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“That reminds me…what was all the secrecy of today about?” he interrupted, now laying back on the couch in the same damn position I had tried to get him up from.
“Wolfgang, you are only making me lose more sleep. The faster you go, the faster I go.”
“I won’t bother you. Do your work. I’ll lie here so quietly you won’t even realize I’m in the room.”
That was not possible. But I didn’t want to keep arguing with him. I moved my desk, opening my laptop…
“You should have seen my father’s face when he saw I’d been given the Silver Eagle Medal of Courage.”
I stared at him. What happened to my not knowing he was here? “Wolfgang.”
“I know that it’s not that big to you. You’ve won all sorts of medals. In fact, your family wouldn’t be surprised, would they?” he questioned, looking at me all doe-eyed.
God, please help me get rid of this kid.
“My father was shocked. When I failed to become a guard…the first ever in our family to fail…they were so embarrassed…well, my mother was. My father, he looked at me as if…he didn’t even have a hope, in the beginning, to be disappointed. He always said, after all, ‘Wolfgang, you are too soft. Wolfgang, where is your backbone? Wolfgang…are you even a man?’” He scoffed, running his hand through his hair.
And I wanted to say I was not his therapist. “Note to self, never allow you to drink near the royal family,” I muttered as I typed.
“I already know that!” he exclaimed.
“Congratulations. You proved it,” I said lowly. “You saved the queen once. I’m sure your parents were proud.”
“Oh, yes.” He laughed bitterly. “My mother told all her friends. Even my father looked at me with a bit of…pride. It lasted for about ten minutes before he told me to apply to become part of the Queen’s Guard.”
I looked away from the computer screen to look at him as he stared up at the ceiling, a frown on his face.
“I saved the queen, and still at the end of the day, they said that I needed to take over for Thelma, the Bear… Since the king and queen like me, it would be easier just to be reassigned. And I stood there, shocked. Thelma is called the Bear for a reason! Are they insane?” he snapped. “They kept pushing me to ask to be reassigned! They said, what does it look like for me, a Von Wolfgang, to be running around a pregnant woman all day…”
And for some reason, I found it funny.
His head whipped over to me. “Are you laughing at me? You’re laughing?”
“Slightly…more so on the thought of you going against Thelma.”
“She would destroy me, right?”
“Instantly and without mercy.”
Thelma had worked her whole life for this moment, just as much as he had; she was not just going to roll to the side. Nor should she have to. She was a good guard.
“Must you always be so blunt?”
“Yes.”
He frowned. “You are not making me feel better.”
“That is not my job,” I replied but still didn’t like seeing him like this.
Moody. He was always filled with emotion and excited even when he was upset. He still didn’t get depressed in front of anyone else.
“Wolfgang, you are not fit to be a guard. That is all right. You are a good assistant. Truthfully, too good. No one else would have been able to do what you did. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.”
“What is your weakness?”
I paused…I really wasn’t going to be able to submit this report.
“Your family must always be very proud of you, so you don’t understand—”
