The Room Page #6

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Denny:
I swear to god, it’s coming!

Chris-R:
Where’s my f***ing money, Denny?

Denny:
Put the gun down.

Mark and Johnny enter.

Chris-R:
My f***ing money! Where’s my f***ing money, Denny?

Johnny and Mark grab Chris-R and disarm him. Lisa and Claudette enter, or rather, they are suddenly in the scene without explanation.

Lisa:
What’s going on?!

Johnny and Mark haul Chris-R away amid indecipherable commotion.

Johnny:
Let’s take him to the police.

Lisa:
Denny, are you okay? What did that man want from you?

Denny:
Nothing.

Claudette:
Oh, that was not nothing!

Lisa:
Tell me everything!

Claudette:
You have no idea what kind of trouble you’re in here, do you?

Denny:
I owe him some money.

Lisa:
What kind of money?

Denny:
I owe him some money.

Lisa:
What kind of money?

Denny:
Everything is okay, he’s gone!

Claudette:
Everything is not okay. Denny, that is a dangerous man!

Denny:
Calm down, he’s going to jail!

Lisa:
Denny, what kind of money, just tell me!

Claudette:
What do you need money for?

Lisa:
Mom, please, Denny’s with me and Johnny!

Claudette:
A man like that, with a gun! My god!

Lisa:
Denny, look at me in the eyes and tell me the truth. We’re your friends.

Denny:
I bought some drugs off of him. Things got mixed up. I didn’t mean for this to happen.

Lisa:
(sobbing) Denny…

Denny:
But I don’t have them anymore.

Lisa:
What kind of drugs, Denny?

Denny:
It doesn’t matter, I don’t have them anymore.

Claudette:
It doesn’t matter? How in the hell did you get involved with drugs? What are you, giving them to him, selling them to him? Where the hell did you meet that man?

Lisa:
What kind of drugs do you take?!

Denny:
It’s nothing like that!

Lisa:
What the hell is wrong with you?!

Denny:
I just needed some money to pay off some stuff.

Lisa:
How much do you have to give him?

Claudette:
This is not the way you make money!

Lisa:
How much?!

Denny:
Stop ganging up on me!

Claudette:
Well it is time somebody ganged up on you, for god’s sake! A man like that! Where in the hell did you meet a man like that?

Denny:
It doesn’t matter!

Claudette:
It matters a great deal! A man holds a gun on you, you almost got killed, you expect me to forget that happened?

Denny:
You’re not my f***ing mother!

Claudette:
You listen to me, boy!

Lisa:
No!

Claudette:
Somebody had better do something around here.

Lisa hugs and comforts Denny. Johnny enters.

Johnny:
Are you okay, Denny?

Denny:
I’m okay.

Johnny:
Are you okay?

Denny:
I’m okay!

Mark has materialized behind Claudette and Lisa.

Claudette:
What’s okay? He’s taking drugs.

Mark:
Come on, stop, it was a mistake.

Claudette:
A mistake, that he takes drugs.

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