Too Many Diversions

“Xander,” called his father, “come over here.”

Xander looked directly at his father. He did not want to give away the trick by looking to the bushes where Galen was hiding. He walked through the maze of tables where grownups got together and tried their best to bore each other.

“Hi dad, I was just playing with Galen.”

“Did you forget bout the pre-nuptial meeting I told you to be ready for?”

Oh no, he was supposed to look up that word and then be ready for something.

“Well sweetie,” said his mother. She walked over to Xander and straightened his hair out. “Didn’t you want to look nice for whoever we decide you’re going to marry?”

“Apparently, our son forgot about the meeting,” said his father.

“Xander,” said his mother before she just finished with a sigh.

“Son, put down those balls.”

Xander had forgotten all about this stupid meeting and now his mother was going to try and get him promised to be married. He needed to go somewhere. First he needed to get rid of the balls before he got into trouble.

“Blue,” he said.

The red ball flew over to the table with Galen’s parents. Oh no, the trick.

“Uh, yellow,” said Xander.

The blue ball flew over to the other table.

“Xander, what is going on?”

Xander’s mother stood up and knocker her chair over. Parents started coming around and looking at him.

Adults were making all kinds of noises. Galen’s parents were coming over.

“Halt,” cried the Mayor. The old man stoked his beard as all the balls flew down. The mayor ran over and touched the hair of Xander. “He is not using the balls. Who is using the power?”

“Um, we were just playing a trick,” said Galen. She looked down at her feet.

“Well,” said the Mayor.

“It was my idea,” said Xander. He could not let Galen get in trouble. “She just wanted to tell me first and I thought,”

“Enough,” interrupted his father.

“Different powers,” said the Mayor while he touched both Xander’s and Galen’s hair. “Unrelated, compatible, and what’s this?”. The mayor furrowed his brow. “Wow, this union has a future to lead to greatness.”

The mayor turned to all of the parents, “we have our first approved union upon completed schooling.”

All of the parents started cheering. Xander’s dad put his arm around Xander. Xander’s mom hugged him. Galen’s parents ran over and hugged her. Her mom was crying. Xander and Galen looked at each other and wondered what just happened.