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(HUNTER stares out, slowly swivels in his chair from side to side,
still deeply perplexed.
FADE OUT.)
LYNETTE HAS
THE END BEAUTIFUL SKIN
by Jane Anderson
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(A beat.)
LYNETTE. Yeah, Larry, stay.
LARRY. (Trying to get back to a conversation.) So anyway ... LARRY. I dunno ...
BOBBY. So, you were saying? BOBBY. C’mon, I’ll buy you another slice. You want another
LYNETTE. Yeah, the girl, you’re seeing a girl? slice?
LARRY. Yeah ... LARRY. I’m not that hungry for another one.
BOBBY. Then hang out.
(BOBBY takes a bite of Lynette’s pizza. SHE smacks his hand.) LYNETTE. Yeah, Larry, hang out.
BOBBY. How’s your car?
LYNETTE. Bobby get outta there! / I can’t believe you. LARRY. My car?
BOBBY. You were saying, Larry, what? BOBBY. Yeah, you get the distributor fixed?
LARRY. This girl ... BOBBY. That’s a son of a bitch. Find a new one?
LYNETTE. Dammit, Bobby. LARRY. Yeah, I finally went to Brandt’s.
BOBBY. (To Lynette, re: pizza.) V'll buy you another. You BOBBY. Brandt’s is overpriced. You shoulda gone to
Conway’s.
want another?
LYNETTE. No, I want to eat the slice I have now. You always LARRY. I went to Conway’s. They were out of stock.
do this to me. BOBBY. Depends who you ask. You talk to Frank?
BOBBY. What? What am I always doing to you? LARRY. No.
LYNETTE. You’re always eating my food. BOBBY. You should of talked to Frank. He can get you
BOBBY. When? anything. At half the price. Brandt’s, you pay too much.
LYNETTE. Like now. Like all the time.
BOBBY. (To Larry, amused.) I do? (LYNETTE is playing with her straw, bored. BOBBY puts his arm
around her.)
LYNETTE. All the time.
BOBBY. Your food tastes better.
LYNETTE. It really bothers me, Bobby. BOBBY. So what are you doing?
BOBBY. OK. I won’t do it anymore.
LYNETTE. Nothing.
BOBBY. Nothing? What are you doing with the straw?
LYNETTE. OK.
BOBBY. OK.
LYNETTE. Nothing.
complicated man.
BOBBY. (To Larry.) You want another Coke? Let me get you a LARRY. Uh-huh.
Coke. (Getting up.) I'll get you another Coke. (To Lynette.) You LYNETTE. To Bobby intimacy means control. He wants his
want another Diet? independence but he wants to control. But to me, intimacy means
LYNETTE. Yeah, a Diet. trust. I’m very into trust and Bobby’s into control. You know what
I mean?
(BOBBY moves off to the counter.) LARRY. Yeah, I like to trust ...
LYNETTE. That’s very rare. Most men are controllers and
LYNETTE. So how’s your job? most women are trusters.
LARRY. It’s OK. LARRY. Yeah?
LYNETTE. Who’s that girl, wasn’t there a girl? LYNETTE. Oh sure, men trusters are very special, very rare.
LARRY. Yeah, I was saying ... Judy. LARRY. (Trying to be modest.) Well, you know, I’m not a
LYNETTE. You still seeing her? truster all the time.
LARRY, It’s hot and cold. LYNETTE. That’s OK, that’s OK. You can’t be. Or else you’d
LYNETTE. That’s OK, that’s OK. I was hot and cold with be a victim, A lot of women tmusters are victims.
Bobby. It’s part of the game. LARRY. Sure, that makes sense. I don’t think Judy is a victim.
LARRY. I can’t tell with her. LYNETTE. Uh-huh.
LYNETTE. I played very cold. But I’d give him signals. She LARRY. Neither are you.
give you signals? LYNETTE. No.
LARRY. I dunno. She gives me looks.
LYNETTE. That’s good, that’s good. Looks are good. (A beat.
LARRY. I’ve seen her looking at me, /but it’s hard to tell. BOBBY comes back with the drinks.)
