Jenna curls up on a hotel bed and finally checks all the texts Adam has been sending.
Adam
I saw you dodge into the elevator. WTH?
Adam
Let’s just meet at the café down the block. Neutral territory. Ok?
Adam
Jen, where the hell are you?
She exhales, knowing she can’t keep hiding.
Jenna
I’ve checked into a hotel.
Adam
Come back. You said you couldn’t face me, but I didn’t think you’d actually run away.
Adam
I’LL check in somewhere else. This is your apartment, not mine.
Jenna
No. Things have gotten way too serious. I need to sort my crap out and get some perspective.
Jenna
After you move to LA, we’ll talk.
Jenna
It’s not like I’ve been looking to get personal with a man anyway.
Jenna
Work gives me all the fulfillment I need.
Even Jenna winces at that lame excuse.
Adam
Now that is some prime bullshit.
Adam
Are those the speaking points of your defense mechanism?
Jenna
Speaking points? Are we in the midst of an interview?
Adam
That wasn’t actually my point.
Adam
You know what? If an interview is the only way we can communicate, then let’s do it.
Adam
Tell me, Little Miss Work Is All the Fulfillment I Need…
Adam
Care to comment on your relationship with that toy I found?
Adam
I’m pointing out that you clearly need more than work to satisfy you.
Jenna
So we’re playing it this way? Okay.
Jenna
Little Miss Work’s relationship with that toy began after she discovered that guys suck.
Jenna
She also came to the conclusion that dealing with them took too much energy.
Jenna
Kind of like the energy she’s exerting now.
She tosses the phone to the mattress.
That didn’t feel as good as she hoped it would.
She picks the phone back up.
Jenna
All right. There’s actually another reason for my toy and the defense mechanisms.
Jenna
Relationships are tough for Little Miss Work.
Jenna
She hasn’t put much effort into having one since…
Adam
Since you met that dashing kid you tutored in college?
Adam
I hear he ruined you for anyone else.
Jenna
That kid used to be so easy to talk to.
She squeezes her eyes shut.
Courage seeps out of her second by second.
Adam
Are you afraid to get too close to him now for some reason?
Jenna
Little Miss Work has ended the interview.
Adam
I’m getting the feeling that you use your job and all your nerdy things as shields.
Adam
That you hide behind all your geeky fandoms to avoid relationships.
Jenna
You like to think you know so much about me, but you don’t.
Adam
Well then let me tell you something I DO know.
Adam
I’m in my room and it looks like someone’s been in my bed.
Adam
It makes me wonder if there was some non-work related fulfillment going on.
Adam
It also makes me wish you were still in that bed now.
Jenna
Are we really starting this up again?
Adam
I told you…if you want to play, Jen, I’ll play.
Adam
Whatever it takes to break through to you.
Adam
Maybe you should even give me equal time in YOUR bed while you’re AWOL.
She gasps, thinking of his tie and the sexy pics she tossed into her room before running away.
Jenna
Stay out of my room, Adam!
Adam
You know what? I’m just going to lay it out for you.
Adam
Ever since we reconnected, I haven’t been able to think of anyone but you.
Adam
You really have no clue about how I felt about you in college.
Jenna’s world starts to spin.
Jenna
You fantasized about my anime tee shirts. Big deal.
Adam
Jen…the first time I saw you in the library, it was like a giant fist pounded me into the ground.
Adam
There you were in your geek ponytails, a Princess Leia shirt, and a pleated skirt.
Adam
I didn’t know anyone else who was so unafraid to show the world who she was.
Jenna
And THEN you decided that I was one big defense mechanism.
Jenna’s hands are trembling while holding the phone.
Adam
That night, I did start to wonder if you might be putting on an adorable act.
Adam
All the girls I met were good at that, but you turned out to be different.
Adam
You joked that I was a clone who blended into the Imperial ranks—
Adam
That’s what you called the rest of the frat boys.
Adam
It was hilarious, and it shocked the crap out of me.
Adam
Because I’d never been called out like that before.
Jenna
I should’ve kept my mouth shut.
Adam
Then I brought you that Stormtrooper eraser to show I was in on the joke.
Adam
That’s when you started looking at ME differently.
She can’t swallow away the lump in her throat now.
Adam
By graduation time, I knew what I felt for you was real.
Adam
I thought you might feel the same, but you just said a chipper farewell to me on that last night.
Adam
So I told myself I was being an idiot, that I’d imagined something between us.
Jenna
I really had no clue, Adam.
Her heart is aching so badly that she presses her hand over it.
Jenna
You make solving this situation sound so easy. But here’s the thing.
Jenna
You’re always saying what a sweet nerd I am.
Jenna
What if I wasn’t that way at all?
As the seconds crawl by, she stares at the phone screen.
Adam
But you have a sweet nature. You even smell sweet, like flowers.
Adam
All I want to do is bury my face in your hair and smell your skin.
Adam
Your lingerie even smells sweet…
She jumps to her feet, knowing where this is going.
Lingerie…the drawers in her bedroom…the tie and pictures on the floor…
Jenna
Don’t go in my room.
Adam
Already opening the door…
Jenna waits for a full minute, but there’s no answer.
Another taut minute passes, and Jenna’s heart is exploding with fear.
Adam
Jen, what am I seeing on your floor?
