First off, this chapter contains heavy Geoff/OC and not much Geoff/Bridgette. Please read the whole thing before you judge it as fangirl fantasy junk, because I just had to use this certain character for the role, and not a TD character. Kthnx.
Second of all, This is sort of an intro chapter for Geoff. I'll try to give the other character who are in this a chapter like this sooner or later, too. I don't want to reveal any couples yet, but almost everybody from the show is coupled up, except like three.
Two of the couples without Geoff is revealed in this chapter, but I'll keep it secret for now. You'll have to read to find out. And there's a hinty hint toward another TD charrie who will appear… Keep an eye out ;)
Okay, please enjoy, and leave a review if you may! I'd love to know what y'all think!
"Uh, yeah, I'll be sure to check out that caterer for you, dude," a blonde man said, talking into his cell phone as he walked out of his home office and into his kitchen. He checked the papers hanging on the side of the refrigerator, looking for the number to said caterer. "Yeah, I've heard good things about them, but I'll stop by tomorrow to check out the grub…" He nodded as the customer said a few more things, then added, "Okay, will do. I'll call you after I meet up with them… Yeah, you too." He snapped his phone shut, then tossed it on the counter and ran a hand through his hair, breathing a sigh of relief. That was the last call he had to make and he could finally call it a day.
To say Geoff Sanders had not changed much over the years would be an understatement. He was just about as youthful as he had been when he was sixteen, and it greatly affected his physical appearance. Instead of having the body of a man who was almost forty, he had the physique of a man in his early thirties. Though his body wasn't as tone as it had been in earlier years, he did not don the beer belly that most men his age had acquired. His hair hadn't gone gray yet, but he had gotten it cut significantly shorter over the years. It didn't really matter most of the time, however, since he still wore his lucky hat every now and again.
He may have changed a little bit on the outside, but he hadn't changed much on the inside. He was the same fun-loving, friendly, sweet guy he had always been, but a little bit more mature, a little less gullible. All part of growing up… Growing up a tad was sort of necessary, since Geoff became a party planner. One of the best ones in is province, too!
Geoff opened the fridge and pulled out a can of root beer. Once he shut the door, he saw the picture. Her picture.
His heart always skipped a beat when he saw that picture, or any picture of her, for that matter. He took a look at it, but dared not touch it. He hated when it got moved around.
The girl in the picture looked to be in her twenties and was smiling that smile that Geoff had always loved. Her long hair had been tied into a sloppy ponytail and she was wearing sweatpants and a camisole, but Geoff had always thought she looked beautiful no matter what she wore. As he studied the picture some more, he thought back to his teen years.
He had gone on a reality TV show, Total Drama Island, when he was sixteen. There, he met Bridgette Carlisle. As they grew closer together as teammates, they also fell for one another and started dating. They dated for two amazing years and through three seasons, but then fate took a toll on their love.
Total Drama ended, and the cast were going their separate ways. Bridgette and Geoff had lived close to one another, but then time came around for universities. Geoff would be attending the local college, because that was the most he could afford. Bridgette, on the other hand, got a full ride scholarship to UCLA, due to her excellent grades. That's right. All the way in Los Angeles. Nowhere near Canada.
Bridgette didn't feel like she could handle a long distance relationship, so she cut things off with Geoff. It was the last thing she wanted to do, but she felt it was for the best. Geoff had been far from thrilled at the time.
He had gone into a spiraling fit of depression. He could barely focus on his professors' teachings, or especially his job at McDonald's. Once he gave a customer who specifically asked for no tomatoes a cheeseburger with tomatoes and sent her to the hospital due to her severe tomato allergy, he was good as fired. By December, not only was he jobless, but he had flunked his first semester of college. Just when he was about to give up all hope, he was invited to a Christmas party by his good friend, Owen.
That was where he met Candace Coleman.
Geoff stuffed his freezing hand into his coat pocket, ringing the door bell with the other. Almost immediately, Owen flung the door open and dragged Geoff into the apartment.
"It's good to see ya, buddy!" Owen loudly said, giving him a bear hug.
Once Owen let go and Geoff could breathe again, he muttered, "Thanks for inviting me, bro… Sorry I couldn't bring anything… I lost my job a while back."
"I know, you already mentioned that when I called you," Owen reminded him, taking his coat and tossing it on the coat rack. "But don't worry about that! Just enjoy the party! I know how much you loooove parties!"
"I-I haven't really partied much lately," Geoff mumbled, looking down at the floor. "Not much to party about, y'know?"
