AN:Nothing belongs to me except the plot. Everything else belongs to the great Shakespeare.
Cast of Characters
Helen- Mia's best friend
Mia- Helen's best friend
Sander (short for Aleksander)- Mia's lover
Des (short or Desmond)- Mia's chosen bride (by her dad)
Edmond- Mia's Dad
Theo- The court judge
Theo was having a great time with his fiancee, Hippolyta in his own home when he was called away. He was called away to judge a case brought before the court by an idiot named Edmond. Theo already knew who Edmond was as he was a judge himself but of lesser things than Theo and in a different town. He always thought he was so high and mighty that he could lord over almost anyone else. As Theo was brooding on what an numbskull Edmond was, Edmond was doing the same thing except he was brooding about Sander, Mia's chosen. Theo finally arrived at the courthouse at which he presided. Theo decided in the car to be polite to Edmond even though the same courtesy has not been extended to him in the past. "What brings you in front of me today Edmond?" says Theo with a sigh. Edmond points a sausage shaped finger covered in gold rings at a woman maybe 22ish that Theo hadn't noticed before. "Probably all fake gold and fake gems" thinks Theo to himself. Edmond pronounced, "my extremely exasperating daughter has decided that she doesn't want to marry this young gentleman over here to my right who is of my choosing but wants to marry that riffraff over there." Theo looks to the right and sees an impeccably dressed young man in a dark suit with black hair and black eyes. Then Theo looks to the left and sees on the other side of the young woman an equally impeccably dressed young man this time in gray suit with almost white but still blond hair and stunning bright blue eyes. They both looked about 25 and both are texting on iphones completely disinterested in the proceedings. "I don't see the difference except for the fact that one has the father's approval and the other doesn't" muses Theo to himself. Edmond continues to talk in that snotty nasal voice of his, "this man to my right has my approbation to marry my daughter, Mia, yet she refuses to marry him only to choose this riffraff over to my left. The dirt has filled her head with unsuitable thoughts for a woman, given her unacceptable trinkets and furthermore has made her rebellious towards me. I cannot and will not tolerate this. I demand that she either marry Desmond or she gets placed under house arrest." "Well, I can't exactly place Mia under house arrest as she hasn't technically done anything wrong and she isn't under your jurisdiction as she is over 18 but..." Theo watched as the look on Mia's face turned from happy and hopeful to depressed and resigned. "But Edmond, what I can do is give you another choice you can try and self impose a house arrest if she doesn't follow your wishes but I will not put her under house arrest because it is unconstitutional, we are not in the habit of putting undeserving young ladies under house arrest just because they won't obey their fathers. We aren't in the Athenian age anymore. You can't force your daughter to marry who ever you want." Hermia's shoulders sagged in relief, but tensed up again as Sander looked up from his iphone and started talking. " Just because I am 'riffraff' in your eyes doesn't mean that I am scum in Hermia's eyes. I have as much money as Des does and I am better educated then he his. Even so, Des dated Helen, a friend of Mia's and she just can't let go. She won't stop stalking him on Facebook." All through out this speech Edmond's face is getting flushed. By the end of the speech his face is a fierce shade of fire engine red. Before Edmond could get a single word out Des interrupted the tirade. "Could you please just let me marry Mia and we can get this over with?" Des stated in a bored voice. Theo seeing this was something that they needed to work out for themselves had left the room long ago and headed home. Sander flew at Des but before he could make contact with his pretty face, Mia's clear voice rang through the hall. "Boys, stop it right now or I will marry neither of you. If you want to fight then take it outside." The boys left to take their anger out on each other in the the parking lot. Mia called after them "Please don't ruin your faces I would like to marry Sander after this fight without a broken anything." Edmond stomped out after them to get his evening coffee and see if he could impose a house arrest on Mia all on his lonesome without help from the court.