EXT. NEW YORK TIMES – DAY

SOPHIE
What the hell was that?….
Vivia-
HEY!

VIVIAN
What!?

SOPHIE
What was that back there?

VIVIAN
Nothing, just….leave it alone okay.

SOPHIE
No. I want to know wh-.
Don't walk away from me.

VIVIAN
I said leave it alone Sophie.

SOPHIE
Not until you tell me what that was about.
Who is she?

VIVIAN
She's….She's nobody okay.
Can we just forget it and get on the bus.

SOPHIE
So what, you're gay now?

VIVIAN
No. Yes. God, I don't know.

SOPHIE
Because you weren't gay before.

VIVIAN
Jesus Sophie, why don't you talk a bit louder, the people of Guam can't hear you.
It's not a big deal.

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INT. BUS – DAY

SOPHIE
Not a BIG deal. Are you kidding me, this is like 1942 Germany.

VIVIAN
Could you be any more melodramatic?

SOPHIE
This isn't melodrama, melodrama is….mellow-er.

VIVIAN
Sophie, you just compared finding out I was gay to the Holocaust.

SOPHIE
So you are gay then

VIVIAN
….

SOPHIE
Well are you or aren't you?

VIVIAN
Yes

SOPHIE
OH MY GOD

VIVIAN
SOPHIE!
Use you 'inside-a-crowded-bus' voice!

SOPHIE
NO!
You can't just drop this on me and expect me to 'shush"

VIVIAN
Of course not.
Silly me.

SOPHIE
When did this all start

VIVIAN
When did all of what start Sophie?

SOPHIE
This…..gay thing.

VIVIAN
Gay thing?
You can't be serious

SOPHIE
You know it's just a phase right

VIVIAN
Apparently you are

SOPHIE
You'll get over it once you meet some of the cute guys around here

VIVIAN
I don't have a cold Soph.
I'm not going to wake up one morning and 'Poof' all better now.

SOPHIE
Why not?

VIVIAN
Because that's not how it works. 
It's who I am.
I haven't turned into a garden gnome Soph, I'm the same as you.

SOPHIE
We are NOT the same.

VIVIAN
You're being stupid

SOPHIE
OH I'M being stupid?.
You're the one going around kissing girls in the middle of the street.

VIVIAN
Aster

SOPHIE
What?