but that’s later, anyway…
SUE
so we make it to the city in, like, less than four hours, weekend traffic, that’s not bad.
JOHN
does it look stupid? seriously…no, i mean it. are my ears funny at all?
SUE
$28.50 for ten hours parking, that’s a lot, i thought…and then we all walk over to the hotel, the guys carrying these big dry cleaning bags over their shoulders…
JOHN
we decided to go in on a room, all of us…not for anything, i mean, you know. i’m just telling you, so we could change and everything. better than wrinkling our stuff up. right?
SUE
we get in, still a few hours before the party’s going to start, so we all decide to use the facilities, you know, take a jacuzzi, whatever, lots of time to get changed again…’s fun. (BEAT) i got back into my dress…
JOHN
i’m tying up my shoes, lacing ’em up…she comes out of the bathroom, like i said, this is four years we’ve been going together and i’m still staring at the best-looking girl i’ve ever seen. i’m just completely in love. serious…
SUE
makeup, try and put make up on in some hotel bathroom and you’ll understand the meaning of devotion, sinks in those places, even the plaza, are impossibly small, postage stamp of a mirror i’m using…but i want to took nice for him. (BEAT) i bought a new lipstick in the lobby, they had a counter there…’s vivid, crimson…
JOHN
she steps into the living room of this hotel suite, city full of models and actresses…the beautiful people…and i can’t see anything else. ’s like we’re thrown back to the garden, the two of us, watching one another across this great green meadow, my side still hurting from the missing rib and all, but she’s revealed to me, golden hair and a face like fresh snow and i’m thinking…hey, screw the bone, you know, here’s why he rested on the seventh day. ’cause they can’t get any better than this. (BEAT) i mean, i’m not so poetic or whatever, but this is exactly what i’m thinking.
SUE
the dress helps a lot, because i’m not going to kid myself, it does, but i can see he’s happy, and his tux looks really handsome, it was going to be great, a really good evening, i could feel it…
JOHN
and we walk downstairs, arm in arm. man, feels so nice to stroll past all these people, i mean, rich guys, girl like that on my arm! made me feel strong, you know? powerful…the crowd almost glides apart as we approach.
SUE
we’ve got nowhere to go. the party’s not until later…nothing but possibilities…wherever we looked, i really felt that, walking along.
JOHN