The Middle Season 2
S2 E2: Homecoming
"I made varsity." Alx ran out of the boy's locker room. Lee threw her arm around his neck to kiss him. After exploring each other's mouths for a bit, Axl pulls away. "You still don't get it, do you?"
"No, but it's a big deal to you. I figure celebrating by making out and letting you grope me in front of your friends to further make you feel like the man would be appropriate." She ran her fingers through his short curls.
"That is appropriate." He let his hands slide down to grip her ass while going in for another kiss.
Lee was dreading the day while she sat in the stands. Homecoming was an all-day event in Orson. The game wasn't until night time but she was here in the early afternoon. She was surprised by how packed the stands were. Some people didn't know any of the teens playing. You could tell who the parents were because they were dressed up to walk the varsity players across the field in a ceremony. Mike was wearing a suit.
It started with a parade. A bunch of decorated cars were driving around the track. "Hey Mike, Brickster…" A man's face that was painted blue on one side and white on the other sat by them.
"Oh Bob, you found us." Mike didn't sound very happy about it. "Bob, this is Lee, Axl's girlfriend. Lee, this is Bob, Frank's coworker." He introduced the two.
"Hi." Lee shook his foam finger.
"Hello, you are a lucky lady dating Axl, especially if you end up getting to be a part of this family." Jealousy was in his eyes.
"Yes, I am." She nods her head slowly. She looked at Brick to silently ask what this guy's deal was. He shrugged, not explaining the grown man's attachment to his family.
"Great game, huh? Yeah, we're going to crush them to smithereens." He stood up. "Orson rules!" He screams weird noises that Lee assumes are supposed to be cheers. He ended up dropping popcorn everywhere.
"You're getting fired up, huh?" Mike dusts popcorn off himself.
"Yeah, it's a big weekend for alum. Getting me fired up thinking about the times I had here." He bounces in his seat.
"You didn't go here." He reminds him.
"No, I was homeschooled. Where's Frankie?" He looks for his best friend.
"She at Sue's track meet but she'll be here." Lee pats her purse, which is keeping her place.
"Go Thundering Hens!" Bob yells into a cheer horn when the cheerleaders take the field.
"Don't you want to save some energy for the game?" Lee was getting a headache. Mike switched spots with her so he wasn't right next to the man.
"No, I got a lot of it. I had three espresso shots." He yelled along with the Cheerleaders. As the sun started to go down he never wavered. She ended up switching spots with Brick, so he was the one next to Bob.
"Bob, what does rushing yards mean?" Brick asks to put a stop to the screaming in his ear.
"Well, football is a fascinating game, Brick. It's hard to explain all the particular nuances." He looks like he was thinking of a way to do it.
"You don't know, do you?" Brick squints at him.
"I just cheer when everyone else does." He explains how he enjoys the game.
"Dad, can I ask you a question?" He turned to his father.
"Kinda wondering why you didn't." He was looking forward to explaining football to Brick.
"Where are the leaves going after the raking?" Raking the leaves had been Brick's chore of the week. It took him a week since he organized them by size and color.
"You ask Bob about football and me about leaves?... Well, we'll take them down to the dump and they'll put them in the incinerator." Mike answers.
"What? You never said they were going to burn them." Brick freaks out.
"What did you think was going to happen?" He put a hand on his shoulder.
"I thought we'd take them into the forest and set them free." He had seen people do it with wild animals on TV.
"Will all varsity parents come down to the field?" The Sports Announcer spoke on the intercom.
"Look, Brick, I don't have time to talk to you about this now. They're calling the parents down onto the field." He looks at Lee. "Keep an eye on him until I get back."
"Got it." Bob nods.
Mike keeps his eyes on Lee. "I will." She rubs Brick's back.
"Thank you." He went to the field. Bob ran to get a corn dog without asking if they wanted anything.
"Don't worry, Brick, I'm sure your dad will take the leaves to the forest." She assures him.
"You think so?" He looks up at her.
"It's the same distance as the dump." She didn't see the issues. He smiles up at her. He looks so cute and innocent that it makes Lee's heart melt. "Want to look up football terms?" She pulled out her iPhone. He nods as she pushes in rushing yards.
"Number 32, escorted by Frances and Michael Heck." The announcement made Lee, Brick, and Bob get to their feet to cheer. They watch Mike walk Axl onto the field. Axl hands him the corsage he was supposed to pin onto his Mom. It was awkward as Axl went for a handshake and Mike went for a hug while pictures were being taken.
When Sue and Frankie made it there were only four minutes left in the game. They were down by six points. Axl caught the ball and ran down the field making the crowd get to their feet. "What's happening?" Brick looks up at her.
"I don't know but Axl has the ball." She claps. "Oh," She whines when he gets tackled hard. Her heart clenched when he didn't pop up like he normally does. She didn't notice Frankie bumping her to go down the stands.
"We have a time out on the field with number 32 down at the 11-yard line." The announcer told them.
