• Mr. Theo Tide was a funny little man that always knew how to work with people. He was a nice man but had a cruel wife, Elise, who he loved to please. She would do a big fat nothing for him, and he would absolutely love to do ANYTHING for her. Elise was an important company scientist from the Chinese Empire so Elise would demand that he call her madam, and he was perfectly all right with that. His mother, Morgan, would scold him for marrying the ‘madam’. Then Morgan got the pox and Theo decided to visit his mother.

    “That evil woman you married, do you truly love her?” emphasized Morgan.

    “Yes, mother! I would do anything for her. I have given my whole self to my wife! Why would you be so inconsiderate?!?!” Theo said in shock.

    “I don’t approve of her.”

    “Mother!”

    “Just ask yourself this: Does she truly love you?”

    Theo opened his eyes wide with shock, raised his eyebrows, and then made a ‘humph!’ sound and walked out of the house, not believing his ears. He decided to prove his mother wrong. Theo rode home on Chestnut, his horse, and told the conversation to Elise.

    “Elise, I meant Madam, you love me, right?” Expected Theo

    “Do not call me Elise!” Elise shouted and gave Theo a slap at the face “Why did I marry you?”

    “I was wondering if we could raise a child together, Madam.”

    “No, you baffling fool! I absolutely wont create a child with your hideous genes!”

    “Then maybe a pet?”

    “If it is a pennies cost. We don’t have enough money for all of your wants!”

    “Yes! Oh yes, Eli-- Madam! I will get a pet for us! I’ll prove it all to mother!”

    “Now I must go pick out a dress for Patyr and Sabrina’s wedding party.”

    “May I come to their celebration?”

    “No! I do not want my company friends seeing you”