Chapter 28 · Month 15 · The First Real Fight

The Bad Day

The first argument about something that does not matter at all

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            Algy
            designer
            08:55
          
Right now the door's still $200 and I'm still quiet, and that's the honest state of me at nearly eight. Give me one thing that isn't money — did you ever find that lemon drink you had at the Thai place, or am I misremembering it as lime?

            Penny
            teacher
            08:57
          
It was lime — I've got the receipt somewhere and I'll die on that hill. There's a tin of it in the cupboard, and I bought it for you on Tuesday and forgot to say.

            Algy
            designer
            08:58
          
Today was worse than I let on — the Burley invoice bounced to "awaiting approval" and I spent forty minutes rearranging a layout to hide it from myself. So when I went quiet about the door, that wasn't you, that was me trying not to say that out loud.

            Penny
            teacher
            08:59
          
And there's my half: two hours of marking at the table tonight, so I need you to do the bins without me asking. Not the door, not the maths — just the bins and a lime drink.

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