"He's okay, he just got the wind knocked out of him." Mike looks down at his family and notices his wife missing. "Frankie?" Their jaws dropped at her kicking off her heels to run in the middle of the field. "Frankie No!" Mike screamed as she ran to him.
"He's never going to forgive her." Lee grips onto Brick's shoulders.
Axl was lying on his girlfriend on the couch in his living room. "Does that hurt?" She rubs his hurt shoulder.
"No baby, it feels good." The best part of being hurt for Axl was Lee babying him. He opened his mouth for her to pop a chip in.
"You don't have to treat him like a king." Frankie looks at her son unimpressed while he sinks his face into Lee's cleavage.
"Mom, haven't you done enough?" His screams were muffled.
She switches through TV channels until she lands on a program she knows he'll like. "Oh Axl, look, it's an old episode of Baywatch."
"Oh," He turned his head but kept on her chest to watch the babes in swimsuits.
"My god." Frankie walks to the kitchen.
S2 E3: The Diaper Incident
Lee walks in with a seven-layer dip and tortilla chips. "How did you convince my grandma that you need this to power through your homework?" She put it down on the coffee table. Axl and Sean were playing video games.
"I do. Beans are brain food." He dips a chip to eat it.
"Mr. Heck, how are you, sir?" Sean got up to shake his hand.
"Great, Sean. Axl, I thought you had a big school project. Stop wasting time and get to work." He looks at his son.
"For your information, we are working. Our experiment is on the effects of video games on the teenage brain. First, we play 36 hours of Mutant Road Rage and then we watch a 10-hour wipeout marathon and see how much of it we can remember. We even got a log." He holds out his arm.
"And your teacher signed off on this experiment?" He wonders.
"Oh yeah, the coach is cool with it. Some other kids are studying the effects of music on coma patients. Losers!" He leaned over to laugh in Lee's face.
"Say what you want Axl, but I'm done. We found that familiar music creates arousal in coma patients. You know, like their favorite songs or the theme song of their favorite show." She told them their findings.
"Arousal." He giggles. Lee rolled her eyes.
"Well professor, you got dip on your log." Mike points out before walking out of the room. Axl licks the dip off his arm without putting the controller down.
The doorbell rang. "I'll get it." Sue was running to the door but stopped when she saw her brother's friend. "Hi, Sean." After getting acknowledged, she opens the door for Carly. They went to her room.
"If you're going to be doing this all weekend I'm going to make plans with my friends." She told him.
"Yeah, that's cool." His eyes never leave the screen.
"Lee, can we talk to you?" Sue and Carly wave for her to follow them.
"Sure?" She got up to go into Sue's room.
"How did you know Axl liked you?" Carly asks.
"Um… He repeatedly showed up at my house asking to hang out with me." She shrugged. Axl wasn't hard to figure out. He made his intention very known.
"Sean comes over all the time and drives me if I need to go somewhere." Sue smiles.
"What? Sean?" Lee pushed her lips together, not wanting to tell her that the older teen didn't see her that way.
"What else did Axl do?" Caryl encourages her to continue.
"He took an interest in everything I did. If anything came up he was quick to take care of it like if I was hungry he took me to eat or my bag was heavy he carried it." She thought of the small things he did to show he cared.
"I'm going to test this." Sue got up and Carly followed her out.
"How?" Lee got up to watch them from the hallway. Sue was in the kitchen loudly talking about cookies. Carly went for the jar of marbles that was closer to the guys. Sean looked back to ask about snacks. The girls giggled and ran to the room.
"Axl?" Lee sat on the arm of the couch by him.
"Sue's a weirdo. I know." He cheered when he ran someone over.
"It's a…" She looked at Sean. She knew if she whispered it to him now, he would have a loud outburst and Sean would find out. "Will you come and sneak in my window tonight?" She ran her fingers through the curl that she loved so much.
"Yeah, of course." He nods eagerly.
"Shit." Lee cursed that Sean was already over at the Heck's house. She was supposed to tell Axl last night but when he got through the window he was on her. She got distracted and forgot to tell him so he could let Sue down gently.
"Hey Lee, your friends were busy." Sean noticed her first.
"Yeah, everyone's busy with this project." She sat between them.
"Hey, babe, we're going to go out and eat soon if you want to come with us." Axl invites.
"Sure." She crosses her legs and sinks back into the couch.
"I got the key to the machete cabinet. I love homework." He squeezed Lee's thigh in celebration.
Lee tensed up when Sue and Carly walked into the room with a paper in her hand. "Sean, can I see you in the…" She let out a deep sigh when the doorbell rang. Brad was at the door. She slammed the door in his face and ran to her room. Lee put a hand over her spending heart hoping that meant she would put off telling Sean. She knew Sean wouldn't be cruel but the embarrassment still might traumatize her.
"I knew you would get into it." Axl kissed her cheek.
"Who wouldn't with this plot?" She watches Sean's character cut someone down with the machete to get money so they could buy drugs, so the characters would get a boast of power.
