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5a) In which Bean and Sy are reunited and their bed keeps changing

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(BEAN is in bed.  SY stands before her.)

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SY
You want to sleep on that side?

 

BEAN
Sure. 

 

SY 
Okay.

 

BEAN
…

(SY crawls into bed.)

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SY
Can you scooch?  

 

BEAN
…

 

SY
Thanks.

 

BEAN
…

 

SY
They’re releasing your Dad tomorrow.

 

BEAN
I know.

 

SY
I figured you’d be happy.

 

BEAN
I am.

 

SY 
You don’t seem it.

 

BEAN
I don’t know what to tell you, I am.

(The bed begins to turn into a grapefruit.)

 

SY
Are you glad to be back?

 

BEAN
I am glad to be back.

 

SY
What lies do you tell me to remain yourself?

 

BEAN
That I love you.

 

SY 
I knew it. 
I am okay with that.

 

BEAN
It was all so much easier when we were younger.

(The bed splits in two, the red fruit oozes, squishes, breathes.) 

I am not your damage control.
I am acid and paint peeling.

 

SY
What lies do you tell me to remain? 

 

BEAN
The ring that you gave me fell off in the shower.

 

SY
Is that a lie?

 

BEAN
It’s a half-lie.
It fell off in the shower, but it didn’t go down the drain.
I pawned it to buy a suitcase.
I put the rest of the money in my savings.
In case I had to go.

 

SY
What about the children?

 

BEAN
We don’t have any children.

 

SY
What about them though?

 

BEAN
They will be fine.
Future Kings, King-Makers.

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SY
You look so beautiful in red.

 

BEAN
I missed you.

 

SY
…

 

BEAN
I did.

 

SY
…

 

BEAN
…

 

SY
No, you didn’t.

(The bed turns into a tooth, a molar.)

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BEAN
Fear makes you say the craziest things.

 

SY
When I look away, are you still there?
 

(Smash into: 5b)