"Like I said, I'm not going to call Tommy that. He's Tommy." She shrugs.
Billy raises his voice, and Max raises hers in return, regardless of the reasoning.
"Hey! I get it. I know it's going to take time. That's why I'm trying to help and telling you what you can say instead, next time." That is, as long as he didn't want her walking out the door. "What truce?" she asks, because if she doesn't know about it, she can't help him with it.
Max bites the inside of her cheek.
"Because of the sauna?" That had been such a fiasco. Just saying it brings back flashes of Billy pleading with her to believe him, then smashing through the window and everything that followed. "We were trying to help. It just...went wrong." Really wrong.
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"Like I said, I'm not going to call Tommy that. He's Tommy." She shrugs.
Billy raises his voice, and Max raises hers in return, regardless of the reasoning.
"Hey! I get it. I know it's going to take time. That's why I'm trying to help and telling you what you can say instead, next time." That is, as long as he didn't want her walking out the door. "What truce?" she asks, because if she doesn't know about it, she can't help him with it.
Max bites the inside of her cheek.
"Because of the sauna?" That had been such a fiasco. Just saying it brings back flashes of Billy pleading with her to believe him, then smashing through the window and everything that followed. "We were trying to help. It just...went wrong." Really wrong.