CHARLIE (cont’d) I can’t do this, Lou....

Out of Tune

Louise Charlie

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CHARLIE (cont’d) I can’t do this, Lou.

LOUISE What?

CHARLIE I can’t do this.

LOUISE What does that mean?

CHARLIE I don’t know. But I can’t do it.

A beat.

LOUISE You got me pregnant. It’s already done.

CHARLIE I did not do this to you. I have spent the last six months feeling like I don’t know who I am anymore and feeling like I can’t talk to you about it because you don’t understand.

LOUISE I want to understand, but I can’t if you don’t talk to me.

CHARLIE It’s just so final. There is this experience that I have taken for granted my entire life that I would have. There was never a question that it would happen. Like the most basic human experience. But I will never get to now. And I only get one life, Lou. So it’s like I never get to do it… like ever. And I didn’t choose

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