The Princely Groom
Prologue
You are John Egbert, and you are stuck at home nursing a cold. Not that it isn't nice to get out of school but hacking up a lung doesn't count as the best of ways to spend a day off.
Your dad has gotten the day off of work to look after you while your sick. You roll your eyes both mentally and physically because really? You can take care of yourself just fine. Though its nice when he brings you a bowl of chicken noodle soup and some cough syrup in bed.
You finish eating and lay back but you're not really tired after a morning of nothing but napping so you get up keeping your blankly wrapped around your shoulders.
You wander into the living room and settle on the couch and start to idly flip through channels. After a few minutes your dad comes in and sits next to you.
As you both discover that daytime TV is shit and there's nothing on your dad tells you to wait and he gets up and goes to the movie cabinet next to the entertainment center. When he comes back he has a movie in his hand.
Curious, you crane your neck to try and catch a glimpse of the title but dad doesn't stop for you and just sticks the movie in and leaves the case on top of the TV.
"You'll like this one I promise. "
You try not to let your skepticism show cause you have a very good sense of what your dad considers a good movie and you have a feeling you'll be snoring within five minutes.
You sigh to yourself and say nothing. He's just trying to be nice while you're sick. The intro credits roll and the title if the movie pops up onto the screen.
"The Princely Groom?" You ask, your eyebrows disappearing onto your hairline.
"Yeah, its a really good movie! Nana and I used to watch it all the time." He smiles at you and you just smile weakly back at him and turn your attention back to the screen.
Since your nana died before you were born you never met her, but the way dad talks about her she must have been the most amazing person.
The music cues and the movie starts.