But, okay, how about this? Tell them the cruise is actually just stopping temporarily, and you're expected to stay in town and return to the ship once it gets going again. That solves any issue of you having to return with them.
Besides that, tell them you need time to get to know them again. You can even bring along a buddy if you want. They wanted to meet me anyway, right? Have someone along who can help defuse the situation if you need to.
In the meantime, make sure Nettle knows you aren't planning on heading back with them. The cruise will buy us some time to figure out exactly how to make that work out, but you're turning eighteen in a year anyway, so you should be able to choose where you're going to live pretty soon anyhow. It wouldn't be strange at all for you to decide to live in Port Manteau with Nettle permanently.
Re: day 253
But, okay, how about this? Tell them the cruise is actually just stopping temporarily, and you're expected to stay in town and return to the ship once it gets going again. That solves any issue of you having to return with them.
Besides that, tell them you need time to get to know them again. You can even bring along a buddy if you want. They wanted to meet me anyway, right? Have someone along who can help defuse the situation if you need to.
In the meantime, make sure Nettle knows you aren't planning on heading back with them. The cruise will buy us some time to figure out exactly how to make that work out, but you're turning eighteen in a year anyway, so you should be able to choose where you're going to live pretty soon anyhow. It wouldn't be strange at all for you to decide to live in Port Manteau with Nettle permanently.