Chapter: Chapter 28
↓ TranscriptChapter 28 —- Alt text: A TELEPHONE, DRAMATICALLY AND IMPROBABLY BACKLIT
Chapter 28
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Chapter: Chapter 28
↓ Transcript(Emily is playing a computer game. The sound of the phone ringing is in the background.) Emily: I can’t get that, I’m concentrating! Ella (picking up the phone): Hello, Ella Harlowe speaking. […] Of course I remember you. Why[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ TranscriptEmily: Hey. Lachlan (through phone): Is that – is that Emily? Emily: Yeah. Lachlan: It’s me. It’s your dad. Emily: You’re not my dad. Lachlan: What? Emily: You haven’t been here. You haven’t called. You don’t get to call[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ TranscriptLachlan: Well – I – yes, she must have. Emily: No. Piss off. I hate you. I don’t believe you! Lachlan: No, wait – Emily: NO! (She hands the phone back to Ella.) Ella: It’s me again. Well you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ Transcript(Emily is up a tree in a park, crying. Her mascara has run all over her face.) Dee (appearing): Hey, what are you doing he- oh god what’s wrong!? Emily: SOB My… sperm donor called. Dee: Oh no. Why?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ TranscriptEmily: Well… all we ever had was Mum’s word… No one else spoke to him… But why would she have lied? Why wouldn’t she have told him? Dee: Lots of reasons? I don’t know. I’m sure you’re right. Both:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ TranscriptEmily: So… there’s nothing after death? Dee: What? How are you jumping to that conclusion? If there’s an afterlife, who says I’d get in? I’m not dead. If people are reincarnated, I can hardly ask them about previous lives.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ TranscriptDee: But who’s to say we’d even be friends by that point anyway? Emily: Why wouldn’t we be? Dee: Just… we might not be? There are many reasons a friendship might end. And… I don’t suppose you expect to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ TranscriptDee: … Yeah, I can do that. (He vanishes, then returns.) Dee: I… I’m sorry to tell you this but… I can’t find that your mum told him anything. Emily: Are you sure!? Dee: I found her telling other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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↓ Transcript(Emily goes back home; Alan is in the front yard when she gets there.) Alan: Fall in a coal mine? Emily: Haha. Yeah. Ella: Oh, Lachlan left his number if you… you know. Emily: OK. I believe him, by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…