Hello.
Jake and Beth finished eating the cookies then went into the living room. Beth started to pull out some tea cups, plastic plates, two tiaras, two wands, plastic fancy rings, four gold necklaces and clip-on earrings. She brought over the jewelry and held them to Jake, who had just picked up his guitar.
"Tea party." She smiled holding them up.
"No, no thank you." Jake said.
"Please?" Beth asked. "Tea party."
"No."
"I tell Daddy." She said.
"What?" Jake questioned.
"I tell Daddy you no play tea party." She told him.
"I'm not falling for that one bit, Beth." Jake said as he played some strings. "Wanna hear a song?"
"No!" She yelled. "Tea party now, Jakey!"
"Beth, I'm not playing tea party!"
Beth stomped her foot on the ground then left in a huff into the kitchen. Jake just lifted an eyebrow, but ignored her and went back to his strings.
Three minutes later he could hear Beth yell. "Daddy! Jakey no play tea party!"
"She didn't—"
"Jakey!" Beth's voice called from the kitchen. "Daddy on phone!"
"Shit!" Jake got up and jogged into the kitchen, finding Beth holding the phone in her hands. He grabbed the phone. "Hello?"
"Play tea party with her, or I'll make you regret it!"
"Do you play tea party?"
"Of course! I may be a bad-ass Puckerman, but I've got a heart to play with my own kid. Your the bad-ass Uncle Jake Puckerman, you've gotta play with your niece!"
"Dude—"
"Do it or I'll tell the entire school you still sleep with Barney Purple Dinosaur toy and a blue blanket."
"Dude, how—"
"Your Mom and my Mom are very good friends, even mentioning that you hide those two baby things in your attic closet."
"Fine! I'll play tea party!"
"More tea, Miss Lavender-Belle?" Beth asked.
"Yes," Jake grunted. "More tea please."
Beth poured the invisible fake tea into the purple tea cup. "Sugar, Miss Lavender-Belle?"
"Yes please."
"Milk?"
"Yes please." He grunted again.