ABIGAIL
"How old are you?" my mother asks Ezra when she has come out of the shock.
I frown at her as she didn't even bother to greet him first before starting her interrogation, Ezra also seems surprised and looks at me for a brief moment before answering my mother:
"Twenty-one years old, Mrs. Arlington," he responds politely, and my mother tilts her head to the side with curiosity.
My father seems as confused with her attitude as we all are, and he looks from her to Ezra and then to me, clearly wondering, as I am, what is going on inside my mother's head right now; and in an attempt to ease the tension in the air, he stretches his hands towards Ezra to receive the wine and flowers from him, and says in a friendly tone:
"My name is Thomas, I am Abby's father, welcome to
