Same Sky

(The parking lot behind the Safeway on Alberta Street, ten minutes after the sun went down.)

Idris: Look at mine. Look at that orange. That's a real orange.

Charlotte: It's okay.

Idris: Okay? Your phone makes the sky look gray.

Charlotte: My phone makes the sky look like the sky. Yours turns everything up. Nothing is that orange.

Idris: It's called contrast. Contrast is why I paid for this brand.

Charlotte: You paid for the name.

Idris: I paid for better pictures.

(Charlotte holds out her phone.)

Charlotte: Fine. Look at this one.

Idris: …Okay. That one's good. The black trees, and the pink behind them. That's actually really good.

Charlotte: Mm-hm.

Idris: So your cheap phone did that.

Charlotte: No. Your phone did that. Mine died at the river, so I borrowed yours for ten minutes.

Idris: Then that's my picture.

Charlotte: It's your phone. It's my picture.

Idris: Same thing.

Charlotte: Sure. And your fancy contrast? I turned it off.