[ROGER]
What’d you forget?
[MIMI enters, holding a candle and looking for a match;]
[her electricity is down, too.]
[MIMI]
Got a light?
[ROGER]
I know you? — You’re —
You’re shivering
[MIMI]
It’s nothing
They turned off my heat
And I’m just a little
Weak on my feet
Would you light my candle?
What are you staring at?
[ROGER]
Nothing
Your hair in the moonlight
You look familiar
[He lights her candle. MIMI starts to leave, but stumbles.]
Can you make it?
[MIMI]
Just haven’t eaten much today
At least the room stopped spinning.
Anyway. What?
[ROGER]
Nothing
Your smile reminded me of —
[MIMI]
I always remind people of — who is she?
[ROGER]
She died. Her name was April
[MIMI discreetly blows out the candle.]
[MIMI]
It’s out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you light my candle?
[ROGER lights the candle. They linger, awkwardly.]
[ROGER]
Well —
[MIMI]
Yeah. Ow!
[ROGER]
Oh, the wax — it’s —
[MIMI]
Dripping! I like it — between my —
[ROGER]
Fingers. I figured…
Oh, well. Goodnight.
[MIMI exits. ROGER heads back toward his guitar on the table.]
[There is another knock, which he answers.]
It blew out again?
[MIMI]
No — I think that I dropped my stash
[ROGER]
I know I’ve seen you out and about
When I used to go out
Your candle’s out
[MIMI]
I’m illin’ —
I had it when I walked in the door
It was pure —
Is it on the floor?
[ROGER]
The floor?
[MIMI gets down on all fours and starts searching]
[the floor for her stash. She lookss back at ROGER,]
[who is staring at her again.]
[MIMI]
They say I have the best ass below 14th street
Is it true?
[ROGER]
What?
[MIMI]
You’re staring again.
[ROGER]
Oh no.
I mean you do — have a nice —
I mean — You look familiar
[MIMI]
Like your dead girlfriend?
[ROGER]
Only when you smile.
But I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere else —
[MIMI]
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club?
That’s where I work – I dance – help me look
[ROGER]
Yes!
They used to tie you up —
[MIMI]
It’s a living
[MIMI douses the flame again.]
[ROGER]
I didn’t recognize you
Without the handcuffs
[MIMI]
We could light the candle
Oh won’t you light the candle?
[ROGER lights it again.]
[ROGER]
Why don’t you forget that stuff
You look like you’re sixteen
[MIMI]
I’m nineteen — but I’m old for my age
I’m just born to be bad
[ROGER]
I once was born to be bad
I used to shiver like that
[MIMI]
I have no heat — I told you
[ROGER]
I used to sweat
[MIMI]
I got a cold
[ROGER]
Uh huh
I used to be a junkie
[MIMI]
But now and then I like to —
[ROGER]
Uh huh
[MIMI]
Feel good
[ROGER]
Here it — um —
[ROGER stoops and picks up a small object: MIMI’s stash.]
[MIMI]
What’s that?
[ROGER]
It’s a candy bar wrapper
[ROGER puts it behind his back and into his pocket.]
[MIMI]
We could light the candle
[ROGER discreetly blows out the candle.]
[MIMI]
What’d you do with my candle?
[ROGER]
That was my last match
[MIMI]
Our eyes’ll adjust, thank God for the moon
[ROGER]
Maybe it’s not the moon at all
I hear Spike Lee’s shooting down the street
[MIMI]
Bah humbug … Bah humbug
[MIMI places her hand under his, pretending to do it by accident.]
[ROGER]
Cold hands
[MIMI]
Yours too.
Big. Like my father’s
You wanna dance?
[ROGER]
With you?
[MIMI]
No — with my father
[ROGER]
I’m Roger
[MIMI]
They call me
They call me Mimi
[They come extremely close to a kiss.]
[MIMI reaches into his pocket, nabs the stash,]
[waves it in front of his face, and makes a sexy exit.]
