Page 97 of The Lies We Play

Halston: That is not dinner.

Liv: It was emotionally dinner.

Halston: I’m ordering you food.

Liv: You don’t know where I am.

Halston: Library. North reading room. Table by the window.

Liv: That is unsettling.

Halston: You sent a photograph twenty minutes ago.

Liv: Fine. Less unsettling. Still bossy.

Halston: Accurate.

Liv: Creed is also bossy.

Halston: Creed is practical.

Liv: You are both bossy.

Halston: We are attentive in different registers.

Liv: That is the most Halston sentence ever written.

Halston: Thank you.

Liv: It was not praise.

Halston: I’m choosing to receive it as such.

Liv: Of course you are.

Halston: Food will arrive in twenty-five minutes. Finish the paragraph before then.

Liv: Are you assigning me deadlines now?

Halston: Yes.

Liv: I should object.

Halston: You won’t.

Liv: I might.

Halston: Liv.

Liv: Fine.

Halston: Good girl.

Liv: Absolutely not.

Halston: Too much?

Liv: No.