-Break-

  “A father and a son, a son and a father. They sit together at the diable for the first time in seven years, but still, the two of them don’t talk.

  On my right side lies the son an Aized human. He is a rude boy who says vulgarities neverendingly to the point where I will soon wash out his mouth with soap. The great little annoyance Iancu.

  And on my left and at the head of the table lies a nightmare, the great ior and man who many sider a modern-day genius, Avram Bogdan.

  The son who seemingly hates his father turns his head away trying to act as if my words don’t bother him. While the father looks straight ahead removing his annoying soence from his mind.

  Seeking attention Iancu puts his feet oable to elicit a response from his father, but not getting os them down as he realizes how embarrassing and disgusting it is.

  The tension in the room is so fvourful and well-aged, that one could eve drunk off of it. There is little as intense as the tensioween a child and their parent. This truly shall be a legendary battle of two bats.”

  “ YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!”

  “Breaking the silence Iancu tries to fore of that tension on me, by screaming at me like an oaf. Truly fiendish.”

  “I might actually hit you.”

  “Well what else am I supposed to do, if I don’t alleviate the tension, I might bee intoxicated by it.”

  “THERE IS NO TENSION. Especially any deriving from anger.”

  “Wait if all this tensio derive from anger, might all this tension actually be sexual? My god have I truly walked into a den of demons.”

  “Not a ce.”

  At the head of the table, my father says, “Elia not only are we about to eat but this is also a house of god, so I won’t allow any vulgarities here.”

  “Is a vampire really trying to teach me about god?”

  In the er of the room, Elia and my father start to talk, whilst smiling. Feeling sick I stand up and say, “I am going away.”

  Suddenly Elia falls out of her chair, but is caught by my father who asks, “Elia are you okay?”

  “Yes, it is just that I lost my bance.”

  As she is in my father's arms, she mouths to me; Sit down Iancu, or you know what I will do.

  Sitting down, I say, “I am going to stay after all.”

  As Elia sits ba her chair, she kicks me in the leg and then gives me an evil stare.

  This bitch!

  Bursting through the door Ivana, Wadim, and Ghehe finally arrive.

  “Sorry it took us so long.”

  My father says, “Don’t worry, the food is still warm so you sit down a ready.”

  With haste the three of them sit down, jittering with excitement.

  After my father gives a little prayer, he says, “You take it off now.”

  Overall the ptes on the diable are the Aized jellyfish, whiot only ceals what the food looks like but makes it so that the state it was i ge from the moment it ut on.

  Taking the jellyfish off, my nose is instantly struck with a heavenly sensation. Immediately moments of all the good things that have ever happeo me in my life appear in my mind bringing me close to tears.

  Stop Iancu. I ain my posure; I ’t lose myself to this.

  Directly fag me Wadim, starts to bite into the food and moments ter he starts to cry, and says, “I five you, Mom.”

  Ivana beside him says, “I might be alone forever, but I am enough I don’t o ge.”

  Ghehe to the right of me says, “Just because I look like a monster doesn’t mean I am!!”

  Elia beside says, “I promise I will be a better friend; I will eat the cake this time.”

  Crap the food is making all of them have aional breakdown, if I eat it, I am fucked. I refuse to fold first!

  Pushing my pte away, I say, “I don’t feel like eating I am full.”

  The four of them try to grab at my pte whilst saying, “MINE.”

  I pull my pte bad say, “This is still mine.”

  “But you said you were full.”

  “So what, it is still my food I get to decide what happens to it, and don’t you still have food on your pte?”

  “I see, so whoever fiheir food first gets yours.”

  Immediately Elia, Ivana, Wadim, and Ghehe start to enge the food in front of them, but the first oo finish is Elia. “I WOOOOOOOON! Now fork it over Iancu.”

  “I never agreed to that.”

  “You would really betray the promise you made to a maiden, you demon! If I had known you were such a fiendish liar I would have enjoyed my food more.”

  “Not my problem.”

  Ivana sitting down i says, “The only person who ate Avram’s food so fast was Gloria.”

  Ghehe says, “Well when your husband cook so well eating bees a personal hobby for you.”

  Wadim just says, “Thinking about it, don’t you guys think Elia is a lot like Gloria?”

  Feeling anger well up inside me, I shout, “SHE IS NOTHING LIKE MOM!!!”

  Looking around the table I notice I ruihe mood. Why, why, why, why do I feel like an outsider in my own house, every time I i with these people it always ends up like this. I should just leave.

  “Iancu is right Elia is nothing like my wife.”

  Staring at my father, I hear Elia say, “How so?”

