Matilda: It’s been a while…
Tristen: Yeah, it feels like forever-.. uh, what brings you here?
Matilda: We’re taking a forced vacation. I’m sure you can figure out who did the forcing.
Tristen: Ah…
Matilda: Yeah.
Tristen: I kinda figured you were mad at me.
Matilda: Little bit.
Tristen: I should’ve said goodbye or written sooner, I guess.
Matilda: Little bit-.. but you were sorting your shit out, right? I get it.
[Tristen smiled contritely, avoiding Matilda’s gaze-.. out of sheer embarrassment or a severe lack of brain functionality, he wasn’t sure]
Tristen: Is that Pixie?
Matilda: Yeah-.. bit bigger now, huh?
Tristen: Aha, little bit.
Matilda: Anyway, you’re clearly working, so…
Tristen: Shit, yeah-.. I’ve got another job to get to after this but uh, you gonna be around tomorrow?
Matilda: Yeah, we pretty much just got here.
Tristen: Okay, uh.. meet me outside the pharmacy at ten? There’s only one in town n’ it’s on like every map-.. I don’t have my phone with me, so…
Matilda: Yeah, sure.
Tristen: Okay-.. uh, yeah.. okay!
Matilda: Bye, Triss.
Tristen: Bye-.. see you tomorrow?
Matilda: Yep.
Tristen: Ten o’clock?
Matilda: Uh-huh.
Tristen: Okay.
DAVE: i want to get a bike but i dont want to become one of those guys who are INTO bikes. i dont wanna wear special spandex shorts—
DIRK: I don’t want that, either.
DAVE: —or watch the tour de france live
DIRK: The what?
DAVE: its like the olympics but just the part with bikes they hold it in france every year
DIRK: Oh.
DIRK: …
DAVE: …
DAVE: do you think it will ever come here
DIRK: What?
DAVE: the tour de france. they should take it on tour. more people might watch it then i mean the word “tour” is right in the name. they could call it the world tour de france
DIRK: I don’t know, wouldn’t it be the… “Tour de Whatever Country” then? Tour de Thailand? Tour de Australia?
DAVE: no you have to keep the france part in the title or you lose the whole branding thing
DAVE: or at least you have to say the whole thing in french including the country. like “france” is french for france
hearing people whispering outside my door and i am going insane (the voices are real i just don't like hearing them bc i'm a traumatized chihuahua of a person)