MCKENZIE
So you got a boyfriend?

SUMMER
Nooo.

Tom shoots daggers at McKenzie for that comment. McKenzie mouths "what?" Summers sees nothing.

MCKENZIE
Why not?

SUMMER
Don't really want one.

MCKENZIE
Come on. I don't believe that.

SUMMER
You don't believe a woman could enjoy being free and independent?

MCKENZIE
Are you a lesbian?

SUMMER
No, I'm not a lesbian. I'm just not comfortable being somebody's "girlfriend." I don't want to be anybody's anything, you know?

MCKENZIE
I have no idea what you're talking about.

SUMMER
It sounds selfish, I know, but . . . I just like being on my own. Relationships are messy and feelings get hurt. Who needs all that? We're young. We're in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I say, let's have as much fun as we can have and leave the serious stuff for later.

MCKENZIE
Holy shit. You're a dude.

TOM
(ignoring him)
So then . . . what happens if you fall in love?

Summer laughs at this.

TOM
What?

SUMMER
You don't actually believe that, do you?

TOM
Believe what? It's love, it's not Santa Claus.

SUMMER
What does that word even mean? I've been in relationships before and I can tell you right now I've never seen it.

TOM
Well maybe that's cause —

SUMMER
And I know that today most marriages end in divorce. Like my parents.

TOM
Well mine too but —

SUMMER
I read an article in the New Yorker, says that by stimulating a part of the brain with electrodes you can make a person fall in "love" with a rock. Is that the love you're talking about?

MCKENZIE
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
SUMMER
(matter-of-fact)
The lady dothn't.
(to Tom)
There's no such thing as "love." It's a fantasy.

TOM
I think you're wrong.

SUMMER
Really? And what exactly is it I'm missing?

AN ANIMATION SEQUENCE, real quick. AN EXPLOSION OF MANY DIFFERENT COLORS, COMPLETE WITH A CHOIR AND A CHURCH ORGAN ALL BUILDING TO A HUGE CRESCENDO.

BACK TO: INT KARAOKE BAR

On Tom:

TOM
You'll know it when you feel it.

SUMMER
(rolls her eyes)
How bout we just agree to disagree.