  “My wife was an idiotic, hardheaded, selfish, brat. hinking before she acts, and never g about the stress she puts us in. She alushed herself so hard that she would colpse causio always do all the chores myself, and when she would eat, she would nearly empty out our fridge, she really didn’t think about those around her.”

  Please, just please stop Dad I don’t want to hear any more.

  “She would always help anyone whenever giving smiles at the destru of her own, she would always cry like a cute puppy whenever she saw me ing up her mess instead of just w less. She would always brag about my achievements because in her words I didn’t realize how amazing I am. She was always active whispired me to work through bad days, and the faces she made whee my cooking filled my soul. She was strohan anyone else, kihan anyone else, and the best mother there ever was, in all the time she was here there was not a single day Iancu didn’t smile, and her ass was enormous. So, in summation, she was nothing like Elia.”

  Hearing this I feel something well up inside me, but it is interrupted as Elia smashes the table saying, “I felt like I was just rather brutally insulted. We all know ii wanted I could easily be your wife.”

  fused, my father says, “I didn’t know you were a drug addict Elia, because your mind is far away from you.”

  “What do you mean, I am cute and adorable!”

  “You must mean gross and annoying like a child which you are, my wife was many things but not as argumentative as you are.”

  “But you have been so o me.”

  “Because you appeared at my doorstep like a lost puppy, and if a child like you kept walking around Elpída alone, a crazy child-loving old ninja dy may have kidnapped you. So, in summation, yross and you never had or will ever have a ce with me, and besides my wife was enough for me in this lifetime.”

  “You a rude cruel man, I see how your son ended up su undisciplined brat,”

  Beside Elia, I give her a smirk and say, “Ehh, looks like someone is ag childish.”

  Grabbing me by the neck, Elia says, “Shut uppppp!”

  Ivana across from us says, “You know if we pare Iancu to how Avram was at that age, I wouldn’t call him undiscipli all.”

  Seeing my father cm up, I ask, “What do you mean?”

  “Back when your father was younger, he was a real rebellious child, burning down buildings, pig fights with gangs, he even paihe queen's face ba Blestemate. He was arrested about 10,000 times.”

  “Ivana, I need you to be quiet!”

  Ivana then shapes her head into a tiny model of my father and says, “This is what he looked like in his childhood.”

  Giggling Elia says, “Who dresses like that!”

  “I would even go that far!”

  “Hey, you two stop ughing at me.”

  Laughing, Ivana says, “And he would always say the same thing; I am going to build a robot. Really a robot, we all know instead of building a useless war mae, adding meical parts to the human body is the best way to go about things.”

  Ghehe and Wadim nod their heads in approval, but as they do me, Elia and my father say, “Not a ce.”

  Elia says, “Instead of destroying the pure human body, we should aim to create meical panions.”

  “The human body even with additions is still too limited we must make greater beings instead.”

  My father says, “Be ho you have all dreams about riding in robots throughout the heavens.”

  Wadim says, “Grow up boss. The art of crafting golems was lost millennia ago, and you want to make something eveer than that a robot, stop dreaming.”

  Ghehe says, “Unlike robots, adding meical parts to the human body be used for tless medical procedures, it will be all of us, unlike your nonsensical dream.”

  My father says, “Are the employees rebelling against the boss?”

  Ivana says, “The employees are trying to enlighten the boss to ge his foolish ways before it is too te.”

  Elia says, “Then it seems we must all discuss this until you see the error of your ways.”

  Wadim says, “You might be a scary little girl, but we won’t budge on this.”

  “I was right to verbally abuse you idiots.”

  Ghehe says, “Say whatever you want Iancu I won’t ge my mind.”

  My father says, “Until one side surrenders!!!”

  Ivana says, “Non shall leave this room!!!”

  For the rest of the night with everyone in the room we just talked, for the first time in years, and the happiness I felt that day was something I thought I had lost.

  -Break-

  Waking up, I stand up ahat everyone is colpsed around me. So, I quietly make my way to the door, but I hear, “Iancu where are you going?”

  Turning around I see my dad is up and fag me, so I say, “What do you care?”

  “What do you mean what do I care, you ‘re my so you do you really think you just leave without telling me where yoing?”

  Feeling my heartbeat fast, I say, “PISS OFF FUCKER!” Then run away.

  Chasing after me my father says, “Where are you going?”

  Φ Staring at the father and son, whilst I pretend to sleep a sihought runs through my mind; how cute!

  Name: Aized Jellyfish

  Height: 20cm to 300cm

  Type: Omnivore

  Description: An animal that looks almost identical to a jellyfish. It is capable of growing when given suffit water, and any non-living thing within it will not ge in state.

  Fact: It finds fast disgusting, so it will usually ignore women when hunting.