Mike let Brad in to get his strainer. He said bye to Sue while reminding everyone to see a play he was in. "He's devastated. I feel so bad." Sue pouts while running into her room with Carly chasing after her.
Lee sighs in relief. For the next hour, they played the game while she read Kakashi fanfiction on her phone. "Now that video games are homework they're not as much fun anymore." He throws the controller down.
"I need to get food. I'm getting dizzy." Sean shakes his head when his vision is blurred.
"Yeah, let's hit a drive-through. I want a hamburger and those things…" Axl got up making his guests do so too.
"French fries." Sean put on his varsity jacket.
"No, but we should get those too." He put on his jacket.
"Can I get a milkshake?" Lee asks.
"You can get anything you want, babe." He throws her jacket at her.
"We need to write this down." Sean grabs a paper. "Hey, we're going out to get food. Do you want to come?" He asks Sue and Carly.
"I want to, Sean. I do. But, my life is way too complicated right now." Lee facepalm. She thought she was in the clear. She couldn't have predicted that Sue would want to let him down gently. "I think I need to just focus on cross-country and I hope you can understand that. The time is all wrong. Isn't that always the case?" She let out a laugh. Axl looked at his girlfriend, who nodded slowly. He let out a big sigh. "So, I guess what I'm saying is I'm sorry Sean but I can't go with you."
"We'll bring you back some nuggets. Later." Sean nods to her while they walk out the door. They got into Axl's car. He unfolded the paper. "Oh look, it's a poem. Feeling so strong they can't be wrong like a butterfly and a dove riding on a rainbow of love."
Lee and Axl shared a look when they recognized it as the paper Sue was holding when she was going to ask to speak to Sean alone. "Oh, that's mine," Axl claimed. "Just tooling around with some lyrics for a love song for Lee."
"You dot your i's with hearts?" Sean was shocked.
"Those are butts." The guys laugh while high-fiving.
"Oh, well here Lee." Sean gave it to her.
"Thank you." She cringes when she reads the rest of the cheesy poem. "So touched." She held it to her heart when she saw Sean was watching her reaction. He gave Axl another high five.
S2 E6: Halloween
Lee was dressed as Nico Robin in the passenger seat of her boyfriend's car. Sean, Darren, and their dates were sitting in the backseat. He was driving them to a haunted house. "Do you know where you are going?" She asks Axl.
"Yeah, the tweet said to turn left onto the dirt road after the seventh barn." He remembers it.
"All these roads are dirt." She sighs.
"We passed like 100 barns." Darren points out.
"Well, maybe if you were a better barn counter we wouldn't be lost right now." He shrugged.
"What do you mean we're lost?" She screeches.
"What do you want me to do? We're lost, it's a fact." He wasn't happy about the situation either.
"I don't know, turn back and start over. We'll count the barn or we can go to Debbie's party instead of a haunted house." She pulled her fur coat tighter around herself.
"Are you scared?" He smiles.
"Yes, I am. This is how horror movies start." She pouts.
"Come on, baby." He hooked an arm around her neck to pull her close.
"Axl!" She whines. "I'm serious."
"I know. I know. I'll keep you safe." He kissed her cheek since she wouldn't give him her lips.
"I'm scared too." Michelle was dressed like a devil spoke up. Sean went to wrap his arm around her but she pushed it away. "I'm serious. This road reminds me of that story."
"What story?" Lee looks back at her.
"It was like ten years ago, there were these teenagers in a car on their way up to that abandoned drive-in on Route 4, and they disappeared. Years later a farmer was plowing his field, and he found a shallow grave with a bunch of chopped-up teenagers in it. But when they finally counted up all the body parts there was an extra head with no body." Michelle made a shiver run down everyone's spine.
"But, they're okay, right?" Darren asks.
"No Darren, they're not okay." She shook her head.
The car hit something on the road making it skid off to the side. "Axl!" Lee digs her nails into his arm. Axl tried to get back on the road but the wheels were stuck in the mud. "Axl!" She tears up.
"It's okay. We're just stuck in the mud. Us guys will push it out." He kissed her before getting out with Darren and Sean.
"Don't worry ladies, the guy who killed those teens is probably gone by now. Serial killers don't stay in one place." Sean closes the door to the car.
"I'm going to lock it." The girls encourage Lee to do so. They watch the guys go to the front of the car to push it. A plastic bag flies at Axl. They jumped around screaming like little girls.
"Oh my bad." He grabbed it, when he realized what it was. "We're good." He gave them a thumbs up.
"I'm going to make him drive us to the party after this." Lee was done with this adventure.
"Heads up I'm ditching them when we get there," Michelle said and her friend agreed.
"I don't blame you." She would have if Axl wasn't her boyfriend of one year.
