"Uncle Mark, can you show me some of the film when mom and dad met?" Michelle asked sitting in the loft with Mark and Collins as Roger and Charlie were at the club.
"Sure kiddo." Mark said laughing.
"Be warned though. It's confusing." Collins told her laughing with him.
"You're telling me? I live with them, remember?" she said laughing along.
"Yeah, right. Sorry kiddo." Collins said as Mark took out the box of film he had of Roger and Charlie.
"OK remember, they hated each other when they first met, so there's a lot of footage of them screaming at each other and your mom threatening to smack your dad, OK?" Mark warned her laughing.
"They still do that." she told them leaning over to pick up her glass of water.
"OK, here we go." Mark said starting the first reel. "Oh this is when your dad is trying to get her to let him play Jet City Woman by Queensryche and he walks away from her and plays his guitar really loud to drown out her yelling at him." he narrates laughing. "Oh crap, this is when he tells her he's gonna do that Motley Crue song. She was pissed then. She must have threatened to fire him 3 times that day." he said as Michelle laughed out loud.
"Yeah, that's mom." she said laughing. "But dad got her back."
"Oh yeah, your dad is good at pissing your mom off and having her fall all over him." Collins said sitting back in the arm chair.
"Show me when dad actually sung the song to her and she flipped out." she asked smiling at him.
"You seem to already know the stories already kiddo." Mark said smiling down at her.
"Yeah dad tells me all the time. He said it was when he first realized how he felt about mom." she said smiling at them.
"Well we had been teasing him for weeks before the night he actually kissed her. Mark, do you remember that night?" Collins asked looking up at him.
"Oh he was pissed when he came home from the club." he said laughing.
"Dad was pissed that he kissed mom?" Michelle asked smiling at them.
"Oh yeah. He practically ran home from the club, then slammed the door to his room before coming out with his guitar and notebook telling us he was going to the roof, so we had to drag it out of him." Collins told her laughing.
"And then I won 20 bucks because we bet on how long it would take them to get together." Mark said laughing harder.
"No way. You bet on my parents?" she asked laughing.
"Of course. What fun would it be if we just sat back and watched? We knew he was falling for her. Your mom was giving him way too much of a hard time for him not to be attracted to her. You see, your dad was romantically challenged when he met your mom, so a chick being in his face all the time like your mom was, got his attention." Collins told her smiling as Roger and Charlie entered the loft.
"Um, what are you two degenerates doing to my daughter?" Roger asked noticig the projector all loaded up.
"I asked Uncle Mark to show me some film of you guys when you met and then they started telling me stories. You guys were weirder than you are now." she told them as Roger sat next to her.
"Well you see Babygirl, your mom lived to torture me. She wanted me to play nothing but hairband crap and I wasn't having it." he told her putting his arm around his daughters shoulders.
"Yeah mom. Hairbands are so out." Michelle told her as Roger laughed.
"See, it's not just me Baby. Your own daughter's telling you that." Roger said giving Michelle a high five.
"Yeah well she's a daddy's girl, what did you think she'd say?" Charlie said laughing as she went into the kitchen for some water.
"No Baby, she just has my taste in music." he said kissing Michelle's head before getting up to go into the kitchen with Charlie.
"So what other stories are you telling my daughter?" Charlie asked drinking her water.
"Uncle Mark and Uncle Collins bet 20 bucks on when you guys were gonna start dating." Michelle said smiling at them.
"Thanks kiddo." Mark said as Collins covered his head with his arms.
"So who won?" Roger asked laughing.
"I did. I bet on you guys hooking up in July. Collins bet on by the end of the summer." Mark told him laughing.
"Cool." Roger said drinking Charlie's water.
"Wait a minute, you're not mad?" Collins asked looking up at him.
"Why should I be mad? I got my girls, I'm good." he told him smiling at Charlie and Michelle.
"Dad, you are so lame." Michelle told him laughing.
"Yeah well, you love me anyway." he told her smiling.
"Yeah, I do dad." she said getting up to hug in.
"Who can beat this, huh?" Roger said kissing Michelle's head.