The next day Mona sat by the window while Montag painted her potrait in the sunlit dining room. suddenly a loud knock interrupted their comfortable silence. a dark feeling rised up from her stomach but mona stood and smiled consolingly at her brother.
" I will be right back so stay here"
nodding cutely montag kept painting with almost robotic like movements. born an highly functioning autistic growing up montag had a few quirks but to Mona her brother was perfect.
opening the door she soon found the source of her anxiety. a portly man with blonde hair dressed in a police uniform studied mona slowly up and down " I need to speak with Mona Marlowe. Are you her?"
narrowing her golden eyes she stared at the man with suspicion.
" I am mona. what may be the problem officer? " her tone was curt surprising the older man. his daughter had said this girl was a wild nuisance but he didn't expect her to be so beautiful or cold. he had pictured a thug brat.
" my name is Donald hargrave. i heard there was an incident on Friday at school between my daughter and you and I would like to apologize for her behaviour, she really is a good girl but is too short tempered. would you be so kind as to apologize to her so we wont have anymore misunderstandings?"
Hearing the mans eloquent request she really wanted to agree to avoid further problems. however his words were almost reasonable but his tone was obviously laced with a threat. besides that he called that tramp a good girl!? montag had been sitting all by himself drawing when she decide to harass him calling him names and even spilling water on his sketch pad! if mona hadn't returned from the lunch line quickly who knew what else that tramp could have done?
after thinking of this monas tone turned even colder as she finally answered " I am not the one who needs to be apologized to. if your daughter agrees to publicly apologize to my brother, I will do the same for her." apologize to that sow for nothing? you wish!