sigh not so

Mary Louise felt as though her heart had stopped. Her body froze, eyes wide and in a split second she saw her mother’s folded arms across her body in a closed off state and how she’d have to explain to Davina why she and mom weren’t speaking yet again. 

The look on Mary Louise’s face was enough to cause a lazy smile to make it’s way onto Lee’s face. At her threat, he let out a chuckle and held up his hands in mock surrender. “Always so violent, Miss Fell.” Lee was always pulling pranks like this when it came to his friends. So no doubt he’d pull something similar on her again in the future. When she least suspected it.

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“What else do you see, Nostradamus? Am I going to be the new Karl Lagerfeld?”

“The Karl Lagerfeld of Crocs. An empire founded on crocs is what I see in your future. Don’t go down this dark path.” Lee said in a mock spooky voice, imitating crappy psychics.

“You and Nik truly look out for lil ol’ me. Thank you for making sure I don’t die from exhaustion. It’s greatly appreciated.” She pretended to think for a moment and then nodded her head. “Hmm…yeah that does sound like a typical night with you Lee. I’ll take up your offer for the daiquiris but I’ll skip the hot tub.”

"Well, we definitely can't have that happening." Lee said, nodding his head slightly. "I’m pretty sure everything would go to hell without you. So it makes sense that Niklaus would want to check up on you too.” Lee jokingly pouted in reaction to the rejection of the hot tub. “Lets go get you some of those daiquiris.”

“Well, I mean your intuition is definitely not deceiving you – this is so not my thing. I just needed a distraction - to have fun. Thought this could be fun, but now I’m second guessing everything.”

“Don’t worry about it. I’m sure this night can be salvaged. JUmp on a giant handbag, get some free stuff. A pretty girl can really just fit in anywhere with the right attitude.“

“First order of business,” Enzo raised his glass towards the other man, light shining brightly in his eyes as well. Their humor remarkably blended well together. “We’ll have to get new management around here.”

“New management and possibly some kind of diplomatic immunity. And” Lee added the last part as an afterthought. “Because really, we’d be doing a a community service.”

“Yeah, I don’t follow fashion trends but that doesn’t mean I don’t know anything about fashion. I know that Crocs are not fashionable and if that doesn’t make a fashion guru, I don’t know what will.”

“Don’t worry, man. One day you’ll come back here and release your own line of crocs. I can see it now. Crocs for Jocks, a successful attempt at tricking jocks into thinking Crocs can be cool.”

A proper bad influence. He was certainly right that somebody needed to fulfill that role in her life. If it were to be Lee, there was a good chance he would receive a good amount of grief from her in the process. 

Lee laughed outright at Mary Louise's words, unable to stop the amusement from dancing across his face. "Wow, you're just so mean to me." he said, glancing behind them for a moment. "Oh hi, Mrs Fell." His tone was serious for a moment, pretending as if the girl's mother was behind them. He ended up breaking in only a few moments and laughing.

“Aw, Lee, I never pegged you for a little basket case of mommy issues,” she scoffed, wrapping herself in a towel before stepping about her room. “Daddy issues? Definitely. You have the sexual need of approval like every other lost boy I’ve ever met.”

“Oh is this the moment we bond and get to the source of my issues? I’ll lay on the couch and have a nice cry?” he said sarcastically, a smirk on his face. There was no way he was taking any of this seriously. “You’ve just got me all figured out huh? Go on Doctor Katherine, tell me more about me.”