[Ruby] What the Fu*k? I know this aint what I'm seein' and hearin'! Lily? You pregnant by this?

[Carl] Ruby...

[Ruby] I'll be with you in a minute. Lily, look at me. [pointing at Carl] This...is whose baby you got?

[Lily, sheepishly] Ma'am...

[Ruby] Ma'am?

[Ruby lunges toward Carl connecting blows repeatedly until his head is bleeding on the floor. She then grabs Lily by her shirt while she's still on the bed, yelling] What the fu*k is wrong with you?!! That's a low-life ni**a and now you're gonna have a low-life ni**a slidin' outta yo' ass? What, you thought nobody was gonna come check on you Lily? The Church is down the street and you're supposed to be there. You lucky Velma or Nancy didn't come home to this, and I still feel like kicking some mo' ass Carl!

[Lily crying] I just wanna have my freedom, thats all. I'm tired. Tired of Velma bossing me around and telling me what I can and can't do.

[Ruby] What...the fu*k does that got to do with you getting knocked up by Nancy's husband?

[Lily] Nothing, just...

[Ruby] Just what dammit? [through clenched teeth] You better start makin' sense NOW!



[Lily] Velma...she knows. She's the one who set us up with each other. She found out about Carl getting the job at the factory, and she wanted to find a way to get his money...that's where I come in.

[Carl, still nursing on the floor] What?!

[Ruby kicking Carl in the head] Shut up!!!! What you say, Lily?

[Lily] *sigh* She wanted me to get close to him and fake a pregnancy so we could blackmail him outta his pay.

[Ruby, yelling louder] And you agreed to that dumb sh*t? You're pregnant for real, Lily! What the fu*k is you thinkin'?!

[Lily] I just wanted her offa my back. She said I could do what I want if I did that favor for her.

[Ruby] Favor? [pacing] You let your sister pimp you? In exchange for getting out the house a little bit? You're almost 20 Lily! You can move out if you get a job, but you turned down Emogene's housekeeping job 4 times and she still wants you over there. Now you into blackmailing people for money?!

[Lily] I just wanna be like you, Red. All the fun, the freedom, the men and the money...I want that. I thought you'd understand or at least be proud.

[Ruby, taking off shoes and earrings] Get UP!!! Bitch, put up your damn dukes! GET 'EM UP!!! Like me? Proud? You don't know nothing about being me! Everyday I dig myself deeper and deeper in the hole internally when I party at the jook joints, hustling, scamming dumb men like Carl's DUMB ass. Now I wasn't gonna fuss at you for being pregnant, but Carl? That's your sister's husband!! How you gonna tell her?

[Lily] I don't wanna fight, Red. He said he didn't want her. He said he wanted me. I didn't know I was gonna fall for him and get pregnant! Ruby...

[Ruby] Hush, I need to figure out how to do this. Whose ass to whoop [saying to herself] How do I do this?

[Lily] Do what, Red?

[Ruby] Didn't I say shut up talking to me? Are you two slow? Get your clothes on, we going back to Church. Carl, get the hell outta my house. If I see you near Lily again, I'm going to jail. Lily, get my gun. Damn a icepick.

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