ChaosQueen
He really, really is. He’s also sometimes an overprotective pain in my ass and regularly forgets I’m a full-grown adult, but, balance, you know?
RenegadeRush
I get the following in your dad’s footsteps thing. I’m kind of in the same boat.
ChaosQueen
Is that something you like or something that’s hard for you?
I think about my dad. The way he taught me how to throw a football and how to bake the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. How he never expected football to be for me just because it was for him. How he let me figure it out for myself and never let me forget that he was there for me—for football and for everything else too.
RenegadeRush
Honestly, it’s one of the best parts of my life. I think it would be easy for someone in my position to feel inadequate with a dad who has accomplished what mine has, but I’ve never felt that, and he’s never made me feel like I have to live up to his expectations or whatever. He’s only ever wanted me to be me.
ChaosQueen
How remarkably well-adjusted of us.
I laugh, thinking of the at least ten percent of my life I spend with shaking hands and a racing brain and whether that could be considered well adjusted. Maybe the fact that I can laugh about it? Who knows.
RenegadeRush
I don’t know about that, but I was serious when I said I’m a lucky guy.
ChaosQueen
Well aren’t we just the pretty pair. Today notwithstanding, I’m a pretty lucky girl too.
RenegadeRush
So you’re just going to leave me hanging? No details on your day?
ChaosQueen
Nah, I don’t feel like talking about it anymore. You’re an A+ distraction. Let’s not bring real life into it.
RenegadeRush
Cold, Chaos. Super cold. Don’t you know I thrive on gossip and have the world’s worst case of FOMO? I hate not knowing things.
ChaosQueen
And yet, somehow, I suspect you’ll live.
RenegadeRush
If I do it’ll be no thanks to you.
You owe me some good gossip.
ChaosQueen
I’ll send an IOU.
RenegadeRush
