Act 1, Scene 8.5

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ELISE:    What's going on with you and Aileen? I'm worried about you.

ISAAC:     We broke up, Mom. I'm fine. She's fine. Everything is fine.

ELISE:     That is not true. You have been best friends since you were kids. You don't just grow up with someone, date them all through high school, and then break up right before college just to act like everything is normal.

ISAAC:     I'm almost a grown man. I don't want to be talking about this kind of stuff with my mother, that's why I have friends.

ELISE:     I'm so sorry you feel that way.

ISAAC:    I'm not trying to be rude, Mom, I just don't want to talk about Aileen okay? 

ELISE:    That's alright Honey let's talk about something else.

ISAAC:    Fine. What do you want to talk about?

ELISE:    I'm going to be honest with you. I'm a little worried about her. And you. Both of you. I am just afraid that there is something you won't tell me, and I want you to know that you can always come to me with anything.

ISAAC:    I have no idea what you are talking about. We are fine. I am fine. I am sure Aileen is fine. She hasn't told me anything is wrong, at least. We haven't talked really all that much lately but I reckon that's to be expected when you enter breakup territory. You need to ease up on me and Dad. You seem so desperate to fit in at this church that you won't even allow us to have our own lives.

ELISE:    Our church is our spiritual family.

ISAAC:    I reckon it doesn't feel that way sometimes.

ELISE:    I hear you Son.

ISAAC:    I wish it felt that way.

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