DAPHNA

Ok. Then I’ll talk to Liam about it. But— ok.

Beat

It is so good to see you! Even under these circumstances, it’s still like— you should visit me. Before graduation.

JONAH

What?

DAPHNA

Cause that’s just gonna be a clusterfuck. But you should come down some weekend. It’d be fun, don’t you think?

JONAH

… Yeah.

DAPHNA

Do you have a car? At school?

JONAH

I did, but then … not anymore.

DAPHNA

There’s a bus. I know there is because some of my friends took it last fall to see Ben Harper maybe, or someone who is definitely not worth getting on a bus and driving four hours to see, but he was playing at your school that weekend and they took a bus, so you should come visit me.

JONAH

Ok.

DAPHNA

What weekend are you thinking?

JONAH

Um …

DAPHNA

Cause graduation’s the last weekend of April, and the weekend before that is senior week— don’t ask, and the weekend before that I’ll be studying for finals but so maybe the weekend before that, which is in, like, two weeks. Weird. Would that work?

JONAH

Maybe.

DAPHNA

Ok, well, um, do you want to check?

JONAH

Yeah.

DAPHNA

And you’ll let me know …

JONAH

Yeah.

DAPHNA

Cause I think you would really, really love Vassar, and I want to talk to you about that some more actually, because I know UVM has not been … which really says more about that school than anything about you. I mean that.

JONAH

… Thanks?

DAPHNA

But the onus is on us now, you know? If we want to maintain these relationships, we’re adults, so it’s not like if our parents make plans then I’ll see you, cause, Poppy’s dead, so our parents are gonna start transitioning into being the next generation of our family and we’ll be like the parents, you know, like if Gilad and I get married next summer which we’ve been talking about then we’ll have kids in five, six years tops which is why we need to start acting like, like taking responsibility which is why I don’t even know if he wants it but if he does, like, you know, that conversation, if it winds up being a conversation it needs to happen at the right— it needs to happen properly, so if Liam brings it up before I’m— which I don’t even know if he will, but if he does, can you just help me just quash that conversation?

JONAH

Uhm …

DAPHNA

Cause as long as that conversation happens in the right way, it won’t even be an issue.

JONAH

Ok.

DAPHNA

Ok what?

JONAH

I don’t know.

DAPHNA

So are you gonna visit me, or …

JONAH

Yeah, I just have to check.

DAPHNA

What do you have to check?

JONAH

My schedule and stuff.

DAPHNA

Um, ok, well do you wanna do that?

JONAH

Like now?

DAPHNA

Like yeah?

JONAH

Oh well I’ll check when I’m back at school. My syllabuses are there. And stuff …