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JONAH

Come on, you guys—

LIAM

Melody has done nothing but be sweet and lovely and supportive, she came here to support me and to support our family but as soon as you sniff out anyone who you think—

DAPHNA

Uh uh uh uh uh no no I don’t sniff out anything Liam I’m not a dog—

LIAM

Maybe you can’t handle being around such a genuinely good person but—

DAPHNA

I can handle being around such a genuinely good person, but thanks for looking out, and thanks for bringing someone to “support our family” but I’m pretty sure we can support ourselves.

LIAM

She is—

DAPHNA

Yeah can we just: What is she doing here? This is so weird!

LIAM

What?

DAPHNA

She never even met Poppy!

LIAM

She’s my girlfriend—

DAPHNA

Who brings some random girl no one’s ever met to their grandfather’s funeral—

LIAM

She’s my girlfriend! She’s not a random girl. Jonah’s met her, my—

DAPHNA

Do not— I know you Liam, I fucking know you, you actually don’t require that much support, do you really just get off that much on rubbing my face in your shit?

LIAM

What are you—

DAPHNA

What are you talking about? Don’t.

LIAM

Don’t what?

DAPHNA

You know exactly—

LIAM

I have no idea what you’re talking about—

DAPHNA

You have no idea?

LIAM

I have no idea—

DAPHNA

You have no idea?

LIAM

I have no—

DAPHNA

You just parade these totally inferior little women through our family functions but you have no idea—

LIAM

Inferior?

DAPHNA

Oh don’t act like you don’t know exactly what I’m— Jonah knows what I’m talking about.

As soon as JONAH hears his name, he turns away.

DAPHNA

These inferior— I met Miyushi, don’t fuck with me.

LIAM

Inferior?

DAPHNA

Yes, Liam: inferior. Do you not know what inferior means? I met Miyushi.

JONAH

Daphna.

DAPHNA

No I’m not even— and then this one, with the tattoo of a fucking treble clef on her calf the size of a tumor which really does speak volumes about the

DAPHNA taps her brain