Don’t you get it? I want smooth sailing for once.
A serio-comedic scene from the play script “Can’t Wait Till Tomorrow,” wherein Kyra wants to end things with Frank after their first date.
FRANK: You’re givin’ up on me?
KYRA: How can you blame me?
FRANK: But this is only our first date.
KYRA: So?
FRANK: But we only went out tonight for the first time.
KYRA: Frank! I’ve known your ass my whole life… been putting up with your existence from the day I met ya.
FRANK: Yeah, but we’ve always known we have chemistry.
KYRA: It’s poison; chemistry that creates a poisonous substance. We’re one of those toxic chemicals that somehow escaped from the lab, so before we destroy what we know as life, let’s kill ourselves off for the sake of humanity.
FRANK: We belong together, and you know it.
KYRA: You’re CRAZY!
FRANK: So are you.
KYRA: Yeah, okay, but I’m crazy with a purpose.
TRISH: I’m going back to bed.
KYRA: Stay, Trish.
FRANK: Let her go to bed.
KYRA: No, I want you here, Trish, so when we wake up in the morning we can discuss the verdict for this vermin.
TRISH: Don’t get me involved.
KYRA: Too late. You’ve seen too much, you’re in too deep.
TRISH: Leave me out of it.
KYRA: Do you think I should keep dating this louse?
TRISH: I have no idea.
FRANK: Don’t you think I’m good for Kyra, Trish?
TRISH: Frank, I don’t know.
FRANK: It was your idea we should have gone out, wasn’t it?
TRISH: Maybe I’m a bad matchmaker.
FRANK: You’re both turning against me, and I’m not gettin’ a fair shot.
KYRA: Sometimes things run their course.
FRANK: You’re about to throw me to the curb like a donkey?
KYRA: Who knows?
FRANK: Who knows what?
KYRA: You might be better off out there.
FRANK: Kyra, I didn’t mean to ruin the night… I wanted to –
KYRA: The thing about you and me, Frank, is that we’re too bumpy. We’ve got all these unpaved potholes and mounds. We stay the course, we’re crashin’ into somethin’ large.
FRANK: I’d rather crash into somethin’ with you than without ya.
KYRA: But I don’t wanna crash, Frank. Don’t you get it? I want smooth sailing for once. I want a nice life. I don’t wanna feel like I have to train you on how to be nice in order to be what I need you to be.
FRANK: Why you makin’ out like you’re all innocent?
KYRA: I’m not!
FRANK: You ain’t no angel! Ya know? You come from this same neighborhood. We grew up two doors away from each other. Why you keep tryin’ to put on a facade? You’re no different than me.
KYRA: I know I am.
FRANK: So, what makes you think you’re better than me?
KYRA: I’m not sayin’ I’m better than you.
FRANK: Cause I got things I wanna do, too. You think I wanna live here? Live with Pat and Doyle? Those two clowns. I want out!
KYRA: But how you ever gettin’ out, Frank?
FRANK: I have plans; don’t worry.
KYRA: What plans? You never talk about the future. You have no ambition, and you ain’t ever left Queens before.
FRANK: Enough!
KYRA: But where do you wanna go? Nobody we know has ever left.
FRANK: Why haven’t you left then?
KYRA: I want to.
FRANK: I can get us outta here.
KYRA: It’s over, Frank. We tried.
FRANK: Kyra! I shouldn’t a done what I done tonight. Was goin’ a hundred and fifty miles an hour in my brain when that guy spoke to ya. F’ck that guy. I shouldn’t a done what I done but I had to, ya know?
And that’s the same guy that ratted me and Lucas out when we were kids, got us a weekend in jail ’cause of his mouth. Haven’t seen ’em ever since, until tonight of all nights.
Tonight was our night. Tonight was supposed to be a special night. We was goin’ to the pier we like. I had everything mapped out, and it was gonna be where I was gonna change both our lives but that yellow Corvette drivin’, sunburnt wearin’ thief showed up and blocked my view.
I asked Lucas to row us along the Hudson. He was waiting all night by the pier. We was gonna go for a row, and it was gonna be sweet and romantic, and I was gonna tell you things…things I never told anybody before…
…I have things goin’ on. You charge me up. When you said yes to goin’ out with me tonight, somethin’ happened to me. I saw the future. I got into culinary school ’cause I’m gonna be a chef, and it’s you and me, it’s you and me out there. That’s what I think.
That’s what I want.
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In the one-act comedy play “Can’t Wait Till Tomorrow”, Kyra wants to move on from the life she has always known, even if that means not settling with Frank. Serio-comedy. 2 Women, 1 Man.
