STEPH No, why?!/ Why the fuck should I?!

STEPH gets up and goes to the door. GREG gets up to block her from leaving and STEPH lays into him. Kicking him and punching, too. CARLY jumps in and pulls her off of him.

GREG Steph, don’t!/ Stop that!/ Just lemme …!

STEPH You fucking, prick!/ You stupid fucker!/ I fucking hate you! Hate you!! HATE YOU!!

CARLY pulls her friend aside and tries to hold her. STEPH shakes her off and stands in a corner.

GREG tries to move closer but knows to leave well enough alone.

STEPH This is fucking bullshit, just your … usual … fucking … shit!!/ I gave up a marriage for this!!/ For YOU, Greg!!! For YOU!!!

GREG No, it’s not!/ Steph!!!/ A MARRIAGE YOU DIDN’T WANT!!!

That one stings—STEPH stops cold as CARLY tries to help:

CARLY YOU GUYS! STOP!! (Beat.) Greg, just say what you wanna say and hurry up./ Go on.

GREG Fine./ OK. Can you guys sit? I mean …

STEPH I’m fine right here.

CARLY I have to go soon, so just say it.

GREG Whatever, alright. We can all … stand.

STEPH Yep. We’re fine and we’re standing. Talk.

GREG Okay … (Beat.) What I was trying to say was: I am not cool with this idea of me having to choose a life that either has you in it (To STEPH.) or you (To CARLY.) and someone is all mad or sad and that’s not what any of us wants! So … I am drawing a line in the sand here—(Looking at them.)—I mean, obviously there’s no “sand” but you know what I’m saying … this is it. I’m stopping the bullshit right here, right now./ I wanna begin again … start over and do it right.

CARLY Greg!/ Get to the point.

GREG checks to see how this has landed. The women seem to be listening but aren’t revealing how they feel yet.

GREG So like I said … I’ve got this job in New York …

STEPH … shit …

GREG Steph, just … (Beat.) I’m going to be teaching at this amazing school and my mind was going, like, a million miles an hour … You wanna know what I was thinking about, over the last few days … honestly? I was going to ask you both to come with me … both. Not in some—not romantically—but as “people,” just as people I know, two people that I cherish and want to see great things happen to … (Beat.) I mean, “Why not?” Why couldn’t we all just pack it up and get outta this town? Make new lives for ourselves and …? And then I realized that’s just me trying to have it all, both of you, and I have no right to do that … to feel that way. I’m barely able to take care of myself properly, so why should I have the right to ask you guys to do that. Huh? Well, obviously I don’t, but I was actually able to get to that place, to allow myself to fantasize that we could all waltz outta here laughing and together, like some … some … (Beat.) But that’s all that is, right? Just a fantasy.