Chapter 10 – This Is Man Talk

I thought for a second "I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna get the Dylan Cooper family back together."

Zora laughed "Good luck d*uchebag."

Taylor's POV:

It was getting late and Chase and I went to the cafeteria to eat. Chase got strawberry frozen yoghurt while I got banana. I thought about what happened literally five minutes ago. Our dad cheated on our mom twice, not once, but twice. Then our sister who seemed very hormonal thought it was our mom's fault… God she was hormonal. I'm kind of guessing it was that time of the month if you know what I mean.

"Why are you laughing?" Chase asked me confusedly. I was laughing out loud? I can't tell him I was laughing at our sister with her hormones.

"I… uh… I was laughing at the fact that… I want to but a snake and name it Paul." I answered quickly smiling.

An awkward silence fell across our conversation and Chase looked at me oddly then went back to eating his frozen yogurt. Well wasn't that fan-dabby-dosey (Note the sarcasm).

Chase then spoke up with his eyes still on his frozen yogurt "You're odd you know that right?"

"Why am I odd?"

He puts his arms up in defense "Who names a snake Paul?"

"I would!" But that wasn't me that spoke. Nor Chase. We both looked to the door to see what normal people would call 'Dad'.

Chase looked him up and down "Oh look Taylor, we must've stumbled upon the monkeys at the Condor Studios Zoo." Not his best work but keep in mind we don't like 'father'.

He stepped forward looking depressed "Look guys please hear me out."

"Jerry Springer show feeling is coming on right now." I said and Chase and dad looked at me both oddly. "YouTube, the odd side, let's not go there."

Dad continued "Anyways, the girl was your mom's best friend, Tawni. She was drunk the two nights we kissed."

Chase stood up and added a sarcastic comment "Oh look at that my dad getting some from a girl that sounds like she has a sl*t name."

"What are you talking about?" My dad asked. I got confused and asked him "Wait, you didn't like... try to make the reproductive system work thing did you?"

"No." He answered very sternly.

"Okay that makes my life a bit easier." I said eating the rest of my banana yogurt.

"TAYLOR! HE STILL CHEATED HERE!" Chase yelled at me and made me drop my yogurt.

I gave a look that could kill "Thanks bro."

Dad spoke up again "Both nights Tawni was drunk. I didn't kiss her, she kissed me. Plus she's like been lifting weights since she was six."

"Did you feel like a spark?" Chase asked her and silence fell. "That's it Taylor we're getting mom and leaving."

"No!" Dad screamed. "Not yet. Looking back on it, you're mom was the one. That spark was like a million fireworks exploding into a fireball."

"It didn't really explode then, did it?" I whispered to Chase.

Dad looked at us again "You know when you get a crush and you can't picture your life without them? It was that feeling. Like everything with them seemed right…"

Another silence fell across the room and dad smiled like he realised something. He turned to us and looked at us like he was so serious it hurt. "I'm still in love with your mom."