LYNETTE. Beginnings are hard, they’re very hard. My
beginning with Bobby was very complex. BOBBY. So Larry, how’s work?
LARRY. Uh-huh. LARRY. It’s OK. I was / telling Lynette ...
LYNETTE. He was deeply troubled. His family. You ever meet
his family? (BOBBY puts a piece of ice down Lynette’s blouse.)
LARRY. Yeah.
LYNETTE. So you know. LYNETTE. Shit, Bobby! Whatta ya doing!!
LARRY. Yeah, I’ve met them / once or twice.
LYNETTE. You can’t just walk right into Bobby’s life. You (BOBBY holds Lynette’s arins so she can't get the ice out.)
have to give him lots of room. Even now.
LARRY. Yeah. BOBBY. So what were you saying, Larry?
LYNETTE. He’s needs his independence but he wants to be LARRY. Yeah, I was saying, you know, / work is OK ...
close. LYNETTE. (Laughing and screaming.) Bobby, let go! It’s
LARRY. Yeah, I think Judy might be / like that ... cold! Let go!
LYNETTE. It’s hard, it’s hard sometimes. Bobby is a very BOBBY. How’s that girl you’re seeing, / what’s her name,
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beat.) Actually four for me, three and a half for Bobby. BOBBY. Larry, hang out.
BOBBY. That’s right. LYNETTE, Come on, hang out.
LARRY. So do you think maybe Judy is playing it cool so she LARRY. (Getting up.) No, I’m gonna go.
doesn’t scare me off? BOBBY. You didn’t finish about Judy.
BOBBY. Sure. Absolutely. You have to make the first moves. LARRY. That’s OK.
(BOBBY takes Lynette’'s arm and starts stroking the skin on the LYNETTE. Larry, stay.
inside.) LARRY. Nah, I’m gonna go. I’ll see you around, OK?
LARRY. I just don’t want to be, you know, all over her, in case BOBBY. What’re you doing tomorrow?
she’s not interested. LARRY. I dunno. I’1l call you.
LYNETTE. Don’t worry about that. (LYNETTE smacks LYNETTE. You wanna talk, call me, OK?
Bobby's hand away.) LARRY. OK. Thanks for the Coke.
BOBBY. You kiss her yet? (BOBBY grabs Lynette’s arm.)
LARRY. Well yeah, we’ve done some kissing. (LARRY leaves. THEY sit for a beat. BOBBY makes a half-hearted
BOBBY. (Stroking Lynette’s arm.) So, was it good? attempt to stroke Lynette’s arm.)
LYNETTE. (Smacking Bobby.) Bobby, don’t.
LYNETTE. (Truly annoyed.) Don’t.
(BOBBY holds on to Lynette’s arm and buries his face in the crook
of her elbow, making little nibbles with his lips.) (A long beat. BOBBY finishes the rest of Lynette’s pizza. LYNETTE
folds designs in the straw wrapper. Finally:)
LYNETTE. (Giggling and screaming.) Bobby, c’mon. Larry
tell him to stop! BOBBY. You want me to get you something else?
BOBBY. I love your skin, Lynette. LYNETTE. No.
LYNETTE. It tickles! C’mon, stop! Larry, tell him to stop! BOBBY. You wanna go?
LARRY. (Resigned.) Stop. LYNETTE. I don’t care.
(BOBBY and LYNETTE wrestle each other in the booth, smacking (THEY both stare at the table for another beat. Neither one has
and tickling each other. LARRY looks around. HE finishes his anything to say to the other.)
drink. HE plays with the wrapper from his straw.)
BOBBY. (Finally.) OK, let’s get outta here.
BOBBY. (Over this.) Come on, lemme touch your arm.
LYNETTE. Get outta here! (THEY get up as the LIGHTS FADE.)
BOBBY. (Jo Larry.) She has skin like an angel. I wanna touch
it all over. THE END
LYNETTE. Larry, tell him to stop!
BOBBY. I wanna craw! into it and fall asleep.
LARRY. I’m gonna go.
LYNETTE. Larry, no. You don’t hafta.