Moment 12

Question 1

Presley: You’re not looking at my photographs.

Answer 1

Cosmo: I am.

Question 2

Presley: What was that one, then?

Answer 2

Cosmo: What d’you mean?

Question 3

Presley: What’s this photo of? If you were looking, you should know.

Answer 3

Cosmo: You’re playing games again.

Question 4

Presley: What’s it of?

Answer 4

Cosmo: All this chocolate can’t be doing your heart any good.

Question 5

Presley: Don’t change the subject. What’s the photo of?

Answer 5

Cosmo: You?

Question 6

Presley: No.

Answer 6

Cosmo: Your mummy?

Question 7

Presley: No.

Answer 7

Cosmo: Your daddy?

Question 8

Presley: No.

Answer 8

Cosmo: Your sister?

Question 9

Presley: No.

Answer 9

Cosmo: Who else is there?

Question 10

Presley: Our dog. Spookie.

Answer 10

Cosmo: A dog called Spookie?!

Question 11

Presley: What’s wrong with that?

Answer 11

Cosmo: It’s bloody stupid.

Question 12

Presley: Spookie’s a great name. Dad thought of it.

Answer 12

Cosmo: So where’s this Spookie now?

Question 13

Presley: Dead.

Answer 13

Cosmo: Looks pretty healthy here.

Question 14

Presley: That’s an old photo.

Answer 14

Cosmo: How’d it die?

Question 15

Presley: Run over by a lorry.

Answer 15

Cosmo: You see it happen?

Question 16

Presley: Yeah.

Answer 16

Cosmo: Was there much blood?

Question 17

Presley: Lots. It ran in the gutter. People were staring.
…
Spookie’s tail was wagging.

Answer 17

Cosmo: That’s just nerves.

Question 18

Presley: I know that. I’m not stupid.

Answer 18

Cosmo: No?

Question 19

Presley: No.

Answer 19

Slight pause.

Cosmo: So what did Mummy and Daddy do when they found out you killed poor little Spookie?

Question 20

Presley: I didn’t kill him!

Answer 20

Cosmo: What they do?

Question 21

Presley: Bought me a bike.
….
I would rather not use my bike than spoil my perfect puncture outfit.

Answer 21

Cosmo: This your dad?

Question 22

Presley: Yeah.

Answer 22

Cosmo: He looks big.

Question 23

Presley: He was. Big and strong. He made cars.

Answer 23

Cosmo: What? All by himself?

Question 24

Presley: No. With his mates from the factory.
…
They’re in a drawer over there. Want to see them?

Answer 24

Cosmo: Not particularly.

Question 25

Presley: There's one thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight.

Answer 25

Cosmo: You counted them?

Question 26

Presley: Of course.

Answer 26

Cosmo: Why?

Question 27

Presley: To see how many there were?

Answer 27

Cosmo: How did it take?

Question 28

Presley: A whole night.

Answer 28

Cosmo: Why count them at night?

Question 29

Presley: I usually sleep during the day.

Answer 29

Cosmo: But your sister sleeps at night.

Question 30

Presley: Oh, she just sleeps.

Answer 30

Cosmo: When does she wake up?

Question 31

Presley: When she wants something.

Answer 31

Cosmo: Have you always been ... like this?

Question 32

Presley: Course not. Don't be stupid. ... We'd go to bed at midnight.

Answer 32

Cosmo: So when did you start being ... like this?

Question 33

Presley: After Mum and Dad lose us.

Answer 33

Cosmo: Lost us?

Question 34

Presley: No, left us.

Answer 34

Cosmo: You said 'lost us'.

Question 35

Presley: Didn't.

Answer 35

Cosmo: Did.

Question 36

Presley: Didn't.

Answer 36

Cosmo: You said, 'After Mum and Dad lost us.'

Question 37

Presley: I couldn't have said 'lost us'. That makes no sense. How could they lose us? They died.

Answer 37

Cosmo: Ten years ago.

Question 38

Presley: That's right.

Answer 38

Cosmo: And they died in the same year?

Question 39

Presley: On the same day.

Answer 39

Cosmo: The same day!

Question 40

Presley: That's right. One day they went out and never came back. We waited a very long time.

Answer 40

Presley: It must've been a car crash!

Question 41

Presley: It wasn't. I told you.

Answer 41

Cosmo: Train crash?

Question 42

Presley: No.

Answer 42

Cosmo: A sheet of glass fell from a tall building and hit them?

Question 43

Presley: No. Nothing like that.

Answer 43

Cosmo: It wasn't an accident?

Question 44

Presley: No.

Answer 44

Cosmo: And they weren't ill or anything?

Question 45

Presley: No. ... Presley: That's me and Haley. It's the only photograph of the two of us together.

Answer 45

Cosmo: How old are you?

Question 46

Presley: You know that. We're twenty-eight.

Answer 46

Cosmo: In the photograph, Mr Chocolate.

Question 47

Presley: Oh, six.

Answer 47

Cosmo: What forest you in?

Question 48

Presley: It's not a forest.

Answer 48

Cosmo: Looks like one.

Question 49

Presley: It's a reptile house in a zoo.

Answer 49

Cosmo: You look bloody terrified.