#rick works for lynette in a pizza restaurant and lately theyve been staying late to have dinner together

[monologue-city]

Desperate Housewives

2 person scene

Adult | Dramatic | 2-3 minutes | A restaurant owner talks with her employee (with whom she's been flirting) while closing

Lynette bids farewell to the last customers of the night

Lynette: Thanks, come again. Hey, I made you an espresso.

Rick: Great.

Lynette: You okay? You've been so quiet all night.

Rick: I had lunch with Tom today.

Lynette: That's funny, he didn't mention it.

Rick: He asked me if I was sleeping with you.

Lynette: What? I am so sorry. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. That paranoid idiot... You know, I knew it. I knew when we were watching the surveillance tapes that he would completely misinterpret it.

Rick: Did he?

Lynette: Did he what?

Rick: Did he misinterpret it? Or did he just see what is obvious that you and I can't admit?

Lynette: I don't know what you're talking about. There's nothing to admit.

Rick: Lynette how long are we going to kid ourselves? I have feelings for you. I know you feel something for me.

Lynette: Stop. Don't say it. You cannot say these things.

Rick: Well, we both know it's true. We've been flirting since we met.

Lynette: Yes, flirting that's it. It's what married people do because there's a line you don't cross. And maybe I've gotten close to that line, and maybe I've enjoyed getting close to that line. But I have never once crossed it.

Rick: Look, I know I don't have much to offer-

Lynette: And I have nothing to offer. I am taken.

Lynette throws a dish on the ground out of frustration

Rick: Great, great. Now what, you're mad at me?

Lynette: Yeah I'm mad. I am mad because I loved our nights together. It made me feel sexy and happy, and God how I needed that. And now it's over. You ruined it.

(beat)

You can't work here anymore.

Rick: You're going to fire me.

Lynette: Oh geez, what choice do I have?

Rick: Lynette. Lynette, please.

Lynette: Don't touch me. You have to go. Now. Please go. You have to go now. Go on. Go.

Lynette exits