I woke up to Dad shaking my arm a little and saying "Ivy! Wake up!"
I was a little confused, what was he doing in my room? But I picked up my head and opened my eyes. I was in the living room on the couch, and Pane was leaning on me, fast asleep. I could see the sun rising through the window- it must've been like, 5:30 in the morning.
"What?" I asked him confused.
"Come on, go to your room and go sleep" Dad said. He started to pick up Pane, and Pane's eyes opened, but he let Dad carry him and he leaned his head on his shoulder and wrapped his arms around his neck.
"Where were you? And Mom?" I asked as I started to get up.
"Mom's in our room sleeping- I'm going to work soon, you should head upstairs," he said as he began his journey to Pane's room.
"But where were you? You guys left in the middle of the night!" I said. I was a little more awake now- and did he still not think I knew?
I followed Dad upstairs and waited for him to put Pane in his bed. He came out of his room and I looked at him and said "Are you not going to tell me? Seriously?"
Dad looked toward his room- probably wishing Mom was up, but sighed and said "We just needed to talk. We're probably going to have to meet Gale a little earlier than planned."
"What do you mean? Like how early?" I asked.
"His brother's birthday is on Saturday, and he'll be at the festival" he told me.
"What? So he'll be sitting at the table with us? That's great!" I said. We'll meet Gale a whole day earlier and get this over with?
"No, it is not. And listen to me Ivy, we can meet him and talk, but not about our situation yet. Do not pound him, we want this to be a special day for Pane."
"But Dad how do you expect me to just ignore him- he practically ruined Mom's-"
"He did not do anything, okay? And your Mom is going to talk to you more about this tomorrow, but you will respect our wishes and behave on Saturday, right?"
"Pfft," I sighed sarcastically, "yah sure I'll try". I started to walk to my room- I can't believe we were going to see Gale but just completely ignore what he came here for. How was that solving anything?
"Hey, do not talk to me like that. I am your father and I don't appreciate that attitude."
"Well let's hope Gale appreciates it more than you do," I muttered under my breath.
"What did you say?" he asked and walked towards me.
"Nothing!" I said and closed my bedroom door loudly behind me.
I can't believe they thought they could do that- just silence everyone to avoid a little talk that was inevitable. I was definitely not going to do that- it's not like it would actually ruin Pane's day if we talked about it. If Gale was as good as Dad said he was maybe it might make his day.
But Mom was going to talk to me about it tomorrow. That's what Dad said at least. Ugh, I dreaded that conversation. But I'll give them what they wanted to hear I guess, and just save the real talk for Saturday. I wasn't going to delay this anymore.