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17 Again and Hating It
Mikes POV:
Life was great Mike O'Donnell noted as he snuggled up to his wife of twenty plus years. He finally felt like his life was how it was supposed to be. It just took spending practically a whole school term as his seventeen year-old self again and coming dangerously close to losing his children and getting a divorce for him to realise he truly had it made.
His marriage with Scarlett had never been as strong as it was now. They had never felt such love and contentment with each other, until both realised exactly what they had been on the verge of throwing away.
Mike had finally gotten back in shape, although he would never sport the six-pack and incredibly small waistline that his seventeen year-old self had. Although, for a guy at the age of thirty eight, he was happy to have a slim and trim waist, a flat a toned stomach, even if it wasn't in six-pack territory.
He loved his job as Hayden highs coach. He loved teaching his son and his classmates. His children had finally started to respect him again. He now officially had father and son time with Alex, who was now a senior. He even spent more time with Maggie, who was now in her first year of college, without her wanting to shriek at him or throw, something at his head as long as they did not mention whom she dated.
He and Ned were even closer. Ned finally had a life outside of playing videogames. His relationship with Jane had progressed within the year since they first met although they were currently dealing with a slight rough patch. Neither Ned nor Jane was inclined to comment on as to why said rough patch was occurring.
The Only problem Mike found in his life was not due to his marriage, but with the fact Maggie could not seem to settle on one person for more than a month or so at a time. Moreover, he knew both Alex and Maggie missed and wondered where Mark had gone.
He and Scarlett had no idea how to breech such a subject with Alex and Maggie. How did one tell their 19-year-old daughter, that her crush, who she tried to seduce, was in fact her father at Seventeen.
How do you tell your seventeen almost eighteen year-old son, tell him that his only one and true friend, who got him on the basketball team, who defended him against bullies and who saw him and untapped him from the toilet. Who helped him pluck up the courage to ask out his now girl friend of almost a year, was in fact his father?
Mike feared if his children knew, then his daughter may never date again due to traumatisation for life, knowing she had tried to seduce her own father. Not that Maggie not dating was necessarily a bad thing in Mike's opinion.
His son most likely would be left with a complex never be able to look him in the eye again due to shame. Shame over the fact it was his father who untapped him from the toilet. That he actually knows that somebody is using you as a personal punching bag. Worse yet it is your father who encouraged you to ask out the girl you were crushing on.
The thought of that conversation left Mike feeling a bone weary chill and a nightmarish urge to vomit. Scarlett was hoping it would not come up. Mike knew she would want to avoid the whole thing even more so if you knew what would have happened between him and Maggie if he had not stopped it.
Ned was getting on his case to either tell his children or do something to stop them from continuously asking him when Mark was coming down to visit again. Hell even Jane knew, only truly believing when Mike shown her his school yearbook from 1989.
What Mike, Scarlett nor Ned or Jane was aware of was the fact they were soon going to have to deal with the issue in a fashion they would have never expected or wanted.