Author's Note: Hey guys, so here is a fun little idea I had about Ryan/Sophie bonding time, with a little bit of Seth thrown in. Enjoy, and please review! I Heart Kid Chino
Cookies, Movies, and Mermen
Friday night, 7:30pm
"SOPHIE ROSE COHEN, GET DOWN FROM THERE THIS INSTANT!"
Ryan was seriously regretting he and Seth's offer to look after Sophie while Kirsten and Sandy were away for the weekend.
"Of course Sophie decides only to muck up in the half-hour time span when Seth goes out to get groceries." Ryan mutters to no one in particular, standing in the Cohen kitchen, looking up to see Sophie, while feeling very sorry for himself all at the same time.
Sophie swung her head around to see Ryan standing there with his hands on his hips and a serious death stare printed across his face. If looks could kill…
Sophie tried her hardest to give Ryan the "poor little me" look she was oh so famous for, while also trying her very hard not to look guilty with one arm cradling the cookie jar, the other fishing inside, and the remnants of chocolate chips all over her face.
"But I'm hungry Ryannnn" Sophie whined, sitting up on the sky-high ledge that the cookie jar called home.
"Soph, I told you Seth will be home any minute now, kay? In fact I'll call him right now just for you, as long as you get down from there before you fall."
"Kay" Sophie replied, deciding that it was a fair enough deal. "I'm such a good climber, huh Ryan?"
Ryan glared warningly at the little blue eyed, golden haired girl.
"Okay, okay I'm coming"
"Just as persistent as Kirsten, but in the form of a four year-old." Ryan whispered under his breath. Sophie reached downward towards Ryan's big, strong arms that would rescue her from her latest adventure.
"Good girl" Ryan soothed while reaching up to the ledge to get little miss 'Mount Everest' down.
Ryan lowered Sophie gently to the ground and watched her run off towards the living room, no doubt to watch 'The Little Mermaid' once again, because according to Sophie, it was the best movie ever.
Ryan made his way over to the kitchen phone next to the fridge and plugged in the numbers to Seth's cell.
One ring, two rings…"Why hello Ryan my buddy, what up in the Cohen hizzy?" Seth asked, trying his best to sound as gangsta as he could.
"No, the question is, where's the food, Sophie is getting a little restless, and by 'a little', I mean a lot. Dude, come home, I need reinforcements… I can't handle a four year old mini-Kirsten on my own." Ryan spieled out.
"Woah… someone is in waaaay over their heads." Seth pointed out to Ryan.
"Yea thanks, just come home already… Sophie ain't the only one who's hungry."
"Okay I'm comin', see you soon."
'Click'
Ryan hung up the phone, starving to death and just plain pissed off.
"Wonder what Soph's watching…" Ryan wondered silently.
Ryan strolled over to the couch in the adjoining living room, and plonked down next to Sophie.
"Watching 'The Little Mermaid' again?"
"Yep"
Ryan watched the different emotions play out on little Sophie's face while she continued watching Ariel try and wiggle herself out of the giant clam that she was currently stuck in. Sophie was praying, hoping, wishing that Sebastian and Flounder would provide enough strength to help Ariel escape, already knowing that she eventually would, as she had seen it at least twenty times before.
"See Ryan, Ariel is a princess who is a mermaid, and she loves a man who is not a mermaid and who doesn't live underwater."
"I know Soph, ya told me yesterday," Ryan chuckled to himself, "but I think man mermaids are called mermen." Ryan corrected.
"Since when do you know that 'man mermaids are called mermen', Ryan? Cos it doesn't sound even remotely gay…" Seth sarcastically called out as he walked into the living room, hands full of groceries.
"What's gay?" Sophie questioned the boys.
Silence…
"Uh it's…it's, um…" Ryan stuttered.
"It means 'happy', sis." Seth provided Sophie with an answer, while avoiding an awkward conversation with his littlest sibling.
"Oh… yeah Ryan is pretty gay, then." Sophie smiled up at Ryan, proud of herself for 'complimenting' her big brother. But Ryan was too busy giving Seth probably the biggest death stare in history to notice his sister's angelic smile. Seth was trying his hardest to contain himself and not burst out laughing, while wearing a very smug, very 'I'm so proud of myself right now' look on his face.
"Yes Soph, he is, isn't he?.. Come on you two, try and drag yourself away from the mermen… dinner's here" Seth smiled cheekily at Ryan… This weekend was going to be so much fun.
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