love bites ᵗʷⁱˡⁱᵍʰᵗ

2) single dad and his four children

Eric Edwards loved his kids. This was a fact and not an opinion. He loved each of them equally — even when they would kick up a fuss or got in trouble.

Effy was the worst when it came to getting in trouble. With the police, with school and with her family. It was likely due to her mother leaving when she was barely a toddler, being motherless affected her.

Eric only got to live with two of his children, his youngest daughters. They were lovely girls — but living with just girls was a bit off a hassle. Lucky for him, his other two children were often around.

"I swear to the fucking god I will stab you." Effy said, her face screwed up as she stared at Oscar. The problem you ask? Effy was winning at monopoly, until she landed on the hotel on the dark blue piece Ozzy owned.

"I already got shot like a few months ago."

"Well they didn't shoot you well enough!" Effy tilted her head, taking it as a challenge. She opened the kitchen drawer behind her, grabbed the sharpest knife and held it in her hand.

Ozzy was up and running, his youngest sister hot on his heels.

Eric sighed, rolling the dice. His children were prone to chasing each other around the house (with and without a weapon) in family game night.

He moved his piece, before taking a sip of his drink.

Being a father was a full time job. He had been alone with them for seventeen years — not that he would change a thing, he adored them — and it seemed nothing changed.

Each Edwards had their own life and thing to do and complete and utter chaos could be found when the five were brought together.

There house wasn't particularly big — it was a three bedroom. As children, Ozzy and Addy shared until they were eleven where Addy was moved into Immy and Effy's room. The boy found it lonely, but at least he got his own space

A lot of Addy's stuff had stayed in his room when they were teens because there wasn't enough room in the girls bedroom.

But when the eldest two moved out, Immy and Effy were able to have their own rooms.

Soon enough, Effy and Ozzy were back laughing. Like he thought, his children were weird and threatened each other — none of them had actually gone through with said threats.

Effy watched the board carefully, irritated every time anyone but her was winning. Stupid dark blue pieces ruining her life!

The Edwards family had had game night a little before Immy was born. It was tradition and something none of them would miss. Every week on a Tuesday the family gathered in their childhood home with their father, played games, watched films and had dinner together. It was bliss.

By the end of the game Addy had won — Immy, Effy and Ozzy argued that she used her psychology degree to win, Eric laughed them off as he packed up the game.

The was always an obscene reason why one of them shouldn't have won — and no matter what, Eric found them funny. Ozzy wasn't allowed to win because he was the designated middle child and 'no one likes middle children' (a curtesy of Effy), Effy couldn't win because 'they played easy' and because she was the 'baby of the family', Addy couldn't win because she was 'cheating with her brainy-science-degree', and Immy couldn't win because the siblings collectively agreed she was too much of a bimbo to win.