Reconnecting With My Dad John

getting to know you

" so Tilly what do you wanna do today?"

John asked me while i was laying on the couch

" well i wanna go and find me a boyfriend and maybe get to know the male body a whole lot better and discover what it is about men that drive us gals wild apparantly"

Me and dad have always had this silly humour where i would always tease him or try and get him annoyed as come on it is funny. He gets all worked up and you can see in his face that he hates the thought of me with any boy. He is so protective of me.

" Dont even joke with me about that. You know i dont like the thought of you with any boys"

" Dad im 15 im at the age now where i need to start experimenting you know i cant be a adult who knows things if i aint experimented. Apparantly experimenting is fun and while in america im ready to get my sexy time on"

" You dont need to know any of that stuff your gonna stay a virgin for the rest of your life young lady"

" No im not daddy. Im ready to be swept away by a sexy young man or old i aint fussy i dont discriminate"

" nobody will be sweeping your ass anywhere unless there rich then that can have you in exchange for money or chocolate Oliver's whichever is fine with me"

" wait your gonna pimp out your daughter your a disgrace lennon"

" well yeah i would im getting old i need to make money somehow. i need money you need experience were a great team. Think about it  lennon and lennon make your desires a reality"

" who needs lennon/mccartney when theres lennon/lennon"

You see i told you we have a weird humour. Sometimes we are more like 2 best friends that daddy and daughter. 

" so i guess were just gonna go out and get some lunch then"

" yeah i cant go and be a underage ho on a empty stomach now can i"

" your to much at times" 

" wonder who I take it after and before you say it I know it's defintly not my mum"

" Well she always has been to prim for our sense of humour"

" Yeah we always could shock her. I still do it's part of the fun of being a wild teenager"

I quickly grab my leather jacket before we go to lunch.

We leave the apartment and and the second we reach the front of the dakota i see a bunch of people with cameras

" oh lord here we go. im gonna be flashed at and at such a young age"

"im opening your eyes to new experiences"

" when I said early about getting to see the male body this wasn't the flashing I had in mind"

"It's the only flashing your gonna see until you're at least 38"

" very Pacific number there dad" I laughed

"Well I've thought about it but let's go it ain't the best time to talk"

We walked out and someone shouted

" oh my lord thats Tilly thats his daughter"

And suddenly my eyes were getting blinded by the flashing of the camera and i hated it. I hated getting my picture taken. I was always so awkward like what am i meant to do in a picture how do awkward girls pose and not look silly. What am I meant to do with my limbs it's just complicated. 

" Tilly Tilly Tilly what do you want to be when you grow up"

Someone shouted at me 

" a Stripper" i shouted back making everyone go quiet and making me instantly regret trying to be funny as they obviously dont know my humour and thought i was being serious and my dad looked at me with a look of shock on his face

" did you really just say that" he whispered to me

" yeah come on it was funny"

" she is just joking with you. She has a weird sense of humour"

" Yeah totally joking there will be no poles in my future"

The crowd started to laugh and honestly the laughter sounded fake but it was better than the awkward silence

" how does it feel being  with your dad in america?" someone else asked

" feels exactly the same as being with him in Britain"

" we better get going" 

John pulled me away from the fans so quickly i thought my arm was gonna come out of its socket

" jeez no need to pull me with such force" i say to a embarrassed John

" i cant believe you said that"

" why cant you believe it? Where do you think my sarcastic wit somes from?"

" well you have a point it just feels weird when i hear my humour coming from someone else"

" well i am the future John" 

" thats a scary thought"

" i know just think in a few years i can compare myself to jesus and make a whole religion hate me and i so cant wait"

" dont you ever freaken do that i was scared for my life"

" im joking i aint that dumb. You dont ever joke about religion and becoming a stripper there no go areas"

" strippers have feelings to you know you shoudnt joke about them"

" and you shouldn't compare yourself to Jesus but you joked about that so I think mines a little less offensive"

" shut up smartarse" he laughed playfully pushing me away