[Bobbie/Derek/Thayer] Family Dinner

[BLAKE EMMA PARKER]

Blake adjusted Dani’s chef hat before she brought her phone up so that she could take a snapchat of her and Dani wearing matching cooking aprons and hats before sending it to Thayer. Snapchats were a lot of their communication, for how little they seemed to communicate since they had gotten back from Los Angeles. Blake went through her phone, answering a quick email back to one of the producers, asking carelessly, “ Alright chef Dani, how are those green beans looking?” she questioned. “ They look like farmer food” she answered. Blake smiled, crossing the kitchen to stir them a bit more before she kissed the side of Dani’s hair. She looked over at her phone as it buzzed, a snapchat from Thayer. But when she opened it and saw that all he was having for dinner was grilled cheese and tomato soup she narrowed her eyebrows. Blake moved out of snapchat, going straight to a text message instead which hadn’t been sent between them in a while, typing out quickly that he needed to come have dinner with them because they had more than plenty. She stared down at the screen, hesitating a moment before she typed in the address and hit send. “ Dani sweetie, go tell Derek and Bobbie that Thayer is joining us, so if they need to make themselves…presentable.. they should do that,” she said, turning on her heel to go back towards the stove. “ What is presentable?” Dani questioned naively. “ Tell them to make sure their hair is brushed,” Blake said with a small laugh before she went back to cooking.

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[BOBBIE JACQUELINE BRYAN]

Bobbie had her legs draped over Derek’s own lap as she was looking down at the homework against her legs. “ This is so frustrating,” she said, rubbing her hands over her face. Bobbie took in a deep breath, moving her math homework to the back of the pile and looking back down at her English homework, at scribbles of words and thoughts she had written down in class before going back to it easily. “ Hey guys, Blake’s friend is coming over for dinner so you have to make sure your hair is brushed,” Dani said as she entered the living room. Bobbie narrowed her eyebrows as she looked at Derek. Well, Dylan wasn’t in town. “ Which friend, Dani?” she questioned as she watched her. “Thorn,” said Dani confidently before walking away. Thorn? Bobbie made a confused face as she looked at Derek and gasped, whispering. “ Thayer?” she said, smacking Derek on the arm.”This is awesome…” she said, looking back over her shoulder. “Blake! Are you going to brush your hair?” Bobbie asked loudly so Blake could hear her in the kitchen. It took about ten seconds for Blake to enter the living room. “ Huh?” she questioned. Bobbie smiled as she tapped her pencil against her notebook. “ Is that what you are going to wear?” Blake looked down at herself. “ Should I change?” she questioned. “ I don’t know…. Should you?” Bobbie asked with a smile plastered across her face.

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[DEREK EDWARD PARKER]

Derek was pretty sure brushing their hair was Dani's way of saying Blake wanted them not to be all up on each other when Thayer came over, and in their defense, Derek didn't think they would be with Dani around anyways.  Derek reached over and picked up Bobbie's math assignment, filling in the stuff she was missing, looking up when Blake came into the room and Derek laughed.  If Thayer was coming over it wouldn't hurt to dress to impress or something.  Derek didn't know if it mattered but he thought Bobbie looked really nice and he could appreciate that, so Blake could learn a good thing here.  Derek shook his head.  This was usually where he butted out unless someone asked his opinion.  The only girl who let Derek pick her clothes was Dani, and though she usually looked pretty rad, he doubted he'd be much help to Blake and she'd probably rather ask Dylan anyways.  It didn't look like she planned on changing anyways.  Derek looked over at Bobbie's notebook she currently had in her lap, wondering what she was working on that didn't look like homework.  Dani was prying her apron off over her head, walking over to where he and Bobbie were on the couch, "All done cooking?"  "It's hot."  "Yeah I bet it is by the stove.  Hey you should bring us refreshments, that's what a good hostess would do," he winked at her, knowing she would go to Blake and ask what refreshments were.  After she had gone, Derek leaned over to Bobbie, his arm draped across the back of the couch, "What are you working on?"

