FOR BRIAN:WE ARE HERE TO RUIN OURSELVES...

EXTERIOR: RONNY'S APARTMENT
BUILDING (NIGHT)

She looks. It's Ronny's building.

LORETTA: This is your place.

RONNY: That's right.

LORETTA: This is where we're going!

RONNY: Yeah.

LORETTA: The deal was if I came to the opera with you you'd leave me alone forever.

She looks for his response. He makes none.

LORETTA: I went with you. (pause, nothing) Now I'm gonna marry Johnny and you're gonna leave me alone. (pause, nothing) Right? (nothing) A person can see where they've messed up in their life, and they can change how they do things, and they can change their Luck. Maybe my nature does draw me to you, but I don't haveta go with that. I can take hold of myself and say yes to some things and no to something that's just gonna ruin everything! I can do that. Otherwise, what is this stupid life that God gave us for what?

RONNY: I don't know. Everything seems like nothing now against that I want you in my bed. I don't care if I burn in hell. I don't care if you burn in hell. The Past and Future is a joke to me now. I see that they're nothing, I see they ain't here. The only thing that's here is you. And me. I want you to come upstairs.

LORETTA: Let me go home.

RONNY: No.

LORETTA: I'm freezing to death.

RONNY: Come upstairs. I don't care why you come. No, that's not what I mean.

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is. Love don't make things nice, it ruins everything, it breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We're not here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. We are here to ruin ourselves and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die! The storybooks are bullshit.

Come upstairs with me and get in my bed! Come on! Come on! Come on!

Loretta follows Ronny into his building.