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 Fade In: After a tedious long drive together, ex lovers lucy and chad finally arrive to their hotel destination for their business conference. chad We’re finally here thank god. // Lucy scoffs and rolls her eyes moving back so she doesn’t have to be near Chad. // LUCY Who are you telling? I had to deal with you for sixteen and a half hours. Chad Well sorry, but I wasn’t the one stopping to go to the bathroom every fifteen minutes. cathy Oh whatever, you had to go too. And I wasn’t the one who changed the radio station at least fifteen times every five minutes! CHAD Hey, you didn’t //have// to ride with me; you could’ve found another ride. Besides, it’s not my fault you have awful taste in music. // Lucy talks in a sarcastic tone while rolling her eyes. // LUCY Of course Chad, because I definitely have enough money to purchase a car, plus we made a deal that no matter what happened between the two of us, you would drive me here. Chad First off, it’s not my fault you don’t have a car. You just choose to take the subway. LUCY We live in a big city Chad, you’re wasting your gas when you could just walk! CHAD Well obviously the car is a smart choice now-why don’t we actually check in and get into our rooms? // Chad and Lucy continue to carry their bags and walk stage left toward the front desk. // LUCY The sooner the better, I really don’t want to look at your face any longer. Connie Well hello! Aren’t you two just a lovely couple, I’m Connie and thank you for staying at the Marshall Hotel! Chad Nice to meet you Connie, I’m Chad Clifton and this is Lucy Green, we’ve drove 16 hours for a conference. connie Oh the young leadership conference! I know exactly what you’re talking about. Let me find your room. // Connie types on her computer to find the room and then she gives a huff. She continues to type, however the look on her face gives something away. She begins with a nervous laugh. // Connie Well guys, I have some good news and some bad news. lucy Okay, please explain what’s going on? connie Well the good news is that, you two do have a room (she pauses and gives another nervous laugh.) it’s just the same one. Chad Are you serious? (Chad is obviously upset about this.) You’re telling me, that after spending sixteen hours with this woman! I’m going to have to spend the **night** with her as well? // Lucy however doesn’t seemed to phased by it, she’s trying to make the best out of the situation and she is secretly hoping that Chad doesn’t say something to make her extremely mad. // Lucy Okay is there a way we can get another room? Connie I’m afraid not Ms. Green, I think the only solution would either be to stay in the same room-there is also another hotel about a half an hour away, maybe one of you could stay there? chad Well if anything, Lucy should go to that hotel, I paid for the room, I should get it. lucy I paid for it too! Don’t you dare make me seem like I am the bad guy in this situation, if anything you should be the one moving. // Lights fade out on Connie and Lucy Chad speaks. // Chad I cannot believe her! Who does Lucy even thinks she is? First she decides to randomly come on the trip with me, even though she knows we broke up! Then she thinks she should get the room? She wasn’t the one who had to deal with a nagging idiot for sixteen hours. So what if she paid for the room? She should at least think of common courtesy... // Lights fade on both Connie and Lucy, Lucy is still yelling about how inconsiderate and rude Chad is being. // Connie Calm down you two! Please, let’s get this worked out! chad Could you please just talk to the manager and see if there is another room? Connie Okay, I’ll do my best. //Connie turns out of her desk and walks stage right toward ‘backstage’ but stops at the corner of up stage right. Chad decides to secretly check her out.// LUCY //Hits Chad on the arm!// Pervert! She’s old enough to be your mother. CHAD Sorry, I can’t help it, I’m just a ladies’ man. //Lucy scoffs once again, lights fade out on Chad and Lucy and Lights come on Connie.// Connie I don’t understand why people argue. It doesn’t even make any sense to me. The two of them seem nice enough to work out their problems. I guess that means I’ll have to break out my old habits and get the two of them back together. Which is also known as just walking away and hoping they actually make up. // Lights fade off of Connie, and fade back on Lucy and Chad. // lucy Anyway, what are we going to do now, Chad? chad I don’t know, All I know is, is that you should probably move if we don’t Lucy Why should I have to move? I have a better chance either way, I was the one acting calm and rational. // Chad laughs and moves center stage toward the chairs and the coffee table then sits down //  Chad Rational? Do you not remember that time when I had to pull you out of the Cubs game because you started trash talking with some guy who was about 400 pounds bigger than you? // Lucy laughs and follows the same suit as her ex boyfriend. // Lucy Yeah, but that technically wasn’t really my fault. He started it. CHad Or do you remember that time when I had to apologize to the lady at Macy’s because of the fact you pretty much started threatening her. That wasn’t too rational either. Lucy Okay so I guess I may have had some crazy times. Chad You can say that again, Do you remember the first time when we met, and how we were at- Lucy and chad at the same time Holly Henderson’s picnic. Chad That time where you broke up with your other ex-boyfriend at the time, and you screamed in his face and- Lucy and Chad at the same time Poured coleslaw down his shirt lucy Of course I remember that, but it was an exciting day. A lot of things happened to me then. Chad Like what? Lucy Well, what started out to be the worst day of my life ended up being the best? chad Why is that? Lucy Are you really going to make me say it? It’s incredibly cheesy. // Chad pulls the chair closer and puts his hand on top of hers. // Chad Come on, it won’t be that bad. Lucy Well it was the day I met you. Chad What do you say that we just share that room? Lucy Sounds like a plan to me. // The two of them get up and walk up stage right to head backstage. Lights fade out of the two. Lights fade on Connie as she comes up toward stage left behind the front desk. // Connie Works every time. FAde Out: The End