Monologue from The Depths

Felicity Sophomore Year
Monologue from The Depths

Setting: a stopped subway train underneath New York City. Felicity and Julie have been fighting because Felicity "stole" Julie's recent ex-boyfriend Ben, and Julie wrote an angry song in response. An old man stands up to deliver the final contribution to the contentious discussion.

The way I see it, you two best friends were never best friends to begin with.

(Felicity: Actually, sir, I really think we were.)

If I'm understanding right, and I think I'm understanding right, you two met when you were both seriously lonely, maybe a little desperate, when you both needed a best friend. You shared a few things together, started to refer to each other as "best". But that was premature, wasn't it? 'Cause what you had never really earned that title. I had a best friend for 63 years ... played in the minors together ... went to war together ... 63 years. And here's the fact. You can't get a best friend. Best friends become. They don't happen in a meeting or a year or two. It's a package deal: friendship, only as valuable as what you put in or come through. Judging something like that after one year, even if you got all the facts, that's like looking for the final score before you've seen the second inning. I don't think you two were best friends to begin with. 

One of two things is going to happen. You're either going to come through this on your way to becoming the kind of friends you thought you were, or you'll become memories, memories that will fade.