Holding back

A bump to the head

"German, we are ready." Smiled Angie who was stood in my office looking beautiful.

Her hair was in a half up half down ponytail with a few soft curls falling on her face. It reminded me of the hairstyle she had at Vilu's birthday party when she first arrived at the house. Her dress was very floral, very pretty and very Angie.

I couldn't take my eyes off her. Angie must've noticed this because she started to stare down at her outifit.

"What? What is it? Do I need to change?" She asked nervously.

"No, no. You look fine. You look very pretty." I smiled.

Angie tilted her head and smile at me, I returned the smile.

"Well... We'd better go! We don't want to keep Olga waiting, we will never hear the end of it!"

I nodded and followed Angie out of my office, I realised I still had the photo in my hand, so I quickly put it in the inside pocket of my jacket.

"Dad! You didn't get changed!" Shouted Vilu who was running towards me.

"Well... What's wrong with this?" I asked, gesturing down to my outfit. I had my suit and blue shirt on, it was formal enough for a meal.

Vilu looked at me and was about to open her mouth, probably to pick out every fault with my outfit.

"Vilu, leave your dad alone! He looks fine!" Laughed Angie, cutting Vilu off.

"Fine. I knew you wasn't going to change, so I got this from you room." She said as she passed me a bow tie. I never wear know of those, I don't even know how to do them.

"Now I'm going to go outside and make a call."

Me and Angie both laughed.

"Oh, miss I'm so grown up, we are going to take a call are we?" Laughed Angie. "And who may we be making this call to, huh? Leon?" She added.

Vilu giggled before running outside.

"Isn't she growing up?" Smiled Angie. I nodded and agreed while messing with my bow tie.

Angie walked over to me shaking her head. Obviously noticing that I was struggling. How embarrassing.

"It's a shoelace." She stated.

"Erm...no, I'm pretty sure it's a bow tie..." I replied slowly, trying to get what Angie meant.

"No!" She laughed "the knot, it's the same as a shoelace. Here." She said. She came close to me and messed with the bow tie.

"You don't look like the kind of women who knows how to tie a bow tie." I whispered, while I watched her intently.

"Oh yeah? Well you don't look like the kind of guy who wouldn't." She teased.

Angie flattened my collar and dusted of my suit. "There we go." She smiled, still centre metres apart from me.

"Thank you" I smiled.

We stood awkwardly close to each other for a while and I didn't mind.

"Well erm, we'd better go..." Said Angie as she looked into my eyes.

"Erm, yes, let's go..." I whispered.

I put out my arm and Angie linked her arm with mine and we walked to the car together.

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"Oh Angie you look beautiful!" Fussed Olga as soon as we arrived at the table. She stood up to examine Angie properly.