>>5220999>>5221040"Go take a chill pill. Or do a line or something." You say derisively as you walk to the door, showing absolutely no regard or fear of the man in the door. The apparition steps back, ostensibly to give you room as you take hold of the door yourself. "If you actually want to protect your daughter and not control her, this isn't the way." You add.
"Don't you talk-" The apparition begins, before you slam the door in its face, apparently actually hitting it in the face by the sound of the thud, followed shortly afterward by the sound of a body hitting the floor.
You sigh and turn back to Holly after a moment as the door doesn't burst back open immediately to an enraged business man and go sit beside her again...
At which point the door bursts open again.
"What have I told you about bringing strangers here, Sophie?" The apparition shouts. "Especially boys?"
"Holy crap, did this actually happen or is this a phobia of yours?" You ask incredulously.
"Ph-phobia." Holly replies. "F-father didn't like me having friends outside of the girls' school I went to." She says. "He didn't like me talking to boys on the bus either, so he started getting the chauffeur to drive me and pick me up. I was never allowed to go anywhere unchaperoned..." She sniffs. "The last week or so... it's the most freedom I've ever had." She confesses. "And you're the first boy I've ever gotten to know." She adds. "And I know you're with Fie but..."
You go close the door again, then wedge a chair under the handle, before returning to sit by Holly as she valiantly tries to maintain her composure as the walls close in around the both of you, before she's crying, great heaving sobs as her brave face shatters like glass and the classically rich bedroom turns to a stereotypically dank, stone dungeon and chains form around her wrists and ankles.
>Give her a hug.>Say something.>Try and carry her away someplace else. (Risky.)>Other 