SCENE - late dinner at restaurant. Nancy arrives, joining table of friends including Becks, Ash, and Nic.
Nancy: Hey guys! When did you get back from Nica?
Becks: We just got back when I emailed you.
Nic: And I have a message for you! Do you know a ‘B’?
Nancy: Oh my god. You met B? Where?
Becks: We stopped by ‘Grande for two days on our way back.
Nic: Nancy you should have seen his face when we said we knew you. His eyes got all big and he just lit up. Lit up! It was so cute.
Nancy: (laughs) That’s so sweet…especially ‘cause he’s such a dude! Like, a Total Dude.
Nic: Yeah, he’s so dude he’s Brah.
Ash: Wait… who’s B?
Nancy: He’s a good friend.
Ash: A good “friend” or a good friend?
Nancy: Ash! He’s just a friend!
Ash: So why are you making that face?
Nancy: What face?
Nic: The same face B made when he mentioned your name.
Ash: Nancy, what did you do to this Brah to give him that face?
Nancy: Shut up, guys! Stop it!
Ash: Then stop making that face!
Nancy: Look, I can explain: I met B last year at Playa Grande after J and I hitchhiked there so I could spend my final night in Costa Rica on the beach. J left with a bunch of his guy friends to surf … I think, Ollie’s Point? So for the last two days I just hung out with B. But B and I did not hook up. We just hung out on his birthday, I lost to him at pool - that’s all. B and I are just friends. Just friends! And he’s such a sweetheart, you guys.
Ash: Like how you left J out of the did-or-did-not-hook-up equation. Nice touch.
Nancy: Shut up.
