1.8: The New Year
Mie: Are you dating me, or my parents?
Mick: What? What do you mean?!
Mie: You keep taking there side, you never see my side. Half the time my dad is being totally unreasonable. Our first ‘official’ date, what he do. He sat in the movie theater behind us and then sat at the table between us when we went to eat after. And you never said a word.
Mick: Your dad lost his oldest son, he’s just trying to protect his only daughter.
Mie: I know what my dad lost okay! I lost a brother. I loved Michael I too, but I don’t let that influence how I love Michael 2 or how I live my life. I’m not going to live my life scared because my brother died, because everyone dies. Michael just went sooner than we all thought and it hurt, it hurt for a long time. And for a long time, I was what they wanted me to be, there perfectly behaved little girl. I did what I was told, when I was told. I thought that would make them happy, but it never did and it never made me happy. You made me happy, or at least you did at first. But ever since we’ve been dating with dad’s okay, under dad’s rules, it’s like we’ve lost that magic, because your first and last concern is how he feels about you, not how I feel about you.
Mick: I’m sorry Mie, I’m scared okay. I never felt like this about a girl before. I’m not Harold okay, I don’t know how to—
Mie: I don’t want Harold.
Mick: But you expect that ‘Harold confidence’. Everyone does because I’m his little brother. But none of his girls matter to him. You’re special to me. I want us to work, the right way, not behind your dad’s back.
Mie: I want that too. But I want us, to be about us, not my parents.
Mick: Can’t we find a happy medium, satisfying your parents without destroying us?
Mie: That’s what I want. But if they won’t be fair, we’ve got to make a stand. And if we do, I need you on my side.
Mick: That’s the only place I want to be, okay.
Mie: Okay, bye.
Mick: Bye Mie.
(After sharing a quick kiss, Mick departed and Mie went in the house.)
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