Owen frowned. He knew the Bridgette break-up had taken a toll on him, but he didn't think it would make him practically comatose! This guy was in desperate need of cheering up, and fast! "You want any cocoa? Izzy makes a really mean one! I think it's the meatballs she puts in there…"
Geoff gave him a freaked out look, then said, "No thanks… I'm good."
Owen was about to add something else, but the doorbell rang before he could. "I'll be right back!" He waddled off, leaving Geoff to stand alone by the snack table.
As he dug around the Chex mix with his hand, he felt another one in the bowl, but it wasn't his. He looked up, seeing a girl with strawberry blonde hair look up at him as well. Both took their hands out of the bowl. Geoff looked embarrassed but the girl just giggled.
"Hee hee, sorry," she said, setting her snack plate down by the cookies. "I didn't see you there."
"Yeah, me either," Geoff said, scratching the back of his head. "Uh, I'm Geoff."
"Candace." She extended her hand, which he lamely shook. "You were on Total Drama, right?"
Geoff nodded, hoping she wouldn't mention Bridgette.
"Yeah, my brother was on that show," Candace explained, taking a cup of hot cider from the table and sipping it. "I guess you know him, since he probably invited you to this party."
"Owen's your brother?" Geoff asked in shock, taking a second to take in her appearance.
She looked nothing like anyone in her family, being petite in size. Her brown eyes shone with happiness, which was only emphasized more when she smiled, which she seemed to do a lot.
Candace rolled her eyes a bit. "I know, we don't really look alike. I get that a lot. Probably because he has fully blonde hair and mine is more reddish."
"Uh… Yeah. That's why."
"But it's nice to finally meet you!" Candace beamed at him. "You seem like a great guy! Besides my brother, I always rooted for you"
For the first time in what felt like forever, Geoff smiled. Not a huge smile, but it was still a smile. "Thanks. You seem nice, too."
He never did see Owen again that night. Well, he saw him under the mistletoe with Izzy, but he didn't actually talk to him. Probably because he spent the whole night with Candace.
They had talked about a lot of stuff. He learned that she was only two years younger than him and was head cheerleader at her school. She told him about her friends, her family, her life. She was an open book and Geoff was an intent reader. It was weird, but Candace made him feel… comfortable. There was something about her that was special. She always had a smile, even when she was discussing something less that pleasant, such as the time she broke her ankle when she fell off the top of a human pyramid. It was infectious; Geoff had to smile, too.
As it got later and several guests left early, Geoff started talking as well. He even mentioned the break-up with Bridgette, which was something he hated to discuss. But with her, he felt like it was okay to tell her. She had been so sympathetic. Even gave him her phone number so he could call if he ever needed someone to talk to.
By the time that Geoff left Izzy and Owen's apartment, he suddenly didn't feel so bad about Bridgette. And he knew he liked Candace. He hadn't fallen madly in love like he had with Bridgette at the first sight, but he fell in like at first sight. Not even like-like. Just like. And maybe that was a better way to start…
As time passed, Candace and Geoff spent more time together. As they got closer as friends, she helped Geoff focus on his schoolwork and he eventually caught up with the rest of his class. She looked through the classifieds with him and found him a job at a party store, which had hours that worked right around his schedule. Him getting his life back on track was all thanks to Candace and her loving friendship.
Eighteen year old Candace was sitting on the bed in Geoff's dorm room, flipping through one of his huge textbooks. "I can't believe I'm finally going to be in college this August."
"I know," Geoff said, looking around in his mini fridge. "It's about time. I'm getting tired of hanging out with some high school dweeb!"
Candace mock-gasped, laughing and throwing his pillow at him. "You're such a jerk!"
As she continued to giggle, Geoff pulled a bowl out of the fridge and shut the door, sitting down next to her. Her birthday had been a while ago, but he wanted to wait to ask her this question. He would have felt weird asking her before, but she was a woman now. There wouldn't be any problems… Unless she said no.
"Ooooh, Chex mix!" Candace exclaimed, popping some into her mouth. "You knew I was coming, didn't you?"
"I know you pretty well," Geoff said with a proud grin. "Dig deeper. You know the good stuff's always in the bottom…"
Candace did as he said, tongue stuck out cutely in concentration. As she dug, a hand grabbed her own and she gasped in shock. Geoff pulled her hand out of the bowl, still holding onto it tightly. "Candy, we've been friends for two years, and you basically saved me from myself."
Candace grinned a bit, but was unsure of where he was going with what he was saying. "You had it in you all along. All I did was bring it out."
