“ that’s not a bad idea, sask, but freja is my niece, even my sister doesn’t know what to think, how will i explain that ? they’re so close. ” and if this spawns sol’s non-existent stubborn streak, it’s another thing on the mountain of problems to deal. “ maybe i’ll work on the older ones first. ” it’s a delicate matter, sweden is somehow in the middle, they don’t condone this ! “ oh don’t worry dear, you’re not in trouble. ” coenraad, is already staring the boy stiff. she shoots him a look. “ we were just wondering, if you knew who that boy is over there. just so we know the appropriate title of course. are you friends ? ” [ @olivicr or @cocnraad ]
“ oh i know, vera, i have kept my fist at my side — behaved, i mean. ” he grinned at the crowd before turning to search for the ‘boy’ the older generation was going crazy about. “ ah… ” oh sweet sol what have you done ! “ appropriate title, of course, it has nothing to do with the way his hand is barely high enough to be on her waist. ” he almost said the other way around: but not even he dared to use the word ‘ass’ in front of his mother. “ jelani mwezi. tanzania. you know him, ” he was talking past his father, at his mother. saskia might have had a chance at knowing him, coenraad not. “ olimpia’s ex. i think the previous breakup was the fifth… ? no, seventh… ? hey not even they know for sure so don’t expect me to. always glued to hohenzollern. ”
a low hum sounds at the back of her throat. ‘ tanzania. ’ as if it’s the only important thing. ‘ well then, thank you olivier. ’ she blows him a brief kiss with her hand, that waves him away in the same sweeping motion. ‘ you may go now, ’ before his father says something no one wants him to hear. hands clasp in front of her. ‘ who’s going to say it ? will it be me ? ’ her left hand moves within its clasp to squeeze at her right wrist which swivel to show two fingers miming the snip of scissors. vera is liberal, but sol is different. ‘ i’m sure it’ll resolve itself anyway, these things don’t last with these children. ’ but does sol need to learn how to be treated like a piece of meat ? /. @saskiaelse, @cocnraad,
he’ll have to ask saskia later what that was about -- eight months! at his age, it should be nothing, but the world was fast paced and despite his catching up, there are still memories he missed -- or corner olivier before he could slip away again. hmph. “ i thought sol would have better taste, ” he said mildly, glancing at saskia for her opinion, “ you should have let me tell olivier to keep an eye out for her, he’s more of a gentleman than this mwezi. ” and now the boy would be in all of ani’s wedding pictures wearing that japing grin as though he’d won some prize. fantastic. “ with luck, he won’t be accompanying sol at the next wedding -- whose will it be, vera? ” / @saskiaelse or @vcra