auction - uncle and resolutions - outside of the uk
217 words, by gdocs
Sometimes, Charlie hates Romania.
Of course, he doesn't really hate Romania. You could say that he hates the location of Romania. He loves the place, he loves the dragons, he loves his friends, he loves the language, and he even loves his tiny one bedroom flat.
What he doesn't love, however, is the fact that his sister-in-law is giving birth in England, almost twenty-five hundred kilometers away.
There's something in his stomach that feels weird as he cleans up at the reserve to prepare to go back to his flat.
He doesn't want kids himself, but Charlie has always loved little kids. Maybe it's because he grew up with five younger siblings. Maybe it's because he likes taking care of others. He doesn't really know.
But he's about to be an uncle, for the first time ever. This is huge. Except he can't actually go to England because he's in the middle of a huge project at the reserve – they just got a new baby dragon and he needs to tend to it. He can't take off work.
If Romania was closer to England, that's be a different story – he could make a quick trip there – but Romania is twenty-five hundred kilometers away and he's going to miss becoming an Uncle.
Charlie hates Romania.