Chapter Seven Page 2
Jun13
Miranda: Better take this. Dad’s trying to check in. For once.
Friend #1: Isn’t he, like, on the West Coast this month or something? Again?
Friend #2: As long as he left you one of the credit cards.
Miranda: I’ll get rid of him. Be right back.
(STEP)
I’m out with some friends. Yes, I know you’re back in town!
Look, I got along fine without you for the first ten years of my life. I don’t need you to start smothering me now.
Miranda (thinking): Ugh, what do you think you can say? “Sorry for making Patrick cry”? It won’t bring him back!
And nothing at all will bring Mom back. I’m running out of people . . .
Miranda….if you’re running out of people, pushing one of them away every time he tries to talk to you doesn’t help.
I love how you use Miranda. Her possessiveness is at best morally questionable from our point of view and throw enough scenes like this in that humanise her without excusing her actions. You walk the tightrope between letting us understand her and making us root for her very masterfully – I certainly hope that Miranda will keep growing as a character and I’m sure you will deliver!
Ah, so Jon is the father rather than Stephen. Fun.
Clearly, the solution is Jon and Stephen (Arthur) need to marry so she has a…fathers?
Aww, Miranda! D:
Reminds me of that depressing Cat’s in the Cradle song where the father never has time for the kid until the kid grows up and has no time for him.