Chapter 13 · Month 6 · Meeting the Families

The Bad Day

Whether to stay in a hotel or with her parents

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Algy designer
Four hours of scrubbing a logo off a PDF and I still smell like printer toner, honestly. Ask me for a do-over on that answer tomorrow, because tonight my brain's just static.
Penny teacher
Practical thing: sleep here and take the sofa, alarm at seven-thirty so we can fix the Fennel file before work. Kind thing: put the toner shirt in the wash and I'll make the tea.
Algy designer
Sofa's fine, but I'll admit something worse than the logo: I nearly said Sunday was handled just to end the conversation. That's the showing-off, and it's the exact thing that got you carrying the plan.
Penny teacher
That's the first useful thing said all evening, so I'll take it. Tea's the flat one with two sugars, and you can tell me the rest of it Sunday.

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