Prompt: Modern AU. It's Clem's first day of school, and Carley and Lee are sad and lonely, they don't like it at all.
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"Daddy, did you put my lunch in my backpack?"
"Check."
"Are all my supplies in my backpack?"
Lee picked up his daughter's book bag and looked inside. Everything was on there. Folders, notebooks, erasers, all of the good stuff. Lee didn't know why a first grader would need all of this, but she did.
"Check." He said finally, smiling over at his daughter.
"Let's go then, daddy!" Clementine urged.
"Wait!" Clem and Lee whipped around, only to see Carley, all dressed and ready.
"What, mommy?" Clementine asked.
"I'm coming with you guys." Carley said.
"Okay, that's fine by me." Lee said, watching as his daughter put on her backpack. Then, the three of them went outside and plied into the car.
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Carley and Lee both watched as Clementine exited the car and walked into her school. They had showered her with kisses and hugs before she had even got out of the car, to which she was very embarrassed, shouting "Daddy, mommy, stop!"
Carley sniffled.
"Are you crying?" Lee asked her.
"No..." Carley replied as she burst into tears. It was a day that every mother dreaded, the day they her child started school for the year.
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It was a day that every couple dreaded, the day that they were in the house alone for the first time in awhile.
They sat on the couch side by side, silently watching TV. Usually, Clementine would be snuggled in between them, but it was just them.
"You know what I just realized?" Carley said.
"What?" Lee asked her.
"We're so boring. It's just so quiet here without our daughter. I'm sorry honey, but it just sucks being alone."
"I hear you." Lee admitted. "We always want free time, but now that we get it, it just fucking sucks."
Carley nodded her agreement. They two sat in silence until Lee spoke up again.
"You know, we could have sex." He suggested.
Carley glared at him. "Seriously?"
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"I'm going to say hello to her first." Lee insisted.
"Okay, but I'm getting the first hug." Carley said.
"Why you gotta be like that." Lee said.
Just then, Clementine walked out of the school. Lee and Carley practically flew out of the car.
"Hey honey!" Lee shouted as Carley pulled her in for a hug.
"Are you guys okay?" Clementine asked.
"We missed you!" Carley said.
"What, I've only been gone for a few hours."
"It felt like eternity." Lee said.
"Can we get in the car? I don't want my friends to see me." Clementine said.
"Oh my god! Our little girl has friends!" Carley felt tears form in her eyes.
"Of course I do." Clem said, confused on how her mother was surprised.
"Just get in the car, honey, so we can get back home. The house is horrible without you."
"Is this how it's going to be for the rest of the school year?" Clementine mumbled to herself as they drove home.
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