[She wants to argue more. Tell Irene it shouldn't matter, she shouldn't matter, because eventually she wouldn't anyway. Irene would figure it out - that this was the truth - and decide not to have anything to do with her. To leave her. That was how it worked.
But the words Irene uses, the part of you, it stops her (Irene's words have always managed like that, wriggled under her skin, cut through to things; more like Instructor Pinset than she realised). All the pieces of Taylor, throughout her life, that keep falling away. Being erased. Maybe Irene would go, just like the rest, but maybe for a short while, Taylor could hold on to this.]
Taylor. [It feels weird, sounds weird, every time she says it. Which just makes her want to say the rest of it.] Taylor Lianne Kee. [A pause, and she shrugs.] And everyone I tell leaves, so I guess you're next.
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But the words Irene uses, the part of you, it stops her (Irene's words have always managed like that, wriggled under her skin, cut through to things; more like Instructor Pinset than she realised). All the pieces of Taylor, throughout her life, that keep falling away. Being erased. Maybe Irene would go, just like the rest, but maybe for a short while, Taylor could hold on to this.]
Taylor. [It feels weird, sounds weird, every time she says it. Which just makes her want to say the rest of it.] Taylor Lianne Kee. [A pause, and she shrugs.] And everyone I tell leaves, so I guess you're next.