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¿ - a drabble about my muse from the perspective of... a member of my muse’s extended family.
Aunt Lillian was fussing about the kitchen, working on a roast for dinner. Her family didn’t visit often, so when Max and Elena came around, she made sure to make it a big deal. Elena, fourteen at the time, was in the living room watching some old movie she’d seen a hundred times on past visits to Aunt Lillian’s. She and Max were in the kitchen.
“You’re going to have to put that girl through school, you know. That’s your responsibility, now. You can’t let her run around without an education ---she’s bright, and she’s got a beautiful face, but that’s only going to get her so far.”
Max replied to Lillian with some salt in his voice, that he knew what he was doing by now, that even while their parents were around, he did most of the real work with her. Aunt Lillian wasn’t having it.
“She needs to do better than her mother, Maxwell. She can’t go getting knocked up at fifteen, sixteen, any age she likes. I know she’s hardly interested in boys yet, but when she does start up, you... You keep an eye on her. Don’t let her date just anyone, Max. She’s been through so much, you both have, and... She doesn’t deserve to have her heart broken.”















