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I wouldn't lie! I don't need to anyways, I have the break coming after Christmas

I'd hoped the break would entice you to pick up the phone so she wouldn't have anything to complain about UNTIL Christmas.

I have been picking up the phone!

You know as well as I do she would not go until Christmas without complaining.

Let me dream, Lena.

Would this be dream or delusion, Tasha?

A little both of both, really.

I'm entitled to it in my old age, alright?

You can trade the notion of face squishing for old age delusions, you can't yet have both.

You mean face squishing doesn't count as an old age delusion?

It counts as a delusion if you never actually do it, I suppose. If you do, though, it is unfortunately reality.

Unfortunate for you, fun for me.

Yes, yes, whatever. That is not the point.

You're right. The point is that you're willing to ghost me when I tell you to call our mother.

I'm wounded.

[Shit.]

how many messages would I be able to claim it had been a test, to see if you believed it, if I was my most convincing?

Three at most.

Really? I would have guessed at most one. What a missed opportunity.

Two would be me humoring you. Purely out of love.

That still counts.

I obviously knew you would not believe the disconnected message at all.