Andante.Lola
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dyonnaluvxxSO MUCH TO SAY , I FORGET TO START
dyonnaluvscoding`THERE GOES A DAY , FADING *AS IT ▪▪ ⊱ *◟PASSES
dyonnaluvxxx⇣ 》▪▪ Forget the grey»
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》 ⋮▫ LET IT FALL APART ♔↓ IT'S OKAY * ..` ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ↯
dyonnaluvscoding♔▪▪ ILIKEYOUINGLASSES
Milo borderline pushed the warm cup of coffee into the kid's hands, desperately clinging onto this small amount of direction. This was the issue he had with small talk and casual social gatherings. As a scientist, he lived his life as though it was a flow chart. One action always lead to another, pre-planned, action. There were simply too many variables introduced when other human beings were added to the equation. He shuffled off into the kitchen, pouring himself a new mug of coffee, being careful not to drip any onto the counters that were already covered in various baking ingredients from this morning's pancakes.
He made his way back out to the hallway, taking a long sip from his cup as he debated where to go next in this conversation. The boy had mentioned working for the paper. That was nice. A teenager with a job. Unlike his son. He could ask him questions about the paper. That would be a perfectly socially acceptable course of action.
... but that could lead to Will returning the favor and asking Milo about his job... Which was nonexistent.
In his head, the conversation went something like this: "Oh, yeah. I work at the paper. It's pretty neat. What do you do? Sit on your a** all day and cry softly into a pillowcase? Yeah, I thought so. You look like that type."
Milo's conscience was a little hard on him. But seriously. What did he say now? "I'm a stay-at-home dad with twelve years of secondary education and an intimate working knowledge of the inner mechanisms of evolution and the stuff that has shaped the entire natural world as we know it... but now I mostly spend my time perfecting the grilled cheese sandwich. I'm making some real progress in that area of my research."
He heard a small discussion between his wife and Kara's parents regarding drug use and he cringed inwardly. Milo had always been the type to play everything very close to the vest. He never revealed more about himself and his family than he had to... So living in a large, densely populated city worked very well for him because, well, no one cared. He could count on one hand the number of people he had brought up Danny's drug problem with and three of them were lawyers or police officers.Milo knew how these small town folk operated. His beautiful wife had been an urban-dweller her entire life. She did now know the exact way that these people were hanging onto her every word. And while, yes, they would be the first to be on the doorstep with casseroles upon hearing of the families' plight, they would also be the subject of the multitude of whisperings between the pews at church on Sunday.
Small town life was charming and helpful... but it came with a price.
They would now be known as the weird family with the unemployed dad and the drug addict son intent on corrupting their daughters... Which, while not untrue, wasn't exactly flattering. He saw Kara breeze past him out the front door, his eyebrows raised a bit. After the door slammed a bit forcefully behind her, he waited a minute, the sound ringing through the open-air foyer. To the closed door, he raised his empty hand in a wave. "Goodbye. It was a pleasure meeting you."
He vaguely heard his wife chastising his children from the hallway where, no doubt, they had gotten into some type of scuffle or another. Siblings bickered. Nothing too surprising. However, Dru always took it so personally when her children did not get along. As if they did it to hurt her. Milo perferred to look at it from a Darwinian perspective. He turned over his shoulder, looking at them with a kind of benign indifference. "Relax, darling. One of them will get their asses naturally selected one of these days if they keep it up. It's all in the beautiful way that this world works. The herd will cull itself."
Father of the year, right here.
Synthia came down the stairs, a flurry of activity still in her pajamas. Noting her instant flame to her cheeks and sheepish demeanor as she crept back up the stairs, Milo smirked a little bit. "Good morning. Apparently, we're having a party today. At 8:00 AM. Isn't that something?"He sighed a bit and turned back to Will, taking another sip from his cup. "So. You work at the paper? What's that like?"