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It's been two days since Jodie was discharged from the hospital and she hasn't done much but sleep, she also forced Pete to sleep considering he had only had two hours sleep in two days. It's now Wednesday 19th, they let Pete have the week off.

"No, my dad's asleep right now I'm just grabbing a snack" Jodie says over the phone to Dave. He knew Pete would be sleeping a lot because Jodie basically forced him so he's been checking up every few hours to make sure she's okay

"Do you need me to come over and make dinner or anything?"

"I'm okay Uncle Dave, I had food earlier and I'm not too hungry. Just hungry enough for a snack"

"okay kid, get is a bell if you beed is"

"will do"

"bye JJ"

"bye"

She hangs up the phone and hears a knock at the door. A bit confused as she's not expecting anyone. She slowly walks up and looks through the peep hole

"God, you scared me. I didn't know who it was" she let's out a sigh of relief when she sees scott

"I'm going to keep you company, Duncan is annoying me to play Fifa with him and I really don't want to" he groans picking her up and putting her on his shoulder, he closes the door with his foot and takes her through to the living room

"are you going to put me down?" she asks upside down

"okay fine" he puts on her on the couch and climbs on top of her

"play with my hair and I'll play with yours" he mumbles

They lay like this for a while, nearly falling asleep but Scott breaks the silence

"I was really worried about you know you. Please whenever we you're doing a deal let me be there. I don't want anything to happen like this again, especially to my girlfriend"

"I'm your girlfriend?"

"well yeah, I thought you already knew that"

"we never really confirmed anything but I'm happy being your girlfriend"

"I'm happy being your boyfriend" he quickly pecks her lips but it turns into much more, nothing sexual just a more heated kiss

"what the fuck is going on in here" Pete says angrily

"oh hi dad"

"no don't hi dad me. you know no boys are allowed if i'm asleep or not home and Scott I thought you would have been more respectful. After everything we've just been through. I need you to leave so I could have a talk with Jodie"

"Okay Pete calm down"

"Listen kid, you're not sitting in my house telling me what to do, You'll respect me in my own house"

"there's no need to shout"

"Scott! Seriously you're being rude"

"What? He's overreacting"

"Right that's it. Out now"

"you're kicking me out?"

"Scott this attitude has came from nowhere" Jodie scoffs

"I'm leaving"

He leaves the door open and dad slams it shut

"dad I'm so sorry about him"

"it's not your fault but you know the rules"

"I know, I'm sorry. He turned up but I should have told him no"

"you know you're in the wrong, you've apologised. It's okay. What is actually up with him?"

"I don't know, he was perfectly fine before. It came out of nowhere"

Pete lays shirtless in his shorts and Jodie is under his arm in his shirt. Jodie always stole her dads shirts, it brought her a lot of comfort and Pete never minded. They are watching their favourite movie 'Finding Nemo' yes Pete is a big softie when it comes to Jodie. They've watched this movie ever since Jodie was a kid. Jodie grew an attachment to the movie, therefore Pete had an attachment.

"How many times do you think we've watched this over the past 16 years?" Jodie asks, eyes focusing on the film

"we watch it like four times a month, times that by twelve times in by sixteen"

"four time twelve that's...forty eight. forty eight times sixteen is...seven hundred and sixty eight"

"wow, when did you become good at maths, you done that without a calculator"

"oh thanks dad" she scoffs with a smile

They were each others person. They really did only make each other happy. Jodie has always been Pete's number one. He was the first to hold her, he was the first to feed her, changed her, bathe her, he was the one the helped her take her first steps, her first word. he was there for the first of everything.

Jodie

"What is this Tiktok app?" Dad ask from his laptop

This is what I've been dreading, a parent interested in social media. How do you explain it to this because it turns into twenty questions or they just don't understand at all and you need to break it down further

"Why?"

"I got an emails from the other teachers in the school and apparently it's the new craze around school"

Fun fact: Dad wears glasses while on his laptop

"Dad, the app is has been around for a while please don't ask any questions on it. You're old"

"I'm thirty six"

"you were twenty when I was born" (ik that wont really match up but fuck it)

"indeed I was"

"you look like a proper teacher with your specs on"

"is it maybe because I am a proper teacher"

"maybe"

"right it's 11. Bed time"

"bed time? what am I ten again?"

She did in fact go up to her bed at 11:15 and fell asleep straight away.

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Small but it will do...if you can't tell I'm running out of ideas. Please give me some

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