Squiggle by Chandler Ardnas

Author:Chandler Ardnas [Ardnas, Chandler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-22T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

It was fall when Julius said the club was up and running and we needed to make the move permanently to Harborton. Julius had ideas for our eventual home but planned for us to live on a houseboat for now. I loved the idea of a floating home… as-long-as he never floated away without me. Our next hurdle to pass, was announcing our wedding to his parents. I hoped Charlotte was able to pull off the chair so William dear would be in a better mood, but I doubted it.

Julius and I made the long drive to their hotel and sat in a room filled with Edwardian furniture. Charlotte was positioned in a chair next to William dear, and I was shocked when he lit a cigarette. It was California, where most people were health conscious, but the image did seem to fit his gruff exterior.

“I’m assuming you are here with an announcement?” William dear said with a bit of anger in his voice.

“Yep,” I said, and held up my hand. My guy seemed to shrink in the presence of his parents and it wasn’t like I told them about our chair incident. I sat up straighter to make up for Julius’ slouching.

“Son, you are making another mistake,” William dear said, and totally ignored me.

“Not this time,” Julius said forcefully. You tell him, baby.

“Third time’s a charm?” his father asked cynically. I was done with his attitude and his attempt to rain on our parade. We were not asking for permission, we were two fully grown adults… I glanced at my chest and sighed, and we could do anything we wanted.

I took the opportunity to interrupt and said, “Um…we’re not here to listen, we’re here to talk.” Because frankly, when William dear spoke, all I heard was blah, blah, blah.

I felt a shiver of fear when William dear looked at me with distain. “What exactly do you do at Carmichael Corporation?” I noticed he used the company name to remind me it was HIS company. He was so predictable.

“I’m not really sure, I mean, I just found out what the company does. I sit in a cube, which you should really look at changing, because you can’t be creative in a box. Especially sitting by someone like Kurt, the guy is a total butt-wipe, and the only person who likes him is Kevin, and only because Julius turned out not to be gay.”

“Tobi,” Julius whispered. I turned to look at him as he said, “This is an example of a conversation that should stay in your head.”

“Oh, okay.” I turned back to his father, “I answer e-mails.”

His eyes moved from mine to look at his son. “You’re marrying a girl from customer service?”

He asked like I was some mutant buried deep within the company. I knew he didn’t believe we helped him beat Microsoft. I bet he really thinks he did it alone.

“No, I’m marrying a girl who is going to help me run my club,” Julius said to let the cat out of the bag.

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