Mom and Dad are sitting with a serious expression on their faces.
The atmosphere is tense.
Mom and Dad look at me and their expressions soften a bit, it seems like my acting work.
Mia and I sit down across the table from them while keeping my head down.
"Edmund, why are you keeping your head down?"
I respond softly
"Because you and Dad are mad at me"
"Do you know why we are mad at you?"
"Because I come home late"
Dad responds.
"Yes that's right"
"So why are you late"
"I was distracted"
"Distracted?"
"Why were you distracted?"
I put Loki on the table
"Because of this"
"It was in a cardboard box with "Adopt Me" written on it"
"And it was so cute so I got distracted"
Calling this ugly cat "Cute" put a bad taste in my mouth.
To be honest this is a pretty terrible excuse but it's better than "A talking cat that claims to be a god tried to threaten me if I don't play his game". At best, they'll think I am imagining things, at worst they will think I'm crazy or I met a creepy old man.
I'm 6 years old so it is possible that I got distracted by a "cute" cat so they might believe my excuse.
I make a sad face and start crying a little bit.
"I... I'm sorry"
"I've been a bad boy"
"Please don't punish me"
"Mom and Dad, please don't punish him, please"
Mia starts to tear up.
"Big brother already knows what he did wrong"
I start to cry crocodile tears.
Mom moves around the table to calm and comfort me and Mia.
She hugs me while bushing my head.
"Oohhh there there, don't cry, it will ruin your handsome and beautiful faces"
"So don't cry okay" she says while giving me a warm smile.
Mia and I stop crying and look at her.
"That said you'll still be punished"
Noooo! My plan failed.
Mia begins crying again
"But not as much as your Dad and I would have given you"
Mia immediately stops crying.
Never mind it worked! The plan worked!
While Edmund celebrated inside his mind, little did he know that his acting only worked on one of his parents.
His father Michael was able to tell that his son was acting and lying but he didn't intervene because he did the same thing when he was younger to see Edmund's mother Claire.
Michael assumed Edmund was seeing a girl and that the cat was a gift or an excuse as to why he was late or something.
He didn't question it, he was actually kind of proud and happy that his son did the exact same thing as him when he was younger.
But he was wrong Edmund wasn't late because he went to see a girl but because of Loki.
"You will wash the dishes for a week, spend more time training with your Grandpa or your Dad for a week and you will only have vegetable dishes for a week"
Mom says with a smug expression and tone.
"The last one shouldn't even be a punishment because I am the one who's cooking so it will taste amazing anyway even if it's something you don't like"
Yes! I celebrate in my mind.
I avoided getting banned from using the Internet.
I hoped I could've avoided more.
Like avoiding eating vegetable dishes for a week or avoiding more training but this is okay, you can't win everything I guess.
I sigh in disappointment.
"Huh, what was that?"
"You don't like my cooking?"
"So you want more punishment huh?"
Dad dramatically exclaimed.
"Huh, Edmund!"
"You don't like your Mom's cooking?!"
"Even though I love your Mom's food, you don't?!"
"Are you even truly my son?!"
"Are you a shapeshifter?!"
"No No No please don't!"
"I love your cooking Mom!"
"It's just a misunderstanding!"
"Good"
"Also Michael stop teasing Edmund… geez"
"Now that the problem is out of the way"
"I'm gonna go cook us dinner"
Mom walks to the kitchen, takes food from the fridge, and starts cooking.
After we finished eating, I played games for a bit and went to sleep with Mia.
Mom and Dad also allowed us to keep Loki.
This is the end of the Chapter