"And I'm so glad that you did." Geoff grinned back at her. "Candace… I like you. Like like you. You're one of my best friends." He looked at her with puppy dog eyes and asked, "Go out with me?"
Candace was silent for a moment, but suddenly squeezed his hand, got close enough to him that their noses were touching and whispered, "I've been waiting for you to ask me that for two years…"
Geoff faintly smiled at the memory, thinking more and more of Candace. He hadn't thought about her this much in a while… For the next couple of years after that last memory, they dated and grew closer to one another. They both had a lot of common and brought so much joy to the other's life. Dare he say it, he felt even happier with her than he had with Bridgette.
After he graduated, he worked for a party planning company for three years before he finally started a party planning business of his own. Candace had been absolutely ecstatic for him. She even threw him a big party! She had been so proud of it, planning it all by herself. But Geoff did something that sort of stole her thunder…
"Attention, everyone!" Candace cried, standing in the middle of Geoff's apartment's living room. Once the audience was hushed, she gestured to Geoff, who was standing beside her and said, "It's time for Mister Party Planner to make a speech!"
As Geoff waved and pumped his fists and his friends and family whooped and cheered for him, he began, "Thanks, dudes! It feels awesome to finally have my own business! I feel… so… grown-upish…" A few people laughed at his choice of words as he wrapped his arm around Candace. "Honestly, I couldn't have done it without you guys." He looked down at his girlfriend of five years and grinned. "Especially you, Candy. You inspired me when I wanted to give up, picked me up when I wanted to stay down… And you made out with me when we'd make up. That was awesome!"
Candace blushed in embarrassment and a few people laughed. She still kept her smile. "Geoff, that might not be appropriate to discuss with our guests," she hissed at him, trying to still sound happy.
Geoff separated from her, standing a few feet away from her. "Sorry, babe." Next to them was the snack table, and he shoved a large bowl toward her. "Maybe some Chex mix will make up for it?"
Candace smirked. "Aww, our snack always makes me feel better!" She closed her eyes and dug around, expecting to find his hand, like she always did. Instead she felt something small, square and… velvety?
She pulled the item out of the bowl and her eyes widened when she saw a navy blue jewelry box in her hand. Before she opened it, Geoff gently took it from her and got down on one knee, making a few people gasp. He popped it open, revealing a modest ring, with a silver band and a small diamond. It wasn't much, but to Candace, it was absolutely beautiful.
As tears brimmed in her eyes, Geoff looked up at her with hope and asked, "Candace Stephanie Coleman, will you make me the happiest dude alive and marry me?"
Their guests waited silently in anticipation, and after ten seconds, a small tear of joy rolled down Candace's cheek and she whimpered, "Yes. Of course I'll marry you…"
As everyone else clapped and cheered for the couple, Geoff slid the ring onto her left ring finger and stood up, giving her the most passionate kiss he had ever given her.
Geoff sighed and looked back at the picture hanging in front of him. Candace looked pretty much like she always had looked after they got married… At least when she was just bumming around their house. The only difference was that in this picture, Candace had a huge, pregnant belly.
After Geoff came home from checking out inflatable bounce houses for a ten year old boy's upcoming birthday party, he found his wife sitting on the living room couch in their newly purchased house, looking to be almost in shock. She still looked happy, though her smile wasn't as big as it usually was. She was holding something in her hand, but he couldn't really tell what it was.
"Candy?" he called out, walking into the living room. "Candace?" he said again, getting her attention this time. She smiled her usual smile and stood up, giving him a long kiss.
"Hey, Geoffy. I-I have some news."
"What's up?"
She looked down bashfully at her feet, hands behind her back. "You know that thing the doctor's never said I would be able to do?"
"Go anywhere without taking your insulin shot in the morning?" Geoff guessed, remembering her type one diabetes.
"No," she said, shaking her head. "The other thing."
He thought it over for a moment, not remembering what she meant. Suddenly, it clicked and his jaw dropped. "You're kidding…"
She gave him a small grin and nodded. "I would have put this in a bowl of Chex mix, but that would have been gross, since I peed on this…" She pulled the mystery item from behind her back and showed it to him. It was a pregnancy test, with a small pink plus sign on it. She looked up at him with teary eyes and whispered, "You're going to be a father…"
Geoff chuckled, remembering how excited he had been that day, and the few months after that. But he frowned as he remembered that as the pregnancy got farther along, Candace got sicker and weaker.
