Something Extraordinary

Chapter 37

"Okay, then tell me about this new woman in your life." Rachel waited for his reaction, but there wasn't any. He just seemed genuinely interested. Not upset or surprised or anything and that irritated Rachel. It's not that she wished he would be upset or confused. Of course she hoped her father would be fine with her decision, but this was odd. Obviously Rachel took too long to answer, because he started smiling at her. "Did you think we wouldn't support you? Or that we wouldn't like it? That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?" He tilted his head a little, one eyebrow raised and still smiled at her.

"I thought you would react...differently."

"Right now I can only talk for myself, but as long as you're happy, I am. It doesn't matter who you're dating, or who you're with as long as they treat you well. So, does she?"

"What?" Rachel was still irritated by all of this, she was worried what her father would say, but this was different than anything she had imagined.

"Treat you well."

"Oh, yes. She's...she's wonderful." Yes, Cassandra was wonderful, most of the time. Sometime she was just Cassandra, but she didn't treat Rachel bad. At least not anymore.

"Okay. What's her name? Do you have a photo?"

"Cassandra. Um, no, I don't have a photo."

"I thought your generation takes photos of everything, what's wrong with you?" He was kidding with her and she knew it, they both laughed about it.

"Oh, I do have photo!"

"Wonderful, show it to me."

"Well, it's not really a photo. I stole it."

"Oh, New York is not good for my little girl."

"There." She pointed behind her, on the wall behind her bed, where she hung the poster from Cassandra's show. "I took it from a wall, the theatre was closed."

"She's pretty."

"Yah."

"So, you stole a poster of your girlfriend." He looked mockingly at her.

"It's not weird."

"No, no, not at all. So, tell me a bit about her." And Rachel did, not too much, but also not too little, because she didn't want her father to ask question she didn't want to answer. So they talked for a while, maybe twenty minutes. "You should tell your father."

"I know, I wanted to tell you together, but then we talked."

"I'll go over to them now and your father will probably come over here and ask you what's going on, he turned around quite often in the last few minutes."

"Yes, I've noticed." Hiram stood up and gave her a kiss on the forehead, before he walked over to Kurt and Leroy. She didn't need to look to know that her dads were talking and that Leroy would stand up in a few seconds to come over to her. Yes, she already told two people, but she was still nervous and to calm herself she brushed her hair. He came back and took the same place where Hiram has been sitting before.

"Hey daddy." Rachel sounded like a little girl that did something bad.

"Hi sweetie, what's going on?"

"Nothing." Nobody would've believed that, it sounded too guilty.

"You know that I know."

"I...am with someone."

"Alright." Rachel must have looked like it was a bad thing, because her father sounded very serious. "What did he do?" Leroy looked angry and it took Rachel a few seconds to realize what he probably was thinking.