Akiko didn’t look up from her game when Sanders opened her door. She had known it would only be a matter of time until he would come up to her room to talk to her about what she had said to her mother. When she had told Dawn that she wanted to live with her dad, she had hung up on her daughter to, Akiko assumed, give her father what for. Akiko had chosen Zelda and headphones over eavesdropping on the conversation.
A nervousness fluttered in her stomach when he joined her on the bed. She quickly scanned the doorway, half-expecting Aphrodite to have come with him. It seems that wasn’t the case, so she slowly pulled off her headphones and let them dangle around her neck.
“Yes.” It was a fair enough answer, because she wasn’t exactly losing and she didn’t want to take the time to explain the game didn’t quite work that way. She had beat several bosses and was making good progress, and that was winning enough.
Akiko didn’t pause the game when he mentioned the call from her mom. It was a welcome distraction to not have to look at him. She was worried about what he would say. That he would turn her down, or send her back home when the summer was over. “I want to live here,” she corrected, noting the timid way he broached the subject. “I don’t want to go back to California.” Finally, she paused the game and looked down at her father. “I want to stay here. With you.”
A nervousness fluttered in her stomach when he joined her on the bed. She quickly scanned the doorway, half-expecting Aphrodite to have come with him. It seems that wasn’t the case, so she slowly pulled off her headphones and let them dangle around her neck.
“Yes.” It was a fair enough answer, because she wasn’t exactly losing and she didn’t want to take the time to explain the game didn’t quite work that way. She had beat several bosses and was making good progress, and that was winning enough.
Akiko didn’t pause the game when he mentioned the call from her mom. It was a welcome distraction to not have to look at him. She was worried about what he would say. That he would turn her down, or send her back home when the summer was over. “I want to live here,” she corrected, noting the timid way he broached the subject. “I don’t want to go back to California.” Finally, she paused the game and looked down at her father. “I want to stay here. With you.”
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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