The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 295

ANDREW'S POV:

I thought about this for a moment. Amelia and I argued about things regularly. We argued about butter quantities in baking, we argued about the correct way to load the dishwasher and a lot more which were all arguments in which both of us believed we were correct.

A formal debate was different. In a formal debate you were assigned your position by the draw of a lot and not by what you actually believed. Which meant one of us was going to have to argue for something we did not believe.

I made notes. I organized the notes. I told Dad I wanted to practice the structure with him and he said yes and we did it at the kitchen table on a Tuesday evening and he asked the questions that were slightly to the side of what I expected, which forced me to think rather than recite.

The part about protecting the minority was something I arrived at in that session. Dad had asked, "What happens when the majority of people feel that something is right but it is not?" and I had said that was exactly the problem, feelings were not reliable because they depended on who was having them, and Dad had said, "So who does a rule protect that feelings cannot?" and I had said the person whose feelings the majority disagrees with. And Dad had said, "Say that again, more clearly," and I had and it became the strongest part of my case.

"You think well when you are pushed," Dad said.

"I think well when the question is hard enough to require it," I said then I went to find Amelia.

* * * * * * *

She was in the corridor outside the art room with her friend Becca, and she saw me coming and said, immediately, "I know. We are on opposite sides."

"I signed up for affirmative," I said.

"I know," she said. "I saw the list. I signed up before you did."

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