It was a miracle that she had gotten pregnant at all, since the doctor's said she never would. But since she did, it did a lot of damage to herself. She had started to get really sick in the third trimester, and though her diabetes probably didn't cause the sickness, it probably didn't help much, either.
Her doctor ordered her to go on bed rest at the hospital to be further treated, but few days before she delivered the baby, the couple was faced with a tough decision. She was too ill to give birth and live. They could either save the baby's life, or hers.
"The baby's," Candace quietly answered almost immediately after the doctor asked.
"W-What?" Geoff asked, his gut wrenching in fear. "But Candace, what about you?"
Candace sighed, laying back down in her hospital bed as the monitors beeped with every weak beat her heart let out. "I could not live, knowing I killed by baby just to spare myself. This baby is a gift from God and I'm not going to let anyone destroy it."
Geoff was shaking by this point. "No, no!" He quickly kneeled by her bed, gently taking her tiny hand in his strong one. "I can't let you die! I need you! I love you! I-I can't raise this kid on my own!"
Candace squeezed his hand as much as she could, giving him a faint smile. "You can raise our child, Geoff. You're going to be a great father. I can tell…"
They discussed it more and he finally agreed. He didn't have to like it, but he didn't want to lose his future child, either. But it's not like he wanted to lose his wife…
Days later, she went into labor. After hours of screaming, pain and medical attention, Geoff and Candace were blessed with a beautiful baby girl. After she had gotten cleaned up and wrapped in a blanket, the doctor had finally handed her to her father.
The small tuft of hair she had was platinum blonde, but her eyes were still shut too tight to tell who's eyes color she had gotten. Geoff knew that every parent thought the same thing about their kids, but he knew that she truly was the most beautiful baby in the whole wide world.
He looked down at Candace, him beaming grin suddenly fading. Her hair was messy and matted from all the sweat, and she was obviously weak from the trials of labor. She was panting and doctors and nurses were rushing around the room, doing everything they could to save her. Geoff knew she wouldn't make it much longer, though.
Choking back a sob, he quietly asked, "You want to hold her?"
Candace looked up at him, her eyes barely able to keep themselves open, but she smiled and nodded as much as she could. He gently placed the crying newborn in her frail arms and she cradled her to her body. "Hello, Heidi Allison Sanders," she cooed, running a finger down her cheek. They had never agreed on a name before, so he had no idea why she was calling their baby that. "You were worth it," she whispered, more to Geoff then the baby or even herself. "You were worth it all…" She placed a small kiss on her forehead and the baby let out more loud wails, as most newborns do.
Geoff could tell she was struggling to hold her up, so he took her from his wife's arms. He kneeled down beside her bed and quietly said, "You would have been a great mother…" He had given up hope on the doctors, since there was nothing more they could do for her.
"And you're going to be a great father," Candace whispered, touching his arm ever so slightly. "Take good care of Heidi. And eat plenty of Chex mix when I'm gone."
Geoff couldn't help but smile through his tears. Even when his life was crashing right before his eyes, she managed to get him to crack a grin. It quickly faded though, and he finally let the tears slide down his cheeks. "I'm gonna miss you, babe…"
Candace rubbed his arm. "I'm not going to be gone forever… I'll just be in a different location." She pointed up to the ceiling, but he knew she meant Heaven. "I'll be watching over you two…" She took a good look at her husband and daughter and finally let hot tears escape her brown eyes. "My beautiful family… I love you so much…"
As she had indeed loved them, him and their daughter both. She made the ultimate sacrifice for her baby, not knowing if she would really die or not. Geoff thought back to a few hours after that, to what had made the best day of his life take a major downturn.
The doctors had made Geoff sit outside the room, since they needed space to try and help Candace survive. He knew chances were slim, but there was still the small sliver of hope in his heart, hoping she'd make it out.
Their daughter had to be taken away for a while, to make sure nothing had gone wrong during labor. This only made Geoff more nervous.
The head doctor stepped out of Candace's room, removing his gloves. Geoff sprang up from his hard wooden chair, looking at him with great anticipation. When he saw his downtrodden expression, Geoff knew his beloved wife and the mother of his first and only child was gone. And was never coming back.
Geoff gripped his head, not wanting to remember her funeral. That had to be the second worst day of his entire life. But he had to stay strong, and he always had. Why? He had to be strong for his daughter. His beautiful Heidi Allison Sanders. The light of his life and the reason he kept going after Candace's death. She would have wanted him to go on, to raise their daughter to the best of his ability. And like Candace had known deep down in her heart, he was a pretty good father.
