"Be Alright" 🅴

    Jamie is sitting on a bench outside at a park. It’s later in the afternoon and he looks exhausted. Jamie answers his phone. ~This can be it’s own play or related to “Substitute” (11/3/18)~

Jamie: Hey Julian. No I’m not at work anymore. I left early.

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Don’t run my ear off, yes, I realize that I shouldn’t be skipping work because my heart is broken again.

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No. Dude, do not come over tonight. You’re the worst because you always bring ice cream. I’m starting to suspect that you just want a reason to eat different flavored ice creams. Sure it works temporarily, but I can’t start getting an ice cream bod.

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What did Noah say? “My friend said, ‘I know you love her, but it’s over, mate.” I was on my phone at the time and about to text her.

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Finnnneee, judge me, it doesn’t change that I miss her. At the end I realized “it doesn’t matter” and I “put the phone away.”

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Now you’re asking why I didn’t text her? Dude. “It’s never easy to walk away” and I needed, well need, to “let her go.” People keep telling me it’s how it works to “be alright.”

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Julian, you don’t have to worry about me. I promise, I’m just getting some fresh air at the park by my house.

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Yeah, near that statue.

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I “still look at all the messages [she] sent.”

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You don’t have to remind me that “it wasn’t right” and that it’s still “fucking with my head.”

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Yesterday, that’s when “everything deleted.” In a swoosh of a button everything about her “was gone.”

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It’s the first step. Baby steps. The last time “I touched [her] face, I could tell [she was] moving on” already.

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It doesn’t even bother me that she “kissed him yesterday” and posted to Instagram. I mean that spurred my need to delete everything related to her. it’s more the “feeling of betrayal that I just can’t seem to shake.” It’s what will take the longest to get over.

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You warned me. I know. Again. You warned me again. You “and everything I know tells me that I should walk away.”

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(mocking Julian) Than do it. (normal) It’s easier said than done.

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You don’t have to keep helping me. I know I’m a hopeless case. “I just want to stay” as things were.

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Fine. I’m on my own for this.

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I gotta go too. Bye Julian. See you Saturday for Noah’s thing.

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