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Rule Six- I have no doubt you're a popular fellow with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

The Shores were sitting together watching TV one Friday night, and Aaron was getting frustrated. There was a constant beeping noise coming from Sophia's phone. He never really understood a teenager's need to be constantly texting.

"Sophia, if you're going to text so much could you please put your phone on silent" Aaron finally said, gaining a glare from Sophia. "Who are you texting so much anyway?"

"Marcus. He's a senior, super cute." Sophia informed him as Aaron scrunched up his nose. He didn't want a cuteness rating, just a name. "Mom, can you come help me pick out an outfit for my date tonight?" Sophia asked Emily who nodded as the two girls stood to go upstairs.

"Wait..." Aaron said, halting them in their steps. "You're going on a date with this guy that you've been texting? What is there left to talk about?" Aaron asked.

Sophia groaned; "Seriously dad? Do you listen to anything I say? I told you at dinner that my date was with Darren, not Marcus!"

"You really think I listen for names Soph? All I hear is date and I go into crazy dad mode."

"Oh I am well aware!" Sophia said before storming upstairs.

Emily turned to look at Aaron with her arms crossed and a glare across her face.

"What?! You have to admit that there are a lot of boys to keep track of..." Aaron defended.

"Just- answer the door when Darren gets here." Emily said before turning to leave the room.

"Considering I don't want Sophia to go on continuous dates with continuous lines of douche bags, not answering the door would be an affective way to stop them!" Aaron shouted after her.

"Answer the damn door Aaron!" Emily shouted after him.

Aaron walked back into the room and sat down beside Emma.

"I wouldn't make momma mad daddy, she might make you sleep on the sofa and it's scary down here at night..." Emma said, knowing here Emily sent Aaron when she was mad at him.

"Yeah you're right Emmy, I should avoid disaster."

"Dad, how many girlfriends have you had?" Charlotte asked.

"... Why do you ask?" Aaron inquired.

"Well, Sophia has so many... maybe she gets it from you" Charlotte teased.

"Funny... if your mom asks, she is and always will be my one true love... but I've had four girlfriends." Aaron told his girls.

"Wow... mom had five." Charlotte informed him.

"Five? No she didn't she-she had two, me and Will." Aaron said, referring to Emily's boyfriend at the time of the capitol bombing.

"Nope! There was you, Will, Josh, Noah and her favourite of all her boyfriends, Isaac!" Emma told him.

"Isaac as her favourite?" Aaron asked.

"Yep!" Annabelle chimed in, knowing this was winding her dad up. "You should ask mom about him, he sounds dreamy"

Before Aaron could protest anymore, there was a knock at the door. He stood up and answered the door to a boy who radiated far too much confidence.

"Hey man, I'm here to pick up Sophia." Darren said as Aaron found himself scrunching up his face once agan.

"Yeah she'll be down-" Aaron began, but was interrupted by Darren's phone beeping.

"Sorry man, it's just my girl Amber..." Darren said as he sent a speedy reply.

"Your girl Amber? You mean to tell me you have another girl other than my daughter?"

"Well yeah man, of course I do" Darren said, looking at Aaron as if he had two heads.

Aaron took a deep breath and began one of his usual, threatening speeches; "Ok, I understand that you have plenty of opportunities to date other girls, but your attention is to be only on my daughter tonight, she deserves all the attention in the world and you may only stop giving her that attention, when she is done with you. You make her cry, I make you cry, got it?"

Darren gulped; "yes sir..."

"Dad." He heard Sophia say behind him through her teeth. "Can I talk to you in the kitchen?"

"Sure thing honey!" Aaron said happily as he followed his daughter to the back of the house.

"What's up?" he asked as she quickly spun around and pushed him.

"Stop ruining my life! These threatening speeches are so dumb. Believe it or not, guys talk dad, I am basically untouchable in the dating world now because of my crazy father! You promised you would back off."

"I also promised I would have a few simple rules, you need to respect that, I'm not doing it to ruin your life Sophia, I'm trying to make sure you don't get hurt and don't make mistakes."

"These mistakes are mine to make dad! I'm not the little girl that you think I am anymore, you can't protect me from everything. You have to let me go out there and live my life and have fun. You left Texas when you were 14 years old, you learned to look after yourself, you make mistakes, you learnt right from wrong... I know my sense of independence is not on the same scale as you but you have to let me have some." Sophia said as Aaron stood back, not entirely sure what to respond. "I appreciate your rules and I know they're probably fair enough and come from a good place... but you don't have to be so threatening about them. I have to go;" Sophia said as she lifted her jacket from the counter. "If Josh calls tell him I'll ring him later"

"Wait... Josh?"

"Uh... yeah?" Sophia said, not sure what her dad was getting at, before quickly leaving the house.

Marcus, Darren and Josh... Aaron rolled his eyes. "Teenagers..."

At that moment, Emily came into the kitchen; "Hey, Sophia away?"

"Yeah she just left" Aaron said solenmly.

"Are you ok?" Emily asked.

"Yeah it's just... she's not really my little girl anymore is she? She's all grown up, ready to take on the world... time has just flown by." Aaron said as Emily smiled softly at him.

"Yeah, she's not so little anymore... but she is always going to need her daddy. You can be sure of that." Emily said as she kissed her husband and hugged him tightly.

"Also... you had five boyfriends? And Isaac was your favourite? Who is Isaac?" Aaron asked.

"The girls are such tattle tales... Isaac was a summer fling. Dewey Beach, I was 19... he was dreamy."

"So I hear... are you ever going to tell me those Dewey Beach stories? Even Lenny won't tell." Aaron said, thinking one night he could get the truth out of Lenny but she was as tight lipped as Emily was.

"Oh honey... what happened at Dewey Beach... will stay at Dewey Beach." she said before giving him a quick kiss and walking off.

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