Alex/Aimee Seduction Two
From Rom Com
At this point Alex and Aimee are together, probably sitting on a couch, I don't know. Regardless, Alex has promised Dylan not to do anything further, and he's obviously quite bored. Aimee notices that Alex is distracted, even though she's trying to have some kind of emotional discussion. She has to get his attention several times.
EXT. Diag. Evening/Afternoon.
It's raining. We see Aimee crossing the Diag (bird's eye shot) in a yellow raincoat, carrying an umbrella. We may not know it's her.
INT. Apartment. Evening/Afternoon.
Close shot. Aimee is shaking out her umbrella. She looks up.
Medium shot. Alex is lying on the couch, curled up. His back to camera.
Shot of the outdoors.
Cut to Alex and Aimee with the couch. Alex is lying down, Aimee is sitting on the floor with her back against the middle of the couch. This is incredibly picturesque and they hold the pose for a few seconds. I would love for it to be snowing in this scene, but that just ain't happening since it's, y'know, summer, so it could be raining? I would like that.
(absently) "O Rome. Rome, thou art a whole world, it is true, and yet without love this world would not be the world, Rome would cease to be Rome." That's Goethe. Don't you like Goethe?
Why haven't you left yet?
Why should I leave my own place?
There's nothing for us to talk about.
I invited you.
How do you manage?
Hm?
How do you manage to cope, since you and I are incompatible.
(Trying to pretend she doesn't know what he means.) You mean like online dating questionnaires? "I enjoy skin diving, competetive ice sculpture, and long walks on the beach." I don't think that's our problem.
We aren't enough of a "we" to have our own problems.
(She is hurt, but laughs it off.) Everyone manages to have problems. Why not you and me?
I don't think I've been blunt enough.
I know what you're going to say.
Then why don't you act like it?
(Seriously but with an air of speculation.) It's like we're in two cars, side-by-side, driving the same speed. Oh, sure, we can see each other, and we can mouth messages across the divide, and sometimes we pull even, but eventually there will be a fork in the road. Or someone will have sped up.
Are you all right?
I've had fights over you. I've had fights over you and I was wrong.
I'm not worth it.
Believe me, if anybody knew that...
I've just lost interest.
And the romance is decent but never better than six out of ten.
So is this...is this our break-up?
(Not bitterly.) I thought we weren't enough of a "we" to break up.
Yeah. Yeah, okay.
Long pause, fraught with meaning. Aimee's eyes are closed and she may be fighting back tears.
What did you want?
Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be worth it now, does it?
(Quietly, although she is probably almost crying.) Get the fuck out of my apartment.
(Also quietly, calmly.) I'm already gone.
He leaves.
Long shot of Aimee in the room, with the rain outside.
