On The Terrace

ALEX
Jenny this is just as hard for me
What we feel is wrong
Unnatural
Our bodies must not rule our minds
You're much too young to understand your feelings
Can't you see?
This has to finish

JENNY
All right I heard you
Now please be quiet
This needs some thinking

ALEX
When you're older you will thank me
Come on Jenny
Little mermaid

JENNY
You say that it's unnatural
What exactly does that mean?
When you first met my mother
You were only seventeen

The thing that is unnatural
Is to keep your feelings in
And lying to yourself must
Be by far the greatest sin
Oh yes it's all too easy
To pretend I don't exist

ALEX
Oh Jenny can't you see that
There are things we must resist?

JENNY
Look I think I know the reason
You're so keen for this to end --
I saw what you were doing
With your new Italian "friend"
You're the one who seems to
Let your body rule your mind
If that's what being grown-up means
Then please leave me behind

ALEX
If my body really ruled me
Then we both know all too well
You'd end up with a lover
Locked inside a prison cell

JENNY
No one said that Romeo
Was a monster --
Why are you?
I'm as old as Juliet
What
What are you frightened of?
When you know
You know you love me
And love
Love changes everything
Turns the tide back
Breaks the rules

ALEX
Jenny we're behaving like a pair of fools

JENNY
Are you going to marry her?
Giulietta
Have you said?

Because
If you don't marry her
Would you marry me instead?

Why
Why can't you wait for me?
Three years is not a lifetime

ROSE (to JENNY quietly)
Darling I just need a moment
I must have a word with Alex

I hear you're leaving us
Our lives are changing yet again
I came to say goodbye
Good luck
Come back and see us now and then