DAPHNA

Aren’t those all online? All of my syllabi are online.

JONAH

Oh, maybe.

DAPHNA

Ok, so … I mean, if you don’t wanna come you don’t have to, there’s no pressure, I just thought—

JONAH

No, yeah, it would be—

DAPHNA

If you don’t want to come you don’t have to.

JONAH

No I do I just have to check.

Without words, DAPHNA says, “Then check!” JONAH opens his laptop and begins surfing the internet, sort of hoping that before he can find his syllabi, a meteor lands in the apartment, which is sort of what happens when there’s a knock at the door. LIAM and MELODY have come down the hallway, wheeled suitcases behind them, LIAM’s $1200 snowboard tucked under his arm. DAPHNA gives JONAH a “here we go” look, then opens the door.

DAPHNA

Hi.

LIAM

Hey.

LIAM gives DAPHNA the most tepid hug imaginable.

LIAM

Melody, this is my cousin, Diana.

DAPHNA

It’s Daphna.

LIAM

And you remember—

DAPHNA

You know that. He knows that.

LIAM

Jonah, maybe you could get off your laptop?

JONAH

I’m just checking something.

LIAM

Maybe you could just check something later and say hello?

MELODY

Hi Jonah.

JONAH

Hey.

DAPHNA

He’s checking to see when he’s—

LIAM

Why aren’t you wearing pants?

Embarrassed, JONAH finds pants.

DAPHNA

free to come visit me—

JONAH

We were just getting—

LIAM

Visit you?

DAPHNA

At Vassar.

LIAM

For what?

DAPHNA

For fun.

LIAM

What?

MELODY

This apartment is so nice!

DAPHNA

Who are you again? Sorry, just—

MELODY

Melody.

DAPHNA

Melody. Like a song.

LIAM lifts his suitcase onto the full air mattress, setting it down on top of something belonging to DAPHNA.

DAPHNA

Hey, um, that’s my— sorry, that’s … where I’m sleeping?

DAPHNA pulls her cardigan out from under LIAM’s suitcase and re-folds it.

LIAM

I thought Mom said we were all staying here?

DAPHNA

Yeah, but, we’ve already been here, so, all that’s left is …

DAPHNA points at the twin air mattress.

LIAM

But that’s a single. Two people can’t fit there.

JONAH

I don’t mind switch—

DAPHNA

(To JONAH.)

No.

(To LIAM.)

We didn’t know you were bringing a guest if we—

MELODY

We just came from Aspen—

DAPHNA

No one told me you were bringing—

MELODY

We flew here as soon as Liam heard the—

JONAH

I don’t mi—

DAPHNA

NO. If we’d known you were bringing— we would have changed the sheets. Washed them. Dried them. Re-made the beds. Plus with my back …

LIAM

Why doesn’t someone take your room?

JONAH

Cause, her parents are staying there.

LIAM

They are?

DAPHNA

Yes Liam, they are. You know we can’t afford a hotel in this city— we always stay with—

MELODY

It’s fine. Don’t even worry. We’ll be fine. We like to cuddle.

Beat.

LIAM

(To JONAH.)

How’d it go today?

JONAH

It was fine.

LIAM

And …

DAPHNA

More than four hundred people showed up.

LIAM

Jonah?

JONAH

It was nice. It was sad.

MELODY