Algy & Penelope

Chapter 29 · Month 15 · The First Real Fight

The Misunderstanding

The friend who gets told a version of the argument

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Penny teacher
Chloe texted me at 6:40 saying she'd heard we had "a huge fight about a dishwasher," which is a version of the bins I don't recognise. So tell me what you actually said to Dev, word for word, because I'm fairly sure the story's been to two houses before it got to mine.
Algy designer
Word for word I said the dishwasher thing was me showing off — that bit's true, I made a joke of it to Dev because it felt less like a defeat. The door and the quota, though, I never gave him those.
Penny teacher
You've gone quiet since that. What did you read into my Chloe text — because you've stopped typing and I can see the dots dying.
Algy designer
That hinge on your wardrobe's been squeaking all evening and I keep fixing it in my head instead of this. What I read is that Dev got a version with the bins in it and Chloe got the drawers, so somewhere I gave two people a louder story than the one I owe you.

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