and me? Just us?

Zack That's what you want?

Medi Do you remember?

Zack Yes. I wasn't happy.

Medi Yes, you were. We were.

Zack C'mon. We were never really...

Medi Yes. Of course we had problems. Everybody does. But—

Zack So you want to go back to just you and— Look, it was your idea as much as...

Medi Fine. Sh#t, look. I was happy—

Zack Then why—

Medi I was ha—

Zack Then wh—

Medi I was happy. Then you decided you needed more. More than us. You needed her. Them. All of them.

Zack What about—

Medi And you know, I understood. I did. I tried.

Zack What about you?

Medi Yes. I wanted it, too. You weren't enough for me, either. Is that what you want to hear?

Zack Well, I didn't—

Medi Sure, I wanted more. I wanted a woman around.

Zack And you have one. You have more than one! You have—

Medi Y'see, that's just it. I don't want all of them. You go out to a bar—

Zack You don't go out?

Medi Not the point.

Zack What is the point?

Medi The point is that... listen... the point is that you go out—

Zack I go ou—

Medi We go out, whatever. And you meet this woman in a bar...

Zack What woman?

Medi Whatever one is there... available... easy, whatev—

Zack You think it's easy? Getting someone to come back here with us?

Medi And then you bring her back here. F##k her.

Zack And you?

Medi And, somehow, yes, I always f##k her, too. And she f##ks us. And she goes home.

Zack Yes. So? We both get our woman.

Medi No, you get your woman. I don't want that.

Zack What do you—

Medi I want a woman to be with. To talk to. To hold. To be naked with. To touch and to let touch me. To make love with.

Zack I'm missing your point, here. We do get naked. We do make love.

Medi No. We strip. We f##k. We send her home with a fake name.

Zack Listen—

Medi No. Don't you see? I'm glad that you're happy. That's why I didn't mind you bringing these women home.

Zack And now you do?

Medi Yes.

Zack Well...

Medi No.

Zack So, what? You don't want me bringing women home anymore?

Medi No. Yes. It's not women. It's these women.

Zack What women?

Medi The sluts. The ones you can convince to come back here. The ones who ask to come back here. The ones who "own stock in penicillin."

Zack Who does that leave?

Medi Nice girls. Normal girls.

Zack (taunting her) Nice girls don't s—

Medi (the tension is eased. She is kidding with Zack) Don't say it.

Zack What that nice girls don't s—

Medi C'mon. Seriously. Can we look?

Zack Okay. We'll look.

Medi Good (she crawls next to him on the bed.). It's bullsh#t, you know?

Zack What?

Medi That good girls don't s—

Zack If I can't say it...

Medi Fine. (she curls up next to him in the bed)

Zack G'night.

Medi 'Night.

Zack (a beat) How do you know.

Medi Kristen—

Both Thompson.

Zack Oh, yeah. (chuckles) She wasn't that good.

Medi No?

Zack Dinosaur! Dinosaur! F##k! Bitch! Dinosaur!

Medi What?

Zack Sorry, I've got T-Rex Syndrome. (they both laugh in spite of themselves)

Medi That was awful.

Zack Yeah...

Both (slipping into sleep, as the lights fall) ...but I enjoyed it.

The Median Line was developed with The CRY HAVOC Company

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