The Good Hair Family Sitcom

S1 E1.3: Pilot

Andi's POV

This traffic is working my last nerve, but we're almost through. Please let us be almost through. When I see red and blue lights, I think my prayer must've been answered, and I light up, causing Amber to do the same.

"I can see the accident!" I cheer.

"Thank God," Amber responds.

"Uh, guys," comes Hazel's voice. "What about over there?"

I glance back to see her pointing at another set of red and blue lights farther up around the bend, which at this pace, means at least another fifteen minutes. I nearly smack the horn on the steering wheel as I drop my head down, groaning in agony.

"Can I walk?" Hazel suddenly asks.

"No," I reject.

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Marty's POV

Buffy's stress is clear as day on her face, and Cara is sitting on the floor, holding her own feet. I've been attempting to talk her into putting on shoes for too long, and our other kids are beginning to get restless.

"If we're not gonna go, can I go to Dylan's?" Andreas asks.

"We are going," Buffy snaps. "Cara, just put on your shoes."

I love Buffy, but her patience level is that of a toothpick. Feeling her worry clogging the air like smoke, I stand up and take her hand, leading her out into the hallway.

"It's fine," I tell her. "It's just shoes."

"I know it's just shoes, but why it makes no sense," she huffs. "Why is this even a problem we're having?"

"We had kids," I remind her. "So in return for all the happiness they give us, they also don't make sense sometimes."

She nods. "You're right. I'm sorry. I just need to relax. If she doesn't wear shoes, the stronger one of us can carry her."

"Oh, so me," I say with a grin.

"Bold assumption," she replies.

She tugs on my hands, bringing me in, and I kiss her. In that simple second, all the emotions of that very first kiss at Andi's party come back in a flash, and when I back away, I'm smiling like I did when I went home that night in grade eight.

"Now let's go be parents," I say.

The two of us make our way back into the mud room, ready to take on the situation, but as soon as we step in, we're stunned by a surreal sight. Cara is standing with her rubber rain boots on, holding her oldest brother's hand.

"What did you do?" Buffy asks, eyes wide in awe.

"I made her a deal," Andreas explains. "She wears shoes as long as she's allowed to wear something else too."

I furrow my brows. "What is something else?"

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TJ's POV

"Get this thing away from me or I'm throwing it out the window!" Jayda yells.

Her brother backs the RC up, a look of fear in his eyes. He tried to jump the wrong foot, and he knows it.

"Wyatt," Cyrus says, "why don't you go put that in your room so that it doesn't get stepped on when your family gets here."

The boy obliges, trailing along behind the machine as it zips toward the stairs. A second later, the doorbell rings, and I go over to answer it. The first guests are Buffy and Marty with their kids. They all say hello as they enter in. Brayden immediately goes to claim his regular spot on the corner chair of the living room, while Andreas finds Jayda in the kitchen. The smallest member of their family stands out the most, for she struts in dressed as Jack Sparrow, wig and all.

I look down at her then back up at Marty who explains, "This is the only way she agreed to wear shoes."

"Ah." I bend down to the little girl. "Well, ahoy there, Jack Sparrow."

Cara raises her chin, replying, "That's Captain Jack Sparrow to you."

She moseys on past me, and I let out a laugh, which Marty joins. Right when Buffy and Marty get comfortable in my home, the door opens again, but I'm not the one who opens it, and there's no doorbell. Amber lets herself in. Typical.

"Hi, Uncle TJ," Hazel greets as she passes on in.

Amber takes a cake in a container from Andi's hands and puts it in mine with a smile.

"Look what I made," she says.

I nod. "Looks delicious. Did you say hi to Shauna for me?"

My sister rolls her eyes as I chuckle. I don't know why she thinks she can fool me. She's never been able to bake. I remember doing her home ec. homework for her when she was in middle school, because she thought salt and sugar were interchangeable since they were both white and sprinkly.

A while later, Cyrus answers the final knock on the door, and Jonah and Walker come in.

"Sorry we're late," Jonah says. "We had to take the bus."

"You took the bus?" I repeat.

"It's a long story," Walker responds.

As the last of our guests mingle in with the crowd, Cyrus comes over to me to encompass my waist in his arms, and I take him in by the shoulder. We both gaze around at the group here that we call our family. Jayda laughs with Andreas and Hazel, my daughter's tears completely dried now. Buffy and Andi chat together at the island, their conversations never running dry, even after being friends for as long as they have. And Wyatt runs over people's feet with the RC Cyrus literally just told him to put away.

"We've got one good family," I say.

"We do," Cyrus agrees. "Dysfunctional but good."

A/N: Hi. I really really hope you liked this. It's only the first of a long line of stories that will be included in this, so it's not as entertaining, since it's mostly introduction. As the book goes on, some episodes will be focused on only a couple households, while others might have all of them. It depends on how the story goes. This will probably just be a thing that I work on whenever, so expect updates at least weekly. In terms of technology and stuff like that, because obviously I can't know what the technology will be like in the future, I'm writing it with mordern technology to keep it simple. Anyway, here's my proposal for an ABC Andi Mack spin-off. As you can probably tell, I've been watching a lot of Modern Family lately. Yeah. Thanks for reading! See you soon with another "episode."