MONOLOGUE

Breaking Heart: By D.M LARSON

        JO

You want to break up... sure... no problem... yeah, I wanted to break up too.  I've been thinking about it from the day we met.  This is a person I will need to break up with.  But hey... you beat me to it.  No hard feelings.

(shrugs and turns away)  

Be friends? 

(turns with a huge smile)  

Sure!  I'd love to be friends.  That's the natural evolution of most relationships.  Have a fling and then boom... friends.  I'm sure some of the best friendships started that way. 

(overly enthusiastic)

I look forward to hanging out with you, buddy.  Let's meet up and go to... 

([insert stereotypical place opposite gender likes to hang out: Hooters, Victoria's Secret, football game, shopping, etc.])

...some time and hang out. 

(yells) 

That would be GREAT!

   

(quiet/angry/eyes closed) 

What?  Upset?   No, I'm not upset.  Why would I be... upset...

(starts to cry)  

No, I'm not crying.  I said, I'm not crying!

  

(bursts in to tears) 

I don't want your pity.  I don't want a shoulder to cry on.  I want... to be left...

(yells) 

...ALONE!  Don't you get it.  I want to be alone! 

(pauses... sadly reflects) 

I've always wanted to be alone.  I never wanted to get close to anyone.  I never wanted us to get close.  And I guess I was closer to you than you were to me.

  

(turns angry)  

Don't lie to me.  I know you don't mean it.  I don't want to hear any more lies!  I don't want you to make something up so you can get out of this.  I want it all laid out on the table.

  

(yells) 

I want to know the truth!

(long pause... cries... then manages to say)  

I want to know why you are breaking my heart.

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