Play 351: Trust

CHARACTERS
JEREMY, 20
LIZ, 20

JEREMY
What’s wrong?

LIZ
Nothing.

(Beat.)

JEREMY
You’ve been quiet lately.

(Pause.)

JEREMY
What’s wrong?

LIZ
I said nothing.

JEREMY
You’re lying.

LIZ
(Angrily)
Me? Lying?

JEREMY
What is it?

LIZ
I think you’re the one who should be talking about lying.

JEREMY
What are you talking about?

(Beat.)

LIZ
I saw you with her.

JEREMY
Who?

LIZ
You know.

JEREMY
Honestly, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

LIZ
Two days ago.

(Beat.)

At the supermarket.

JEREMY
Anne?

LIZ
I don’t know what her name is. The blonde.

JEREMY
She’s an old friend of mine.

LIZ
She looked like a little more than that.

JEREMY
I’m telling you the truth. We used to be good friends, I hadn’t seen her in a while.

(Pause.)

JEREMY
Why don’t you believe me?

LIZ
I never said I didn’t.

JEREMY
You didn’t say you did either.

(Beat.)

She’s just a friend.

LIZ
Why should I believe you?

JEREMY
Don’t you trust me?

(Pause.)

JEREMY
Fine.

LIZ
What?

(Beat.)

JEREMY
Nothing.