Moment 9 Flashcards
Cosmo: Jesus there’s alive things in this!
Presley: Always like that.
Cosmo: Don’t make it all right.
Presley: Dad used to say tap water was the best drink in the world.
Cosmo: How long he been dead?
Presley: Years.
Cosmo: Yeah, well, a lot can happen in years.
Presley: It can. But sometimes … it don’t.
Cosmo is gazing at Haley again.
Presley: We used to have a car.
Cosmo doesn’t respond.
Presley: Dad used to say there was nothing like the smell of a new car.
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Can you believe that? Middle of winter and brown as a berry - You listening?
Cosmo: Yeah.
Presley: What did I say then?
Cosmo: … He had a suntan.
Presley: That’s right. Where’d you get a suntan in winter?
Cosmo: Sun-bed. If he’s got a Porsche, he’s got a bloody sun-bed.
Presley: You got a Porsche?
Cosmo: …No.
Presley: What car you got?
Cosmo: An expensive one.
Presley: What color is it?
Cosmo: Metallic wine.
Presley: We had a beige Hillman.
Cosmo: Really.
Presley: Yeah. We’d go for a right every Sunday afternoon.
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Blanket tucked round our legs. Like a big pocket.
Slight pause.
Cosmo: Tell me. What’s your sister’s name?
Presley: I was so happy in that car. Sometimes I think of those days and I cry.
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Just for a few minutes. A few seconds even.
Cosmo: What’s you sister’s - ?
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.
Cosmo: What’s your sister’s - ?
Presley: We’d all dunk biscuits in our tea.
Cosmo: What’s - ?
Presley: Later Mum’s tell us to go to bed. I hated going to bed.
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Mixture of soft and crunchy. I’d drift into sleep with sweetness in my mouth.
Cosmo: What’s your sister’s fucking name?
Presley: Why you so fucking bothered?
Cosmo: Because I want to fucking know!
Presley: You don’t know my name. And it’s me who’s awake.
Cosmo: Well, what’s your fucking name then?
Presley stares.
Cosmo: What’s wrong? Forgotten your name?