"Mark, can you get your girl out of the bathroom please? I gotta go." Roger shouted standing outside the bathroom door.
"Come on Maureen, Roger has to go to the bathroom." Mark yelled knocking on the bathroom door.
"You know Roger, you need a girlfriend." Maureen told him opening the door with her hands on her hips.
"Yeah well, can I pee first?" he asked pushing his way into the bathroom.
"Pookie, we have to do something about him. He really needs to get laid. STAT." Maureen told him sitting on the couch.
"Don't even think about it, Maureen. Give him time. He's having a rough time adjusting" Mark told her quietly as he sat on the couch next to her.
"How much time does he need. He hasn't left this apartment since I've known him." she told him putting her arm around his shoulders.
"What are you thinking, Maureen?" he asked cautiously.
"Well, I have plans with my friend Joanne, so why don't you take him out to the Cat Scratch Club tonight? It'll be fun. The girl downstairs works there and she's really pretty." she told him smiling at him as Roger came out of the bathroom.
"I have things to do in my room, so I'm not gonna bother you guys. Just don't have sex on the couch, OK. I'm still trying to get the image out of my head from last time." he said disappearing into his room again.
"It'll be fun, Pookie. He obviously needs a night out. He might find some inspiration for his song writing." she told him smiling.
"I don't think the girl downstairs is really his type." Mark told her looking away from her.
"Why because she's alive?" she asked as Mark got up.
"Maureen, that's not fair." Mark told her running his fingers through his short blond hair.
"Marky, I've seen the reels and yeah, he's still with her. But she's gone and he's still here. He can't keep having a relationship with a ghost." she said getting up to go to him.
"Maureen, now just isn't the time." Mark said as she took his arm.
"When is the time? You said it yourself. He's having a rough time, maybe all he needs is to get out and see all the other girls out there. Roger is really good looking. He could probably have any girl he wants." she said looking up at him.
"Yeah, but too bad the only girl he wants he can't have." Mark said leaning over to kiss her.
"Just see if he wants to go. You guys deserve some fun." Maureen said smiling at him.
"I'll ask him." he told her smiling before going to Roger's room.
"I gotta finish getting ready to meet up with Joanne." she said going back into the bathroom.
"OK." he said knocking on Roger's bedroom door. "Roger, can I come in?"
"Yeah Mark. What's up?" he asked looking up at him.
"I was thinking. Why don't we go to the Cat Scratch Club tonight? Maureen's going out with her friend Joanne tonight. So it'll just be you and me." he suggested as Roger sat up on the bed.
"I don't feel like going out. Especially to a strip club." Roger said looking down at his hands.
"It's not a strip club. The girls just dance in there. I think we need a guys night out." he said as Roger got up.
"This wouldn't happen to be Maureen's way of setting me up with a girl, is it? Because you know I'm not interested." he told him walking around the room.
"No, I just think we could use a night out. You know, a guys night out." he said looking up at him.
"Just you and me? Maureen's not gonna surprise me and try to set me up with Joanne, is she?" Roger asked thinking about it.
"No Roger. She's not trying to set you up with Joanne. You're not Joanne's type anyway." Mark told him with a laugh.
"Why not?" he asked sitting on the bed.
"Because Joanne's a lesbian." Mark told him laughing.
"Oh right. OK." Roger said laughing as he looked over at him.
"So are you in?" he asked laughing.
"Yeah, I guess." he told him as Maureen knocked on the bedroom door.
"OK boys, I'm off. Don't get into too much trouble tonight." she told them smiling at them as Mark got up to kiss her goodbye.
"We won't. Have fun with Joanne." he told her hugging her before she turned around and left the loft.
"Have you ever met Joanne?" Roger asked looking up at him.
"No, but Maureen says she's really cool. She's a lawyer and they have fun together." he told him as Roger laughed.
"And she's a lesbian." he told him laughing as he got up.
"Maureen is not a lesbian. She's as hetero as they come. Trust me." Mark told him defensively.
"Yeah, OK. Let me go get ready." Roger told him leaving the room to go into he bathroom to get ready to go out. "So how did you hear about this place anyway?" Roger asked brushing his hair.
"Maureen told me about it. She said the girl downstairs works there." he told him putting his scarf on.
"So she is trying to set me up." Roger said coming out of the bathroom.
"She's not trying to set you up. She just wants you to go out and have fun." he told him as Roger started putting his jacket on.
"Yeah, well I'm not gonna start dating the girl downstairs. I'm not ready, I have HIV. Not exactly a great pick up line." Roger told him as Mark opened the door.
"It's possible for you to date, you know?" he said as they left.
"I know, I'm just not ready." he said as they walked to the Cat Scratch Club.
"I know Roger. Just don't close yourself off. You deserve a life." Mark replied looking up at him.
"Thanks Mark." he looked over at him as they went into the club.
