Soft music played in the background as Antoine and Clara helped his mum prepare dinner.
"You better love food, we French, we eat. A lot." Antoine said and Clara nodded, "who doesn't love food?"
"Antoine, hand me that." His mum said making him look around to where she was pointing but Clara got it for her.
She snatched it from Clara, "you're welcome." Clara said rolling her eyes and going back to cutting the vegetables.
"Ow!" Clara jumped back making Antoine drop what he was doing and grab a wet towel and clean up the blood on her thumb.
"Maman, can you go get a band aid?" Antoine asked and his mum rolled her eyes stopping what she was doing.
"No it's fine if she doesn't want too then I can, where are the band aids?" Clara asked.
"Oh non, I'll do it—"
"No you don't seem like you want too so I can do it."
"In the bathroom. Not the big bathroom that's le salle de bain."
Clara nodded heading up the stairs to find the bathroom.
"vraiment maman?!"
"Antoine, I don't like her." His mum said making Antoine shake his head.
"At least try to be nice isn't that what you told Théo, Maud, and I? To be nice?"
Antoine's mum sighed putting the chicken in the oven, "Antoine, just go check on her."
Antoine nodded walking out of the kitchen and heading up the stairs.
He walked by each room and then stopped seeing her in his room.
"What are you looking at?"
Clara looked back at him and she pointed to the picture. Antoine turned on the light and stepped inside his childhood room.
"I like this picture of you and your familia." Clara smiled making Antoine smile as well.
"Yeah it's a good picture."
"You look so adorable."
"Aren't I always?"
"No." Clara joked nudging him a little, "I'm kidding, Antoine."
"Antoine! Clara! Maman wants you two down stairs!" Théo yelled making the two walk out of his bedroom.
"Did you get the bandaid?"
"Yeah I did." She held up her thumb making Antoine laugh to see it was a snoopy bandaid.
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"This is really good." Clara said looking up to see his mum didn't even care making Clara roll her eyes.
"Maman, she said it was good." Antoine said looking up at his mum.
"That's lovely to know."
Antoine became frustrated, he didn't want this to be a bad trip for Clara he wanted it to go smoothly and have nothing wrong with it.
"J'ai eu jusqu'à ma tête maman, je suis fait!" Antoine bursted out loudly standing up making everyone look up at him.
"Antoine, calm down." His mum said making Antoine shake his head.
"Non, I will not! You hate someone you've hardly ever interacted with!"
Clara was in shock the way Antoine raised his voice with his mum, Clara could recall the memory of her boyfriend shouting at her at midnight once she had came back from her shift to see he was making out with her no ex-best friend.
Clara looked over at Antoine to see the sincere and anger expression laid out onto his face.
"Antoine, just sit down." Théo said making him look over at his brother.
"And when did I make you the boss of me?"
"Antoine, it's alright." Clara spoke up quietly making his mum look up over at her.
"I can understand you don't like me but at least trying to be nice is all I ask for, I don't need you to be extremely nice but the so often nice would be okay." Clara faintly smiled getting up from the dinner.
"Where are you going?" Antoine asked watching Clara leave the table.
"For a walk."
"Well you can't go alone especially in Mâcon." Théo said looking over at Antoine who was looking at Clara.
Clara let out a sigh and Antoine took that as his cue to go with her.
"Au revoir, Soyez prudent!"
"Oui, maman!"
