Annie and Firecracker in “Unfinished Business”

This is fucking insane. You can’t actually mean this.

Firecracker

I’m sorry, who let you in?

Bedroom window. This used to be my place. [sighs] Yeah, I gotta say, I really hate what you’ve done with it.

Firecracker

You know, when I said, “Debate me,” this wasn’t what I had in mind.

Why me? What have I done to make you hate me so much?

Firecracker

…You really don’t remember me, do you? Of course. I mean, why would you? We were only on the same pageant circuit together for three fuckin’ years. Course I was going by “Sparkler” back in those days.

Sparkler. Yeah, right. You sang that “God Bless America” medley.

Firecracker

[scoffs] I practiced that routine so fuckin’ hard. Never mind we were too poor to have a backyard to practice in, but… I’d dream that one day, I’d get good enough to win. [pause] Miami-Dade. Down to you and me, the finals. And my mom starts doing my makeup, and I notice that everyone is… snickering at me. You remember why? Turns out you told everyone that I had an ass-fuck gangbang with the judges, which was the only way trash like me could ever make it to the final. I was thirteen years old. And when I went to you to ask you why… you remember what you said?

Look, I was immature and stupid, and my mom taught me to be ruthless.

Firecracker

Do you remember what you said?

I said that… [sighs] "I don’t talk to fat sluts."

Firecracker

And then, not long after that, I had to quit the pageant circuit, ’cause… Well, a rumor like that, it really follows you around. And the more you deny it, the more they believe it.

I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. It was so fucked up, and it was so wrong. I was jealous, but I’m not that person anymore.

Firecracker

People don’t change. And everybody thinks that you’re so decent. So pretty and perfect. Hell, you fuckin' think you’re better than everybody else.

That’s not true.

Firecracker

You’re damn fuckin' right it’s not. All that dove, pure angel bullshit? No, I see the connivin' little mean girl bitch in there. And when I’m done, the rest of the world’s gonna see it, too.