Clipped

Just Another Fight

(A college campus. A path to the dorms. Most people are elsewhere at this time of day. SAM and ALLISON are walking when JOHN enters.)

SAM

Hey! John!

JOHN

"Don't you say hi to me."

SAM

"Huh?"

JOHN

"You’re breaking character. Where the fuck has that been the last six weeks?"

SAM

"But... I..."

JOHN

"Shut the fuck up. I been in contact with your ass four times since the end of first semester- alumni day at high school cuz we had the same fuckin’ friends, day before we came up when you asked about fuckin’ class, that party when you was drunk as shit and said you had somethin’ ta tell me you couldn’t remember, and then ta get my fuckin’ money. When was the last time you said, ‘Hey’ just ta find out how the fuck I was doin’? Huh?"

SAM

"B…B…But… I been busy..."

JOHN

"Yea… Mmmm hmmm… ‘S what I thought. Next. That’s some bullshit. How come I ain’t said hi neither? Why the fuck I gotta do everything? You don’t care, I don’t care. I fuckin’ tried, too. Ain’t that some shit. Told you we were losing touch. You ain’t get it. You know what, though? I was right. You just another motherfucker I know."

SAM

"THIS ISN’T FAIR!!"

ALLISON

"Hey- Stop. You’re making her cry."

JOHN

"You stay the fuck out of this. As for you, ‘Fair?!?’ Fuck you, ‘this isn’t fair.’ Not fair is realizing the only reason you had a fuckin’ friendship was cuz you were lavishing attention on someone with no fuckin’ return. That’s right. I said that shit. You girls is all the fuckin’ same. Fuckin’ fiend for attention 24/7 and then abuse the shit out of it when you get it. Not fair? You abusin’ my attention is fuckin’ fair?! Fuck you."

SAM

"... I..."

ALLISON

"You’re a real asshole, you know that? Enough."

JOHN

"Hey- what did I tell you? Keep on the low. And you, don’t expect a fuckin’ apology, neither. I hope you fuckin’ carry this grudge for four fuckin’ years. Hate my ass. You know why? Cuz I don’t fuckin’ care. I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT. It is water off my motherfuckin’ back. You can go around and tell people I’m an asshole. Have fun with that. Who they goin’ believe?? Hmmm… you or the person they know? I’m a nice fuckin’ guy. I hear that shit all the time. You goin’ sully my rep? Hellz nah. You goin’ be the one with the bitch rep. What the fuck you goin’ tell them?? That you really know me?? Ha. That’s some bullshit. You ain’t know me. You think you fuckin’ know me. Like Chris Rock said- you know my fuckin’ representative. You just another bitch. Take a fuckin’ number.