Looking for Completion - the Looking Movie!

Scene Twelve

Patrick and Kevin are lying naked in bed, side by side. Patrick's right hand is holding Kevin's left, bent at the elbow with forearms and their hands in the air playing with each other's fingers. They are both staring at their joined hands.

Kevin: So now what?

(Patrick turns his head to look at Kevin)

Patrick: I guess we should get up and...get dressed? Should we talk in the living room? Does it feel weird to just get up and go and sit down in the room next door?

Kevin: It does feel a bit weird. But is it weirder to talk in bed?

Patrick: I don't know. It's pretty comfortable right? But maybe we should get dressed?

Kevin: Get dressed and get back in bed? wouldn't that be even weirder?

Patrick: Yuh...it would be pretty... weird. Jesus. I wish I could think of a different word. You know when you say a word over and over again, it starts sounding strange? Well weird just became strange.

(Kevin smiles at Patrick)

Kevin: Maybe we should go out. Like you had planned for when you told me about Richie's text?

Patrick: I guess, but I don't know what's open now, and if the places aren't busy I'll feel everyone is listening to us.

Kevin: Should we just go for a walk then?

Patrick: It's raining.

Kevin: Oh right. I didn't notice.

(they both lie there silently, their fingers still playing with each other)

Kevin: I didn't really think about where it would happen when I imagined it.

Patrick: You've been imagining it?

Kevin: (laughing wryly) Don't tell me you haven't.

Patrick: I've been THINKING about it, but I wouldn't call it imagining. More like, running the conversation through my head. The one we had.

Kevin: Playing like a fucking movie you wish you could turn off.

(Patrick laughs)

Patrick: This seems crazy doesn't it? I mean, we've been so happy this week. Why would we do this now?

Kevin: You weren't so happy last night before we went out. And if we don't talk about it, times like that will just keep happening.

Patrick: So, we wait for a time like that and THEN talk about it.

Kevin: I don't think the best time to talk is when one of us is already mad or upset.

(Patrick sighs and looks at the ceiling)

Patrick: That was your plan all along right. Why you wanted us to have this week? It wasn't just so we could get 'distance' or calm down. It was so I could have a taste of this life and want to fight to keep it. Right?

Kevin: I can't say that was a PLAN. More of a hope. I didn't lie to you Patrick. The main point was to give us both time to think and consider and really...have some distance. But if you saw that living together could work and it was something you liked then, that's an extra bonus.

(Patrick turns to look at Kevin and smiles)

Patrick: I've loved it. It's been better then I thought it could be. Just making this our home, having access to you whenever I wanted, making simple plans like who's going to cook, who'll drop off the dry cleaning. I love those details. And I've loved learning more about you. How you hate having dirty dishes in the sink, how you have to have all the hangers facing the same way, but you leave your shorts and underwear on the floor. I am addicted to being with you, so I think you earned your bonus.