We paid for our desserts and went to the bookstore in front of the café to wait. Mason was supposed to finish his shift in twenty minutes and there was a place with fauteuils in the bookstore we could squat on while waiting for him.
Once in front of the bookstore, I let Oliver enter first and told him I was going to tell my dad I would take more time than I was supposed to. I dialled my dad's numbers and called him.
"Yes honey?" he immediately picked up the phone
"Hey dad, I wanted to let you know I will come home later than I text you"
"At what hour?"
"Hmm, I don't know? maybe 7 PM?" but I didn't know how hard it could be to convince and I still wanted to spend time alone with Oliver "or 8 PM?"
"Are you coming home alone?"
"Maybe? One of my friends has a car so he can drop me off I guess" I said as nonchalantly as I could
"Alright, where are you?"
"Oh we're at the bookstore" I answered lightly
There was a silence
"Dad?" I called him
"Sean seriously?" he sighed loudly through the phone "Didn't we go through that already? The library then the bookstore, you could be more inventive"
"No!!" I exclaimed understanding what he was getting at "Dad, I promise I am really at the bookstore" he still seemed doubtful or suspicious so I add quietly "but maybe with my date"
I literally could hear him smirk and think 'I knew it', but he didn't say those, he said way worse "You can stay but then you're coming home with your date, I want to see him. See you later"
He then hanged up and I was here looking at my phone dumbfounded
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