*It’s a small hope, of course, that in person their daughter could be guilted or browbeaten into obedience, but it’s the last one he has left, and that in and of itself is infuriating. Not that he had any great desire to see the little monsters in the first place, but that this boy presumes to speak for her, to say nothing of the idea of his own daughter dismissing him as smugly as Evan is now--
And that smile is so maddening, a final humiliating reminder of how much they’re being forced to give up for no return whatsoever, that it's the last straw. Baldev can't stop himself raising his voice, and it comes out before his wife can rein him in.*
Why the beast, anyway? What did she do? Don’t tell me it wasn’t on her back--
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Date: 2011-06-02 04:55 pm (UTC)*It’s a small hope, of course, that in person their daughter could be guilted or browbeaten into obedience, but it’s the last one he has left, and that in and of itself is infuriating. Not that he had any great desire to see the little monsters in the first place, but that this boy presumes to speak for her, to say nothing of the idea of his own daughter dismissing him as smugly as Evan is now--
And that smile is so maddening, a final humiliating reminder of how much they’re being forced to give up for no return whatsoever, that it's the last straw. Baldev can't stop himself raising his voice, and it comes out before his wife can rein him in.*
Why the beast, anyway? What did she do? Don’t tell me it wasn’t on her back--