Week 5: Post Execution

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[After a while, like maybe three or four hours after the execution, Rebecca's looking for Evan. She doesn't seem like she's been crying or anything along those lines. But she does seem tired. Almost like she hasn't been sleeping that well.

She'll start by knocking on his door.]

Evan? Are you there?

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That's like three years? That's not bad. Honestly though, I never worked on college admissions, so I can't help you as much as I'd like.

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No, no, you've helped a lot! Really.

[And that's said sincerely.]

But, um, I think it's your turn to ask.

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Is it? Okay. Truth or dare?

[selfinserting]

Um... How about truth again?

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What's one of your guilty pleasures?

[selfinserting]

Oh, um...

[He thinks about it for a few moments.]

Ben and Jerry's? Does that count?

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Everybody likes ice-cream! Also you definitely shouldn't feel guilty for liking them, they're delicious.

Try again.

[selfinserting]

They're not very healthy, though...

I guess I probably watch Netflix too much?

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That doesn't mean you should feel guilty for eating them. That's how body image stuff starts.

Like you use it to... procrastinate?

[selfinserting]

Not really procrastinating, just... When I could be doing other things, I guess. Like - going outside.

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... Didn't you fall out of a tree? I'd probably avoid the outdoors too.

But sure, I'll take that. Your turn.

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That's not really...

[What he meant, he starts to say, but he lets it pass.]

Okay. Truth or dare?

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Truth. You seem better with these ones.

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Same question to you. The, um, the guilty pleasures one.

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Chocolate cigars after breakups until I get a stomach ache.

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I thought you said food didn't count as a guilty pleasure...?

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I said ice-cream.

Anyway, the other stuff is definitely not safe for your ears.

[selfinserting]

How is ice cream different from chocolate...?

[But, um.]

...Oh, okay, that's okay because I really don't need to hear whatever it is, then!

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Good choice, Evan!

[Somewhere in the distance period sex plays]

[selfinserting]

Right. Yeah. So, um, moving on, I choose dare this time!

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[Give her a second to think about this one...]

Oh! You know what, I heard about the cinnamon challenge. You should do that.

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...Haven't people died doing that?

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Have they? I haven't heard of that. How about the ice bucket one?

... Is there ice up here?

[selfinserting]

There's probably ice in the kitchen...? That's the one where you just dump a bucket of ice over yourself, right?

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Yeah, that's the one! I think it's for ALS awareness?