"Their son was formally enrolled at my school. Our school, I suppose," He gestured between himself and the teenagers, "And was a monster in ways words are not enough to describe. He bullied not only the twins but nearly everyone else who dared exist in his presence. He was a menace, but of course never faced any consequences, because his parents donated to the school, and nobody dared to risk the income."
Daizi made a sign to ward against evil, "The terribly racist things he said about Dark, I can't even repeat them, the slurs he used. And not just racial ones, he would use homophobic slurs, too, if he deemed it fitting, it was horrendous. Even before we began to foster the twins, Dark would come home with stories--we never particularly liked the name Logan, but if we had, it would have been instantly crossed off the list--and so after the incidents with our boys became too much to sit idly about, we held a meeting with his parents, and they actually accused Dark, and the rest of the teachers, of being the problem. And Mr. Leeds shamed my degree, calling it 'impractical,' and Mrs. Leeds kept accusing us of being 'jealous' since 'they' had money and 'we' did not, which..." She waved her hand in a loose circle, indicating their home, "I think really just shows the presumptions they make about others. And they claimed they couldn't possibly be at all racist since they 'work with Middle Easterners' as if that absolves them of anything." She huffed, clearly having not at all forgiven a word the Leeds had said during their meeting.
"Ultimately," Dark said, hoping to not work his wife up too far, "they decided to withdraw their son from the school and enroll him elsewhere."
"And then they threatened Dark's job! They said they were withdrawing their donation and saying Dark was the reason why, and expressly said it was because even if he could not be fired, they hoped it would at least damage his career! Then, as one final blow, Celia Leeds handed me the buisness card to her plastic surgeon and told me he can fix even the 'worst' of cases. They are an absolute family of soulless creatures. It was a good thing I was a lot less pregnant, then, because I can only imagine the cruel remarks they would have made." Dark rubbed her shoulder as she took a frustrated sip of her drink--and in that moment dearly, dearly missed being able to drink wine--and at last she concluded with, "I do not like to gossip, and I do not consider myself a gossip, but that family deserves to be dragged through the mud."
