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“Okay, well,” she said, stopping the chair again with her foot, “when you say it like that, I start filling in blanks. I know it’s not that you don’t know, or don’t think so; it’s that you don’t want to tell me what you actually think. Or you think you’ve already told me, and you’re trying to make …

“Are we having a fight?” he said.

It came out like a burp. But if it was going to get asked, he was glad he’d managed to ask it before she did. If they were, that is. Having a fight.

“What do you mean?” she said.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Then why did you ask it?” she said.

“I don’t …

“You never responded to Michigan,” he said.

“I said no to Michigan,” she said.

“You didn’t,” he said.

“Well,” she said. “No. I don’t want to go to Michigan for vacation.”

“Where do you want to go?” he said.

“You need a want, Miles,” she said. “You brought it up, so you should know wh…