JONAH

Whatever. Real estate is a good investment, plus I might maybe live here when I graduate, so it’s not a big deal.

DAPHNA

Yeah, no, totally, totally, no biggie.

JONAH

Um … you’re not poor.

DAPHNA

Compared to your family? We’re like the Joads.

JONAH

I don’t know who that is.

DAPHNA

You don’t need to. Your parents buy you spare apartments.

JONAH

All I’m saying is, you’re not poor.

DAPHNA

Are you out of your— The reason I’m an only child, Jonah, is because my parents couldn’t afford another.

JONAH

So maybe they were poorer once, but they’re not now—

DAPHNA

My parents are public school teachers. Do you even know the first thing about economics in this country? We are the middle class. The dictionary definition. Your Mom hasn’t worked since she had Liam TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO because you’re so rich she didn’t have to.

JONAH

That’s not true.

DAPHNA

Oh right, my bad, she has a home office now, so she can do what exactly?

JONAH

She’s a consultant.

DAPHNA

Right. On what?

JONAH

I don’t know. Ask her.

DAPHNA

Usually, people hire consultants because they’re experts in their fields. In what field does Fanny Feygenbaum profess to be an expert?

JONAH

You know that’s not her name.

DAPHNA

It’s the name she was born with.

JONAH

But you know that’s—

DAPHNA

It’s what Poppy called her.

JONAH

You’re not Poppy!

A really intense beat. Somehow JONAH has hurt DAPHNA, though he’s not sure how.

JONAH

I’m sorry. I didn’t—

DAPHNA

No, it’s— I’m just being … Sorry. Totally not your … Today was just like, intensely … intense.

JONAH

Yeah.

DAPHNA

Ugh. Feelings! Right?

JONAH

Yeah.

DAPHNA

Yeah.

Beat. DAPHNA gets up and tousles JONAH’s hair. She gets a tissue, he turns off his video game, goes to the unmade bed and starts to make it up.

DAPHNA

What are you doing?

JONAH

Making up the bed?

DAPHNA

Liam can make up his own bed.

JONAH

Oh, no but, I was gonna sleep here.

DAPHNA

Uhh why?

Oh, right, I forgot: your parents worship him! So we should totally switch beds, that makes sense. I mean, who cares that we’ve been here for two days dealing with everything when Liam couldn’t even be bothered to show up to his own grandfather’s funeral.

JONAH

He’s getting in tonight.

DAPHNA

The funeral was today. Not tonight. It happened. It’s over. And he missed it. And I’m sorry, but between you and me, that is so fucked up.

JONAH

It’s not his fault, he—

DAPHNA

Jonah, I literally, if I have to hear one more time about Liam dropping his iPhone off a ski lift and not having service for two days, I will literally— He knew Poppy was dying. He should have been checking in. I’m sorry, but he was with— what’s her name?

JONAH

Melody.

DAPHNA

Melody. He could have used Melody’s phone? If that had been me, if I had gone skiing for spring break despite knowing full well that my grandfather was basically on death’s door, which, I would NEVER have done, but if that had been me—