Moment 7

Question 1

Presley: Come and look, Haley … You awake, Haley?

…

Presley re-bolts the door.

Answer 1

Cosmo vomits.

Question 2

Presley stares.

Slight pause.

Answer 2

Cosmo: That’s your fault, that is. Forcing me in here. Knew I was going to puke. Always do.

Question 3

Presley: … Why?

Answer 3

Cosmo: Have to get it out of my system.

Stares at Presley.

Cosmo: You ill?

Question 4

Presley: No.

Answer 4

Cosmo: Well you look it.

Question 5

Presley: Well, I’m not.

Answer 5

Cosmo: I ain’t a lover of illness, me. Sick things. Germs getting in my bloodstream. I’ve never had anything wrong with me. Want it to stay that way.

Indicating vomit.

Cosmo: You should clear that up.

Question 6

Presley goes to kitchen and fills a bucket with water.

…

Cosmo goes to window.

Answer 6

Cosmo: See me from here, did you?

Question 7

Presley: Yeah

Answer 7

Cosmo: Why’d you come out? Feel sorry for me, did you? Think I was a boy? A boy in need?

Question 8

Presley: Something like that.

Answer 8

Cosmo: Well, you was wrong. I ain’t no boy … Wanted to touch me, did you?

Question 9

Presley: No.

Answer 9

Cosmo: Liar!

Question 10

Presley: I’m not.

Answer 10

Cosmo: I don’t like being touched, me. Don’t like it at all. Not by another man. Not even by the one I was with. You see him?

Question 11

Presley: Yeah.

Answer 11

Cosmo: He’s gone to get the car. Parked it earlier, then forgot where it was. Could be walking the streets for hours. Not his fault. His brain ain’t all it should be. He’ll come back. Has to. I’m like a magnet to him. The North Pole in his compass of life.

Cosmo: You fucking praying or what? … It’s only vomit. Won’t stain. Ain’t curry.

Cosmo: This place stinks.

Question 12

Presley: Of what?

Answer 12

Cosmo: Chocolate.

Question 13

Presley: What kind?

Answer 13

Cosmo: What d’you mean what kind? Chocolate’s chocolate.

Question 14

Presley: I eat a lot of chocolate.

Answer 14

Cosmo: Can tell. Look at your teeth.

Question 15

Presley: What wrong with them?

Answer 15

Cosmo: They’re rotten.

Question 16

Presley: They’re not.

Answer 16

Cosmo: When was the last time you looked in a mirror?

Question 17

Presley: I don’t like mirrors.

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Presley takes bucket to kitchen.

Answer 17

Cosmo: Your eyes are pretty bloodshot too.

Question 18

Presley rushes out of kitchen.

Presley: My eyes are pretty?!

Answer 18

Presley: Pretty bloodshot, I said. You get enough sleep?

Question 19

Presley: Plenty. I take tablets.

Answer 19

Cosmo: Well, that explains it. Tablets ain’t real sleep. That’s chemical sleep. Your skin’s suffering.

Question 20

Presley: My skin?

Answer 20

Cosmo: All pale and pasty. You need some fresh air. You’re an unhealthy human being, Mr Chocolate. You know what you need? A good scrub? You’ve been hibernating too long, that’s your trouble.

Question 21

Presley: I’m not hibern-

Answer 21

Cosmo: Now take me for instance. How do I look?

Question 22

Presley: Oh …

Answer 22

Cosmo: Go on. Spit it out!

Question 23

Presley: …Lovely.

Answer 23

Cosmo: Just lovely?

Question 24

Presley: Very lovely.

Answer 24

Cosmo: Just very lovely? Oh, you can do better than that. Shall I tell you what I am?

Question 25

Presley: What?

Answer 25

Cosmo: Perfect. Come here, Mr Chocolate.

Presley approaches Cosmo.

Cosmo: Look at my eyes. Are they clear? Are the whites white and the blues blue?

Question 26

Presley: Yeah.

Answer 26

Cosmo: And my skin? Any pimples or scars? Any blemishes of any shape, size or description?

Question 27

Presley: No.

Answer 27

Cosmo: And my hair? Is it glistening and healthy and redolent of a stallion?

Question 28

Presley: Yeah.

Answer 28

Cosmo: And in my mouth?

Opens mouth.

Question 29

Presley gazes in Cosmo’s mouth.

Presley: Wonderful.

Answer 29

Cosmo: Not one filling. Perfect white, shiny, healthy teeth. And my body - Look!

Presley goes to touch him.

Cosmo: Don’t fucking touch! I’ve warned you. Don’t like being touched by men. Just use your eyes. Does my body look hard and muscular and totally free from fat?

Question 30

Presley: It does.

Answer 30

Cosmo: Bet you’re jealous.

Question 31

Presley: I am

Answer 31

Cosmo: How jealous?

Question 32

Presley: Very jealous.

Answer 32

Cosmo: Knew you would be. People are. Look at my hands. Ain’t they perfect? Perfect nails. Perfect knuckles. Smooth. White. Slender. Shall I tell you something? I ain’t never broken a bone.

Question 33

Presley: No?

Answer 33

Cosmo: Not one. How many you broke?

Question 34

Presley: I … I can’t remember.

Answer 34

Cosmo: but you have broken one or two? Am I right?

Question 35

Presley: I suppose.

Answer 35

Cosmo: Course I am. Jesus, your breath reeks.

Question 36

Presley: Of chocolate?

Answer 36

Cosmo: Nah. Just … reek.

Question 37

Presley: Shall I clean my teeth?

Answer 37

Cosmo: Might be an idea.