S2 E7 A Birthday Story
Axl was working at the theater all the time. He was picking up shifts and taking on extra responsibility. Lee was going to surprise him with lunch and watch a movie with Cassidy. "I can't believe Axl is working this much and is actually doing something." Cassidy was almost impressed with his hustle. He normally worked regular hours and invited Lee to a few shifts to fool around in the projector room which is the whole reason he took the job.
"I know, he's not even saving for anything." Lee was proud of him for taking some initiative.
They went in to see a confused hot blonde at the ticket stand. Her name tag said Kasey and that she was the manager. "Now, we know why Axl is working so hard." Cassidy shook her head in disappointment.
Lee bit the inside of her cheek because she knew it was true. "I'll take two tickets to The Other Guys."
"What?" Cassidy didn't want to watch that stupid movie.
"Okay? I… umm… I'm sorry I can't figure out how to work this…. AXL." She calls for him.
"Kasey, I'll show you one more time." He walks over with a strained smile. "Oh… um…" He stared at his angry girlfriend with wide eyes.
"Do you guys know each other?" She looks between them.
"I don't know, do I?" She tilts her head.
"This is my girlfriend, Lee. Lee, this is my new manager, Kasey." He introduced the two.
"I didn't know Axl had a girlfriend." She smiles. Cassidy let out a sarcastic laugh while Lee clenched her fists.
"I'll take two tickets to The Other Guys." She orders.
"What I thought…." Axl gasped. They were supposed to watch it together. He saw his girlfriend's angry eyes and knew he had to let her hurt him.
"I hope Mark Wahlberg takes his shirt off." Lee hands over her card. Axl tsk while running it.
"Oh, let me know if he does." Kasey giggles.
"Will do." She snatched the card and tickets from him.
"You aren't going to give him his lunch?" Cassidy whispers while they walk in.
"Look at the empty candy stand. We're going to need it." Lee leads her to the theater.
Axl walks into her room with a Taco Bell bag in his hand. "I'm sorry." He held out the bag.
She took it from him. "For what, ditching me to hang out with the hot blonde."
He puts the drinks on her nightstand. "Yeah." He grabs a towel to put it on the bed like a picnic blanket. "I was doing that. The thing is I don't know what I was doing it for. When she called to offer me the extra shift I would take it because she's hot but when I got there I hated it because she's dumb and annoying. Then I'm thinking what am I doing here, I got a hot girl that is smart and funny." He watches Lee keep her blank stare on him. "She asked me out and I said no."
"What if she wasn't dumb and annoying? What if she liked sports and video games? Would you have left me for her?" She wondered if she was a placeholder for Axl.
"No…. no, I wouldn't." He shook his head.
"I can't believe you, Axl. I thought you learned your lesson with Morgan but clearly not. What do I have to do to get you to understand this ugly feeling of being second? Do I have to flirt with another guy in front of you? Do I have to hang out with them? Do I have to have an emotional affair?" She rants while putting fire sauce on the Mexican Pizza.
"No… no, I don't even like the comment you made earlier about Mark Wahlberg…. Was he shirtless?" He asks.
"No, but I was so angry I came home and watched the Good Vibrations video and did this." She held up her phone to show that she made his Calvin Klein ad her wallpaper.
"Okay, well I'm not going to be Kasey's bitch boy anymore so change it back to me." He glares at her phone screen.
"I don't know." She shrugged.
"Lee, it's not funny." He tried to grab it but she pulled back. "You can even change it to the one where I'm sleeping with my mouth open."
"I'll do the one where you're doing that and hold my Appa plushie." She changed the screen saver.
"Fine. Very mature." He scoffs.
"Just matching your energy." She stuck her tongue out.
S2 E8: Errand Boy
Lee got in Axl's car and leaned in to kiss him to pull back quickly. "What's going on with your face?" Lee looked closely to see light hair above his lip.
"All the guys are growing a beard for the playoffs." He told her.
"I don't know. I like your cheekbones." She rubs them.
"If you don't like when it is fully in then I'll shave it after the playoffs but no complaining about it while it's growing." He compromised.
"Promise?" She tilts her head.
"Yeah, if you don't like it then what's the point? But, I'm going to look good. When have I looked bad in anything?" He looks in the rearview mirror to check himself out.
"That's true." She nods. "Okay, deal."
"Is Axl home?" Lee went to the Heck house to see Mike and Sue was watching Twilight.
"In his room." Mike points to the hallways.
"Thank you." She went to see him standing by the bathroom. She groaned when she saw his awful beard. It was growing in odd uneven patches. "I can't, Axl. I know the deal was that I wouldn't complain but I hate the beard if you can even call it that. I can't even kiss you. I don't want to feel that hair against me. I don't care what you have to say, tell the guys that I hate it and I threaten to stop shaving if you don't. Because I will Axl, I will stop shaving everywhere." She put her hand on her hips.
Frank let out a big sigh while Brick screamed no because he was stuck being his mom's errand boy. Lee was surprised by that odd behavior. She was more surprised when Axl pulled her into a tight hug. "Of course. I'll shave it if it's making you that miserable."
