The Low Key One

Little Words | Lucas & Jenna

Jenna shrugged at the question about the word. She honestly didn’t know where she heard it — maybe one of the movies that she watched with Natasha. “Dunno.” It was hard to cover up a lie when someone had perfected the art of lying and Jenna was learning that right now. There was a nod as she rested her chin on pulled up knees with the pillow trapped between her legs and chest. Her nose wrinkled at the first words of the book. She knew them and began to read those easily. However, the further she got, the more tongue tied she became and easily frustrated. It was hard to be her age and have the basic talking abilities of a young child.

Lucas sighed under his breath, it felt like he was pulling teeth talking to children sometimes. "Alright then." There was no point in pulling it out of Jenna if she didn't feel like talking about it, and honestly he didn't feel like scolding the little boy. He had a feeling it wouldn't make a difference one way or another right now, and it'd probably just make the little boy angrier with him. Lucas soon forgot about the problems that Gavin and Jenna were having, maybe subconsciously realizing that he wouldn't be able to fix them for the two children and instead focused on Jenna, helping her through the words she was having trouble with. 

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Little Words | Lucas & Jenna

She’d been reading a Magic Tree House book and frowned at it when Lucas held it. It was a little bit above what she could do but right now, Jenna didn’t really care. She just wanted to talk like daddy did and write too. Her hand writing was messy, scratches that shaped some sort of letters that was similar to her name. “Yes.” She lied, sitting up and pulling a pillow onto her lap. “Help me?” Jenna pointed towards the book with a lion on the cover and two kids.

Lucas felt like either he was frowning, laughing or crying these days, there didn't seem to be an in between with his emotions. "Why'd he tell you that word?" Lucas asked. Opening the book Lucas scanned the words before looking back at Jenna. "Alright, start from the beginning, read the words, and the ones you stumble over we'll write down and read them out together, OK?" If someone had told him a year ago he'd be sitting in his daughters room teaching her how to read and write he would have laughed until he fell over, but he was happy he was here.