Hilary with a glass of wine.
Tilly and Lyndsey, looking remarkably glamorous and sexy.
Tilly We’re going now.
Lyndsey Hi, Hilary.
Hilary Lyndsey. How are you? You’ve had the baby.
Lyndsey Yeah.
Tilly He’s really cute. Dayne.
Hilary I’d love to see him.
Tilly She’d love to get her hands on him.
Lyndsey He’s really nice.
Tilly She’s got baby envy.
Tilly No, of course you haven’t – baby lust. One little peek at his little fatty arms.
Hilary How’s life, Lyndsey? We don’t see you that often.
Lyndsey It’s OK.
Hilary You’re looking well.
Lyndsey Thanks.
Hilary Really wonderful.
Tilly She’s such a skinny minny.
Hilary So where are you off to?
Tilly Town.
Hilary Stick together, won’t you. Where?
Tilly This club Lyndsey’s sister goes to.
Hilary What’s it called?
Tilly You won’t know it. Fabric.
Lyndsey It’s got a bodysonic dance floor.
Hilary Has it? What’s that?
Tilly Music pumping from the floor.
Lyndsey It goes through your whole body. Pumps through.
Hilary That sounds good.
Lyndsey It’s really sick.
Hilary It sounds – sick. What sort of music does it play?
Tilly Mum. Don’t be such a freak.
Hilary Do they let sixteen-year-olds in those places?
Tilly We have fake IDs.
Tilly Got it online, twenty quid.
Hilary Right. Why don’t you have a drink with me here first?
Tilly We’re meeting people.
Hilary One glass.
Lyndsey They can wait ten minutes.
Hilary Least it’ll be decent wine.
Hilary pours.
Lyndsey My sister hangs out with a footballer.
Hilary Do footballers go to this club?
Lyndsey I got an itinerary, where they all go. I downloaded it.
Hilary Is that what you want to do, Lyndsey? Meet a footballer?
Lyndsey Yeah. I’ll get him to pay for my lipo.
Tilly Lyndsey wants lipo.
Hilary Oh my God, you don’t.
Lyndsey I do.
Tilly Don’t set her off.
Hilary You’ve got a beautiful figure.
Tilly It’s no good, she wants lipo.
Lyndsey My fat legs.
Hilary It’s a surgical procedure. It has a risk factor.
You can’t encourage your friend to have lipo, Tilly.
Tilly I’m not encouraging her.
Hilary You were never supposed to have a Barbie.
Tilly Oh my days, not this again.
Hilary I always swore you never would and then you had a party when you were six
And got given two.
Tilly The happiest day of my childhood.
Hilary Barbie is an Aryan. Put together by eleven thousand Chinese women in Guangdong Province. She’s a recipe for self-hatred.
Lyndsey I love your mum, she’s so original.
Tilly Let’s go.
Lyndsey I heard about you and Mr Winters having a trial separation. I’m really sorry.
Hilary That’s OK. Thanks, Lyndsey. These things happen.
Tilly?
Tilly What?
Hilary Life has to be a balance.
Work and play.
Tilly I do work.
Hilary Because things get serious now.
I mean, how you did so well in your GCSEs. You won’t get by on that amount of work this time – A-levels are a different level.
Tilly Yes, they’re A-levels. It’s Saturday night.
Hilary Yes.
Tilly Get a life.
Exits.
Hilary sits drinking alone.