Since he was like a big kid himself, he knew how to act around kids. Sure, the infant years were tough, but just as fun as the other years. His friends were more than happy to help out, since they completely understood that both Candace's death, Heidi's birth and his barely off the ground business had been more than stressful on him.
LeShawna was a stay-at-home mom, so she watched her twin toddlers, Trevor and Jade, while her husband was at work. She'd take care of Heidi whenever Geoff needed to work on parties, and if he had to stay out late, Heidi just stayed there for the night. When Duncan Caliver came home to his loving family, he barely realized that Heidi was not his daughter, since he considered her one of his own children. She was his best friend's daughter, so she was close enough.
Owen and Izzy, who got married shortly before Heidi was conceived, were a huge help too. When LeShawna or Duncan couldn't take care of her, Owen and Izzy stepped in. They would watch her, play with her, chase her around, and spoil her rotten. They were her aunt and uncle, after all.
Of course, Owen had been devastated by his sister's death. How could he not have been? When he and Izzy arrived to the hospital the day after Heidi was born and he saw Geoff sitting outside what had been her room, he could tell instantly by his brother-in-law's expression and his beet red eyes that she was gone. Even though he wanted to scream and cry and sob, he didn't.
"Don't be sad, guys," Owen somberly said as Izzy, for once not bouncing off the walls, hugged Geoff and softly cried along with him. Tears were brimming in the hefty man's eyes, but he refused to shed a tear. He weakly smiled at them as they looked at him and he whispered, "Candace wouldn't have wanted that… She would want us to celebrate the baby… Let's go visit her, okay?"
Owen's words had struck Geoff's heart, and even though he had continued to cry over his great loss for a while, he knew Candace would be okay. Better than she would have been on Earth. Still, Geoff hated that his daughter would never meet Candace where she could remember her. Still, he went on and raised a fine young lady, one that made her father proud.
Heidi Sanders was a cute girl, with short, shoulder-length hair, which was the same light blonde as her father's hair, and her mother's beautiful brown eyes. She had a petite figure, though she wasn't as slim as her mother and Geoff, being a stereotypical protective single father, was glad the young teen didn't show off too much of it with revealing clothing. She mostly stuck to t-shirts and skinny jeans, which were a bit too skinny to Geoff's liking, but at least they covered everything.
Heidi was a pretty good student, getting mostly As and Bs, and the occasional C. She wanted to all As, but Geoff was still more than happy with her grades, since that had been much, much better than he had done in school. She was pretty girly, though she knew how to hang with guys, since she was mainly raised by one. Heidi was very polite for a teenager, and always respected authority. The fact that her godfather, her Uncle Duncan was a police officer probably helped mold her respectful personality more.
Even though her parents were both very athletic, Heidi couldn't play a sport to save her life. Geoff had signed her up to play soccer when she was about seven, and she broke her leg before they even played an official game. After much begging and crying, Geoff finally agreed to let her quit. It was probably for the best, because if young Heidi had stuck to athletics, which she hated, she might have never discovered music, which she loved. Aunt Izzy and Uncle Owen signed her up for drum lessons when she was nine and she's been playing ever since. Trevor and Jade, who were only two years older than her and thought of her as a sister, had been thinking about starting a band with her as the drummer, but could never get it pulled together. Still, they had fun playing together, just like they did when they were little.
The front door suddenly opened and he heard footsteps coming toward the kitchen, which snapped him out of his thoughts. A blonde girl, who looked to be around fifteen, poked her head in the entrance, grinning at her father. "Hi, Daddy," she greeted, stepping into the kitchen.
"Hey, Heidi," he greeted back, leaning against the counter and smiling at her. She snatched the root beer from his hands, taking a big gulp. He pretended to look angry and told her, "Y'know, there's more in the fridge."
She handed it back to him and shrugged. "I know, but I like making you make that face!"
Geoff poked her in her belly, which he knew was he ticklish spot, and it made her giggle and lightly slap his hand away from her. "How was school?" he asked as he headed toward the kitchen table, with Heidi following behind him.
She sat down across from him and played with a strand of the short blonde hair that was dangling in front of her face. "Pretty good. I met this nice new girl named Carmen Burromuerto."
Geoff chuckled. "Burromuerto. That's a funny last name…"
"I know, right?" Heidi said with a giggle. "But she was really sweet. Jade was kinda jerkish to her at lunch, but that's just Jade being Jade."
