She stares blankly out into the distance. For several seconds, we hear nothing but silence. Then slowly the sound fades in, muffled and bass-heavy at first, as the girl's parents are having a conversation in the front we can't hear or understand. After several seconds, the mother calls out what must be the girl's name, though it's too muffled for us to hear - but it causes the girl to snap out of her daze and perk her head up. The mother repeats herself, this time we can hear her clearly. "Rebecca, for God's sakes can you try for just a couple of hours to listen when other people are talking?" The teen girl, Rebecca, rubs her eyes with her sleeve, still looking a little out of it. "Sorry, mom, what were you saying?" The mother shakes her head and makes an aside comment to the father driving the car before repeating herself to her daughter - she was saying that it will be nice to see the mother's cousins Harold and Diane again, Rebecca hasn't seen them since her high school graduation two years ago. Rebecca shrugs - yes, she supposes it will be nice, she says half-heartedly. "Todd too," the mother says off-hand, and she doesn't notice that this causes Rebecca to make a pained face, "you know I don't know why you two stopped getting along after high school, you used to be so close. Do you remember the time...?" The mother continues her anecdote, oblivious, but Rebecca has stopped paying attention. She lies back in her seat, pushes her head back and covers her face with her arms. She lets out a controlled sigh, long but quiet, and her mother's voice start to distort again.
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