[CL] Confused!Flack
[The twins are NPCs, notso_average used with permission. Set in isyours_tokeep.]
“God, Dad.”
There was an identical pair of groans from the backseat of the Flack family car, and Flack glanced at his twin daughters through the rearview mirror, look on his face pure confusion. Both girls were buried on their cell phones, texting people who were not present, and Lindsay just gave him a sympathetic look as he directed his eyes back to the road.
“What? What’d I say?”
“Brian Valentine, Dad?” Jessie sighed, and Flack could practically feel the skeptical look boring into his shoulders. “Please. He’s not even that cute.” Brian Valentine was the current tween craze on the music scene, according to all news reports, yet Flack was starting to feel that he was making a rather large faux pax.
“Whadaya talkin’ about?” Flack sighed. “You two used to be obsessed with him-you had posters all over the place.”
“Yeah-when we were like, ten.” Which clearly made a difference as now they were twelve. This time it was Nicole’s pointed stare that he was catching in the driver’s side mirror. “Come on, Dad. You gotta keep up.” That was more teasing than insulted, and he snorted slightly before responding.
“So what happened, huh? What changed between then and now?”
There was the simultaneous ‘I dunno’ from the two girls in the back seat, and Lindsay reached over, before patting the side of his leg lightly. “There almost teenage girls. That’s all you need to know.”
Flack sighed slightly, before turning his eyes back to the road and continuing the slow drive to the New Jersey Shore. “Yeah, and why doesn’t that make me feel any better?”
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“God, Dad.”
There was an identical pair of groans from the backseat of the Flack family car, and Flack glanced at his twin daughters through the rearview mirror, look on his face pure confusion. Both girls were buried on their cell phones, texting people who were not present, and Lindsay just gave him a sympathetic look as he directed his eyes back to the road.
“What? What’d I say?”
“Brian Valentine, Dad?” Jessie sighed, and Flack could practically feel the skeptical look boring into his shoulders. “Please. He’s not even that cute.” Brian Valentine was the current tween craze on the music scene, according to all news reports, yet Flack was starting to feel that he was making a rather large faux pax.
“Whadaya talkin’ about?” Flack sighed. “You two used to be obsessed with him-you had posters all over the place.”
“Yeah-when we were like, ten.” Which clearly made a difference as now they were twelve. This time it was Nicole’s pointed stare that he was catching in the driver’s side mirror. “Come on, Dad. You gotta keep up.” That was more teasing than insulted, and he snorted slightly before responding.
“So what happened, huh? What changed between then and now?”
There was the simultaneous ‘I dunno’ from the two girls in the back seat, and Lindsay reached over, before patting the side of his leg lightly. “There almost teenage girls. That’s all you need to know.”
Flack sighed slightly, before turning his eyes back to the road and continuing the slow drive to the New Jersey Shore. “Yeah, and why doesn’t that make me feel any better?”
271 words