[previously]
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Amber: Where are you?
Jonah: On the quad under the tree with the lantern thingies, why?
Amber: I have exciting news! I’ll be there in a few minutes.
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Amber: There you are! How’s your day so far?
Jonah: It’s better now. What’s your exciting news?
Amber: I’m going on my first camping trip! I wanted to see if you’d come with us, and if you’d give me a ride to the store. I don’t have any camping supplies. At all.
Jonah: (laughs) Shocking. Yeah, we can go after dinner tonight, if you want. When’s the camping trip?
Amber: Oh, um, it’s this weekend, actually. It’s a bit last minute, I know. I literally just found out about it.
Jonah: Can’t do it, babe. I won’t be here.
Amber: Why not? It can’t be the full moon already... right?
Jonah: (hesitates) I have to fly out to SolArts this weekend. To interview. They’re considering letting me start in the spring.
Amber: That’s amazing! I know how badly you want to go there. But... isn’t Del Sol Valley all the way across the country?
Jonah: As a matter of fact, it is. And that sucks. But I’ve been dreaming about going there since middle school. Hell, if I’d turned my fucking application in on time back when I was in high school, I’d already be going there by now.
Amber: I’m really happy for you, Jonah, but why am I just now finding out about this? It’s a pretty big deal.
Jonah: I wasn’t hiding it from you. They called and set up the interview time with me over fall break--you know, while you weren’t speaking to me--and then we had so much else going on, I just kind of forgot about it.
Amber: So what do we do now?
Jonah: First, we buy camping supplies for your trip. After that? I guess we have to wait and see what happens. We’ll figure it out as we go. We can pass the time with sex. Lots of sex.
Amber: (laughs) You drive a hard bargain.
Jonah: That’s what she said.
Amber: What? Who said that?Â
