Cinq

In which a lover from the previous piece is seen with a new lover.

ANDY
Charlotte you hate your life.

CHARLOTTE
I have things! I have hopes and dreams!

ANDY
Your stepmomma takes your money your older brother pinches you the cute boys at school they send you notes asking you to go out with them to prom but then when you say yes they say ha ha it was a joke we got you again Charlotte and Father Markey falls asleep at your confession.

CHARLOTTE
Well what do you think I hope and dream about?

ANDY
Me!

Quatre

In which a lover from the previous piece is seen with a new lover.

Jared dreams with extreme and inexhaustible frequency. If he stares at something white or off-white or pale white or eggshell colored or cream gray too long his mind will blank out. It is like a button. He has to be careful in the winter. Gray skies of the wrong hue will capture him. They capture him because of their vastness. If he accidentally looks at a white brick wall he’ll void into a dream, but he’ll snap out of it when the dream is over. He’ll look away a couple inches in a sort of jerk reaction. And if the wall ends there he’ll be back to reality. But a vast dead sky, that can go on forever. If a plane flies overhead on a winter day and Jared looks up, he’s doomed until dusk.