“Do me a favour. Take that dress and burn it.”

“I wore it so your parents would like me.”

“Haven’t you heard? Bright colours are for people with no inner life, and no imagination.”

“You know what I love about you?”

“That I’m smart and fun and cool and sensitive?”

“No. It’s that your neck curves into your shoulder.”

“I missed you so much my brain was bleeding.”

“Go on.”

“I dreamt that I had wings and you were the sun and I flew too close and you melted my wings and I fell into you.”

“And we died and everything was empty and black?”

How did you know?”

“I know everything.”

“Something old”

“Something new”