[BOBBIE JACQUELINE BRYAN]

Bobbie watched as Blake moved away and then smiled at the conversation between Derek and Dani. “ D, come here” she said, waving for Dani to come over to her. “ You should go spill something on Blake,” she watched Dani as her eyes grew wide “ Mommy says I need to be careful with stuff I am carrying,” Bobbie nodded, “ Yeah. That is true. Hey.. you should carefully spill it on her. You want aunt Blake to get a prince right?” she asked with her eyebrows lifted. She watched as Dani walked away, presumably to talk about refreshments and also spill on Blake. Bobbie made herself comfortable again as Derek moved toward her. She curled her fingers over her pencil as she dropped it into her palm and looked at the words scribbled along her notebook. “ Well it’s supposed to be working on Macbeth” she said, making a slight face. “ But I was distracted in class and I just started jotting stuff down,” she said, giving a shrug as she turned the notebook toward him so that he could read. “ Just little things to remind myself… ya know?” she said, curling up to his side.

[BLAKE EMMA PARKER]

Blake looked down at Dani as she questioned what refreshments were. “ Oh shoot are they thirsty?” she asked and took in a deep breath, looking around. Most of the food was done anyway, so with a quick check on the cobbler in the oven, she turned the stovetop off and took off her apron and hat, setting them on the counter. Blake took out a couple of mason jars and got out some sweet tea, turning her back so Dani couldn’t see as she poured some jeremiah weed into it for Bobbie and Derek. “ I can take it to them sweetheart,” she said as she started to turn away, but noticed that Dani was holding the hem of her skirt, carefully pouring the remnants of her cup onto her skirt. Blake took in a deep breath as she watched the little girl, so focused, so careful, as she spilled the liquid onto the fabric. ”…..Thank you,Dani.” she said, shaking her head as she walked into the living room. “Here you go, guys. Thanks a lot.” she said, planting on a fake smile, setting the mason jars down before she went upstairs to change. Blake took out her ipad, getting Dylan on a videochat before she entered her closet.

[DEREK EDWARD PARKER]

Derek nodded, reading some of the stuff on the page, smiling slightly, "Looks like a song," he joked, hearing Blake talking to Dani in the other room and then gave them sweet tea on he easy to go change.  Derek laughed when Blake had left, turning to give Dani a high five who looked more like she was going to cry, "Oh stop, you're fine.  She isn't even mad."  "That was wrong..." she whined, burrying her face in his side when she climbed on to couch next to him.  At least she knew she couldn't go just dumping shit on whoever she felt like.  Derek nodded when Bobbie told her it was going to get her a guy anyways, and Derek wondered if Blake knew it was going to get her a guy, or whether she realized she wanted him at all.  "Dani, I bet you 5 ponies that if you go help Blake find new clothes she will forgive AND you'll get to talk to Dyl."  And she was off again to find Blake in her room because that was a sweet deal for a five year old.  

[BOBBIE JACQUELINE BRYAN]

Bobbie narrowed her eyebrows as he said that her notes looked like a song. Thankfully, he had no idea that she had actually written a song for him already. “ I guess it kind of does…” she said quietly, looking down at the words she’d scribbled, reminding herself it was okay to move on and embrace the small things in life. She cleared her throat and looked away, just in time to catch that Dani running upstairs to go to Blake’s room. “ I’m sure Blake will come down looking like a princess,” she said, smiling softly to herself. Bobbie took in a deep breath, realizing that she had put prom back on her mind. They hadn’t talked about going, yet everyone was already campaigning for them to get king and queen. “ Should we talk… about.. you know, prom?” she asked, scrunching her nose. Bobbie brought her fingertips back to the words she’d written on the page before shrugging her shoulder. “ It just seems like she won’t be there to miss it, if I don’t do it at all”

[DEREK EDWARD PARKER]

Derek nodded, yeah nothing a short of a real princess would reemerge from upstairs if Dani got her way.  But the real test was what Blake was going to pick because even if she didn't admit it, her choice outfit would show if she liked Thayer or not.  Derek turned to look at Bobbie when she asked about prom, "Yeah probably, people are doing the campaigning for us," he said, shaking his head in disbelief.  It was like, he got it, he was related to Blake, and Dylan, and his family had money, whatever, he got it.  But at the same time he didn't get why people were so obsessed with him and Bobbie, other than the fact that maybe they were a bit of a mysterious couple.  But as Bobbie voiced her worry that if she went it would just remind her that her mom wasn't there, Derek asked, "Do you really think she won't be there?"  Sure she wasn't actually around, but sometimes Derek felt like Drew was around, even if he didn't say anything about it, and Bobbie's mom would want her to go.  He just didn't want Bobbie to go and it be a bad experience though, or for her to not go and regret it later.

