Tag: Dirk x Lillith

“So Val was telling me one of her next door neighbors got some kinda night shift; one of those professional party guests, apparently? I guess he comes home nearly every night drunkenly singing whatever song he feels like at the top of his lungs. Val’s son sleeps right through it like a log, but her cat-”

“Sorry to interrupt, but, how do we win this, Lillith?”

“Win what? Shutting up noisy neighbors?”

“No, what I mean is, how do we get the best solution to this Smuggsworth thing? I thought Michael was gonna handle it just fine, but… He just seems so upset, and I don’t want to make him left out or anything, you know? But Rebecca needs a challenge, too, and I just… I just don’t know.”

“That’s exactly what I was afraid would happen.”

“Dirk… I don’t think we should enroll Rebecca in this program thing until she absolutely positively says she wants to.”

“Why wait?”

“Because, well, we’ve always relied on waiting for our kids to choose their paths in life without putting on any pressure either way when they make a decision. It’s why Rebecca’s ears aren’t pierced and why we didn’t have either of the boys circumcised, remember?”

“But school isn’t a body modification, Lil. It’s just a more challenging class.”

“But what if she genuinely doesn’t want to go, and she just says what she thinks we want to hear about it.”

“Then we’ll ask her, then?”

“We can’t be the ones to do it. We’ll project some sort of bias.”

“Hmm… How about we find someone neutral?”

“Yeah. I think Louis would be a good choice to talk to her.”

“But for now, just relax. I know you want the best for our kids, and you want them to make decisions independently, but I think it’s causing you a bit more stress than it should.”

“Yeah. After all, don’t we both just want them happy?”