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“Well? Are you just gonna stand out here all night or are you gonna finally go in?”
“I'm going!”
“It doesn’t seem like it, honey.”
I’ve been staring at the door in front of me for the past forty five minutes raising and lowering my wrist trying to discover the strength to even imitate the lightest of taps to my personal mahogany damnation. It's just three knocks, two even.
Soon there’s a cold hand on my shoulder, almost too cold if I weren't familiar with it, always here, always comforting in silence even without instruction. Turning blindly I wrap my arms around the slender being I know is standing behind me.
“Oh Mountain….what am I gonna do? The dance is tomorrow!”
“Well, I do believe I reminded you two weeks ago when you first got the notice, and I’d hate to add to the anxiety but it seems like.”
“Seems like what?”
Before I can even process the door is open and I'm being picked up by the back of the shirt and swiftly deposited in the plush chair across from papa’s desk with a kiss planted on the top of my head..
“Like we’ve been discovered..”
“Yes. It seems you have. Now may I ask why both Cirrus and Dew have called to inform me that you two have been loitering in front of my office for the past couple of hours?”
“Hours?! If anything it’s been like forty five minutes!”
“Cara. Firstly inside voices, I'm right in front of you. Secondly it's nearing six pm so for a fact it's been two hours and eighteen minutes. Now I gave you the privilege that if it was something upsetting you could come in of your own free will but since it's nearing dinner I had to take that privilege away, per favore perdonami bambino. Do you understand?”
“Si, ho capito papà”
“cosa ti turba mia bella?”
“It's just….couldyoucometothetgdnmnedn?”
“che cosa?”
“I asked could you cometothefatherdkifnc?”
“They’re asking you to go with them to the father student dance tomorrow evening at their school. The notice arrived two weeks ago but they seem to have forgotten about it until today after mass when I looked through their satchel to check for homework and found the leaflet.”
“da satana in basso. tutti questi problemi per un semplice ballo? Thank you Mountain I was worried we would have to call a sibling from the infirmary. Of course cara I will accompany you to the dance. What type of papa would I be if I said no, hm?”