Lara looks away for a second, then down.

Lara ”Is this about Dana?”

Marina ”Yes.”

Lara nods, looking at her keys.  She is ready to leave.

Marina ”You have no interest in what it concerns.”

Lara stops, then puts the keys away, crossing her arms.  Lara and Marina are now face to face.

Lara ”What do you want?”

Marina ”How much do you care about her?”

Lara ”What does it matter?  She made it clear where I stood in her world and I was in the way.”

Marina ”No.  She made a mistake.  An error.”

Lara ”Did she send you here?”

Marina ”No.  Nobody sent me here.  I am here, because she is a friend.  I’m here, because right now, Dana is hurt as I’m sure you are.”

Lara ”Yeah.  Okay.  It’s great to be hurt in front of everybody.  To be embarrassed in front of an entire restaurant full of confused people.  To be dumped like that.  But sure, she’s the hurt one.  Got anything else to add or can I leave now?”

Marina ”You haven’t returned her messages.”

Lara ”She stopped sending them.  Why would I want to talk to somebody who treated me like that?  She is so willing to sell herself out, Marina.  She’s so willing to keep her real self away from the public!  I just hope that whatever Subaru’s paying her, it was worth it.”

Marina ”You haven’t seen the ad?”

Lara ”No.  I haven’t.”

Marina ”The ad campaign is, ’Get Out, and Stay Out.’  As in coming out.  The very thing that you and I and her friends have been her to do, she’s trying to do.  I’m sorry that her fear cost you a relationship.  I’m sorry it’s caused you stress and to be hurt.  It has also caused her the same.”

Lara ”…”

Marina ”As we speak, she’s on her way to coming out to her parents.”

Lara ”Her parents.  Her Orange County Republican Coalition or whatever parents?”

Marina ”Yes.  I sense that she wishes you were there with her.”

Lara shrugs.

Lara ”Well…it’s too late for that, I guess.”

Marina ”However, it is not too late for you.  She’s scared, Lara.  She’s frightened.  She’s afraid of losing everything and you…you’re just going to keep yourself away.”