"It does." She was ready for a big argument.
"I'll do it right now." He kicked Frankie and Brick out of the bathroom to do it.
S2 E12: The Big Chill
"This baby is crazy." Lee was bouncing the plastic baby she got from Health class on her hip. "It never stops crying. I'm never having kids. I see why Mom left."
"Lee… that's not true. You were the perfect baby. So sweet and cuddly." He flicks the hard plastic. "This thing is hard, crying, and wetting itself all the time. It's none of the fun things like giggling and squeezing your finger with their little hand. The warm feeling when it looks at you while smiling. Please give me grandbabies."
"Be normal." Donna hissed.
"Not right now. But, later in life." He pleads.
"Maybe?" She froze when it snores quietly. "Okay, everyone be quiet, I'm going to put her down." She tippy toes to her room and put her down on the bed. She grabbed the nail polish to paint her toes. Her cell phone rang, making the baby cry. "Axl, what the hell, you woke up my baby." She grabbed it to put its head by her heart. She read the manual that the heartbeat can calm the baby down.
Axl listens to her baby go silent. "You got it to be quiet. Come over here and shut mine up." She could hear it crying through the phone. "It's technically yours too. Take responsibility for your son."
"You wouldn't hold your daughter when I went to the bathroom. I had to put her on the floor and the health teacher came in and scolded me." She scoffs.
"The kids are making us fight. Why did we have them?" He pulls at his curls.
"Because health class is a requirement." She huffs.
"How about this, you come over and handle the two babies for an hour so I can play video games, and the next hour I take over and you can do something." He offers.
She looks down at her half-finished toes. "Fine." She grabs the nail polish bottle to head to his house.
S2 E14: Valentine's Day II
Frankie was sitting on the couch ready to have an Oprah marathon. "Hey, Mom." Axl greets her.
"Oh, Axl. What are you doing here? I was just cleaning the cupboards." She explains all the chips on the table.
"It's the teacher in-service day." He told her.
"If you don't have school what are you doing out of bed?" She wonders.
"Well, I was thinking maybe you could take me to the mall." He put his hands together to plead.
"Like drop you off. Does your car not have gas?" She would give him gas money to get the house to herself.
"No, like go inside." He points to the door.
"But, our standard deal of not coming within 50 feet of you?" She asks.
"I'm allowing a one-time exception." He put on one finger.
"Oh really? What's the occasion?" She smiles.
"Since I screwed up Valentine's Day last year, Lee told me exactly what she wants, a picnic. But, since I screwed up recently when she found out by Kasey. I figure I should do a surprise Valentine, especially because all her friends have boyfriends this year. I heard some of their plans and it was all better than a picnic. I was cracking under the pressure when I had the thought that mom used to be a girl and she could help me figure out what they like." He explains his situation.
"So you're asking me to do something with you?" She put her hands on her lap. He nods. "For real?" He shrugged. "Oh Axl, of course I'll go with you." She grabbed her purse and stood up.
"Mom? Do you want to put some clothes on?" He stops her from going to the door.
"Oh right." She laughed, looking down at her robe. "Usually, I'm telling you that."
"What about this?" She showed him a cute top. When he just stared at it she pulled out another option. "This one?"
"Maybe." He was having second thoughts. It didn't look like something she would wear. "Why is this so hard?" He walks off.
"Shopping with my son, he asked me." Frankie bragged to the mother next to her before following him. "It's okay, we'll find something. There are at least 12 other stores in the mall for girls your age."
"Yeah, but she goes to the mall all the time with her friends so anything she likes at these stores, she's already bought." He wished that she wasn't rich.
"Okay, well then we can go sentimental. Do you have a pet name for her? Oh, maybe you can start calling her Butterfly?" She pointed at a necklace.
"Butterfly? I don't think so but I like this direction. I call her teddy bear while we're cuddling after…." He trailed off as he picked up the gummy bear earrings. "Thank you, Mom, you're saving me here. Do you want to eat at the food court?"
"Yes!" She forgot about his spill-up at the thought of spending more time with him. "My son asked me to lunch." She brags to a customer while he pays for the earrings.
Axl took Lee to the fancy Italian restaurant downtown. "I still can't believe you took me to a place with clothes napkins." She felt the soft material.
"The best for you." He winks. "We'll have two mudpies." He orders when the waiter comes to take their plates away. Lee smiles at him making up for last Valentine's Day. "So, I got you something." He pushed the small wrapped gift over to her.
She opened it to see purple gummy bear earrings. "Oh, they're so cute."
"Yeah, because you know you're my teddy bear." He let her know they were more than cute.
"Oh, so cute, sentimental, and a little dirty." She blushes, because when he calls her that. "I love it." He leaned across the table to kiss her. They made out until the waiter came with dessert.
