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" Alright! Alright, I hear you! " William shouted as his doorbell was rung for a third time. He'd been in the middle of making a bottle of milk for Elizabeth when he was quite rudely interrupted by the high-pitched cry of the bell. He sat his little girl on the couch next to Michael who was playing video games in the hopes that he'd atleast know she was there before shuffling over to the door and throwing it open to see who in their right mind would come visit him on a Saturday morning out of all days and any time.
It was definitely not what he expected.
Stood in front of his face was that wreched man Henry fucking Emily, the one who could've decided to take a leap of faith and run his business into the ground by now but instead decided to ridicule him and try and buy him out of bankruptcy. Yet for the man William made him out to be, Henry stood there quite awkwardly, not looking directly at the much taller man with his obviously shaking hands holding a.. bouquet of flowers?!
Henry pushed his glasses up on his face before nervously deciding to finally look at the perplexed man in his eyes, " U-uhm.. sorry to show up on such short notice—gosh—but I just wanted to.. erm- "
He didn't say more and instead pushed the flowers into William's view. There was a minute of silence as William stood there with a look on his face.
" What is this? Is this a joke? "
Henry sort of flinched and stuttered a bit as redness overtook his face. Luckily for him, Michael came up behind his father with a weeping Elizabeth in his arms.
" She fell off the couch. "
Immediately, William snatched his child from Michael and scolded him, " And you just let her? God Michael, atleast have some sort of decency- "
" Oh! You have.. kids? "
William snapped his head back at the man who was standing on his porch with the flowers, Elizabeth moving her thumb to her mouth to suck on it as all three Aftons looked at Henry. " ..Yes? What's it to you? " William questioned. Henry was ready to open his mouth but Michael took his turn to speak first, " Dad is this your boyfriend or something? ". Immediately, William sighed out loud and put his head in his free hand.
" Mike just go back inside, please, for your old mans dignity. "
Michael didn't object and scurried away back to the couch where his video game console was waiting for him.
William stood against the door for a minute to rethink his life choices with Henry looking up at him and his kid looking in-between both men. He then hoisted Elizabeth up better as she began to slip before taking the flowers without warning.
" Thanks. "
Once again Henry didn't get a chance to say anything before the door was shown to his face again.