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putting the things away. He said. Yes. “Leave the trunk open.” (
Pause
.) He
got
it from the trunk. When you came back. He didn’t
put
it there. He went up there to
get
it. (
Pause
.)
    DEL : That could happen.
    DONNY : What do you mean?
    DEL : Well, that, that’s not so unusual.
    DONNY : What isn’t.
    DEL : … for someone to do that. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Did he do that?
    DEL : It’s possible. I think he did. Yes. I think
that’s
. Um, that’s
exactly
what he did. I
think
. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Why did you lie to me?
    DEL : I didn’t lie. It was a slip of memory.
    DONNY : Why did you lie?
    DEL : If I did I
assure
you, it was, um,
you
know …
    DONNY : What?
    DEL : It was …
    DONNY : You didn’t go camping.
    DEL : Who?
    DONNY : You and Robert.
    DEL : That’s ridiculous!
    DONNY : You never went.
    DEL : That’s …
    DONNY : … Yes …?
    DEL : Be, because, be … what are you
saying
to me? Am, am I to be
accused
of this!
    DONNY : Of what?
    DEL : Well, that’s my point.
    DONNY : What did you do?
    DEL : I. Why do you say
that
? For god
sake
!
    DONNY : What did you do? I’ll ask Robert.
    DEL : You can’t find him!
    DONNY : What do you mean?
    DEL : He won’t tell you. (
Pause
.) Alright. (
Pause
.) But: I want to
tell
you something: I knew that I should not take that knife.
    DONNY : Why did you take it?
    DEL : Be, because he
gave
it to me.
    DONNY : Why? (
Pause
.)
    DEL : Huh. Well, that’s the
question
. (
Pause
.)
That’s
what you’d like to
know
. (
Pause
.)
Isn’t
it? Yes. So you could say, “Old Del, who we thought was so Loyal” … I know what you mean. Be
lieve
me. (
Pause
.) Believe me.
    DONNY : Why did he give the knife to you?
    DEL : You don’t want to know.
    DONNY : I do.
    DEL :
Believe
me, you don’t. (
Pause
.) To shut me up. Alright? There. Are you
happy
? I told you you wouldn’t be.
    DONNY : To shut you up about what? (
Pause
.)
    DEL : Because we didn’t go.
    DONNY : What?
    DEL : We didn’t
go!
Do I have to
shout
it for you …? We stayed
home
. What do you
think
? He’d traipse off in the
wilds
 … with
me
…? To talk about
life
? Are you
stupid
? Are you
blind
? He wouldn’t spend a
moment
with me. Some poor geek … “Here’s my Old Friend Del …” You’re
nuts
, you’re
stupid
if you think that’s what went on. (
Pause
.) He used my
room
, alright? He said, “Del, can I Use Your Room?” Is that so weird? There. Now I’ve told you. Now you can sleep easier. I
told
you not to ask. Don’t tell me I didn’t tell you. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : He used your room.
    DEL : That’s absolutely right.
    DONNY : Why? (
Pause
.)
    DEL : To go there with a woman. (
Pause
.) And now, and now you know the truth, How weak I am. How “Evil” I am. He said, “I have some things to do,” “I want it to seem like I’m gone.”
I
spent the week,
I
slept in the, in my, my nook in the
library
. In
fishing
clothes … and don’t you think
that
looked stupid! (
Pause
.) I … I, actually, I’ve been waiting for this. I knew that I should tell you. This is the only bad thing I have ever done to you. I’m sorry that it came out like this. Indeed I am. (
Pause
.) But we can’t always choose the, um … (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Get out. (
Pause
.) Get out.
    ( DEL
exits
.) (
Pause
.)
    ( DONNY
starts to cry
.)
    DONNY : (
Pause
.) Bobby. Bobby. Bobby. ( JOHN
appears in bathrobe
.) (
Pause
.)
    JOHN : Are you dead?
    DONNY : What?
    JOHN : Are you dead? (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Why do you say that?
    JOHN (
simultaneous with
“that”): I heard you calling.
    DONNY : Go back to bed, John.
    JOHN : I heard voices …
    DONNY : … you should go back to bed.
    JOHN : … and I thought they were you. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : It was me.
    JOHN : And so I said, “…  there’s someone troubled.” And I walked around. Did you hear walking?
    DONNY : No.
    JOHN : … and so I went outside. I saw a candle. In the dark.
    DONNY : Where was this?
    JOHN : In my room. It was burning there.
    I said,