S2 E15: Friends, Lies, and Videotapes
Lee was sitting in front of Axl and the Axeman. "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah." Axl finishes the song. "Dude! This is the greatest rock song ever written. Good muse." He winks at his girlfriend. "We can't keep it to ourselves, though. We gotta get it on Youtube, share it with the world."
"All we need is a hot girl to star in our video." Sean nods eagerly. Lee pushes out her chest in pride while flipping her hair over her shoulder. "No, a hot woman so it doesn't look like an amateur thing."
"Woah, woah. I'm the woman in the song so why wouldn't it be me?" She pops up from her seat.
"It is not an insulting thing. I'm sure you would get a lot of views. You're very pretty." Sean wasn't looking to hurt her feelings.
"The prettiest." Darrin nods.
"Okay, get to the points." Axl waves for them to go on.
"It's just we're going for a grown-up-looking music video and that would mean a mature woman," Sean repeated his point.
"This song could be our big break. We need people running to watch it. A mature hot babe could do that." Axl reasoned.
"Well, what adult would star in a teen's music video?" Lee couldn't see a grown woman being sexy for them for free.
"What about my mom?" Darrin thought of someone who would.
"Ew, Darrin, gross." Axl didn't know why he would want his mom to be the video vixen.
"You haven't seen her lately. She's lost 14 pounds. Your girlfriend is plus size, you could be more sensitive." Darrin pouts.
"Okay, Lee is curvy. Hourglass figure." He turned her sideways. "Bam. Boom." He pointed out her boobs and butt. "That's something of a wet dream. Your mom is a mental image we could only hope to erase from our brains."
"So, I'm good enough to objectify in front of your friends but not on film." She rolled her eyes.
"Not now babe… We should ask our biology teacher, Ms. Devereaux." He thought of the teacher all the boys drool over.
"Oh man, she is so hot. You think she'd do it?" Sean grips the neck of his guitar.
"No, she doesn't even like when students try to hit on her." Lee admires the way she shut down the bullshit she put up with every day. "And, she's a feminist."
"Why not? She would be famous. She probably needs the cash. I mean, what do teachers make 100…200 grand tops?" He looks up at the ceiling.
"I'm going." She turned to the door.
"What I thought we were going on a date?" Axl raises his eyebrows.
"No, I told you I was going to hang out with my friends." She lied. She needed to get away before she broke his guitar over his head.
"Okay…. I swore… that's fine because we got a music video to plan." He nods.
"Thanks for your permission." She rolled her eyes before walking out the door.
"It's such bullshit. He thinks I couldn't bring in views. I wouldn't be able to make him famous. It's my song." She paces around her room in front of her friends.
"You realize it's a song about you running to him because he is so hot." Cassidy didn't see why she was flatter that the song was written for her.
"Don't call your friend's boyfriend hot," Debbie whispers.
"Yeah, especially when she's mad at him." Courtney nods.
"Don't compliment Axl at all when she is mad at him. I made that mistake last time when she was mad at him for Morgan." April advised her. Cassidy sighs, wondering why she went into the room with all these airheads.
Lee was so mad she didn't even notice their side conversation. "He would rather work hard to trick Ms. Devereaux than just use me." She points at her chest.
"Why don't we make a video?" Debbie thinks of a solution.
"Oh yeah, good idea Deb. We can show our video on their reveal day and he can't deny that yours is better when everyone likes it more." Courtney pushed it a step further.
"Yeah. Let's do it." She smiles, putting her hands on her hips.
"Seriously?" Cassidy squints. Was her friend going to objective herself to prove to her boyfriend that she's worth objectifying?
"Yeah, don't think you're getting out of this because we need your editing skills." Lee put a finger in her face.
"Fine." She sighs, making the girls clap their hands.
"Take a good look at us, because once this video drops you're going to have to fight through bouncers just to touch us." He pushed play on his computer.
Axl's singing filled the room. "One, two, three. You know you want me. You'll even bleed for me. Can't get enough of me. You're so into me. You're such a hot hottie." The video was of them playing in his living room and of sneaky shots they took of Ms. Devereaux. "You say we'll meet at three. That's why you run to me. That's why you run to me. That's why you run to me." Darrin's mom was running down the hallway at the camera.
"Oh man, Darrin is that your mom?" He was grossed by the older woman with her arms out like she was going to give someone a big hug.
"Just watch, she does some nice work here." Darrin nods. She shook her butt for the camera while spanking herself, making people gasp. People tried to flee the room.
"Alright, no one leaves yet. We got a competing video." April blocks the exit.
"Wait what?" Axl tilts his head.
"If you can clear the middle." Lee directed them away from Axl's laptop.
"Move Axl." Cassidy was in the back middle row with the projector. He was confused but grabbed his laptop and moved to the side.
