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Lacke:
Thank you again for another evening steeped in merriment and friendship.

Oskar:
Are you a vampire?

Eli:
I live off blood... Yes.

Oskar:
Are you... dead?

Eli:
No. Can't you tell?

Oskar:
But... Are you old?

Eli:
I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.

Oskar:
How old are you?

Eli:
Twelve... more or less.

Eli:
What about you?

Oskar:
Twelve years, eight months and nine days. What do you mean, "more or less"?

Oskar:
When's your birthday?

Eli:
I don't know.

Oskar:
Don't you celebrate your birthday? Your parents... they've got to know.

Eli:
[Eli looks down on the ground]

Oskar:
Then you don't get any birthday presents, do you?

Eli:
No.

Eli:
[standing outside the door] You have to invite me in.

Oskar:
What happens if I don't? What happens if you walk in anyway? [feels the air between himself and Eli] Is there something in the way?

Oskar:
Who are you?

Eli:
I'm like you.

Oskar:
What do you mean?

Eli:
[accusing tone] What are you staring at? Well?

Eli:
Are you looking at me?

Eli:
[points her finger at Oskar] So scream! Squeal!

Eli:
Those were the first words I heard you say.

Oskar:
I don't kill people.

Eli:
No, but you'd like to. If you could... To get revenge. Right?

Oskar:
Yes.

Eli:
Oskar, I do it because I have to.

Eli:
Be me, for a while.

[pause]

Eli:
Please Oskar... Be me, for a little while.

Jimmy:
You stay under water for three minutes. If you can do it, I'll just nick you. [brandishes switchblade] But if you can't, I'll poke one of your eyes out. An eye for an ear, right?

[first lines]

Oskar:
Squeal like a pig. So, squeal.

Eli:
Oskar... Do you like me?

Oskar:
Yeah, a lot.

Eli:
If I wasn't a girl... would you like me anyway?

Oskar:
I suppose so.

Eli:
I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.

Oskar:
Eli... Can you and I be together?

Eli:
What do you mean?

Oskar:
Well... Will you be my girlfriend?

Eli:
Oskar... I'm not a girl.

Oskar:
You're not? [pause] Can we be together?

Eli:
Can't we just be how we are?

Oskar:
I guess...

Eli:
Do you do something special if you're "together"?

Oskar:
No.

Eli:
We stay just as we were?

Oskar:
Yes.

Eli:
Then I agree...

Oskar:
What?

Eli:
We can be "together".

Oskar:
Really?

Eli:
[Whispers] Yes.

Oskar:
Good.