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on October 30, 2018
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RUBI
What? I’m not dating anyone!
How does she know that?
JACK
If you can come stay at my house in Santa Monica for the night, I can stay in the spare bedroom. I’ll just need you to check on me every couple of hours, but you and your boyfriend can have the whole place to yourself!
RUBI
He’s not my boyfriend- you’re in Santa Monica now?
JACK
Yeah! I moved there in January, a few blocks from the beach. Back when I had a job and a salary. Now I have no job, and a mortgage.
Things are going to be fine.
RUBI
Uh… I actually might take you up on that.
JACK
Really? I’ll put some candles or something in the house for when you get there, so it’s nice and romantic.
RUBI
I’m not doing it because- never mind. I need to go talk to Marie. About lots of things.
What? I’m not dating anyone!
How does she know that?
JACK
If you can come stay at my house in Santa Monica for the night, I can stay in the spare bedroom. I’ll just need you to check on me every couple of hours, but you and your boyfriend can have the whole place to yourself!
RUBI
He’s not my boyfriend- you’re in Santa Monica now?
JACK
Yeah! I moved there in January, a few blocks from the beach. Back when I had a job and a salary. Now I have no job, and a mortgage.
Things are going to be fine.
RUBI
Uh… I actually might take you up on that.
JACK
Really? I’ll put some candles or something in the house for when you get there, so it’s nice and romantic.
RUBI
I’m not doing it because- never mind. I need to go talk to Marie. About lots of things.
Is it part of Rubi’s curse that everyone around her tries to push her into relationships even though they will not last? The way everyone treats her feels like someone with a family history of alcoholism has friends who just never stop trying to get them to drink.
That’s one way to put it. It is like a metaphor for a lot of conditions that people can have. Well meaning (and sometimes not so well meaning) friends and folks can’t quite understand, and think quick fixes will help, or it’s easily “cured”.
Maybe it”s a metaphor for being an artist. 😁 Not as easily cured as you’d think.
Nothing says romance like a werewolf howling and scratching at the walls in the next room.
Needs to talk to Marie about lots of things. And the list just keeps getting longer. I wonder how Marie’s reassessment is coming.