Geoff rolled his eyes with a smirk. "Oh, she's definitely Duncan and LeShawna's daughter… She'll warm up to her sooner or later."
"She always does." She looked back at the refrigerator, then back at her father. "Daddy? I saw you looking at her picture again."
Geoff's smirk disappeared and he curtly nodded. "Yeah… You always do catch me, don't you?" The smirk came back for a moment, but soon faded.
Heidi knew who Candace was, since he had shown her pictures of her and told her everything he could about her. He thought about not telling her, but he knew she had the right to know who her mother was. She was sad that she didn't have a mom like most of her other friends, but she had a great father and that was enough for her. She tried not to let it, or anything else, get her down. She really was Candace's daughter.
She didn't know what to say to him after that. Do you miss Mom? Of course he did. Is she in Heaven? Yes, and she was looking over them everyday. Was she pretty? Do I look like her? She was beautiful and she looked almost exactly like her. Heidi had asked all those questions before, and she always got the same answers. She didn't want to ask them again. She knew it hurt her dad to talk about it.
Once Geoff had gotten on his feet and didn't need his friends' help with Heidi as much, he had tried dating again. He met a lot of nice girls and liked them and all, but he didn't feel the way he felt around Candace, not even on the night they met. Not to mention little Heidi didn't want to share her daddy with another girl and would scream and throw tantrums every time he would bring a woman home to meet her. Now that she was older, she was okay with it, but he didn't seem as interested. He had a career, great friends and a beautiful daughter. Why did he need a wife?
Heidi never did know how to talk to her father about his love life, so she decided to change the subject. "Uncle Owen, Aunt Izzy and Dora are coming over tomorrow, right?"
Geoff nodded in confirmation, standing up and heading out of the kitchen, with his daughter close behind. When Heidi was barely a year old, Izzy found out she was pregnant. Nine months later, she gave birth to Pandora Candace Coleman, a beautiful redheaded little girl. Her middle name, of course, was chosen in honor of Owen's late sister. Izzy had chosen the first name because she thought it sounded like a nice name, though her mother and mother-in-law almost had heart attacks when they heard their granddaughter's name. Even though the years had made the redhead mellow out a bit, Izzy was still completely kooky.
Since she was born, it was clear that Pandora was not nearly as crazy as her parents. She was goofy, but wasn't close to being as weird as her father or mother. When Heidi first met her, she could barely talk, so she kept calling her Dora, since it was too hard to pronounce the whole thing. Somehow it just stuck and everybody's called her that since. Dora considers it a good thing, since she hates her name, but doesn't want to tell her parents and hurt their feelings.
"You're going to have to clean the living room tonight," Geoff told Heidi, pointing to the living room, where pillows and several different colors of silly string were scattered all over the place. "That game of Ultimate Pillow Fight we had last night ended even worse than usual…"
Heidi crossed her arms and pouted, just like she did when she was four and he wouldn't buy her a kitten for her birthday. He would have if he could have, but she was allergic, just like he was. But that's another story. "Aww, I don't wanna!" Even though she was respectful of her elders, she'd jokingly defy her dad every now and again. And he knew she was kidding around, so it was all good.
"Hey, you started the fight! The rules to Ultimate Pillow Fight are clear: you start it, you clean up the aftermath," he reminded her, lightly shoving her into the living room. "You get cleaning and I'll order some Chinese food, okay?"
"Oh yeah, it's Friday!" Heidi happily said, pulling some green silly string off the flat-screen TV. "I love Take-out Friday!" She tossed it into her father's hair, which he promptly pulled out and stuck on her back. She didn't notice though, since she had turned around by then to hide her laughter. "Order lots of egg rolls!" she called out as he walked into the kitchen to get his cell phone. She then pulled some pink silly string off the bowl on the coffee table that always had Chex mix in it. She had no idea why her dad bought so much, but she liked it, so she wasn't going to complain…
"I always do, buddy!" he yelled back at her, dialing the number to the Diamond Wok, their favorite take-out place. As he waited for someone to pick up, he stood in the opening of the kitchen, looking at the picture of pregnant Candace. Then he turned around and looked at Heidi, who was laughing and spinning around, trying to remove the silly string that Geoff had stuck on her back.
Geoff smiled a bit, looking at his daughter with a sense of accomplishment. It's funny how the worst day of my life also turned out to be the best…
I hope I wrote okay for Geoff. It's sort of hard to write all sorrowed, cuz he's such a happy guy, but he's still happy by the end! Yay for Geoffy! :D I dunno, I think he's an underrated character. I love writing for him :3
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