Cassidy started the video and it plays on the whiteboard. "One, two, three. You know you want me. You'll even bleed for me. Can't get enough of me. You're so into me. You're such a hot hottie." Lee was in a colt cheering uniform making Axl's eyes go wide. She ran the pompom up her body and over her head. She rotates her hips the way April taught her to while spinning around. Courtney and Debbie join her to do a dance routine. There were a few clips that Lee stole from Axl of them playing in his living room. "You say we'll meet at three. That's why you run to me. That's why you run to me. That's why you run to me." Lee was running in a pajama set of satin shorts and a cami. She ran in slow motion Baywatch style.
"Are you not wearing a bra?" Axl's jaw dropped.
"Nope." She pops her p.
He looks around at all the guys watching his girlfriend's breasts bouncing. They were threatening to come out of the cami. The next clip was her kneeling on her bed beckoning the person with the camera to join her. "Enough. Enough." He put his body in front of the projector. The crowd booed him. "Everyone get out. Get out." He points at the door. People slowly left the room when he stopped the video.
"Are you mad that my video was better?" Lee knew he was a sore loser but this was extreme.
"You think that's why I'm mad?" He scoffs at her nodding. "That is soft porn."
"Isn't that what a lot of music videos are?" She thought she met the requirement.
"I don't want a bunch of guys jerking off to you." He went to her laptop to scream. "It already has thousands of views. Oh my god, look at these comments. The hot babe could run to me any day. Delete it. Delete it now. It's my songs."
"Okay, Okay." She deleted it from her YouTube account. Axl felt like he could breathe again. "I didn't know you could get this jealousy. The dominance is attractive."
Axl smirks at having unlocked a new kink within his girlfriend. "Let me tell you another thing, you are never going to be in a music video again."
"Yes sir." She nodded eagerly, with lust in her eyes.
"After you send that video to me. We can find a supply closet to do it in." He wrapped his arm around her waist. They make out for a bit before he pulls away. "Come on, get to it." He turned her around and slapped her ass to get her going in that direction.
S2 E23: The Bridge
"So, what bikini do you think I should use on your first day on the job?" Lee lays out all her swimsuits.
"Presley, don't distract me. I need to study or I won't be getting this job at all." He holds the lifeguard book tightly to his chest.
"Huh? Full name and not wanting to help me get half dressed, you are wigging out." She raised an eyebrow. "So what, you're going against Sean? You make it like you've never beat him at anything." Axl looks up at her with wide eyes. "Never? But, you've been friends with him since preschool."
"I know. And, that's why this is so important. So, let me study and surprise me on my first day." He put his head back into the book.
Lee had driven Sue and Carly to the community pool. "You ready?" Caryl looks at her best friends.
"So, ready? Let's do it." Sue opens the gate. "I can't believe I'm wearing a two-piece."
"Me neither. You look so hot." Caryl giggles. Lee shrugged being that they were all in their cover-ups.
"No, you look so hot." Sue giggles with her.
"We all look so hot." Lee smiles. A whistle blew making them look at the lifeguard chair. Axl curls his finger for her to come over to him. "What's up?" She put her hands above her eyes so she could look up at him.
"You're in violation 63, too many clothes at the pool." He winks.
"Oh well, I better correct that lifeguard." She put her hands on the bottom of her oversized shirt to pull it over her head to reveal a leopard bikini.
"You are a sight for sore eyes. All day there have been little kids running around. Their parents aren't watching them at all. I'm a lifeguard, not a babysitter." He huffs.
"I'm sorry, it's not as you imagine but you beat Sean at something big." She reminds him why this meant so much to him.
"Yeah, I did." He smiles. He looked out at the pool to frown and blow his whistle making Lee jump. "Don't dive in head first." He yelled when the kids' heads popped out of the water.
Lee was leaning against the lifeguard chair while sipping on a soda. The next time he wanted her to come to keep him company at work she was going to need to bring a friend or a book because they hardly got to talk. He spent most of his time scolding the kids. He blew his whistle, "Hey! No running! How many times have I gotta tell you? Do you think I like yelling? I don't want to have to say it again!"
Frankie came over to see him. "Hey, Lee. Hi honey, how's it going?"
"Oh my god, it's horrible! Kids are running everywhere and I'm responsible for them so if they fall I gotta get them a Band-Aid. If they make a mess, I gotta clean it up. I'm constantly yelling at them but do they listen? No! You have no idea what it's like." He put his sunglasses on.
"Oh, I might have some ideas." She went over to see her friend, Nancy.
"And you," Axl pointed at the guy sitting behind them. "Stop staring at my girlfriend's ass. She's underage, you perv."
"Huh?" Lee looks back, not realizing the old man was staring at her. He looks away seeing her disgusting look.
Sean came over with two girls to shake Axl's hand. "Hey man, congrats. The best man won."
"Thanks, dude." He snaps his fingers.
"Yeah, we're going to bail. Too many little kids here. We're going to the lake." He waves to him before leaving with the two ladies. Lee watches their backs with longing.
Axl deflated and a kid walked up his chair. "Excuse me, lifeguard. My little brother had an accident in the pool."
"Is he hurt?" Axl prepares to jump off the chair.
