Ash and Blair

Ash: So.

Blair: How are you?

Ash: I’m alright.

Blair: You look well.

Ash: I’m actually not, really.

Blair: Oh. Sorry.

Ash: It’s not- It’s no big deal. I’m fine.

Blair: You sure?

Ash: Yes.

Blair: What is your thinking, now?

Ash: Okay.

Blair: Really?

Ash: Yeah.

Blair: Great- That’s great.

Ash: I guess.

Blair: You guess.

Ash: I guess I’m sure.

Blair: You’re being so…

Ash: So what?

Blair: Cruel.

Ash: Don’t say that.

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Blair: What do you want me to say? What?

Ash: I’m sure.

Blair: You’re not, Ash. I can tell you’re not.

Ash: I’m sure. Believe me.

Blair: What changed?

Ash: Nothing.

Blair: Nothing?

Ash: Nothing needed to change, Blair. Can you just accept what I am saying?

Blair: Do you remember that time? When we were all at the lake?

Ash: Which time? We’ve been to the lake a dozen times.

Blair: The time you were wearing that shirt. The really loud one.

Ash: The yellow one.

Blair: Yeah. That yellow one. And the…the waiter, kept giving you an extra shot in your drink,
every time?

Ash: Yeah. I remember.

Blair: Didn’t give anyone else at the table an extra shot. Just you.

Ash: Yeah?

Blair: Yeah. God, I hated that shirt.

Ash: You should have said something. I had no idea you had some sort of problem with yellow.

Blair: The problem wasn’t the color.

Ash: I am telling you that I am sure.

Blair: I can’t trust you.

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Ash: You can.

Blair: I can’t.

Ash: The truth is you don’t want to trust me.

Blair: You really think that?

Ash: Yes. I do.

Blair: That makes no sense.

Ash: I finally say I’m sure. I tell you what you want to hear and you’re trying to sabotage it.

Blair: I just don’t believe you. It’s the lake, all over again.

Ash: What does that time at the lake have to do with anything?

Blair: Wow. I can’t believe you. After what you said to me. After everyone headed back.

Ash: Oh.

Blair: Yeah. Oh.

Ash: I was drunk. The waiter.

Blair: Don’t. Ash, just- don’t.

Ash: That was like four years ago.

Blair: Who was the saboteur at the lake?

Ash: You do this every time. You grab something that someone says a million years ago and you
hold it like a gun to their head.

Blair: When have I ever done anything like that?

Ash: Oh come on.

Blair: Of all the people to make an accusation like that. That’s what you do every time. You take
your own shortcomings and you turn it into some else’s. You’re like a fault deflector. I’m telling
you, it’s like a super power.

Ash: There is no winning with you.

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Blair: There is nothing to win here. You just have to stop dicking around and go one way or the
other.

Ash: I am not dicking around.

Blair: Just say it. You couldn’t then. You don’t want to now.

Ash: I do.

Blair: You can stop, okay. Fuck.

Ash: You just can’t see.

Blair: See what’s not there?

Ash: It’s there.

Blair: It’s not.

Ash: You are choosing not to see it. It was the same thing four years ago. And you wonder why
I’ve been so unsure?

Blair: Because as far as I can see everything is still stuck in the same spot. The situation is the
same. You are the same.

Ash: I’m not.

Blair: How so?

Ash: I can let go.

Blair: I want to believe you.

Ash: You can.

Blair: Tell me you know this is the right thing to do.

Ash: It’s the right thing to do.

Blair: There’s no turning back.

Ash: I know.

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Blair: Okay. I think this is good.

Ash: So do I.

Blair: What?

Ash: Nothing. Look, I have to get going.

Blair: Sure. Yes.

Ash: That time at the lake.

Blair: I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have brought it up.

Ash: I’m glad you did.

Blair: I wish this wasn’t so hard.

Ash: Yeah. That’s why I have to do this. I hope you can forgive me.

Blair: You said you could let go.

Ash: I know I did. I’m sorry. Bye.