Between the Sheets Read Free Page B

something like that. This is my classroom. Why would you even ask me that?
    MARION
    Then where? In a hotel? In a car? On the street?
    TERESA
    At my apartment.
    MARION
    Your apartment.
    TERESA
    Yes.
    MARION
    Do you live alone?
    TERESA
    Yes. I live alone.
    MARION
    Does he have a key?
    TERESA
    No, he does not have a key.
    MARION
    How do you know when to meet? How does he know when to come over?
    TERESA
    I don’t know. Look, we…
    She stops herself.
    We’ve only been together a few times.
    MARION
    What does that mean… a few times? You’ve only seen each other a few times? You’ve only fucked each other a few times?
    TERESA
    We’ve only slept together a few times… yes.
    MARION
    So… what? Twice? Three times?
    TERESA
    I haven’t counted.
    MARION
    Do you use protection?
    TERESA
    What?
    MARION
    I need to know if I should be tested for—
    TERESA
    You don’t need to be tested for anything.
    MARION
    Do you use protection or not?
    TERESA
    Yes.
    MARION
    What? Are you on birth control?
    TERESA
    No. I’m not on birth control.
    MARION
    No!
    TERESA
    No. We use condoms, all right?
    MARION
    Condoms?
    TERESA
    Yes.
    MARION
    Does he buy them or do you?
    TERESA
    I don’t know.
    MARION
    So they just appear out of nowhere?
    TERESA
    No. He…
    TERESA buries her head in her hands.
    MARION
    You’re going to stop seeing him. Do you understand me? You’re going to contact him tonight and you’re going to tell him it’s over. You’re going to tell him it’s over and then you are never to communicate with him again. You won’t write to him… you won’t call him—
    TERESA
    (quietly)
It’s not that simple.
    MARION
    Simple? What did you think was going to happen?
    TERESA
    I didn’t think anything.
    MARION
    Well that’s the problem, isn’t it? You weren’t thinking. Neither of you were thinking.
    TERESA
    We—
    MARION
    You think I don’t know what he sees in you? You’re young, you’re attractive, you’re some kind of answer.
    TERESA
    Answer?
    MARION
    Yes. You’re the answer to his fucking mid-life crisis.
    TERESA
    You don’t have to do that.
    MARION
    What?
    TERESA
    You don’t have to make him sound like some kind of… he’s not like that.
    MARION
    He’s not like what… he’s not like every other man his age? Sleeping with some young… he’s twice your age, for fuck’s sakes.
    TERESA
    Well you’re the only one who seems to have a problem with that.
    MARION
    Problem? Sweetheart… do you not see what’s going on here?
    TERESA
    He’s—
    MARION
    He’s using you. He wouldn’t be doing this if he—
    TERESA
    He wouldn’t be doing this if he didn’t have feelings for me.
    MARION
    Feelings? Do you hear yourself?
    TERESA
    You have no idea.
    MARION
    This is a phase.
    TERESA
    I’m sure it’s easier for you to think that.
    MARION
    Believe me… nothing could possibly make this easier for me.
    TERESA
    No. It is. It’s easier for you to think that this is a phase or some kind of an answer to—
    MARION
    It’s an affair. You are having an—
    TERESA
    It’s a relationship!
    MARION laughs.
    MARION
    Oh god.
    She continues to laugh.
    Oh dear god.
    MARION looks at her.
    He’s married. You know that, don’t you?
    TERESA
    Yes. I know that.
    MARION
    He is not single. He is not a bachelor. He is not available. The man you are talking about is my husband. Doesn’t that mean anything to you?
    TERESA
    Of course it means something to me.
    MARION
    You can’t just meet to fuck each other whenever—
    TERESA
    That’s not what this is about. It’s not—
    MARION
    It not what?
    TERESA
    It’s not about sex.
    MARION
    It isn’t?
    TERESA
    No.
    MARION
    You’re sleeping with him… aren’t you?
    TERESA
    That just happened.
    MARION
    You just happened to find yourself in bed with my