vanilla and chocolate chip mint with caramel
Story: Timeless { backstory | index }
Title: The Extension
Rating: G/PG
Challenge: Vanilla #1: shopping, Chocolate Chip Mint #20: uncomfortable
Toppings/Extras: caramel
Wordcount: 225
Summary: Trevor Ashdown never lets his friends come over.
Notes: So this was a weird idea I had at work. Also: Isobel’s (littlest sister) name has changed to Ella. No idea why, but it feels right.
They were mooching around at the shopping centre when Trevor’s friend Cade spilled milkshake down the front of his shirt. The words that next came out of his mouth pretty much gave Trevor a minor heart attack.
“Shit! Can I come ‘round yours to clean up? It’s close, right?”
The world fell apart.
No! That must never, ever happen! Ella and her horde of squeaky friends will be giving a rousing-and by ‘rousing’ I mean ‘tuneless’-rendition of “Mr Sandman” around the dinner table... Libby will be pretending her pens are people again... Piper will be making a protest banner about owl conservation... Lou will be hoovering the ceiling... Mum will be wandering around in her knickers and a vest... and Dad! Dad will be singing “Shang-a-Lang” by the Bay City Rollers into a spoon! Nooooo!
Of course, he couldn’t exactly say any of this at the risk of sounding insane.
“Nah, sorry,” he muttered. “We’re having an extension put in. Builders ‘n stuff.”
As one, all of the five boys huddled on the bench flicked hair from their eyes, hands stuffed deep into the pockets of their hoodies. They looked like copies of each other apart from the colours of their hoodies and hair. It was that kind of a phase.
“OK,” Cade sighed. “Guess I’ll have to go to the bathroom then.”