Charming Puzzle of Reunification

He looked over to the tall curtains on his back wall, and saw them sway in the wind. He took a sip of his coffee as he stood in front of the window, looking out at his back yard. His wife was outside with their daughter, who must have just gotten home from school.

He could see them through the leaves of the tree that hung over the fence that separated his yard from the house next door. Their voices carried on the wind as he watched them walk around the grassy patch that was bound by the crown of trees. He smiled as he listened to their conversation.

"So how was school?" His wife asked their daughter.

"It's okay." Their daughter answered. "Same old stuff." She raised her hand in front of her mouth and yawned. "I'm pretty tired today though." She had long, dark hair pulled back into a high ponytail that swayed with her head as she walked. "I think I'm gonna skip homework to get some rest." She laughed as she looked back at her mother.

"That's probably a good idea," Her mother said with a smile. "Are you sure you don't want me to stay home with you tonight? Your father is going to be working late again tomorrow night."

Their daughter stopped walking and turned to face her mother while they continued walking towards their house. "No, it's okay mom. Dad said he'd try and make it home a little early tonight, so we'll spend some time together before bed." She said with a big smile on her face that made her look even more like her father than she usually does.

"Well... Okay then," Her mother laughed again, "Well if you're sure then I guess I'll get started on dinner."

The man finally turned away from the window and went over to his desk where his laptop sat open, starting him out on his workday. Just as he finished getting situated and ready to start writing, there was a knock at his office door. He leaned back in his chair and called for whoever it was to enter as he continued to look down at his screen, typing away at whatever it was he needed to write about this week for work. A few seconds after hearing feet shuffling across the carpet in front of him across from him at his desk, he heard another voice call out softly from behind him.

"Dad... Dinner's ready."

The man looked up from his screen and turned around in his seat towards where he heard their daughter's voice coming from behind him when she spoke again.

"Dad?" She repeated quietly as she stepped closer to him while he looked up to see her standing beside him behind his seat, looking down at him while holding two plates full of food in both hands between them near her chest area.

"Oh!" The man exclaimed as he sat straight up in surprise at seeing their daughter there standing beside him when their eyes met up with each other's. Her eyes opened wide as they looked down towards the floor nervously while they shifted back and forth between each other several times before she finally spoke up again with a soft voice and stuttering almost unintelligibly one word at a time, barely above a whisper saying: "S-s-so... D-d-dinner..." As she held both plates out towards him between them while still looking down at the floor between them both while talking to him quietly without making eye contact with him again yet again until she finally stopped talking altogether and waited for him to take one or both of the plates from her hands without saying anything further than what she had just spoke so far either way.

The man picked one of the plates up off of her hand gently and set it on top of an empty space left over on top of one pile of books on top of another pile of books that were all stacked up neatly on top of each other on top of one corner of his desk closest to them both so that it would be easier for her to set down hers when she decides what it is that she wants to do instead as he replied: "Thank you sweetheart," while smiling warmly back at their daughter once again before asking: "And what would you like?"

Their daughter finally lifted up her head slowly off of looking at the floor between them and out towards where she remembers having set down both plates earlier when they were only meant for herself alone until now when suddenly there was someone else standing next to her who needed something else now too all for themselves now too being here with them now too now too now too now too all by themselves all by themselves all together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together just like this together... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And... And.. AND! She finally blurted out looking back down at the floor again right after thinking about what it is that she wanted next quickly before any more unwanted thoughts popped into her head while thinking about what it is that she wanted next after already thinking enough about what it is that she wanted first before thinking about what it is that she wanted next right after thinking about what it is that she wanted first right after thinking about what it is that she wanted first right after thinking about what it is that she wanted first right after thinking about what it is that she wanted first right after thinking about what it is that she wanted first right after thinking about what it is that she wanted first right after thinking about what it is that he wanted first right after thinking about what it is that he wanted first right after thinking about what it is that he wanted first right after thinking about what thing he wanted first right after thinking about what thing he wanted first right after thinking about what thing he wanted first right after thinking about how much money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money moneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoney