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Basic_Worldliness192 t1_j9t1ckp wrote

The Surprise

Walking up the steps, my cane clacks against the marble.

“Sir you can’t be up there!” One of those orderly’s yell at me from down. I shake my head and approach the throne, basking in its grandeur. Cast from gold and adorned with every kind of gem.

“I remember when the pope sat right here, Timmy.” I pat the back of the throne. Then I hear that blasted whirring again. “Are you even listening or are you to busy playing with your ‘rone.”

“It isn’t a rone grampa it’s a drone.” He corrected, rolling his eyes as the drone flies closer to me. I wave it away.

“Whatever…you kids and your electricity…I swear, when I was a kid, the only electricity we had was from eels and we liked it that way.” Timmy looks up at me and raises an eyebrow as I sit down in the throne.

“When we got here you said that you would give me a surprise.” I scoff at Timmy’s response and my eyes catch the chromatic lights dancing down from the stained glass. I point up at them. Two gargantuan marble pillars stand on either side of the entrance, framing a stained-glass mural.

“Sir, you can’t sit there.” The guard rounds the corner and gasps quickly bowing to me. “I didn’t realize it was you, my liege.”

“That mural is our history, the bloodshed to the creation of this wonder; my cathedral D’amore.”

“You built this?” He asked. I smile softly as I gently take the phone from his hands.

“What I want to give you, is everything I never had, as well as everything I ever built.” I hug him tight, and a tear slides down my cheek. One unlucky complication robbed me my future.

“I love you, Timmy.”

It won’t take his.

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