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.Where’s Krista?JAMIEWaiting in the car.She don’t want to ruin that white thing she’s wearing.CHICKYNice, you guys are fighting.Wow, nine hours of wedded bliss.JAMIE(shrugs) Hey what can I say?What are you doing down here?CHICKYI’m waiting ’til I’m sure Clarence will be asleep then I’m getting my clothes and getting out of there.I won’t live in that house, not after what he did.JAMIEWhere are you going to?CHICKYI have no idea – far, far away.JAMIETaking Reg with ya?CHICKYI’m a lay to him.I’m what makes him a big man at the firehall.I use to think it was love when we’d sneak out of the dance for a quick screw in the back seat of his car.I’d walk into that hall after and think they was all seeing that I had won something.Tonight I wanted to hurt him like I’ve been hurting for… (ten years).When he came out to the car I was gonna stick your hunting knife into him, not kill him, but stick it somewhere that I could be the only explanation.“Chicky did it.Did you hear? Chicky did it.”JAMIEWhy didn’t ya?CHICKYHe never came out.Promised he would but he didn’t.JAMIEHey.Say the word and I’ll lay the beating on him he deserves.CHICKYHe isn’t worth it.Reg is the worst kind of a shit.(at the moon) You fucking shit! That’s what I’m saying tonight, but I’m scared if I’m here tomorrow and he comes around smiling, I’ll fall back down the Reg well.So I’m going.JAMIEGood, sis.Good on you.CHICKYWhat about you?JAMIEWhat about me?CHICKYWhat if I go out to where the heli-logging training is? Get set up in a place.You and Krista can come stay with me while you’re doing your training.JAMIE(mildly) Sounds good, sis.CHICKYI mean it.JAMIE(mildly) F’ing A.CHICKYYou’re married now, we can leave together.JAMIEYup… next spring.CHICKYWhy not now?JAMIEDo you know how much it costs to fly a helicopter from this life to a new life?CHICKYBut you said you’re going to get the money together, right?JAMIETwenty-five thousand, no forty thousand dollars ’cause we’re flying at night.CHICKYFuzzy…JAMIEYeah…CHICKYDoesn’t mean you can’t do it.Krista can get a job.She’s not totally helpless.JAMIEAh ah ah.Answer me this.If helicopter A left helipad B at C midnight and helicopter X left helipad T at 8 a.m.flying F backwards, how much math would you have to know to get to the goddamn fucking moon.He throws the beer bottle towards the moon.CHICKYJamie…JAMIEHey, I know the answer and the answer is “Fucked if I know.”CHICKYYou can learn the math.You’re not dumb.JAMIEYeah, yeah, yeah.CHICKYI can’t wait until spring, Jamie.I’m leaving tonight while I am too scared to stay.She picks up her handbag.You coming back to the car? Your bride is waiting.JAMIEIn a minute.Nature calls.You were a mother of a sister to me, Chicky.CHICKYYou’re Krista’s problem now.CHICKY moves in to give him a hug but he neatly avoids it.JAMIEYou going so I can take a whiz, or what?CHICKYSee ya.I’ll call.CHICKY goes up the bank.Lights down.Scene 15Lights up.KRISTA makes her way down the bank in her wedding dress.She has JAMIE’s white tux jacket draped around her shoulders.The bottom of the dress is muddy.KRISTAJamie, I’ve been waiting forever.Look at my dress.Mud won’t come out either.Jamie we got to get back to the dance.Jamie! You said you was only stopping to have one smoke then we was going back.KRISTA sees his wedding shoes next to the shore.Jamie.Jamie.Lights up on “the high,” the top of the bridge frame.JAMIE, drunk, sways slightly as he looks down at her.JAMIENice dress.You look like a ghost.KRISTAIt’s wrecked, thanks to you.Get down here and get your shoes on.JAMIEYou ain’t the boss of me.(laughs)KRISTAWe got our wedding guests at the firehall.JAMIEThey ain’t the boss of me, either.KRISTAYou didn’t have to get mad at me.You were the one telling everyone we’re going to B.C.I never said I would go to B.C., Jamie.JAMIE howls like a coyote.Don’t be doing that, you’re not jumping.Jamie, you hear me, you are not jumping off the high on our wedding night.Jesus, Jamie, it’s dark! You can’t see where you’re jumping to.JAMIE howls again, louder, wilder.If you jump, Jamie, I will never talk to you again
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