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WILLIAM: I think you let her live with you so she doesn’t have to pay extortionate rental prices in the southeast.
ME: Rent is extortionate everywhere.
WILLIAM: You didn’t deny it.
ME: She’s my best friend, and I don’t want to live alone. Plus, she pays half the electric bill. Have you seen the price of that these days? Rent wishes it was that much of a rip-off.
WILLIAM: Says the one without a mortgage.
ME: Bit rich coming from the guy who’s going to inherit a whole-ass castle.
WILLIAM: Have you seen inheritance tax? I’ll have to renovate the basement to dungeons just to rent them out.
ME: If Glenroch was in the southeast, you’d be able to charge two grand a month for those prison cells.
WILLIAM: I know. It’s unfortunate.
ME: And would probably violate several laws.
WILLIAM: Like the government, then.
ME: Meow.
WILLIAM: Tell me I’m wrong.
ME: I was taught not to lie.
Ironic, given how my grandmother and father had lied for almost twenty years.
WILLIAM: Exactly. How was your day?
And there was the million-pound question.
ME: Pretty shit, honestly.
WILLIAM: Want to talk about it?
ME: In person, yeah. But my dad said the funeral is this weekend. Are you going?
WILLIAM: Of course. Are you?
ME: Yeah, just me and Dad. I think we’re travelling up on Friday afternoon.
WILLIAM: Same here. I’m home tomorrow… Do you have time to talk on Thursday?
I hesitated. It seemed like so much, to tell him everything, to say out loud what I’d just been told.
To tell him how I really felt.
But I was going to.
ME: Yes. In person.
WILLIAM: Stop, you’re flirting with me.
I burst out laughing.
ME: OMG. Shut up.
