The Breakfast Club Page #15

CLAIRE:

Not the only difference, I hope.

BENDER:

Face it, you're a tease.

CLAIRE:

I'm not a tease!

BENDER:

Sure you are! You said it yourself

sex is a weapon, you use it to get

respect!

CLAIRE:

No, I never said that, she twisted

my words around.

BENDER:

Oh then what do you use it for?

CLAIRE:

I don't use it period!

Claire is on the verge of tears.

BENDER:

Oh, are you medically frigid or is

it psychological?

CLAIRE:

I didn't mean it that way! You guys

are putting words into my mouth!

BENDER:

Well if you'd just answer the

question...

BRIAN:

Why don't you just answer the

question?

ANDREW:

Be honest...

BENDER:

No big deal...

BRIAN:

Yeah, answer it!

ANDREW:

Answer the question, Claire!

BENDER:

Talk to us!

ANDREW & BRIAN

Come on, answer the question!

BENDER:

It's easy, it's only one question!

Claire silences all of them by screaming.

CLAIRE:

(screaming)

No! I never did it!

Silence for two beats.

ALLISON:

I never did it either, I'm not a

nymphomaniac...I'm a compulsive

liar...

CLAIRE:

You are such a b*tch! You did that

on purpose just to f*** me over!

ALLISON:

I would do it though...If you love

someone it's okay...

CLAIRE:

I can't believe you, you're so

weird. You don't say anything all

day and then when you open your

mouth...you unload all these

tremendous lies all over me!

ANDREW:

You're just pissed off because she

got you to admit something you didn't

want to admit to...

CLAIRE:

Okay, fine, but that doesn't make it

any less bizarre...

ANDREW:

What's bizarre? I mean we're all

pretty bizarre! Some of us are just

better at hiding it, that's all.

CLAIRE:

(to Andrew)

How are you bizarre?

Allison decides to field that question.

ALLISON:

He can't think for himself...

ANDREW:

She's right...do you guys know what,

uh, what I did to get in here? I

taped Larry Lester's buns together.

Claire laughs.

BRIAN:

(to Andrew)

That was you?

ANDREW:

(to Brian)

Yeah, you know him?

BRIAN:

Yeah, I know him...

ANDREW:

Well then you know how hairy he is,

right? Well, when they pulled the

tape off, most of his hair came off

and some, some skin too...

CLAIRE:

Oh my God...

ANDREW:

And the bizarre thing is, is that

I did it for my old man...I

tortured this poor kid, because I

wanted him to think that I was cool.

He's always going off about, you

know, when he was in school...all

the wild things he used to do. And

I got the feeling that he was

disappointed that I never cut loose

on anyone, right...So, I'm...I'm

sitting in the locker room, and I'm

taping up my knee. And Larry's

undressing a couple lockers down

from me. Yeah...he's kinda...

he's kinda skinny, weak. And I

started thinking about my father,

and his attitude about weakness.

And the next thing I knew, I uh, I

jumped on top of him and started

wailing on him...And my friends,

they just laughed and cheered me on.

And afterwards, when I was sittin'

in Vernon's office, all I could

think about was Larry's father. And

Larry havin' to go home and...and

explain what happened to him. And

the humiliation...f***ing

humiliation he mustuv felt. It

mustuv been unreal...I mean,

(he's crying)

I mean, how do you apologize for

something like that? There's no

way...it's all because of me and

my old man. Oh God, I f***ing hate

him! He's like this...he's like

this mindless machine that I can't

even relate to anymore..."Andrew,

you've got to be number one! I

won't tolerate any losers in this

family...Your intensity is for sh*t!

Win. Win! WIN!!!" You son of a

b*tch! You know, sometimes, I wish

my knee would give...and I wouldn't

be able to wrestle anymore. And he

could forget all about me...

BENDER:

I think your old man and my old man

should get together and go bowling.

Andrew laughs briefly.

BRIAN:

It's like me, you know, with my

grades...like, when I, when I

step outside myself kinda, and

when I, when I look in at myself

you know? And I see me and I don't

like what I see, I really don't.

CLAIRE:

What's wrong with you? Why don't

you like yourself?

BRIAN:

'Cause I'm stupid...'cause I'm failing

shop. See we had this assignment,

to make this ceramic elephant, and

um...and we had eight weeks to do

it and we're s'posed ta, and it was

like a lamp, and when you pull the

trunk the light was s'posed to go

on...my light didn't go on, I got a

F on it. Never got a F in my life...

When I signed up, you know, for the

course I mean. I thought I was

playing it real smart, you know.

'Cause I thought, I'll take shop,

it'll be such an easy way to

maintain my grade point average...

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