Page 20 of The First Time
Kit: You'd think, but that's not how the rules work. You looking forward to Spring semester?
Piper: You sound like Mal.
Kit: Now that hurts.
Piper: You do.
Kit: Are you excited about school?
Piper: It's school.
Kit: Give me the real answer.
Piper: Why?
Kit: Why not?
It's a fair response. It's playful but it's probing too. Like he really does want to be friends.
Like he really is interested in a relationship with me.
A platonic one, sure, but that's still a relationship.
It's hard to believe.
Piper: Do you really want to know?
Kit: That's why I asked.
Piper: But why do you care?
Kit: We're friends.
Piper: We're friends?
Kit: Unless that's a problem.
Piper: No. We're friends. But if I'm sharing my feelings about school then you should share your feelings about something.
Kit: Sounds fair.
Piper: I'm not really excited. I have friends at school. And I'm looking forward to my drama class. Otherwise, it's a drag. I'm not good at studying. I hate tests. I like to read but I don't like the kinds of books we read in English.
Kit: You act?
Piper: I have.
Kit: You any good?
Piper: I got lead in the school play twice.
Kit: Nice.
Piper: It's just a school play.
Kit: Orange County parents are crazy. I bet a lot of kids at your school had years of drama classes. It's an accomplishment.
Piper: I guess.
