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“I want to study your uncle but he’s always working,” I said. “We need to spend more time around him. That way, I can get information on adult Titans too.”
“He won’t let you in his office. Not when he’s working.”
“You know, sometimes people surprise us,” I said.
“Not everybody,” Cleb said. “Some people are always the same.”
“I want you to do me a favor tonight,” I said.
I felt like our relationship had developed to the point where I could ask for favors.
“What?” he said.
“When we sit down and have dinner tonight, I want you to ask your uncle to join us tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow? What are we doing tomorrow?”
“I haven’t decided yet. It depends on whether or not you ask your uncle to come with us.”
“He won’t go if he doesn’t know what it is.”
“You said he wouldn’t agree anyway,” I said.
“He won’t. But he definitely won’t go if he doesn’t know what we’ll do.”
“So you’re saying there’s a chance he will come with us,” I said.
Cleb’s eyes moved to the side in thought.
“I guess so,” he said.
“Then it’s not impossible,” I said. “I bet if you ask him to go with us, he’ll say yes.”
Cleb thought for a moment, chewing on his bottom lip as if running through the situation and imagining the different outcomes.
“I don’t think so,” he said.
“Have you asked him before?” I said.
“He’s always busy with work.”
“So maybe he’s only busy because no one ever asks him to do something else. Did you ever think of that?”
Cleb shook his head.
“Would you like for him to join us tomorrow?” I said.
Cleb nodded.
“Then how will he know that if we don’t ask him?”
Cleb sighed.
“So?” I said. “Will you ask him?”
“All right. But he’s going to say no.”
The dinner was a high-class affair with expensive dinnerware. If I knew it was going to be a special event, I would have dressed up.
