A student leaves.
DANIEL Next!
AMERICA I'm from Special Topics in Organic Chemistry?
DANIEL Special topics, huh?
AMERICA Yeah.
DANIEL Close the door.
She closes the door.
AMERICA Come play pool with me tonight, with me and my friends.
DANIEL I can't.
AMERICA Why not?
DANIEL At the quad? Everyone will see me.
AMERICA Like anyone cares.
DANIEL Am I flattering myself?
AMERICA Maybe.
DANIEL It's too public.
AMERICA Somewhere else.
DANIEL Where?
AMERICA A dive bar.
DANIEL Which one?
AMERICA Some dive bar, I don't know. You pick one.
DANIEL You think I know dive bars?
AMERICA In and out.
DANIEL Your last paper was perfect, Miss Jones.
AMERICA It's Mrs.
DANIEL You're married?
AMERICA Didn't you know?
DANIEL Tell me you're not.
AMERICA I'm not.
DANIEL Is that the truth?
AMERICA Come out with me.
DANIEL With them.
AMERICA Us.
DANIEL Who.
AMERICA It's poets, you'd like them.
DANIEL I'd probably hate them, I hate everyone.
AMERICA Lovely.
DANIEL Especially poets.
AMERICA Come out.
DANIEL We'd have to go somewhere private.
AMERICA Pick a place.
DANIEL There's only one place.
AMERICA Where?
DANIEL Hoek's.
AMERICA Where the fuck is that?
DANIEL It's private.
AMERICA Good.
DANIEL It's a dive bar.
AMERICA Great.
DANIEL You won't like it, the men are disgusting.
AMERICA That's the draw?
DANIEL Spot on.
AMERICA You're such a faggot.
DANIEL All professors are.
AMERICA Really?
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A Simple Love Story
General FictionDramatic play about a teacher and a student who fall in love with drugs.
