10. Bottomless Pit (P1)

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Ian POV:

"Maybe we should keep this away for a bit" Barley said taking the staff. 

I go to Ameria's side and placed my hands on her shoulders. "Hey it's ok you didn't mean for it to happen" 

She nods slowly. 

"Barley is their anything that could explain this?" I ask 

What Ameria was looking answers too. Barley shakes his head. 

Barley walks over to Ameria and gives her a light hug to make her feel better. It sorta works when she smiles a bit but that's when it fades away. 

"Ok Ian time to take the road of Perial!" Barley said proudly.

"Barley, everything has gone wrong tonight" 

"Are you kidding? Because everything we've done has been your idea"

"But you didn't do it my way, you didn't let me handle the Manticore, you freaked out when I talked to the sprites, cause you don't think I have good ideas"

What? Of course I do.

Great! Then I think we should take the Path of Peril.

And I also think that would be good, normally...

See?

"But, I told you, this isn't a game"

"All that matters today is Dad, and right now he's sitting in that van, and he's confused..."

But Barley was leaning his head over mine and looking at the van. I turned around.

"What?" 

I see Dad moving around really weirdly

"What is he doing?"

"I think he can feel the vibrations of the music, and he's dancing" Ameria says as she points to our father dancing out of the van.

"Wow"

"He is terrible"

"Yeah. He's really, really bad" Barley chuckles

"Oh, no. Here he comes"

"No, no, no. Thanks, Dad. Dad, thank you"

"I'm good" Barley giggled as dad dragged him onto the grass to dance with him. 

"Stop, Okay. Okay"

"No, no, no! I'm not really a big dancer" I say as dad drags me in

Then dads goes for Ameria's leg and tries to pull her in. "Oh Mr Lightfoot, I'm terrible at dancing" 

But Ameria was soon pulled in with all of us. 

"Just imagine what the top half of this dance looks like" I chuckle

"I bet it goes something like this" 

Barley soon goes behind dad and impersonates on what it would look like.

But then he trips on his shoelaces and falls over.

"Ah, you danced your shoelaces loose there, Pop" Barley leans down and ties then back up.

"You know, I wanna see him, too"

"Yeah, I know" I say with the top sack of dad in my hands.

"It's not fair for you to call me a screwup if you don't give me a chance to get something right"

Dreams do come true// Ian Lightfoot x OCWhere stories live. Discover now