LIAM

Does she know I have it?

JONAH

No.

LIAM

So Mom didn’t say anything?

JONAH

No.

LIAM

And you didn’t tell her he gave it to me?

JONAH

He didn’t give it to you, really—

LIAM

He gave it to me, Jonah. Poppy gave it to me.

JONAH

Mom gave it to you.

LIAM

Because Poppy said I could have it. Because he wanted me to have it. Because he gave it to me. Because he said I could have it.

JONAH

He didn’t know what he was saying at that point—

LIAM

No. I’m not going to— No. Poppy always said I could have it. Since I was— since always. Everyone knows that. Everyone heard— Poppy has always said— It’s not even— when Grandma died, she gave that, whatever, that jewelry thing to Diana. That necklace. Which is worth a whole lot more than this. Which is, you know, what matters to the cheapskates. And no one complained. But Poppy’s a man, so his things, which are men’s things, go to men, that’s just— I don’t even know why I’m getting worked up about this. It’s mine. I have it. It belongs to me.

JONAH

Ok.

LIAM

Ok.

Beat.

What’d she say, though, like, did she even make a case for about why she thinks she’s even—

JONAH

Because it’s a religious item—

LIAM

Are you kidding? It’s so much more than—

JONAH

Please don’t get mad at me, I am not the—

LIAM

That’s like saying anything made of gold is a religious item because gold has religious significance to Incas.

JONAH

Uhm …

LIAM

It’s an example. It’s— whatever. Poppy’s chai— like, if it were any chai, just like, any chai you bought at a store or whatever I could understand that argument, it’s just a religious item, but for Poppy, everyone knows, for Poppy, it was so much more, it mattered to him on like a whole host of different levels—

JONAH

I know—

LIAM

I know you know but it’s like, I’m proposing to Melody.

JONAH

Oh.

LIAM

Yeah.

JONAH

You are?

LIAM

Yeah. I was gonna propose tonight.

JONAH

Oh.

LIAM

Yeah. I was supposed to— that’s why we went to Aspen.

JONAH

Oh.

LIAM

You didn’t put that together?

JONAH

Uhm …

LIAM

You didn’t put it together that the reason Poppy gave me the chai was because I was proposing?

JONAH

No.

LIAM

You’re legitimately not intelligent.

This really hurts JONAH, because he’s not as smart as LIAM, and he knows it.

JONAH

But …

LIAM

But what?

JONAH

But Poppy was sick.

LIAM

I made the plans before he got— I’m not— I made the plans before he was sick, Jonah!

JONAH

Ok.

LIAM

Yeah, I made reservations for dinner at this really cool restaurant at the top of a mountain and I was gonna tell her the story of Poppy’s chai but then— I should have done it already. Can you imagine Diana’s face if Melody had walked in with the chai around her neck?