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"Hey. Is anybody home?" Ryan yelled as they walked back into their house.
Kirsten's tinkly laugh could be heard coming from the kitchen "Yeah, we're in here!"
Ryan turned to see that Seth was still shuffling in through the door, his mind completely lost in another world. Ryan shook his head, rolling his eyes at his brother. "Seth, will you stop worrying about it."
Seth looked up and frowned "I'm not worrying…" he replied unconvincingly
Ryan just shot him a look and gave a short laugh as he made his way through the kitchen "No. Course you're not."
Sandy, Kirsten and Jimmy were sat at the table nursing cups of coffee when Ryan walked in closely followed by a pensive looking Seth, both of whom headed immediately for the fridge.
Sandy grinned at their prioritising of food over their parents "Hey Guys. You have a good afternoon?"
Ryan looked up briefly and nodded before pushing his head back into the fridge.
Sandy laughed "They not serve food at the Diner anymore then?"
Seth emerged from the fridge finally with a mouth full of pudding "I swear their portions are getting smaller" he managed, spraying a dismayed looking Ryan with flecks of chocolate.
"Could you not just have seconds?" Kirsten suggested with a smile "Instead of raiding our fridge"
"Nope" Seth responded, not moving his eyes from the packets of cookies he was desperately trying to open "Summer won't let me. She says she won't tolerate fatness and comics."
"Well I'm glad she's got you on a tight leash at least" Kirsten commented, unable to suppress another smile.
Seth scoffed "You have no idea." He finally tore his eyes from the cookies and glanced at his parents, but did a double take as though he'd only just noticed that Jimmy was sat there too. A look of inspiration spread slowly across Seth's face and he slammed his hand down on to the table. "Jimmy! You're a Dad right?"
"Erm…" Jimmy shot a puzzled look at Sandy who just shrugged helplessly, sometimes even he struggled to explain his son "…Yes" Jimmy concluded finally.
"Ok Awesome" Seth grinned, sitting himself down at the breakfast bar "So how would you feel about me dating your daughter?"
Behind him, Ryan groaned and slumped onto the table as he finally figured out what Seth was going on about.
Jimmy gave aeasy laugh but soon ceased as he noticed the expectant look on Seth's animated face. "Er, which…which daughter are we talking about here?"
"Either" Seth shrugged quickly "It doesn't matter."
"Well I think Kaitlin's a little young" Jimmy said tentatively
"Hmmm…yeah" Seth mused "…I don't want to give off a predatory vibe" he muttered to himself "Ok, well Marissa then"
Jimmy shot perplexed looks at Seth and Ryan in turn "Is this err…" he scratched his head as he surveyed the two brothers "…Would this work on some kind of a timeshare…or a rota?"
"What?" Seth furrowed his brow confused, and Ryan just sighed and stared at him until the penny finally dropped
"Ohhhh…" Seth said eventually "No, no it's nothing like that…how weird would that be?" he broke off and stared into space as he contemplated the bizarre possibility.
"Seth?" Kirsten prompted after several moments "Three very confused people sat here." She laughed, indicating to herself, Sandy and Jimmy.
"Seth's going to meet Summer's Dad" Ryan butted in, deciding it was quicker than trying to get a coherent answer out of his brother.
"But how have you not met him before?" Jimmy questioned "You two have been together ages."
"Well I can be extremely stealth." Seth offered with a modest smile "Besides…" he added, frowning a little "We have met once…it just didn't exactly go well"
"You mean you haven't seen him since that one lunch you had?" Sandy interjected.
"Nope" Seth shook his head "But bear in mind that 'one lunch' you refer to, did nearly split Summer and I up, not to mention I don't think her dad was exactly keen to see me again."
"It can't have been that bad" Jimmy laughed "I know Neil Roberts; he's a reasonable guy…a little over protective of Summer maybe, but not exactly a tyrant."
"Well it must just be me he didn't like then…" Seth forced a smile.
"I'm sure that's not true." Jimmy assured him "I know the only thing he really doesn't like are people who don't know when to shut u…..ohhhhh" he broke off and nodded slowly "Ok, I think I'm seeing why it didn't go so well."
Sandy laughed as Seth let out a yelp of frustration and buried his head in his hands. "I'm so screwed" he muttered.
"Don't worry Son," Sandy said ruffling Seth's hair. "I'm sure Jimmy will be only too happy to give you some advice on how to impress a girlfriend's over protective Dad."
"Over Protective?" Seth scoffed, finally looking up "Please, Jimmy let Marissa go out with Ryan…I'd hardly call that over prote-…" Seth broke off as he noticed the angry looks Ryan was shooting his way.
"Ok…"Seth sighed nodding and made his way over to the door "…I'm just going to go upstairs and practice not saying what I'm thinking"
"That's the spirit Son!" Sandy called after him.
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