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“Trusttime”

“What did you do?”

Marianne sighed heavily

“Fine, after Jack upset you and stomped all over your dreams, I may have had a ith him”

Davina shot to her feet

“You did not!”

Marianne at least had the decency to look guilty

“It was bad enough that you lost your job and thethat made you most upset was that Jack had made fun of you I tried to fix it”

“That wasn’t the thing that made me most upset How could you think that?”

“Oh, I don’t know, you wandere

d around the house gathering equip to yourself that Jack didn’t even know you, that he didn’t understand you, that he made fun of you Maybe there was a hint in that”

“Oh” Davina sat back down

“This isn’t my fault,” Marianne said “It’s yours You act like the world is ending just because your movie was a failure But, as today clearly showed you, you are not defined by your acting ambitions”

“Huh,” Davina said

They sat in silence for a while Davina stared out into the garden and wondered if the place would ever feel the sa in the bushes