Moment 9

Question 1

Cosmo: Jesus there’s alive things in this!

Presley: Always like that.

Answer 1

Cosmo: Don’t make it all right.

Question 2

Presley: Dad used to say tap water was the best drink in the world.

Answer 2

Cosmo: How long he been dead?

Question 3

Presley: Years.

Answer 3

Cosmo: Yeah, well, a lot can happen in years.

Question 4

Presley: It can. But sometimes … it don’t.

Answer 4

Cosmo is gazing at Haley again.

Question 5

Presley: We used to have a car.

Answer 5

Cosmo doesn’t respond.

Question 6

Presley: Dad used to say there was nothing like the smell of a new car.
…
Can you believe that? Middle of winter and brown as a berry - You listening?

Answer 6

Cosmo: Yeah.

Question 7

Presley: What did I say then?

Answer 7

Cosmo: … He had a suntan.

Question 8

Presley: That’s right. Where’d you get a suntan in winter?

Answer 8

Cosmo: Sun-bed. If he’s got a Porsche, he’s got a bloody sun-bed.

Question 9

Presley: You got a Porsche?

Answer 9

Cosmo: …No.

Question 10

Presley: What car you got?

Answer 10

Cosmo: An expensive one.

Question 11

Presley: What color is it?

Answer 11

Cosmo: Metallic wine.

Question 12

Presley: We had a beige Hillman.

Answer 12

Cosmo: Really.

Question 13

Presley: Yeah. We’d go for a right every Sunday afternoon.

…

Blanket tucked round our legs. Like a big pocket.

Slight pause.

Answer 13

Cosmo: Tell me. What’s your sister’s name?

Question 14

Presley: I was so happy in that car. Sometimes I think of those days and I cry.

…

Just for a few minutes. A few seconds even.

Answer 14

Cosmo: What’s you sister’s - ?

Question 15

Presley: Later, at home, Mum’d make salmon and cucumber sandwiches. Dad would brew a pot of tea. We’d sit down and watch television.

Slight pause.

Answer 15

Cosmo: What’s your sister’s - ?

Question 16

Presley: We’d all dunk biscuits in our tea.

Answer 16

Cosmo: What’s - ?

Question 17

Presley: Later Mum’s tell us to go to bed. I hated going to bed.

…

Mixture of soft and crunchy. I’d drift into sleep with sweetness in my mouth.

Answer 17

Cosmo: What’s your sister’s fucking name?

Question 18

Presley: Why you so fucking bothered?

Answer 18

Cosmo: Because I want to fucking know!

Question 19

Presley: You don’t know my name. And it’s me who’s awake.

Answer 19

Cosmo: Well, what’s your fucking name then?

Presley stares.

Cosmo: What’s wrong? Forgotten your name?

Question 20

Presley: Don’t … have much cause to say it out loud. Feels … odd.

Answer 20

Cosmo: Go on. Be a devil.

Question 21

Presley: You really want to know?

Answer 21

Cosmo: I really want to know.

Question 22

Presley: Presley. Presley Stray.

Answer 22

Cosmo: Congratulations. Now what’s your sister’s - ?

Question 23

Presley: What’s your name?

Answer 23

Cosmo: … Cosmo.

Question 24

Presley: Cosmo what?

Answer 24

Cosmo: Cosmo Disney.

Question 25

Presley: Disney?!

Answer 25

Cosmo: What's wrong with that?

Question 26

Presley: Oh ... nothing.

Answer 26

Cosmo: Don't look like nothing.

Question 27

Presley: Just surprised me, that's all.

Answer 27

Cosmo: What your sis-?

Question 28

Presley: Don't meet many Disneys.

Answer 28

Cosmo: There's thousands in the phone book.

Question 29

Presley: Really?! What a petrifying thought.

Answer 29

Cosmo: What's your sister's - ?

Question 30

Presley: Disneys of all shapes and sizes.

Answer 30

Cosmo: TELL ME HER FUCKING NAME!

Question 31

Presley: HALEY! Slight pause.

Answer 31

Cosmo: How old is she?

Question 32

Presley: My age.

Answer 32

Cosmo: And what's that?

Question 33

Presley: Oh ... about ... er ...

Answer 33

Cosmo: About? Don't you know?

Question 34

Presley: I've lost count.

Answer 34

Cosmo: Don't you have birthdays?

Question 35

Presley: Not since Mum and Dad went.

Answer 35

Cosmo: How old were you when Mum and Dad went?

Question 36

Presley: Eighteen.

Answer 36

Cosmo: And that was how many years ago?

Question 37

Presley: Ten.

Answer 37

Cosmo: So you're twenty-eight.

Question 38

Presley: Must be.

Answer 38

Cosmo: Jesus. You're ancient, Mr Chocolate.

Question 39

Presley: Stop calling me Mr Chocolate.

Answer 39

Cosmo: Why?

Question 40

Presley: It's not my name.

Answer 40

Cosmo: It's not?

Question 41

Presley: No. I told you my name.

Answer 41

Cosmo: So you did!

Question 42

Presley: So use it. Go on. Call me by my name.

Answer 42

Cosmo: ... What was it again?

Question 43

Presley: Presley.

Answer 43

Cosmo: Presley. That's right.

Question 44

Presley: Well, go on. Say something, then put my name at the end.

Answer 44

Cosmo: Why?

Question 45

Presley: I want to hear you say it.

Answer 45

Cosmo: But why?

Question 46

Presley: It'd make me feel good.

Answer 46

Cosmo: You a homosexual?

Question 47

Presley: No.

Answer 47

Cosmo: Because homosexuals like to be called by their first name.

Question 48

Presley: I'm not a homosexual. I just want you to say my name. Slight pause.

Answer 48

Cosmo: So. You are twenty-eight years old, are you, Presley?