"It's not that kind of accident." He looked ashamed.
Axl huffs while hopping out of the chair. "Go to the lake." He turned to Lee.
"You sure?" She wanted to, but she didn't want to leave him miserable.
"Yeah, it's no fun here. And, I don't want you seeing me fishing out poop." He grabs the net.
"We'll go to the lake on your day off." She kissed him before running to her car.
S2 E24: Back to Summer!
"Babe, it's so lame. I have to do community service or I won't pass." He huffs. "I guess we should do it together."
"I already did it. You think I would wait until the last minute for this." She squints at him.
"Yeah, that's not you. Why didn't you take me with you?" He points an accusing finger at her.
"Ew Lee, I don't want to pick up dog poop. Ew Lee, I don't want to be around a bunch of little kids and make voices for them. Ew Lee, I'm not spending my weekend in some soup kitchen serving smelly people." She mocks his voice.
He nods, remembering him rejecting her. "I didn't realize you were doing that because it was a school requirement. I thought you had weird hobbies."
"You thought I liked going to animal shelters to pick up poop, reading to children, and giving up my weekends to feed the homeless." She did end up enjoying herself but it wasn't her first choice.
"I don't know, you like school. You're a little odd." He shrugged. "But, I love you anyways."
"So charming." She grabbed the pamphlets from him. "I would do Meals on Wheels because you can do the meal prepping at home and say it took you longer than it did."
"That's my problem solver." He laughed while kissing her forehead.
"Hey!" Lee pulled up alongside Heck's car. It broke while Mike and Axl were delivering for Meals on Wheels. Her Grandma's car was right behind her.
"Thank you for coming babe." He leaned in the window to kiss her.
"I figure you guys could take my car to deliver half. My grandma and I would deliver the other half." She got out of the car.
"You are a lifesaver." He kisses her.
"You can thank me in kisses later. Let's get this done." She pushed him back to open the backseat of Heck's car.
"You don't ever let her go." Mike slapped his son's shoulder before helping load the boxes into the cars.
"Yeah, I'm not going to." He watches her take half the addresses from his dad.
Brick was at Cole's house since all his family was out. Donna agreed to watch him. "Woah, what is this room?" He walks into Lee's manga room/Donna's knitting room.
"My knitting room." She points at the big basket full of yarn.
"What are the books?" He looks at the spine to not recognize a single one of them.
"There are Lee's manga. There are Japanese comics." She explains.
"Naruto." He reads a spine. "Can I read them?"
"Okay, but these are special to Lee, Brick. So there are ground rules. They don't leave this room and no one is eating or drinking around them." She heard from the librarian about how he destroyed books.
"Okay." He took out the first in the Naruto series and sat down.
"You gotta read it right to left." She explains to him.
"I can't go out." She told Axl.
"What? Why?" He has never been refused by her before.
"Brick is here. I can't leave him by himself." She explains.
"Why is Brick here?" He tilts his head.
"He is reading manga." She led him to the room.
"Hey Brick, you want to go home so I can take Lee to a party." He nods to the door.
"No, the manga can't leave the room." He didn't look up from the One Piece manga.
"They can't." Lee wasn't going to have them destroy and ruin her collection. "We can order pizza and watch whatever you want."
"But, we were going to Courtney's party. She was going to have jelly shots." He whispers.
"Don't worry, you'll get lucky either way." She pats his chest.
"Oh, call me down for the pizza." Brick demands.
Axl groaned. "I might not even be in the mood if he's here."
"I'll risk it." She rolled her eyes while going downstairs.
"I'm serious. I might not put out. I won't. I'm not a sure thing." He yelled down to her.
"I'm not sure what put out is, but I'm not convinced." Brick turns the page. "You are Sanji." He showed him a panel of Sanji with hearty eyes for Nami. "And Lee's is Nami. She can say and do whatever she likes and you will follow her like a puppy"
"That's not true." He shook his head.
"What about the time she throws out your nunchucks? The thing you loved most in the house." He kept his thumb in the manga to keep his place.
"That was an accident. She didn't like me using them while driving. During tug-a-war, I lost my grip and she accidentally threw it out the window. She bought me a better pair." He defends.
"The time she sat on your guitar." He gave another example.
"She couldn't see it with all the clothes on my bed. And, it's not like she broke it." He couldn't be mad at her for that.
"What about the time she said she wouldn't kiss you if you had a beard? Sure you wanted to shave it but she said hurtful things and you didn't blink an eye." He reminds him.
"To be fair I wouldn't kiss her if she had a beard either." He shrugged.
"Axl, you want the meat lovers?" She yelled.
"Yes, I do." He yelled. "See, Nami doesn't care about what Sanji wants." He laughs at proving his point before walking downstairs. "I just prove to Brick that I'm not Sanji and you're not Nami."
"And just when I was thinking of integrating bikini tops into my regular wear." She snapped her fingers.
"Maybe I didn't think this through." He squints at the ceiling making her laugh.