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Meeting the Father

Dendra's house, or should I say her parents' house, was a simple suburban home at the edge of the city.

One story tall, picket fence at the front, wide yard in the back. As basic as a suburban home could get.

"Yosh! Here we are!" Dendra cheered as we reached the small gate at the front of her house, her arms throwing themselves into the air with a yell.

Seeing as my hand was held in Dendra's, however, the act of throwing her hands into the air caused a chain reaction. Pulling me along with her hands, causing me to trip into her, throwing the two of us onto the grass of her front lawn.

Dendra on her back, and me above her, my hands holding me upright as I stopped myself from falling on top of her, palms on the side of her head, meaning that to someone with an outside perspective, we looked like...

We looked like...!

"What do you think you're doing to my daughter!" I quickly stood up and took a step back, my eyes turning to look at the black-haired man with a pencil mustache standing at the open door to the house, A Hitmontop standing a step behind him.

"Dad!" Dendra yelled before she jumped up to her feet, showing off her athleticism, "This is Dishon, the coworker I told you about."

"Oh... the Novio..." He said as he walked out of the house, leaving the Hitmontop at the door, he walked past Dendra and stood in front of me.

The height difference forced me to look down to meet his eyes.

He silently stared at me, unblinking, as he looked me in the eyes.

As we looked into each other's eyes, The two of us reached a silent agreement, not as a defensive father and the guy his daughter brought home, but as Two Men.

An agreement that every man can understand the implications of.

An agreement that I lost as I blinked first.

As I closed my eyes for the briefest of seconds, his palm landed on my shoulder, holding me tightly as he turned back to his house and dragged me inside.

"You, Nino, have a lot more to prove..." He said with a toothy grin as he walked me into his living room and sat me on the couch, where Dendra soon joined me as her Father took the sofa on the other side of the room.

"So, as I said, Dishon needs a place to sleep for the night, it's only one night, that's not going to be a problem, right?" Dendra noticed the stiff atmosphere that surrounded the living room.

"..." Her father nodded silently, "One night? He can sleep outside..."

"Dad!" Dendra yelled at her father, who immediately seemed to have a change of heart.

"I'm joking! My sweet querida I'm joking! Please, do not be angry at me, we were merely joking, right?" As he asked that, he focused on me, forcing me to nod along.

"Yes, Haha, your father was merely joking," I felt Fanny climb up to my shoulders, her tongue flicking in and out of her mouth quickly as he tasted the sweat on my cheek.

That taste was the taste of a liar!

"Salandit!" Fanny yelled as she quickly slapped me on the cheek with her tail, before turning her tiny black head to Dendra's father, hissing at him.

"Do not play along with him, Dishon," Dendra said softly as she grabbed my hand in hers before turning back to her father, "And you, Dad, need to stop being so protective of me, I'm an adult!"

"Ellas crecen tan rapido..." Her father said quietly, a hand covering his eyes as he cried.

"Dishon will be sleeping here, and that's final!" Dendra said, standing up from the couch and dragging me along with her as she walked me deeper into the House.