You know what is the problem of having a son studying in Stanford? I mean, when you are living in London and you can't go there because your partner doesn't want to go and lost unbelievable cases just to breathe the air of the suffocating country of America? You know what the problem is? No? Well, the problem is that you are twelve hours away not only from your son, but also from the girl he is about to get married with. Hamish always talks about this girl, Carrie Winchester if I'm not wrong, and how much he loves her and how much he want to share his life with her.
"Wait a minute. You already propose to her?" I asked quietly to my son in the other side of the phone, Sherlock wasn't home and Mrs. Hudson was cleaning the flat but he might come back in any second.
"Of course I did. I told you I bought the ring two days ago." Just by hearing his tone I know he's making a stressful face, thinking that I'm like Sherlock when he doesn't listen when other are talking.
"I thought you were joking. You're always telling me how this Dean Winchester is bullying you to let go of his daughter." Yes, I was pretty much aware of the situation with the Winchesters. Sherlock knows Hamish is dating Carrie but he doesn't seem interested in her, and bothering about searching for her dads is the last he could do with no case in hands. But I think he doesn't remember either who Carrie is or what her dad has been up to with our son.
"Yes, her dad is really a pain in my butt. But Carrie told me that after passing his tests he decided to let me alone. Is not a big deal, he must certainly has accepted the news since she told them a few hours ago." As he explained I felt some relieve, thanks to the things he told me about those creepy pranks I could barely sleep thinking that my son was being bullied by his girlfriend's dad.
Another problem is that Sherlock doesn't want him to marry this girl, just like he doesn't want any girl to date our Hamish. He says that aside from certain feminine, every girl who dated our son was so dumb that he made them shout the door once they were out, he made them see they were no match for him. The poor girls ended up crying and yelling at Hamish and at Sherlock after his deductions, or how Hamish likes to call it: Humiliations in the table.
"Well, I just want to know where are you two getting marry." Before I could continue he cut me out.
"We decide that wedding will be here. In Kansas, in that way Carrie has to worry less by the condition of her dads, specially Dean." He finished firmly.
Now I see things clear.
When Hamish left to Stanford he said he wanted to have a different life, he wanted for once to do something without having Sherlock in his back always complaining and offending his friends and girlfriends. Hamish didn't waste the time, he met Carrie at the very first day in Stanford and now he wants to marry her in the only place Sherlock cannot mess up everything with his "master skills".
"So you are saying you want us away? Seriously! In the biggest day of your life you want us away so that your dad wouldn't ruin everything?"
"Who is not ruining everything?" I heard behind me. "Is that Hamish? I would like to talk to him." Sherlock demanded as always in his frugal tone, letting his coat in the couch and scarf as well. I feared for what was coming.
"Hamish I'm going to put you in phone speaker." I said. I know Sherlock is looking at me with a confusing gaze, probably thinking that something had happened since Hamish hasn't speak to him in two weeks. "Be careful for what you say to us."
"John, Dad. Carrie and I are going to get marry." He sentenced.
Every bloody time he does what he wants just to settle things clear with us Sherlock takes it out with a case and making people want to kill him. Thank God for those times Hamish wasn't here.
"Carrie? You mean that girl from high school in science club? I thought she was here." He said…Well, I knew he doesn't remember her, how could he remember something like that?
"No. Carrie Winchester. The girl studying in civil rights, I told you she was my girlfriend. She IS MY girlfriend." He explained, already loosing his temper.
"That one? I thought you broke up with her." He said looking at the machine. "You said her dad played this so-called-creepy-pranks to you."
"So you thought I was going to gave her up? Guess what? I didn't. And you know nothing about her to complain about her personality or the way she looks for attention." He said remembering us the time one his girlfriends being humiliating by Sherlock. "And one more thing, we're getting marry here in Kansas."
"What? That doesn't make any sense. Why would you prefer getting married where her dad can attack you again instead of getting married here so that we can do something about it?"
"You mean where you can do everything to mess up with that man." I said entering in the argument before anything could happen. "It's ok, we only have to get the tickets to get there and problem solved."
"If he picked up Kansas to get married with another girl then maybe the kid doesn't us to crash in the wedding, am I wrong?"
"Actually, I don't want YOU crashing the wedding like a window with a brick." Nice, now they are acting like kids as well.
"All right enough you two!" I cannot stand the way they act when the conversation involves girls. "Don't talk, and don't think for a few minutes before I rip your mouth off of your face." That was for the two of them, although Hamish is not here I will do it anyway once in Kansas.
"If you two are coming then fine, But I will not talk to him if he says something to anyone. And I mean ANYONE."
With that the connection of the phone went off and the only sound after that was Sherlock looking for something, maybe...
"John! where is it? My patches! my cigarettes! where are they?!"
Yes, this is going to be hard to take. And this was just the announcement of the engagement, I wonder what would happen in the wedding. Also, how must be Carrie's parents? How it is this overprotecting dad that dare to play such pranks to my son just to keep him away from his daughter? Well I guess Sherlock wasn't the only one chasing people way all this time. who knows? maybe those two can get along…No, that'll be only worst for the kids.
"Hang on Sherlock, take this one." I handed him a nicotine patch but after he took it he kept staring at me. "We're not repeating the three patch problem, this isn't so bad."
"No, it isn't. Hamish makes it look bad." he corrected pealing the patch to put it in his arm. "When did we let him go to America? I don0t remember we ever told him it was fine for him to go there."
"We never did." I said. "He left a note and by the time you called him he was already on the plane."
"Oh, right" he is so calm I guess the crisis is over. Damn those patches are fast.
"Do I have to assume you already know where Hamish is living?" Our son never really told us where was he staying or even if he was staying with someone. He only calls in a public phone or ask someday to borrow a cellphone. He is a clever kid, just like his father.
"That's correct. Plus, I've already contacted people who are in debt to me, Lawrence Kansas can be an interesting place every once in a while."
"So…the game is on?" I know what is he going to say.
"The game is on."
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