Quiet City Page #4

I mean, I haven't seen you

in, like, a month.

I don't know.

I mean, I've been kind of...

well, I haven't really

been that busy.

Just forget it.

Who the f*** is this?

I'm Jamie. Hi.

Hi.

So what are you...

how'd you end up here?

You just were like, "Hey, I want

to come out of Park Slope

for the first time in a year,

so I'm going to go to an art show"?

Well, no, her friend

is actually...

Yeah, Robin did...

Oh, Robin's your friend?

Yeah, from high school.

Yeah, I know Robin.

That's why I'm here.

Oh, great.

I met Robin, like, a year ago.

It was one of those, like,

here's some rock bands

and here's some art

and here's some, you know,

face painting,

and get some cotton candy--

this little carnival thing.

That's awesome.

It was, like, over on the piers.

OK.

Are you from here?

No, no,

I'm from Atlanta actually.

I was here visiting not Robin,

but another friend,

who I can't find, so...

Isn't Robin from Atlanta?

Yeah, she is.

So you've known her

for, like, a long time, right?

Yeah, we pretty much

grew up together.

Was she always like that?

Like too cool for school

and all that?

Too cool for school?

Kind of.

That's kind of Robin.

But maybe now more so--

her hair.

I haven't seen her hair like that.

What do you do?

Well, right now I work

at, um, a restaurant.

Oh, yeah?

What kind of restaurant?

A chain restaurant.

What do you mean

"a chain restaurant"?

Like Long John Silver's?

Not quite.

Like at the drive-thru,

you're like, "No fish sticks."

Applebee's, actually.

Applebee's!

You're not gearing up to what,

go back to Florida, are you?

What?

Last time I talked to you,

you said you were like,

"Oh, I'm moving back to Florida,

I'm done with this," and all that,

"it's too cold up here,

I hate it."

I didn't know that.

No, he's, like, hung up

on some girl back in Florida.

No, I'm not.

Whatever. You talk about her,

like, all the time.

No, I don't!

No, I don't!

I'm just saying, I mean,

if you move back to Florida,

I'm just letting you know

right now

that that means officially

you and I are no longer friends.

That's all. That's all.

Well, thanks a lot for that.

It's just a rule I have to make.

This is my good friend,

so you better be nice to her.

Jamie. Yeah, I met Jamie.

He's been OK.

Not too bad.

I had my shots today.

I'm totally right.

Your shots, or your shots?

No, both.

OK.

That's good work.

Thanks.

Is that sincere?

Do you...

so do you know Robin?

No, we just met.

Oh, OK.

Me and him, way back.

Yeah, sure.

Ar, ar.

Really?

Yeah.

Like this.

High school, middle school...

Isn't that kind of weird

that they go back

and we go back?

You guys know--

for real?

Yeah, Charlie Miller.

Tell me something

about Charlie.

Charlie used to--

Wait, wait, wait.

OK, uh, tell me...

tell me something

that you know about Charlie

from hanging out with him

for a day,

and then we'll ask,

we'll ask Kyle,

because I don't believe him.

Should I whisper it to you?

Yeah, whisper it to me.

All right, all right.

What have you been doing

for the past day?

Nothing.

We've just been hanging out.

OK, What is Charlie's

least favorite aspect

of getting his hair cut?

Um, any part of it--

paying for it.

So you're saying he's stingy.

The back, the back--

making the back look right.

No, it's wrong.

It's the itchy hair.

He doesn't like having

itchy hair down his shirt.

I never cut his hair

when we were in high school

or middle school

because that's not something

you do.

Like who does that,

like, "Hey, guy, let's put

this Nintendo 64 down

and cut each other's hair"?

Who does that?

Friends.

We've gotten

our hair cut together.

OK, you're girls.

I've cut her hair, actually.

What guy, except for the military,

gets their hair cut together?

I mean, seriously.

So you guys really--

I'll give you $20.

Go find me a guy

who got his hair cut with

his friend on a regular basis,

enough to know he doesn't like

what, itchy hair?

How does she know that?

Is that even true?

I don't like it.

She gave me a haircut, man.

I thought you met her yesterday!

It was yesterday.

What is wrong with you?

You just meet some girl

and you're like,

"Hey, what's up?

Cut my hair, girl."

You can't even tell.

That's like a $200 haircut

in this city.

You gave her $200

for that haircut?

That will be $250.

I barely did anything.

I was a little nervous.

Can you cut my hair?

I thought you worked

at Applebee's.

You cut hair, too?

Yeah, I do, on the side.

Kyle, be nice.

She brought it up.

I didn't tell you

to be rude to my friend.

Do you guys, like,

want to leave soon?

Sure.

I'm just kind of...

OK.

Yeah?

Are you guys coming?

Where?

Ah, I think, actually,

a bunch of people

are coming to my house later,

but it'll be a little while.

Do you just want to sort of

chill out and listen to music?

We got a girl.

Ask the girl.

If you meet some strange guy

and you go home--

I'm not a strange guy.

He's not that strange.

He's a stranger.

And you go home with him,

and you sleep over

at his house,

doesn't that mean

you kind of dig him?

Yeah.

OK, ready?

Let me see.

Do you know Robin?

Uh, not really.

I went with a friend of hers,

and I mean,

I subsequently met her,

but I don't know her very well.

Do you live in the city?

Yeah, I live in Park Slope.

Nice.

I live in Park Slope, too.

That's a lovely place to be.

Yeah, it's great.

And what do you do?

As of right now, not much.

I actually, I just quit my job

a few weeks ago,

and I've just kind of been

slinking around, you know.

I've heard of that.

I think I've done that.

Actually I'm doing that, too,

to be honest--

slinking around.

How's it going for you?

It's not paying the rent, really,

but I'm hoping someday it will.

I'm waiting

for the glory to come.

Yeah, we need to devise a plot

to where we can basically do

absolutely nothing

and get our bills paid.

I don't know.

What happened?

Nothing.

Nothing happened?

No, I mean,

some stuff happened.

What happened?

I don't know.

Just some stuff.

What? You don't have to tell me.

I didn't sleep with him, though.

But the thing is

that, like, you know,

I've just sort of had,

like, a hard time, um...

crossing that line a little bit,

and I don't really know why.

Like a lot of, like, my,

like, recent boyfriends,

like, I've just had, like,

such an intense connection

to them kind of emotionally

and we just talk about

so much stuff that l, um...

it's sort of hard for me

to, like, imagine,

like, being sort of, like,

sexy with them

when, like, it's sort of like

it's all, like, cute

and, like, sweet

and, like, intense

but like in a cerebral way,

kind of.

You, like, see these,

like, movies

and, like, these sex scenes

are, like, so animalistic,

and l, like, don't...

I don't know.

I just, like, don't--

I can't, like, I can't reconcile,

like, something like that

with, like, something like

what I've had with these people

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