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LIAM
Are you ok?
Honey? Are you …
LIAM looks at DAPHNA, but says nothing.
Do you want to— let me see your neck. Do you want to go to the hospital?
MELODY
(Still balled up.)
Is it bleeding?
LIAM
Not really.
MELODY
Not really?!?
MELODY shoots up. She’s hysterical.
LIAM
No.
MELODY
Liam! I’m bleeding!
LIAM
Not really—
MELODY
Take me to the hospital. I want to go to the hospital.
LIAM
Really?
MELODY
Yes! I’m bleeding! And that thing is rusty! I could have been—
LIAM
It’s made of gold, gold doesn’t—
MELODY
It was in someone’s mouth! I could have an infection. I want to go to the hospital.
LIAM
Really?
MELODY
Yes. Really.
LIAM
Ok.
No one moves. They don’t know what to do.
MELODY
Really, Liam!
LIAM gathers their belongings.
MELODY
Don’t talk to her. Don’t even look at her.
LIAM hasn’t even looked at DAPHNA. But MELODY can’t stop staring at her.
Don’t even look at her.
Beat.
LIAM
Come on.
Come on. Let’s go get a cab.
He tries to get MELODY to take an interest in her coat, but she’s still staring at DAPHNA.
Let’s go.
After a beat, they exit. JONAH and DAPHNA are alone.
DAPHNA
I don’t even want it. I don’t even—
JONAH
Shut up.
DAPHNA
I don’t! He pushed me, he pushed me from the minute he got here.
Am I in trouble?
JONAH looks at her but says nothing. He starts to turn off the lights in the room, getting ready for bed.
DAPHNA
Do you think she’s ok?
JONAH
She’s fine.
DAPHNA
Do you think they’ll come back? After the hospital?
JONAH
Uhm, no.
DAPHNA
Where will they go?
JONAH looks at DAPHNA.
DAPHNA
Do you think—
JONAH
I’m done.
DAPHNA
You’re done?
JONAH
I’m … tired.
DAPHNA
Are you mad at me?
JONAH
I want to go to bed.
DAPHNA
Why are you mad at me what did I—
JONAH
I’m done.
DAPHNA
But I was only—
JONAH
I’m done.
DAPHNA
I wish Gilad was here—
JONAH
Stop it, everyone knows—
DAPHNA
But what Liam said isn’t true—
JONAH
Everyone knows. Stop.
DAPHNA
Oh.
A long, intense Moment for DAPHNA.
Then JONAH unbuttons his left cuff, rolling up the sleeve to his elbow. His forearm is bandaged.
DAPHNA
Jonah. What …
JONAH looks down at his arm. He looks at DAPHNA. He takes off the bandage, slowly and carefully. It hurts.
DAPHNA
Jonah. Is that real?
He nods.
Why did you do that?
Poppy’s numbers on your own arm? Jonah.
JONAH has no answer. DAPHNA traces the numbers on his arm with her finger.
A Moment with them, together.
Moonlight, reflected off the Hudson River, streams through the window.
Blackout.
End of Play.
