Liam

You’re so cruel, she goes. He inhales through his nose, waits. How can you be so mean? she goes. He breathes out, watches her. You, she goes, make me feel crazy, she goes, nodding her head up and down to emphasize just how right she is. I, he almost goes, but he stops. She pounds her knees with her fists, really pounding. I feel like a crazy person, she goes, she cries. You are, he goes, reassuringly, a crazy person.