"Oh, my goodness, I'm sorry. Chloe Ann Callaway. That's funny. I wasn't even reading."
"What'd you say your name was?"
"Trinity Banks."
"No, you said something between that. Your middle name. Something like 'daylily'."
"Daylily?" I asked, raising my eyebrows, smiling at him.
"I couldn't hear you. What'd you say?"
"Jane Lily."
"See, I was close. Your name is Jane Lily?"
"Yes. My middle name. I have two."
"Trinity Jane Lily Banks?" he asked, confirming.
"Yes, but I should've said I was Chloe Ann Callaway. Why are you smiling?" I asked him.
"Because it's a name that made me smile, that's all. Trinity Jane Lily. I've never met anyone with that name."
"Yeah, I know. I thought it was great until I was about ten, then I hated it. Then, at fifteen, I decided I might as well not hate it anymore. No one calls me that, anyway. What's your full name?"
"Samuel David Allison."
"No, I meant your character."
"Oh, my gosh, I did the same thing. That's hilarious. I didn't even realize. Hang on. Thomas Paul Logan. That's my name. Sorry. Focus." He grinned, and I smiled back at him, waiting for the next question. "Oh, and what's your favorite kind of pie?" he asked.
"Why would you ask me about pie?" I said, reading my next line.
"Because my mom makes the best pies," he said, reading off the screen. "What's your favorite kind?"
"Apple," I answered, reading. "What about you?"
"Chocolate."
"A chocolate pie?" I asked. "I've never tasted a chocolate pie. My mom makes water pie, but I haven't had any pie at all since we've been on the road."
"My family makes pies to sell at the feed store, and we always have leftovers. Would you want to come with me and get some?"
"Isn't there some girl who would be disappointed?"
"All the girls would be disappointed," he said, smiling confidently.
We continued the scripted conversation, finding out new things about our characters that weren't revealed in the series script. I learned that Tommy had been engaged and that his childhood sweetheart and first love had passed away tragically in an accident with a horse.
"Why do you think we had to do this?" I asked him after we read the last exchange.
Sam shrugged, looking at me in the phone. He readjusted in his chair now that we were finished with the official stuff.
"Does this stuff make Chloe feel any differently about Tommy?"
I shrugged. "I guess it helps me feel more familiar or comfortable. But it is sort of weird hearing that you had a first love."
"Why's that weird?" he asked.
