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“As your mother, I can appreciate that maybe this isn’t your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term.”
did bea force you into dresses as a child too? Has June also got a fondness for sneaking your leftover curry out of the refrigerator in the dead of night like a Dickensian street urchin?
No but DO YOU SEE THE DIFFRENCE BETWEEN THE WAY THEY TEXT. LIKE ALEX IS ALL LOWERCASE AND HENRY WITH HIS PERFRECT PUNCTUATION AND EVERYTHINGGGGGG
“Let me lay out some observations for you,” she says. “You extrapolate. First, you’ve been, like, Joker–level obsessed with Henry for years—do not interrupt me—and since the royal wedding, you’ve gotten his phone number and used it not to set up any appearances but instead to long-distance flirt with him all day every day. You’re constantly making big cow eyes at your phone, and if somebody asks you who you’re texting, you act like you got caught watching porn. You know his sleep schedule, he knows your sleep schedule, and you’re in a noticeably worse mood if you go a day without talking to
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In short:
Nora: *lays out twenty reasons for why Alex is clearly Bi and in love with HRH*
Nora: ...Now what do you think that means?
Alex: I dont know?
Nora: *gives up*
“Frolic naked in the hills, frighten the sheep, return to the house for the usual: tea, biscuits, casting ourselves upon the Thighmaster of love to moan about Claremont-Diaz siblings, which has become tragically one-sided since Henry took up with you. It used to be all bottles of cognac and shared malaise and ‘When will they notice us’—” “Don’t tell him that!” “—and now I just ask Henry, ‘What is your secret?’ And he says, ‘I insult Alex all the time and that seems to work.’” “I will turn this car around.” “That won’t work on June,” Alex says. “Let me get a pen—”