Marc reaches into his pocket and pulls o...

Marc reaches into his pocket and pulls out a ring box and slams it on the table.

MARC Happy anniversary.

Katelyn looks sheepishly around at the people at the adjoining tables. She gets quieter.

KATELYN Marc. What are you doing?

MARC Open it.

KATELYN Marc--

He just looks away from her, pushing the box towards her. Katelyn tentatively picks up the box from the table.

She flips it open She looks up at Marc...

KATELYN (cont’d) There’s nothing in it.

MARC I took it out last night. I don’t know if I want you to have it anymore.

Katelyn begins to gather her things.

KATELYN You shouldn’t have come.

MARC You think?

Katelyn drops her things and sits back down. She looks straight at Marc.

KATELYN I’m living with him.

Marc looks up at her.

KATELYN (cont’d) Staying... with him. His name is Aaron. And I am living at his apartment. With him. That’s why I wasn’t at my apartment last night. I don’t live there anymore.

Silence.

KATELYN (cont’d) But I told him it could only be until the end of July. Because I might be moving then. So I’m keeping to our deal, too.

Silence.

KATELYN (cont’d) So. Now you know.

MARC Why?

KATELYN It’s been almost a year, Marc. And I was lonely.

MARC Then come home to me.

She looks away. At anything but him.

MARC (cont’d) Or f#&king call. I’ve barely heard from you in three months.

KATELYN You make me feel more lonely.

MARC That’s not something you say to someone.

KATELYN We were supposed to be something different by now. The both of us.

MARC Well, I’m sorry if I let you down.

KATELYN That’s not what I’m saying.

MARC I think it is. I think that is what you have been saying every time we’ve talked since Christmas. Every time I tell you anything that is important to me, any time I tell you I tell you anything that is my life, you just treat it like it’s Not New York. But you know what, that’s my life. Up until ten months ago, that was our life. And now it’s just some boring f#&king embarrassment to you. You wanted to give your dream of a career in New York one last shot. And I said fine. I said more than “fine”, I said please - take a year, have your adventure. Go be Odysseus and I’ll be your Penelope and I’ll wait here for you, wait eagerly for you to come home. And if things go well for you on your travels, f#&k, I’ll get on that boat and sail off with you there. I gave you what you wanted. But Odysseus had Scylla and Charybdis. And you have Aaron and a show at the Met.

KATELYN Always the classics professor--

MARC Instructor. Classics instructor. Because I gave up my shot at a faculty position in Lewiston so you could keep designing shows in church basements in Phoenix. So don’t tell me I haven’t been supportive of you career.

KATELYN You said “give it a try.” Go to New York and “give it a try.” There was no part of you that ever imagined I wouldn’t end up coming home. Penelope never got on the f#&king boat and you know it.

MARC And yet here I am sitting with you in New York City and without a faculty position.

KATELYN You wanted to move us to some sh#tty little town.

MARC That’s where all the sh#tty little liberal arts schools are, Kate. So I don’t know what you want from me.

Sabbatical was developed with The CRY HAVOC Company.

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