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The school hall is crowded with parents. Carlotta approaches the back door to it and turns back to Teja and Demeter.

"Remember, you're my aunt and uncle Fernandez from Spain, on my mother's side so not really communicating with my grandmother and father, who are also here. Have you chosen first names?"

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Carlotta dashes out of the back door after them.

"Please don't go!"

Mr Brown looks between the three.

"No, Carlotta is right, please don't leave. It will attract attention." He moves back towards the hall. "I am very disappointed with you for telling lies." he adds to Carlotta, with a stern look. "Go back to your class."

Carlotta shoots a worried look at Demeter and Teja, then does as she's told.

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"Don't blame her for our lies. We worry about her so much and as her friends we wished to attend but this was the only way we could find it. It was our idea and blaming her will only make her worry more. Let tonight be a good night and we will sit elsewhere so you don't have to suffer."

Her voice is sad as she strives to make things easier in this hard position and takes Teja's hand, leading him to sit at some open seats near the back. Though she did say quietly,

"I have been estranged from my family for a long time because they made a choice for my daughter without asking her or me. Think carefully on what you want your daughter to learn from you."

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"Do not try and force her to be less than she is; for all that she is, together, is a bright and brilliant thing," Teja quietly says to the father, in parting.

Then, with an attempt at levity, he says, "But I must follow my lady; you know how it is!" before he walks with Demeter to wherever she wants him to be.

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"You have no right to tell me how to raise my daughter." Mr Brown says quietly but firmly, sitting down with a now dowdily dressed Mrs Brown.

Carlotta performs somewhat better in this half of the play, but shoots nervous glances over at both parties.

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Throughout the rest of the performance, Demeter holds Teja's hand quite tightly, its so hard not to worry.

She's seen how badly things can go wrong and the way he used right just hurts. Its important to be able to listen and learn and clearly they don't wish to.

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Teja holds on to her hand, trying to convey calm. He will tell her, later, what Carlotta's father has said; it was not all bad, as he understood it. The man was unsettled, and of a small mind -- but he loves his daughter, and that is the one thing that counts.

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At the end of the play, Carlotta carefully sees her grandmother and father off, though not before getting a stern private lecture from both of them. Then she comes back through the hall to Teja and Demeter.

"I'm awfully sorry." she says. "I should have been more careful to explain things to you both instead of expecting people to follow my web of lies. It means a lot to me that you came, really it does."

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Demeter gives her another hug, she at least knows where she is with those,

"Don't apologize, I'm glad we were able to come and sorry that we caused trouble. Its clear your father loves you, but I think he's still learning how to be a father. Next time if there is a next time, we'll just keep things simple. You were wonderful, its clear to see how much you thrive on stage."

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"You did well indeed," Teja says. "The play was actually funny at times! Indeed, as Demeter said, you father loves you -- he is confused, out of his depth, and clings to talk of entitlement and sneer out of his fears, but he would be sensible man."

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Carlotta cringes.

"Thank you, but the last time I gave a performance that badly was when I was suffering from food poisoning." She hugs Demeter anyway.

"Of course father loves me! Why ever would you think he didn't?"

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"You might have been doing badly but you still were comfortable up there. That's something that can't be taught, how to make things work even when your mind isn't on the performance."

Teja really brought up the other point and Demeter gives him a bit of a look,

"I never doubted it at all, I think he just is figuring out how to be a good father to you. At this point he only has your grandmother's advice to rely on and she means well but she doesn't seem to know you."

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"He is a good man, at heart," Teja says, "and you can trust the choices he makes for you; but your grandmother seems afraid of unseemly connection much more than he is; she seems to thin about propriety more than about people. Do you know who her parents were?"

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"I'm not sure." Carlotta says to Teja. "But I know they were borderline aristocracy."

Looking at them both. "Is it okay if I take you back, I have to go to bed?"

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"Of course, you must be tired."

Then she pulls from her sleeves a small package,

"Here, a loaf of cinnamon bread to share among your cast."

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"And I need a potion; my brains are getting cold," Teja says, rubbing the short hair at the nape of his neck. "It was good to see you in your world, Carlotta, and to put faces to all the names you mention."