Me: “Emma, I can’t be wasting time right now.”
Emma: “You think I’m a waste of time?”
Me: “I didn’t say that.”
Blanca: “That’s what you said though.”
Oscar: “Shut up, Blanca.”
Blanca: “Don’t talk to me. I’m not your girlfriend.”
Oscar: “I’m glad you’re not my girlfriend. I don’t need you. Imma fuck a lot of other girls. All different races too.”
Blanca: “Yeah, right. You stupid.”
Oscar: “Youstupid. Hunter and me are going to a college party tonight, and there’s gonna be all these fine-ass girls there. Way finer than your nasty ho ass.”
Emma: “You’re going to a party?”
Me: “No.”
Oscar: “Tonight.”
Me: “Oscar.”
Oscar: “Oh.”
Emma: “You can’t spend time with me, but you’re running around all day with Oscar and you’re going to a party tonight?”
Me: “It has to do with my brother.”
Emma: “Stop lying, Hunter!”
Blanca: “Tell him!”
Me: “I’m not lying!”
Emma: “Why are you treating me like this?”
Me: “I told you. I have an emergency to take care of.”
Emma: “Then why can Oscar come with you and I can’t?”
Me: “Because I need his help.”
Emma: “If it’s really an emergency, thenIwant to help.”
Me: “No. I can’t have anybody else involved in this.”
Emma: “In what?”
Me: “I have to go.”
I start backing up towards the comic book store.
Emma: “Don’t walk away from me!”
Blanca: “We’re all still talking, Hunter!”