Car accidents and lizards.

I hear his door open and know that he’s down here to go on a bagel run. I offer Model Bakery instead. He sticks with the bagels.

“Are you sure you don’t want Model? Last chance.” Safeway bagels it is.

He tells me he had a nightmare. In his nightmare, he was leaving a water park and there were lots of tremors. “I should probably not watch movies about natural disasters.”

I tell him about my nightmare: “I kept being attacked by medium-sized lizards. Medium-sized. Not big ones.”

Sun.

I tell her that our conversations are real. Not depressing, but real.

Of course.

So, so cold.

Probably needed another pizza.