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“I am being serious,” Zyod said, leaning forward. “Think about it. Good girls get married. She wants to settle down and have kids and all that jazz. That is what your mom means when she says she wants you to find a good girl. She wants you to put down some roots and have a family. One day.”
“Get married?” I said.
The thought had never crossed my mind. I’d attended weddings. I’d been asked to help a friend with his divorce too. Marriage was something other people did, not me.
“I’m not sure I’m cool with that,” I said.
“Are you cool with losing your inheritance?” Zyod said. “Because I wouldn’t be. Plus, you don’t need to marry her right away. Just announce the engagement party.”
I waved my hands.
“We’re getting way ahead of ourselves,” I said. “I mean, I don’t even have a girl I could ask to marry me yet. Let’s focus on that first.”
“You’ve got plenty of girls to ask. Most of them would say yes.”
A thought struck me and I wondered why it hadn’t hit me before.
“I could ask Ettana,” I said. “She brushes up nicely.”
“And what happens when she opens her mouth?” Zyod said.
He had me there. She might look good but she wasn’t exactly the best conversationalist in the world.
“I could get her to take lessons to speak properly,” I said.
Ettana stepped into view through the open sliding door that led into the bedroom. She was naked from her shower and hadn’t completely dried herself off.
Zyod’s mouth fell open.
“You’ve got a girlfriend,” I reminded him.
“So?” Zyod said. “It doesn’t hurt to look, does it?”
I smacked him on the arm.
“Focus!” I said.
Zyod tried to but his eyes kept drifting over to Ettana.
She turned and noticed him staring at her.
“Oh,” she said.
Instead of feeling embarrassed and covering herself up, she waved.
“Hi Zyod,” she said.
“Hi yourself,” Zyod said with his best smile.
I recognized that smile. He’d flashed it at half the women in the city over the years.
“Shut the door for us, would you, Ettana?” I said. “Zyod needs to concentrate.”
“Sure thing,” Ettana said.
She glanced at us through the gap as she drew it shut.
“Now why did you have to do something like that and ruin my fun?” Zyod said.
