_Standing still, by a fountain, in a plaza. A splay of Christmas lights—the tiny, elegant, white kind—spell out, “0th Anniversarie.”_
Gentle Vigour: I don’t want to be a woman any more for right now.
Rain Song: I don’t either.
Gentle Vigour: Why not?
Rain Song: Because I want to be a man so I can make love to you.
Gentle Vigour: But that’s why I wanted to change back.
Rain Song: Well. Let’s just—both switch.
Gentle Vigour: But that would make us—
Rain Song: —yes—?
Gentle Vigour: ——
Rain Song: Friend, are you trying to say, “gay”?
Gentle Vigour: Gay?
Rain Song: Gay.
Gentle Vigour: I mean, gay, as in—
Rain Song: Gay.
Gentle Vigour: And you’re sure? I mean, really, it’d still be okay I could still love you even if we were—
Rain Song: Gay.
Gentle Vigour: And you would still love me, I mean, despite my being—
Rain Song: Gay. No, not despite. Gentle Vigour: Well . . . . Rain Song: What do you say, dear? ME: Oh my god. I get to be gay despite the bastards in school. HIM: Yep. Me, too.
_Exeunt they to a place called . . ._