After the cool, all about the cars.
By the time he did, Joker had sat up, Clementine was in hislap and her attention had turned.
To Jagger.
She launched herself at him and he did his best to pretendit was a valiant struggle, but she did a great job at pinning him.
“Got you!”she yelled in his face.
“You sure did, cuteness,” he told her.
She didn’t waste time exalting in victory.
Her head snapped to the side, she then shouted, “Hoppy!”jumped off Joker, making him grunt for real when one of her feet hit his gut,and she took off after their brother, Hop, who’d just walked in the garage.
“I see a future in GLOW for your girl,” Jagger said as hedid an ab curl back up to sitting.
“It’s her new thing,” Joker told him.“Last week, she wantedscissors to cut all her dolls’ hair.The week before that, she made me sit onthe couch and put gunk on my face because she saw her mom give herself afacial.This did not go great for her since I have a beard and that fucked withher vision of how comprehensive she wanted to get with my skin, but her motherput her foot down in a negatory when Clem demanded I shave it off.The weekbefore that, she was karate chopping and kickboxing everything.We had to put astop to that when she roundhouse kicked a table and broke a lamp.I saw it.Itwas a solid kick.I was impressed.Carrie wasnot.”
Jag shook his head, chuckling low while watching asClementine screamed in (fake) frustration, considering Hop hadn’t proven aseasy of a target as Joke and Jag were and now she was hanging upside down onHopper’s back.
“Never thought I’d say this, man,” Joker continued, “but Ihope we go back to the facial thing.She attacks everybody at random, she’s anearly riser, her brother and her parents are easy targets, and it’s messingwith her mother and my morning alone time.”
Jagger kept chuckling.
“Carrie’s pregnant again,” Joker announced abruptly.
Jag stopped laughing and focused on him.
He was watching (and listening to more girlie shrieks) sinceHopper had flipped Clem forward into his arms and begun tickling her.
“Say what?”Jag asked.
Joker turned to Jag.“Yep.”
“How many are you two gonna have?”
“She wants this next one and one more.”
“Dude, that’s six kids.”
Joker shrugged.
“That’s also nuts,” Jagger carried on.
Joke caught his eyes.“Right, Jag.When you find a woman,and she’s your woman, and then you find out what she wants, I’ll let you showme the way in denying her.”
Jagger had a feeling he found that girl ten years ago,hooked up with the woman she became yesterday, and he was already in thatplace.
“Text me and Carrie those snaps, would you, brother?”Jokerrequested as he hauled himself off his ass, got to his feet and called to hisson, “Yo, boy, you want a tour of the Bronco?”
“Yeah, Dad!”Wyatt cried.
Joker strolled to his kid.
Jagger texted him and Carissa the pictures.
Then he pulled up another name and put the snaps in a newtext.
