The Dance Between Darkness and Light (girlxgirl)

Pam

These walls are paper thin, I wonder if they knew that when they bought this house? I'm sure they know? 

Emily and I had such a great day yesterday with Alison and Mya, it couldn't have gone any better. Then last night I listened to my future son-in-law and Emily through these paper thin walls arguing and I wish I hadn't heard them. I keep replaying it in my head wondering how I'm going to talk to Emmy about it. I actually had to put in my ear plugs after awhile because I couldn't stand to listen to them anymore, but what I did hear was not good.

"How was shopping with your mom? Did you find a dress?"

"I did, it was the last one I tried on. You'll love it, babe, everyone said I looked so good in it!"

"Everyone? Who all was there? I thought just your mom was meeting you today."

"Oh, uh Alison and Mya came along, and the clerk helping me was obviously there, too."

I'm not sure why, but Thomas took a good, long pause before speaking again. And let me tell you he should have watched himself talking to my daughter like that. His tone had taken an edge and he was speaking in an angry hush. It's obvious he was trying to make sure I couldn't hear him. Too late.

"Why was Alison there? I really don't want her helping with anything with our wedding." I didn't like where the conversation was going at all. But I raised a strong, independent young woman, and she stood her ground.

"Because I asked her to be there. Because she's my friend. And because it's not like you've lifted a finger to help me yet."

"Ugh, you know I'm terrible at planning that stuff. But seriously, we need to talk about Alison. Can we have a calm discussion about her now. Please?" A discussion about what? That girl was kind and polite and such a wonderful friend to Emily. What on earth was his problem?

"Thomas, there's nothing to discuss. I will hang out with whomever I want, whenever I want. I don't tell you who you can hang out with, so you have no say, end of discussion." That's my girl, she told him!

"Emily, please just listen to me. Hear my side."

"I have heard your side and it's a bitter grudge you're holding onto from a decade ago. Why can't you just accept the fact the she has changed? The Ali I know is not the Ali you knew back then." So he knew Ali before Emily did? Interesting. But clearly he did not like her. Not one bit. But why?

"It's not a grudge, it's a dislike of a person because of their actions. Someone I don't want influencing my fiancé, she's bad news, Em." I could hear Emily laughing at that point, and I know that laugh. She was nowhere near done with him.

"A bad influence, really? You don't choose my friends, I DO! She is my coworker. I share a classroom with her, and she is the closest friend I have in my life right now. If she's a bad influence on me, I can only imagine what she's doing to the children we teach. Oh no!"  And that was my Em firing back, slightly bitchy finished off with a sharp edge of spot on sarcasm. All too familiar from not too long ago.

"That's a little extreme, don't you think?"

"No, seriously, if she's such a bad influence then all the kids coming out of our classroom should be awful little people. But oh, wait. They're not."