“Why would they?” I ask. “You said they can sleep through anything.” Not-joke. “Come on, just for an hour till we finish the movie. You can meet my lizard.” It takes a few seconds of silence for me to realize how that might be interpreted. “That’s not a line. I have an actual lizard. A bearded dragon named Stan.” Bronwyn laughs so hard she almost chokes. “Oh my God. That would have been completely out of character and yet…for a second I really did think you meant something else.” I can’t help laughing too. “Hey, girl. You were into that smooth talk. Admit it.”
