A Dream

20

"Are you sure you want to do this?", my mom asked. "I'm sure they'll understand if you don't want to go through with it." I shook my head slowly. We went down the last hall and at its far end there was a security man who asked us for ID before he let us into a room with a big table in the middle and two men and a woman greeting us from the other end of the room. The woman made a gesture telling us to take a seat. And we did. We sat on chairs that were very hard. They almost looked like the ones we had at school but bigger. The man sitting across from my mom had thick black hair. It almost looked like a toupe or something and he rolled his lip up weirdly while he was talking to us. "First of all. Thank you for coming Anna and...", he was looking down on some paper."...Maria. We would like to address some formal issues at first." The man sitting a little further away from us started a tape recorder. "We would like you both to sign this contract confirming some info and you also agreeing that we are recording the meeting. We wrote it both in English and German." He gave us the contract and a fancy looking pen to sign it with. He clicked it open for us before handing it to my mom. It was basically just a summary of our full names, dates of birth and our address. At the bottom there was a small box with text which said that we were being  recorded. My mom nodded at me and signed before handing the pen to me. I did the same. Harry didn't even bother to show up. My mind started to run wild. He wasn't there.