Prompt: Dance

Fandom: Wayward Ones (TF/SPN)

Notes: Just a short phone conversation between Riley and his mother. More straight-up SPN ficlets in the works, I promise. Just trying to catch up.

Prom

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'SHE'S NOT GOING'?"

Riley winced, pulling the phone away from his ear, the speaker doing a little too much justice to his mother's voice. Maybe he should have deflected this line of questioning instead of answering it. Ah well, too late now. "It means exactly that. Jodi's not going."

"But its her Senior Prom!" She sounded downright scandalized. "She'll regret it if she doesn't! Did no one offer to take her?"

"I don't know." He did know. Matt had made a last ditch attempt at winning Jodi over, but the kid was having none of it. Riley admired the boy's determination, but he should have long since learned that he was barking up the wrong tree. Hopefully Jodi had let him down gently, but sadly that was probably not the case.

"You don't know!? You're supposed to be acting like her parent! Parents are supposed to know these things!" Nevermind that she ignored all these things when Riley had been in school. She would deny the neglect if it was pointed out. "It that thug of her's keeping her from going?"

Eyes rolled skyward and Riley asked for patience. "Mom, you've met Jodi. That kid doesn't do anything she doesn't want to. And that's just it. She doesn't want to go."

"You just don't want to shell out money for a dress."

He was pretty sure Jodi'd have to be at gunpoint to willingly get into formal wear.

Or be invited to a red-carpet movie premier via one miss Lia. Then again, if the crazy stunt woman was behind the invite it was a pretty safe bet that Jodi would be there.

"Can't say I'm not happy to miss out on dumping over a hundred bucks on clothes that are only going to be worn once." Plus she could use her own damn money for that, thank you very much. "But you're completely ignoring the fact that she doesn't want to go."

"She's a teenager, Riley. She doesn't know what she wants!"

"Well, feel free to be the one to inform her. Because I'm not doing it."

He pressed the 'end' button with great satisfaction.