#tns daniel

Despite Riley and Deborah pushing James to get his driver's license, he drives a lot less than they expect... his car's always in the garage for some reason??? And Emily somehow nearly always drives them eVERywhERe. Before and after uni (and then the studio when she swaps to distant learning - she's never letting her family down again), with Riley in the backseat next to Michelle, I mean come on, if she can drive her obnoxious future brother-in-law around she can drive with her obnoxious Co-Studio Head as well - she drops them off at university (James chose to major in psychology when he realised that communicating with other people had become one of the most important things in his life and he never wanted to be in danger of losing that, and surprisingly Riley chose Politics because Emily's not the only one in their family who learns from their mistakes, they're all fairly good at that) but sometimes she makes them take the bus home, because while she may have the "Team Mom" car (and James' torment about that term is endless) she d i d n o t sign up to hear about Schrodinger's Cat m'kay?

James now psychoanalyses some of the dancers while he waits for Piper and their Mom, Michelle's had to kick him out several times for scaring the J-Troupers "Freud said-" "James no!" "This is the stuff they don't teach them in school, James yes" "James if you don't stop talking about this I'm telling Emily." "James is no longer available please leave a message."

Emily may or may not be in on this threat - let's just say that a small portion of her wages goes to an Emergency "Freud's Ghost" fund. But Michelle's the one who deals with the parents so they'll deal with James her way...for now.

Daniel adopted a tiny mongrel that looked like a German Shepherd when he first got it, now it's grown-up no-one knows what it is for sure. "-it's a manifestation of your loneliness and inherent need to learn how to be reliable." "James shut up and eat your corn." "HA! Riley's the one who gets swayed by food-" "-Dude, you asked me to marry you the first time I gave you a shwarma OH MY it's on the cob!" "Wait Eldon are you crying?" "West you're here?" "Duh." "But why didn't I know?" "Well it's true, I could only hang with you or the dog, you or..." A healthy mongrel charges into the room and sits next to Daniel, pushing protectively into his side.

When the E-Girls accepted that neither Tiffany nor Chloe nor Giselle nor Stephanie were coming home for good, Riley created two Skype groups - one for the old A-Troupers, and one just for the E-Girls (yes, West included). Everyone ignores them and just goes on Snapchat.

By some miracle the E-Girls were all home the month before Christmas. Michelle was banned from speaking the phrase “Thanksgiving Miracle” for at least a year - no really, Emily paid for an art student to draw up a professional poster, got it photocopied, and hung one in every single room in the studio (two in the corridors). Michelle shrugged off every. Single. One.

Needless to say Emily was concerned.

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