Sometimes people disappear.

[Long pause.]

And they usually don't come back.

[Another pause.]

If you wake up one day, and your best friend is gone, that's just how things are around here. And you can't do anything about it. Except wait. Because maybe another copy of them will show up. And they won't know you at all, and you'll have to start over.

[That's happened to her many times.]

So spent a lotta time with the people you love, okay?

[A third pause.]

Chase, can I see you?