No, no, everything is fine. [After all these years it was so easy to recognize that look on his dad’s face, that tone in his voice.] Nothing bad’s happened. It’s, uh… kinda the opposite.
The opposite? [Poor guy, it takes him a moment to catch on after being rattled like that.] Ulric, maybe you’d better tell me everything. From the beginning.
I, uh. [Toying with his piercing, he looks just as nervous as he feels.] I might have met someone.
… Met someone? [In his unease, he keeps repeating things] Does that mean what I think it does? [And am seriously hoping it doesn’t]
Jack Maple 