Clara and Matt slowly walked up to Dean Oswald's office door and knocked. "Come in." Dean Oswald said. They walked in. Mr. Oswald was sitting at the edge of his desk going over a file.
"Dad?" Clara said standing there next to Matt. He glanced up and smiled only at Clara. "Clara, what brings you here?"
Clara sighed and they sat in black leather chairs. "We need to talk." "About?" He shrugged.
Clara glanced at Matt and smiled. "Me and Matt." She said taking his hand. Dean Oswald nodded. "Oh?" "Yes, sir, we need to tell you something." Matt said.
Mr. Oswald sighed. "Other than you're sleeping with my daughter, what else?" He swallowed. "You know?"
Dean Oswald arched his eyebrow as he went to his seat. "I maybe old but I'm not stupid," He sighed resting his elbows on the desk studying them before speaking. "I'm also aware of the pregnancy test; a neighbor clipping his hedges spotted David coming to the house with it."
"Well, she's not pregnant." Matt said. He nodded quietly and stared at them hurt and disappointed. "That's fine but I'm more upset at how secretive everyone has been."
"We were going to tell you." Clara insisted. He lowered his eyes before looking at her. "Were you, really," He said briefly glancing at a baby photo of Clara. "Cause' you don't seem to talk to me anymore."
"You always tell everything to David or Amy or him." Dean Oswald glancing hard at Matt. Clara sighed. She was tired of this. "Don't do this, not again."
"What?" Dean Oswald said. Clara scoffed. "You always blame Matt when you know this is because of you." Matt looked at her. "Clara, please-"
"No," She interrupted. "Dad I love you but I can't talk to you…I just can't." She lowered her gaze wiping her eyes. "You make everything so hard."
Dean Oswald sighed. "Clara, it hasn't been easy since your mother died. I'm trying my best." She nodded. "I know but did you ever wonder why I went to David and Matt's apartment that night after our fight? Why I had David buy the pregnancy test? It's because I knew you would freak." She choked.
"That's not fair." He said. "Neither is treating me like damn child!" She snapped. "Language!" He warned. Clara rolled her eyes. "I'm not five and I'm not a perfect angel."
He pointed at Matt accusingly. "You know you're attitude didn't change until you met him." She groaned. "You don't get it. I've always felt like this. Matt has nothing to do with it but you don't want to hear that."
"Clara, I'm sure he's a nice young man but he has a past with females." Mr. Oswald said. Matt rolled his eyes biting the inside of his cheek. "You know I'm getting tired of having my past thrown in my face every chance you get."
He leaned forward in his seat. "And yes, I have been with a lot of girls and I'm sorry," He then scoffed shaking his head. "No, you know what, I'm not sorry cause' it's not my fault. I was just always stupid enough to believe they would lead to something more meaningful but they never did," He swallowed looking at her. "But it's different with Clara, I love her and I know you don't believe it and frankly I don't care anymore."
Mr. Oswald rubbed his eyes exasperated. "I know you love her but I wished you'd had waited until after graduation to date her. She doesn't need distractions."
"No, I need you to stop running my life," She snapped. Clara sighed. "And I don't care about his past…I love him but you'll never understand that." She said frustrated. Matt put his arm around her shoulders and kissed her temple.
Dean Oswald just clasped his hands in front of his face with an unreadable expression and studied them both. "So is that how you feel, how you both feel?"
They nodded.
He sighed sitting back in his chair. "Very well, you can go." Clara felt bad for her outburst and started to apologize. "Dad I-" "You can go." He repeated calmly but firmly. "This discussion is over. You've made your peace."
There was no point in arguing they knew he'd never accept their relationship so they just walked out. Clara rested her head against his arm. "That went well." Matt remarked putting his arm around her waist. She shrugged. "Could've gone worse," She glanced up at him hugging him. "At least I have you." He smiled and took her hand and they walked away.
The next afternoon David came home from school, a metal object rolled tapping against his foot. "Hi." Matt said as he worked on his knees surrounded by a bunch of odd mechanical parts. "Hi," He scowled at the clutter on the floor. "Uh, didn't we have a carpet this morning?"
He glanced behind him rolling his eyes. "Cute, it's our new fan," He stood and faced him. "Just about to put it together." David chuckled picking up one of the unknown trinkets. "Yeah, that'll take you what? Ten years."
Matt folded his arms and dramatically sniffed. "I'll have help." David nodded and tossed it to him. "Yeah me." He grumbled taking off his jacket.
Matt smiled. "Nope, Mickey's coming by to help." David looked at him surprised. "Oh?" He nodded. "In fact you won't even be here." David scoffed. "Oh and where will I be?" Matt reached into his pocket and pulled out a plane ticket. "Here." He handed it to him. David looked at him. "What's this?"
"It's a plane ticket for New York."
David still looked confused.
"You'll be spending some time with Amy." Matt said. David's eyes widen with disbelief. Did he hear right? "You're joking." "It's all been arranged and worked out with Peter." He replied.
He smirked. "Seriously, I get to be with her," David lightly scoffed. "How did you even do this?"
Matt shrugged. "Well, me and Clara talked about it and we felt owed you one so she pulled some strings and we arranged this trip." David shook his head glancing down at the ticket, for the first time he was speechless. It was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for him. "I-I don't know what to say."
Matt chuckled folding his arms. "Wow, that's a first," David gave him a look. Matt smirked coming towards him. "Look we really couldn't gotten through this without you."
He smiled. "Thanks this really means a lot." Matt nodded. "No problem," He then lightly slapped his arm. "Now go, move! If you pack a bag, now you should be there by tonight to surprise her."
He grinned and hurried to their room to pack.
Author Note: Hello, just wanted to say drama's not over yet with Clara and her father more is coming later but next chapter something happy, our lovely couple Amy and David will be reunited (Yay!)
Hope you like the chapter! Thanks! :)