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Act III

Reese: Karen.

Karen: Don’t give me another one of your ‘we’re just friends’ speeches.

Reese: It’s true. We were just playing around, maybe we play around a little too much, but that’s ALL we were doing, playing, like little kids.

Karen: You’re not little kids. If you were 8 I’d call it playing. At this age, I call it foreplay.

Reese: Well that’s not what I call it. You just don’t understand.

Karen: I’m so sick of that. Of this little world you have with him that I’m not a part of.

Reese: That little world, it’s not a happy place. At least, it wasn’t before him. You have to understand, when I was little, Francisco was the only thing in my life that was good.

Karen: You sound like you’re in love with him.

Reese: No, I love him and what’s wrong with that? Who says we can only love one person in the whole world and nobody else?

Karen: I never said that. But it’s like there’s some big secret that—

Reese: There is, a secret I mean. A horrible secret. And when we were little I made him promised never, ever, to tell.

Karen: Tell what?

Reese: Tell on my father. He was kind of messed up. He use to be a dealer and an addict.

Karen: A drug dealer?

Reese: Yeah, he used his own supply and dealt right out of the house with his friend Jared, Robby’s dad. Nobody knew. The scariest people use to come over, I’d hide from them. My dad was hardly a father at all, he had mood swings, he lived on this… cloud basically. I couldn’t touch him, nothing could. I basically took care of myself. Dad didn’t pay much attention to me, but Jared did and I hated his attention. Dad was oblivious to Jared, the kind of person he was. Jared scared me and dad loved him, loved him and the drugs and their life more than me. For the longest time I felt really alone and trapped inside this little world that no one could get in. The I met this sad little boy named Francisco and he got to me. We taught each other to smile again. Eventually I told him what scared me. What had me hiding in his room some nights. And I felt better, just cause there was someone else who knew. I was happy for the first time, I almost felt like a normal kid some of the time. Then daddy took it all away. So it was back to being all alone, because music and getting high was all he did. Jared, he was right there with him so I had to find new ways to avoid them both. You could say I became a bit loose to escape it all. About six years ago, it finally caught up with my dad. He lost a really big group he was producing. Amazingly, it wasn’t me that woke him up, it didn’t matter that I was suffering. It was his career that made him get help. But after awhile, I didn’t care. He went to re-hab and met nice lady there too, Wendy, she’s Courtney’s mother. Robby’s dad, Jared, he hated her, he and dad had a big falling out over her. He got caught dealing and went to jail just before he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. Dad got out of re-hab, he was living a clean life, and pretty soon I had a little sister on the way. Jared didn’t have any other friends, so he got my dad to look out for his baby boy. The mother was really young, so she ran. I was still happy, I had a family, didn’t matter that Robby belonged to Jared, I now had a brother and a sister and great step-mom. Dad hooked up with this new group, they blew up. Then there were two more groups, his own label. Trax was becoming a huge name. Then Courtney’s mom got sick and we lost her. But dad was the famous Trax, huge name, fans reached out to him, his career survived it okay. But it wasn’t the same at home, dad was clean, but distant again, he wasn’t a dad. I don’t know what made him want to come back home to Kelley Avenue, but I was so glad we were coming back here. Cause I knew my best friend in the world would always be here for me. And I needed him again. I never stopped needing him actually, because he’s all I really got Karen, he’s all I’ve ever really had.

Karen: You’ve led a complicated life, huh?

Reese: I don’t know, I’ve led a life. And Francisco is just something very good in it. I love him and I like feeling like a kid with him and playing around, but I’m not trying to be his girlfriend. That’s you. And I’m so sorry if anything we are is making you uncomfortable.

Karen: I’m sorry for over reacting. I didn’t understand before. I’ll try not to be so sensitive about your friendship.

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