Kayla: Hey Jack! Desi xxx Kayla?” mom asked, bringing out a tray of M&M cookies. Wow, I just guessed!”
“Good guess,” I said with a grin. She had been taking a much larger interest in me since yesterday. “Good morning, Alan.” He just grunted in response. Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.”
The monologue was from Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, one of his lesser known and underrated plays. My anger started returning again and, all of a sudden, I thought of the perfect monologue to perform. “Jack, do you want to date this girl?” dad asked bluntly
I gaped at him before finally stammering, “Uh…y…yeah…yeah, I do.”
“Why?”
It was a question for which the answer seemed so obvious and yet so hard to put into words.
