Charlie Chat
Charlie got home only a few minutes after Mackenzie pulled away, explaining Mackenzie's rush to leave. Charlie had obviously left work early, hoping to catch me at home with more people.
When he marched through the door, he looked around suspiciously.
"Hey dad!" I said brightly from the kitchen. "I just started making dinner."
He poked his head into the living room.
"You lost something, dad?"
"Erm. No." He sounded ashamed at being caught.
I smiled to myself. That should stop him from being overly suspicious in the future.
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A few minutes later we sat down at the kitchen table for a hasty dinner consisting of Mac&Cheese and salad.
"Hey dad..." Approach it carefully... "Are we doing anything this Friday?"
He looked concentrated for a moment then shook his head. "Nope. You got plans?"
"Actually a group of friends invited me to go to the movies with them." Make it a group thing.
"Which friends?" He asked, distracted as he chased the last few pieces of macarroni around with his fork.
"Jessica Stanley." I named the least threatening one first. "Drew..." I didn't know his last name but thought it would not be good for Charlie to know that. I created a generic one. "Smith. Ben Cheney. Angela Weber. Mackenzie Johnson." I squeezed him into the middle. "Mike Newton and Becka Richards."
Charlie looked thoughtful. "I don't think I know Drew Smith, Becka Richards or Mackenzie Johnson."
"Mackenzie is..." The boy who was at our house last night. "the boy I went to the movies with before."
"Oh. Mackenzie is a boy!" Charlie can be slow...
"Drew and Becka are not really friends of mine but they are friends of friends."
"Okay, then. That sounds fine."
Success!
"Just be careful." He added.
"Careful? At the movies?"
"You're Bella." He reminded me."You can get hurt anywhere."
Very true.
Filler Chapter! Sorry for the shortness and for how it didn't really accomplish any purpose.
Disclaimer- I don't own Twilight. Does my writing sound at all like SM's? No. It sounds crappy. End of story.
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