can prove that you are book boyfriend material, after all.
Jared: *arches brow
Me: *looks away, fuming* It doesn’t hurt your face to smile. Why do you have to be so stubborn?
Jared: ...
Me: You have a soft side. Just show it! The perfect book boyfriend is bad in all the right ways, and they know how to be vulnerable. I’m not asking you to shed tears or anything.
Jared: *eating, glaring
Madoc: *laughing
Jax: *smiling
Me: For me? Try? Please?
Jared: Do you remember the sixteen year old girl who was forced to go to confession and then refused to do penance, because she still wouldn’t admit she’d done anything wrong?
Me: *slouches, looks away
Jared: That was a long time ago. Have you done penance yet?
Me: *scowls*
Jared: *smiles* That’s the part of you I come from.
Me: *scowls
Jared: You want Book Boyfriend? That’s the Madoc part of you speaking.
Madoc: :D
***
Madoc: Fallon and I have more naughty business to share.
Me: No.
Madoc: But you didn’t tell them about us in the closet while our parents were sitting right out at the dinner table. That was hot. You should write about that!
Me: No.
Madoc: Why not?
Me: Because you were sixteen at the time. I can’t write about sixteen-year-olds having sex.
Fallon: *snort* I wouldn’t call it that. It was more like two minutes of Madoc groaning ‘Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.’
Madoc: Oh, really? That wasn’t you tearing off my belt and wrapping your damn legs around me like a rubber band.
Fallon: *shrugs* Might’ve been.
Me: You attacked him?
Fallon: He whispered in my ear. I just remembered it being kind of hot.
Madoc: *laughing
Me: What did you say to her?
Madoc: I said she was turning my two-by-four into a four-by-eight.
Me: Ew!
Fallon: You did not say that!
Madoc: I did. It didn’t take much to turn you on. The next day I told you that I wanted to wear your thighs as ear muffs on the way to school, and we were late! Like really late! That one definitely worked on you.
Fallon: I would never go for dumb ass lines like that!
Madoc: *looks her up and down* Mmmmm, I’m not a weatherman, but you can expect more than a few inches tonight, baby.
Fallon: *laughing* *wraps arms around him* You’re an idiot, you know that?
Madoc: *throws her over shoulder, takes her inside
Me: *creeps away, back to writing
***
Madoc: What are you doing?
Jax: Nothing.
Madoc: It looked like something.
Jax: *shuts computer off
Madoc: Are you accessing traffic cameras on your computer?
Jax: No.
Madoc: Are you lying?
Jax: Yes.
Madoc: Good. I prefer to believe you just watch porn in here, anyway.
Jax: Good man.
Madoc: *clears throat
Jax: *shifts eyes
Madoc: *shuffles feet
Jax: Sooooo.....how’s the Vampire Diaries going?
Madoc: Dude, I’m so frustrated. No one ever really dies on that show.
Jax: Hmmmm....
Madoc: I don’t know if I’m supposed to feel worried or sad or just wait for them to come back the next episode.
Jax: Yeah...that must suck.
***
Madoc: I don’t think I’m ready to have kids. I just had to have a man-to-man with Lucas, and it was really uncomfortable.
Jared: When is anything too uncomfortable for you?
Madoc: Since I had to calm down a twelve-year-old whose mom just caught him in the bathroom.
Jax: Caught him doing what?
Madoc: What do you think he was doing? He was all bent out of shape, thinking there was something wrong with him, and I had to explain that that’s what happens to healthy men. What he was doing was normal, and he shouldn’t be ashamed.
Jared: You didn’t teach him about sex, did you?
Madoc: I’m not his parent, and it’s not like I gave him condoms. Relax. I just told him it’s normal, and every guy does it.
Jax: ...
Jared: ...
Madoc: You guys masturbate, right?
Jared: *swallows, walks away
Jax: *coughs, walks away
Madoc: Aw, come on! You bunch of babies. We can talk about this!
***
Fallon: Madoc, get off me.
Madoc: Shh...just let it