Fabricated Christmas by Maynard Glenna

Author:Maynard , Glenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

10

—Finnick—

Maisy stayed back at my mom’s to help her clean up from the party. I stopped by my office to grab a file for this case I have court for Wednesday. My firm mostly handles small town family stuff. Affairs. Annulments. Paternity stuff.

“Dad, this isn’t going to work,” Auden sasses at me as she stares at what will be Maisy’s desk.

Narrowing my eyes at her, I shake my head. “What did you mean by it’s not going to work?”

She throws a hand out motioning around the room. “Maisy is a girl. She needs a nice office. This is a boy’s office.” She crinkles her nose.

Folding my arms, I ask, “And what would you suggest?”

“Well, colorful folders or sticky notes for one thing. Pens. A pen holder. Maybe a label maker, plants, that smelly thing with oils that mom has.” I start going cross-eyed as she speaks.

“Auden, this isn’t that kind of office.”

She flops into the worn leather chair behind the desk. “Doesn’t matter, she’s nice, and should be comfortable here. Right? This chair sucks. It’s all hard and it’s peeling.” Her lips spread into a mischievous grin. “I have a great idea. Let’s go shopping, I’ll pick everything out.” Her head bobs up and down.

“Don’t you have homework or something to do?”

“Nope,” she pops the P and grins bigger at me. “Come on, Dad. Let’s go. I bet if she shows up and you have everything all nice for her she’ll like you a lot more.”

Chuckling as I walk to the door, I give in. Kid knows how to work me. “Fine, lead the way, boss.”

“Awesome, let’s hit up Staples. That way we won’t have to go anywhere else.”

I hold back a groan. Going into the city, forty minutes away, wasn’t exactly something I planned on doing today, or any day for that matter.

“Can we get Taco Bell when we’re done?”

“We’ll see.”

“This is going to be so much fun. Can I get some stickers and a new notebook? Oh, and I need pencils. Maybe some markers.”

Perfect. Now my kid wants me to not only shit all my insides she wants all new stuff too. Like she doesn’t already have enough stickers and junk at home.

Auden gave me command of the shopping cart while she forces me to follow her down just about every aisle in the store. “We done yet, kid?” I don’t think Maisy we need all this shit to answer phones, but what do I know?

“Just one more thing. You need to get her a new computer, because the one in there now, you’ve had it in there for as long as I’ve been alive, at least.” She’s not wrong. And now I feel like an idiot. That’s something I should have replaced years ago, but my last office girl didn’t complain about it, so I never even thought of it.

We hit it up Best Buy for the computer after I shelled out two hundred bucks for some damn chair that Auden insisted I buy for Maisy saying how could I expect her to work if she wasn’t comfortable.

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