“Okay.” He nodded agreeing with a resignation knowing that she was making the proper choice. Not the choice he would have made but the proper one. Just another quality that he loved about her. “You’re probably right. I need to talk to her myself.”
“I think it’s good too,” he added behind her affirmation of his daughter’s choice. “It’s just a bit scary, you know?” He looked down at his feet to get his eyes away from her feeling a welling of some emotion he didn’t want to put on display. It was dawning on him slowly that Akiko was there to stay. That he would be raising her from now on. Making all the decisions about her upbringing by himself.
He wrapped his arms around the blonde glad for one last embrace. “Thank you, Maeve. For coming over, bringing the gift. For everything.” He walked her to the door and stood a silhouette on the threshold watching over Mavee protectively as she got into her car. He waved her off before he closed the door and turned the lock.
He mounted the stairs with anxious anticipation in his gut nervous for what the conversation with Akiko would hold. Sanders knocked tentatively on her door, “Akiko? May I come in?” He didn’t hear a response and figured she had her headphones on so he poked his head inside to confirm. Indeed she was in a hidey hole of sorts made from her blankets and pillows with her attention focused on the screen that glowed in front of her.
Sanders crawled into the fort cautious not to disrupt what she had made. He lay on his belly next to where she sat, elbows rested on the bed and his fists under his chin. “Are you winning?” He asked uncomprehending of the action that played out on the screen.
“I got a call from your mother.” This prompt came as an incidental aside so as to not sound confrontational. “She said that you want to try out living here?” He offered up the situation as a possibility, a trial, in case she would later change her mind. He didn’t want her to think that the decision needed to be permanent if she didn’t want it to be.
“I think it’s good too,” he added behind her affirmation of his daughter’s choice. “It’s just a bit scary, you know?” He looked down at his feet to get his eyes away from her feeling a welling of some emotion he didn’t want to put on display. It was dawning on him slowly that Akiko was there to stay. That he would be raising her from now on. Making all the decisions about her upbringing by himself.
He wrapped his arms around the blonde glad for one last embrace. “Thank you, Maeve. For coming over, bringing the gift. For everything.” He walked her to the door and stood a silhouette on the threshold watching over Mavee protectively as she got into her car. He waved her off before he closed the door and turned the lock.
He mounted the stairs with anxious anticipation in his gut nervous for what the conversation with Akiko would hold. Sanders knocked tentatively on her door, “Akiko? May I come in?” He didn’t hear a response and figured she had her headphones on so he poked his head inside to confirm. Indeed she was in a hidey hole of sorts made from her blankets and pillows with her attention focused on the screen that glowed in front of her.
Sanders crawled into the fort cautious not to disrupt what she had made. He lay on his belly next to where she sat, elbows rested on the bed and his fists under his chin. “Are you winning?” He asked uncomprehending of the action that played out on the screen.
“I got a call from your mother.” This prompt came as an incidental aside so as to not sound confrontational. “She said that you want to try out living here?” He offered up the situation as a possibility, a trial, in case she would later change her mind. He didn’t want her to think that the decision needed to be permanent if she didn’t want it to be.
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