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Rule Seven- As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?
Aaron sat in his well known favourite position- in his armchair, with a book in his hand. It was once again date night and Aaron was trying his hardest to bite his tongue this time round and not nit pick everything the boy did, but he knew it was going to be easier said than done. Sophia said this kid Jeff was confident and knew what he wanted. He was definitely the dominating type, but he had met his match with Sophia, there was no doubt about that.
The front door opened and a few seconds later, Seth came into the living room.
"Uncle Seth!" Annabelle, Charlotte and Emma all shouted as they jumped ontop of him.
"Oh God... hi girls..." Seth said as he struggled to the ground.
"Girls let Uncle Seth breathe..." Aaron told them as they clambered off him.
"You two do realise you're 12 now and ridiculously tall and my fragile bones struggle when you jump on me right?" Seth said to the twins when he stood up.
"Uh huh" Annabelle said with a smirk.
"We know" Charlotte added with the same confident smirk.
"My God you guys are terrifying..." Seth said. "Oh, word of warning;" Seth said turning to Aaron; "there was a car pulling up in the drive way behind me, looked like there was a teenage boy in it."
"Ugh that'll be Sophia's date" Aaron said as he turned to look out the window. Jeff had gotten out of his car and walked confidently to the door.
"I thought you were chill about the whole dating thing now?"
"I will never be chill about the whole dating thing, my own daughters are going to put me in an early grave, but I will pretend to be chill about the whole dating thing..." Aaron said as he flung open the front door before Jeff could knock on it.
"Jeff! Pleasure to meet you, I'm Sophia's dad, come on in!" Aaron said cheerfully as Seth watched, incredibly amused.
"Actually I think I'll just wait out here, if you could tell Sophia to hurry along, that would be great, or we're going to be late." Jeff said with an entirely straight face.
"Well this kid is a bundle of laughs..." Seth mumbled to the girls as they spied around the corner.
"That's a nice car you got Jeff" Aaron said through his teeth, trying to be nice to the kid.
"It was a gift from my dad. No one loves cars more than me, I know everything these is to know. I see you have the older version of it?" Jeff said, turning up his nose slightly.
Aaron picked up on his snotty attitude, and also his impatience as he continued to tap his foot and look at his watch.
"Yeah but it still runs smoothly... though it does need it's oil changed, why don't you help me out with that?" Aaron said nodding to Seth who went out back to get the oil.
"No it's ok, I would really appreciate it if you could just tell Sophia to hurry up." Jeff said sternly. "I'm starting to think she has no concept of time..." He mumbled.
Aaron closed the front door and quickly began leading Jeff round to his car; "Ok, here's a word of advice. It doesn't seem to me like you have had a lot of experience with girls and dating in particular, I suspect that you're too far up your own ass to think about anyone other than yourself, but with my daughter you have to give her time. She is always perfect in my eyes, but she likes to go that extra mile for her dates. So why don't you stop fidgeting;" Aaron said as Seth came round the corner and handed Aaron the oil. "Stop complaining, and make yourself useful, by changing the oil in my car." He said pushing the can towards Jeff. "Since you love cars so much."
Ten minutes later, Sophia and Emily came downstairs and wondered where Aaron and Jeff went.
"Girls, where's daddy and Sophia's date?" Emily asked.
"They're outside, and can I just say, we have been getting some fantastic video material with dad and your dates Soph, I'm thinking that could go viral." Charlotte said as Annabelle giggled.
"You two are so evil..." Sophia said as she and Emily walked out the front door.
They saw Aaron and Seth standing by the car, beers in hand, while Jeff had his sleeves rolled up, changing the oil in the car.
"Uh... what is going on?" Sophia asked.
"Oh hey honey, Jeff here was getting a little bored waiting for you so we found something for him to do! Since he loves cars so much." Aaron teased further as Jeff look frustrated.
"We're going to miss our movie, I paid good money for those tickets." Jeff said as he threw the rag he was holding down and fixed his sleeves.
"We are not going to miss it... but you know what, since you've been so rude about it, maybe it's best you go on your on." Sophia said with a smirk.
"... fine." Jeff said as he stormed off and got into his car.
"People just have no manners these days" Seth said as he and Aaron clinked beer glasses and took a drink.
"What are you doing her Uncle Seth?" Sophia asked as she gave him a hug.
"I was going to see if my favourite god daughters wanted to go for something to eat" Seth said as they heard the twins and Emma cheering from inside.
"I think the cheer clearly states our answer. Let me just go get my coat, I'll make sure the girls are ready." Sophia said as she went inside.
A few minutes later the four girls and their uncle Seth had departed and Emily and Aaron were alone for what felt like the first time in years.
"Seth is brave taking all four girls out alone" Emily said as she watched Aaron cook their dinner from the stool at the island.
"He'll be too busy making them laugh for them to misbehave" Aaron said with a chuckle.
"I hope you're right..." Emily said. "Do you remember the first time I brought you home to my family?"
"As your fake boyfriend for your brother's wedding cause you needed a date or as your real boyfriend?"
"As my real boyfriend... my brothers made you wash their cars because they found out about the fake boyfriend thing and thought you deserved a punishment for lying" Emily said with a wide smile.
"Oh I remember that very well... they all sat on deck chairs with cold beer while the sun was blazing and I was working my ass off" Aaron said shaking his head. "Sometimes I wonder where Charlie and Annie get their devious streaks from and then I look at you and your brothers and I understand."
Emily smiled; "My girls are me through and through"
"Don't I know it... I definitely wouldn't have it any other way." he said as Emily walked round the counter and kissed him.
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