"Lee, your an apsaloute tosser you know that?"
Lee smiled as Lucy entered the flat, "thats the nicest thing you have ever said to me... you usually call me a wan.."
"LEE" Lucy snapped.
"what've i done this time then? breathed?"
lucy flopped on the sofa next to him, placing her feet on the coffee table next to his. "I spoke to dad"
"ahh" he started to smile, "you did tell me to try getting some bussiness in the ice cream van"
"I said bussiness. not go pull up next to my dad cars offering him 2 for 1 on screwballs... with the term 'wendy will be impressed with your balls of which are screwable..' as a sales pitch"
"I would have thought he'd had seen the funny side of it..."
Lucy gave him stern stare. "Hes my dad, Geoffrey Adams.. of course he wouldn't... since when did he have a sense of humour?"
"since Tim dressed up as a ballerina and gave him three wishes?"
"shut up" Lucy laughed slightly.
"see.. you find me funny..."
Lucy shook her head, trying to hide her smile.
"stop trying to hide a smile..." lee whispered teasingly.
"im not"
Lee dived on her and started to tickle her. "LIAR! YOU BIG FAT LIAR" he laughed tickling her as lucy giggled and squirmed.
Lee 'mounted' on top of her as he continued to tickle her. But there was a sudden change to the atmosphere. There eyes interlocked and they slowly moved there heads together.
"lee i heard about your joke with dad, not funny! oh and thanks for telling him im a male prostitute"
lee quickly jumped off of lucy and sat besdie her before tim would look up from his paper.
"Makes it worse he believes i go for other men"
"your're a prostitute? dirty devil"
"Lee, i just spent the last hour of my life trying to convinve my parents i dont go standing out on street corners waiting for hunky young men to approach me"
"Well, you know what they say?" Lee smurked.
"What?" tim replied.
"Thats an hour of your life you will never get back?"
"Hilarious. Now are you going to come to the pub or not?"
"depends how much your charging" lee winked.
"shut up, butt face!" Tim said defensivley.
"I have never been more insulted" lee pretened to cry.
"to be fair i did just call him a tosser"
"Everyone does" Tim half smiled, "Right see you later lucy!" Tim gave his sister a kiss as he left the flat.
"Yeh, see you later lucy" lee smiled putting his jacket on and kissing her cheek. "Didnt get a slap... OH YEY! I DIDNT GET A SLAP" he squealed sarcastically as he skipped out of the flat.
hes not all bad... lucy thought to her self as she watched herself blush in the mirror.
*in the pub*
lee and tim sat in there usual spot at the bar, chatting away like normal.
"How many girls you tried suducing today then?" Tim sneered.
"Non, still to busy on your sister"
"What?" Tim asked, horrified.
"What?" Lee repeated.
"is there something your not telling me?"
"Is there something YOUR not telling ME?" Lee repeated.
"What? you just said your trying to seduce my sister?"
"no i didn't?"
"you were thinking aloud! i do that alot, like the time i said my goldfish was cute in front of my doctor..."
"your doing it now daisy..." lee whispered sarcastically.
"so you do actually want to 'kop off' with my sister?"
"Do you have to put it like that?"
Daisy sat staring into space, gazing at lee.
"well, do you?"
Lee sighed. "i like her... i REALLY like her"
"your going down a one way street there my friend.."
"no i dont think he is actually. lucy looks at him alot, with the 'wanty eyes'."
"Wanty eyes" tim and lee repeated in unison.
"Yeh, those eyes where you look at someone, like when your a child and look at the toy you really want... with wanty eyes"
Lee and Tim shook there heads and went back to the orignal conversation.
"So you do fancy my sister?"
"Its more then that..." he sighed frustrated. "I love her" he whispered so quitely no one else could hear.
"you would make a crap brother in law" Tim smurked.
"takes one to know one"
"Any way, we need to get back. i want to watch the news, see the weather forcast for tommorow, see what my plans are."
"live like a rebel, look out the window on the morning. decide then?"
"Do you want my whole week to be disoriantated?"
"course not" lee sighed.
They said there goodbyes leaving lee to walk home alone with his thoughts. if there was one thing Daisy and Barbra ever taught him was that he was not getting any younger. And it was true he felt down about himself. when he was young he aspired to be a father and a husband by this time of his life. But what was he? a lodger. A flippin lodger.
so that made his mind up.
A new Lee.
A lee Lucy wouldnt be able to resist.