Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Author:Richard Gadd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Scene Three

Martha Email ur a clever one but don’t be putting all that info on facebooks and twitters, fmily addrssses, members of family without consent. Don’t post anything that could cbome back to you. Words wridetten down can be distroeted in any number of ways. I’ve gotta go.

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Gadd I have made some stupid fucking mistakes in my life but uploading my address to Twitter has to be up there with the stupidest.

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Gadd That night I get the train back to London. It’s a tube then a bus journey back to where I live from anywhere central. When I get back, I see her – sitting outside a pub on the corner of my road.

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Gadd It was almost midnight – and she’s sitting at a pub on the corner of my road. My stalker. Is sitting. At a pub. On the corner of my road. Not on her phone. Staring. It was a cold night. Has she been there all evening?

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Gadd I’m going to go over and talk to her. Reason with her. Tell her – in the kindest way – that she cannot come here again. Not to this pub. Not to this street. Certainly not to the house.

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Gadd Martha – you have to leave.

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Martha I’m a paying customer! I can sit here! How dare you insinuate mixed intentions!

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Gadd Keep it light. Keep it light. Don’t let the situation devolve.

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Gadd I’m sorry – I shouldn’t have said that, but I feel you’re here because my house is one hundred yards away.

Martha You live next to my friend.

Gadd Then why are you here and not next door at your friend’s?

. . .

Gadd She just stayed silent.

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Gadd Please, Martha, you have to leave. Don’t do this –

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Martha What’s wrong, baby reindeer?

Gadd Stop calling me that! It’s weird!

Martha What’s wrong? You can tell me?

Gadd I can’t believe it. You have no idea do you?

. . .

Gadd You. Martha. You’re what’s wrong.

Martha What’s wrong? What do you need? Tell me, tell me, tell me –

Gadd Space!

Martha Space? From – me? From – us?!

Gadd What are you talking about?! There is no ‘us’.

Martha What’s wrong, baby reindeer?! What’s wrong?

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Gadd It’s amazing. I can say anything to you, can’t I, and you will just pick and choose the bits you want to hear? Staring at me like I am about to reveal a secret torment right now that could be anything but you sitting at the end of my road.

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Gadd I think back to when I first met you and how much I felt sorry for you and how much I hated feeling that way – but now, grief, rather than empathy, as I watch you, staring at me. Hopeful. Childish. Like all my standoffish behaviour is about to be explained. And I realise. You believe it. You believe I’m your boyfriend. You utterly believe it.

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Martha What’s wrong? What’s wrong –?

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