[THAYER JUDE MONROE]

Thayer looked across the room at Cal who was finishing a beer and writing who knows what kind of half vulgar lyrics when he was drinking, and then glanced back down at his phone.  "Okay so, I'm going out."  "Oh, where are we going?" Cal asked, and Thayer shook his head, "No, I am going somewhere, and you are staying here.  Work related."  "Parker related."  "Why do you jump to that conclusion," he asked finding his shoes.  "Who the fuck else would you snap chat?  Dude, you won't even snap chat me. I figured it was a girl."  "Okay well you can't come.  People already think I'm using her to jump start your damn career-" "Our career."  "Sure.  I just don't want her thinking that, so you're not coming.  Don't burn my house down."  "It's cool, when you get back I'll have this song done.  We can record whenever you have free time."  Thayer snorted, yeah, when I have free time.  He wondered if Cal was actually never going back.  Maybe Thayer should convince him to get a job.  Thayer went to the address Blake sent him, knocking on the door and waited.  He really did need to talk to her about this whole music thing.  He was sure if she just heard it from him, she'd know he wasn't using her.  He wasn't even sure he wanted to do this whole music thing.

[BOBBIE JACQUELINE BRYAN]

It was sort of strange that people were already campaigning for them. To be fair, she had started campaigning for prom when she was still dating Nick. But ever since her mom died she had just completely dropped all of it. “ Yeah,” she said, twirling the end of her hair around her fingers. Bobbie smiled softly as he questioned whether or not she would really be there. Which, she knew was sweet of him to say. But did she? Did she feel like her mom was always with her? Because a lot of the time she just felt lost. It also didn’t seem fair to lose out on the few experiences that she had left with Derek. ‘ I’d be just as happy staying in and eating pizza. But if you want to go, I guess I won’t object either. I’m not saying it’ll be easy,” she said, looking back toward the staircase as she realized that Blake was coming downstairs. “ Uh…” she said, widening her eyes a little bit. “ Well I guess we know if she likes him,” she said quietly. Bobbie turned her head towards the door when she heard a knock and brought her eyes back to Derek, smiling. “ Come on, let’s go grab a plate for us and Dani. I have a feeling they’ll talk for a second first.” she said, moving her legs from his lap before standing up and stretching her arms out. “ Dani, let’s go get something to eat since you worked so hard on it” she said with a smile, making her way toward the kitchen.

[BLAKE EMMA PARKER]

Blake held onto the ipad, holding it so that both herself and Dani could see Dylan clearly. But eventually, she knew that it was time to bring the conversation to a close. Dani needed to eat something so that she wasn’t starving when her mom picked her up. After saying bye to Dylan she went into the closet to pick out a pair of shoes. Finally placing on her lipstick she made her way downstairs, making an apprehensive expression toward Derek and Bobbie about her outfit. The knock on the door seemed to permeate the silence. She took in a deep breath as the other three made their way toward the kitchen. She paused in the mirror beside the front door, fixing her hair quickly before she stared at the door. It seemed like opening the door meant closing it on masquerade guy. Blake took just a moment longer, biting the inside of her lip before finally reaching for the door handle and opening the door quickly. “ Hey,” she said, stepping back farther so that she could open the door wider. “ I hope I didn’t tear you away from something important. But.. I can’t knowingly let you eat such a sad dinner when we have so much here,” she said, smiling as she bent her arm behind her back. Um.. Dani’s really excited to see the guy that was talked about on Ellen.”[/b]

[THAYER JUDE MONROE]

