A middle aged couple sat alone talking on the matter of their only daughter in their three story house at a modern day wooden table.
"Lilly I don't think this is right. We eventually have to tell her" a brunette haired man spoke to his red haired wife. "Frank she wont understand she's just a child" Lilly replied back to her husband.
"we cant keep lying to her Lilly" Frank disagrees with her "she's getting older now and she's almost seventeen" he replies looking back down at the yellow and white papers in front of him.
"Lilly at some stage we're gonna have to tell her" Frank responds as his wife sips her tea unhappily. "what do you think's gonna happen when we tell her Lilly. She's a teenager. She'll be devastated" Frank tries to inform her.
"maybe she wont take it so hard" Lilly replies watching her husband shuffling a pink sheet in his hands. "Lilly think about it" Frank takes his glasses off. Lilly releases a sigh from her lips "lets talk about this later Frank I've got to get to work" she grabs her brief case out the cupboard and makes her way back over to Frank.
"we have to tell her eventually Lilly" Lilly bends down and kisses her husband on the cheek making him smile. "but not today" she replies. He smiles grabbing his keys ready to take his wife to work.
An hour later a red headed 16 year old in a shredded prep uniform and messed up hair enters the room dropping her keys down on a small table next to the door in her right arm a brunette boy staggering in his footsteps.
"I told you to watch yourself Tennyson," an older dark haired boy tells the brunette as he is placed down onto the couch. "ow, ow, ow" his voice got louder as the green eyed girl inspected his ankle.
"keep still Ben" his twin cousin tried inspecting the wound but he kept fidgeting. "but it hurts" he whined as the girl gave in. "Kevin there's an ice pack in my freezer and a first aid kit under the sink can you please go get it" she breathed out exhausted from the night of fighting.
"ok Gwen" the older male replied giving his girlfriend a kiss on the cheek as he walked into the next room to get the equipment. The boy leaned back checking if he had entered the next room yet.
When he had he leaned forward grabbing the antodytes collar and pulling her up to meet his lips. "Ben" she giggled as she wrapped her hands around the back of his neck deepening the kiss.
"like he gets a kiss and I don't" he smiled as his tongue penetrated his lips. "hey Gwen got your stuff" Kevin came back into the room as Gwen instantly got off of Ben and pretended to be examining his ankle.
He placed the first aid kit and the ice pack onto the table and sat down on the opposite settee as the two cousins. She gently placed the ice pack down on her cousins ankle making the swelling go down.
"I'm bored" Kevin begins leaning his head back on the chair. "read something" Gwen suggests keeping her eyes on Ben's ankle. Kevin breathes out and stands up walking around the room and checking his reflection on a nearby mirror on the wall.
"dude do you ever stop staring at yourself" Ben yells over to him but then winces as Gwen presses down harder on his ankle "ow hey" Ben argues with his cousin. "my bad" she smiles at him.
"not my fault Tennyson" he turns back and looks towards the table to see a whole bunch of paper work on the table. "wow" Kevin gasps out again as he stares at the load lazily flipping through it. "what do your parents do again Gwen" Kevin asked continuing to touch the sheets.
"My dad's a lawyer and my mum's an accountant" Gwen tells him tapping Ben's ankle up in gauze tape. "oh" Kevin replies setting his hands on an old looking folder.
"hey what's this?" Kevin asks making Gwen look over. She shrugs and turns her attention back to Ben "looks old" Kevin says opening the folder and taking a look inside to see a few sheets with Gwen's name on them.
"Gwendolyn Catherine Hiltop" he eyeballs the sheets. "whose Gwendolyn Catherine Hiltop?" he stares at the wall thinking.
"hey Gwen?" Kevin calls walking back over to Gwen. Gwen looks up at him. "whose Gwendolyn Catherine Hiltop?" he asks her sincerely.
"don't know" she shrugs taking the folder off of him and looking inside. "hey Gwendolyn Catherine's my-" she was cut off by a booming voice. "Gwendolyn Tennyson what do you think your doing?" she turns to see her dad with his hands on his hips staring daggers at her.
"eerrr… hey dad" she smiles at him holding the brown folder in her hands. He marches over to the girl ripping the file out of her hands. "what do you think your doing with this?" he points towards the envelope.
"I-I don't know," she whispers to him. "I don't want you touching this Gwen," he yells at her. "Ok" she replies back raising her arms up in defence. A sigh escapes the man's lips as he walks into his room and hides the envelope.
The girl gulps from her dad's words and turns back towards Ben. "so… that was normal" Ben says staring at the girl. "tell me about it" she whispers back as her dad came back in the room collecting up his papers from the wooden table.
"so… I'm gonna go" Kevin says walking out the door leaving Ben and Gwen alone with her dad. "Jesus" Frank says looking at the thrown papers that Kevin had left.
Ben removes his ankle from his cousins lap. "you wanna go to Mr. Smoothies whilst your dad cleans up Gwen?" he asks her which makes her quickly nod.
He quickly grabs his keys placing on his shoe and taking Gwen's hand taking her towards the door. "Gwendolyn?" she turns round to see her dad holding a file. "yeah Dad?" she replies. "Have you seen a white envelope with the words Jenkens on it?" he asked her looking a little distraught that his paperwork had been touched.
"no daddy, I'll cya later" she forces a smile at him then closes the front door behind her.
MR. SMOOTHIES
"Did you see your dads face when he saw you with that brown envelope?" he asked his cousin whilst interrupting their make- out session. "He was probably just mad cause his stuff got moved" the girl told him bringing her lips back down on his.
"yeah but he looked like he was gonna explode" Ben said trying to get some words in from being kissed so much. "please stop talking about my Dad right now" she whispered with her eyes closed towards him.