Thayer looked up when the door opened and smiled when he saw Blake, "Hey," and then noticed what she was wearing and gave her the once over, thinking, damn.  He was so used to seeing her in cute floral skirts and dresses and he thought that was real cute and all but she looked really sexy.  Because those legs though.  Before he let his thoughts take over, he stepped inside, "Well, I can't turn a good meal, especially when it looks gourmet," he smiled.  Thayer could hear people in the kitchen and knew she had some other people over.  He wondered if she dressed up like this normally for her little dinner parties.  For some reason his gut doubted it.  "Well after those snapchats, I think I want to meet the mini Blake," he joked.  He waited a moment, and added with a smile, "You look really nice."  He really wanted to talk to her but didn't figure this was the right time.  Maybe wait until after dinner.

[BLAKE EMMA PARKER]

Blake smiled as he suggested that her meal looked gourmet according to the snapchats she had sent him earlier. “ Clearly you’re expectations are pretty high,” she said with a quick smirk. It wasn’t a surprise that he wanted to meet Dani. She was a cute little stinker. “ Most people want to meet her,” Blake said, moving so that her hands were folded in front of her self. “ Oh,” she said looking down at her dress. “ Thanks, you look good too” she said with a shrug of her shoulder before she turned and made her way towards the kitchen. “ Everyone this is Thayer. Thayer…this is…my family. Some of them,” she said, ruffling her hand through Derek’s hair as she walked past him. Clearly they had already made themselves plates. “ I’ll get you something to drink, and you can help yourself to whatever you like,” she said, moving so he could make himself a plate as she turned and made him the same alcoholic tea that she had made for Bobbie and Derek earlier. Once Thayer had made his plate and sat down, Blake came over, setting the tea in front of him. “ Make sure to save some room for some cherry cobbler…” she said, patting him on the shoulder before she went to get her own plate.

[THAYER JUDE MONROE]

Thayer shrugged when she said her looked good too, though he probably wasn't on the same level of looking as she was.  He followed her to the kitchen where she introduced him to the rest of them.  Dani was easy to pick out being the only little bug around and he could only assume the guy was her cousin, Dylan's brother and presumably his girlfriend with him.  Thayer helped himself to a plate, smiling when Blake mentioned that he should save room for cobbler and he was instantly glad he had decided to come over for dinner.  She wasn't doing herself justice if she didn't think this was some perfect food.  Thayer sat down, thanking Blake for his drink and began eating, not realizing how hungry he was.  It was a little weird because they had gone a few weeks not talking as much as they had on that trip to Cali and it was a little awkward and weird but now that he was eating dinner at her place it didn't seem weird, it seemed normal.  Maybe he could just talk to her and they could pick up where they left off.  "So how's Dylan's tour going? I haven't been able to talk to him." he added, taking a drink of the sweet tea.  

[DEREK EDWARD PARKER]

Derek sighed as he went into he kitchen and handed a plate to Bobbie and took one for Dani first, "Okay what do you want, everything?"  "I don't want that farmer food," she said, scrunching her nose.  "What?  D, you love green beans, they're just like mom makes.  Just try a few."  Dani huffed and went to sit in her chair, knowing Derek would bring her plate over when he was done.  Derek finished putting stuff on he plate, being sure that nothing was touching and set it down in front of her and gave her a glass of sweet tea without the alcohol, obviously.  "Be careful not to drop the glass," he told her, because usually they gave her plastic cups and they did for a reason.  Derek got himself his own plate with bigger helpings, and sat down between Bobbie and Dani, taking a bite.  "I feel like I could eat here everyday, does she always make you this great of food?" he asked Bobbie, as Blake appeared with Thayer.  Derek waved and continued eating, Dani kept glancing at Thayer like he was Brad Pitt or something.  But to her anyone that knew Blake was a celebrity.  As Thayer asked about Dylan, Derek laughed, "Well he spent St. Patrick's day in Dublin, if that is any answer to your question."  He glanced at Dani for a quick second, deciding how to word the last bit, "He'll be stateside tomorrow and staring the North American tour ina  few days."  He knew Dani didn't know what stateside meant and he hated her knowing exactly when Dylan was supposed to be coming because if his flight got delayed she was always the most disappointed.  It was better if she was surprised.