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Jericho 9 PM - The Duhill House
/// "with every action he made, grabs a chance before it fade
as maybe he won't have - a chance to see tomorrow"
Tayaw sang the last verse and the instruments soon closed the song.
"That was Isaac's 'Invisible Man' from his mini album 'On The Road'. Please purchase it from iTunes or stream for free on YouTube and Stoppify. We'll be right back." *commercial break*///
"Damn. He's awesome!" Lee exclaims over the commercial break.
Lee, and the rest of his family, are currently in their living room couch watching the broadcast of 'Late Night with Aiden Gerty' on their huge flat screen. Once again, he was texted by Tayaw about another TV appearance.
"Heh." Peter can only chuckle as he too is impressed by Tayaw's performance.
"I know that we're living next to a celebrity, I still can't get over that that's the same hunky film nerd." Lexi remarks.
"Alright. Popcorn? Anyone?" Charlotte offers as she stands up. She does not like the music style of the song Tayaw just performed.
"ME!" is the unanimous response of the family.
While the commercial is running, Lexi starts getting busy with her laptop once again.
"Hey. Can't you stop studying for once and just chill? It's the school break." Holly tells Lexi.
"I'm chill. And I'm not studying." Lexi replies, her attention still on her laptop.
"At least look up?" Holly says as she is starting to get annoyed by Lexi's divided attention.
"Heh. Coming from someone who is always on her phone…" Lexi casually criticizes.
"Wait… Why aren't you on your phone?" Lexi realizes and finally looks up.
"Probably because her crush is on TV." Peter answers for Holly.
"Dad!" Holly says, embarrassed at Peter's comment.
"Let me see that. What are you looking at anyway?" Holly then grabs Lexi's laptop to divert the attention.
"Hey!" Lexi is dumbfounded as Holly is not the type of person to touch her things.
"Twitter?" Holly asks as she takes a look at the screen.
"Yeah… Give it to me, we'll read tweets about Tayaw." Lexi takes back her laptop.
"Oh. This one! TLD Grimmauld. This guy's a huge author. Wow, he's live tweeting." Lexi says.
/@isaacyawat Great set!/ /Check out my friend live! #isaacyawat #latenightwithaidengerty #dabellumburning #invisibleman/
"I guess they're really friends, huh." Lexi says as she reads some more.
/@tldgrimmauld thanks man./
"Oh. Those are boring." Holly rolls her eyes and opens her phone to look at some of the tweets herself.
A few seconds using her talent of spotting 'interesting' tweets, she is starting to enjoy the things she is reading.
"Hey Lexi, look at these." Holly wants to share.
/I don't know who this guy is, but he's beautiful!/
/@isaacyawat I love you!/
/Isaac Yawat is so easy on the eyes. Remove the shades please!/
/Isaac Yawat's jawline. It's distracting me from what he's saying./
/Isaac can sing me to sleep./
"Oh… wow… They love him." Lexi is almost speechless at the tweets.
"Oh my god…" Holly too is almost speechless the deeper she and Lexi go with the tweets.
/@isaacyawat can split me in half from bottom up, iykwim./
/@isaacyawat definitely has THAT energy. My legs are weak just thinking about it./
/I'm thirsty. My thirst for Isaac never stops./
/I love Isaac's film. But I have a film I want Isaac to see. ???? ???? ????/
/I'm gonna film my ***** for you Isaac!/
/I want Isaac to smash my meat./
"EEWWWWWW! GROSS!" Lexi can no longer read the dirty tweets.
"What's gross?" Charlotte is back with bags of microwaved popcorn.
"Hey! He's back!" Thankfully for the two girls, Lee saved them from a potentially embarrassing situation with their mother.
///"We're back!" Aiden greets the audience.
"Isaac…" Aiden then gets the attention back to Tayaw.
"Sup?" Tayaw asks.
"That was a great performance man. Your voice, the guitar. It was incredible." Aiden compliments.
"Thank you. I was afraid I had gotten rusty. I haven't played in months until the rehearsals with Da Bellum Burning guys." Tayaw says and tips his hat to the band.
"About that. When did you start playing music? You have to have some inspiration, right?" Aiden asks.///
"Uh oh. He's gonna talk smack again…" Lexi comments, cringing in anticipation.
The family, except for Lee all got anxious earlier when Tayaw was talking about how he was not inspired by anyone as a film maker.
"Oh boy…" Peter chuckles.
Tayaw's next words however are contrary to their expectations.
///"Oh yeah. Couldn't help not to. As a child, I listened to artists like Lee Baker, Annabelle Moore. You know, country music greats… With my singing, I tried copying them, but as my voice changed, I had to find my own sound. With the guitar, I started playing when I was 13. Wasn't good at first, of course. But after listening blues and jazz guitarists like Babson, Johnston, Fischer and Thompson… " Tayaw starts to ramble.///
"Wow. He's not only a film nerd, he's an even bigger music nerd." Lexi says.
"Yeah… he cannot stop talking about them." Holly agrees.
/ //"Not too long ago, you had some sort of a mini controversy, right?" Aiden switches topics.
"I… am not sure what you're talking about." Tayaw says with a smirk.
"Heh. You know, your appearance at the 'Music Night at the Apollo'. You do know that that was only supposed to be for amateurs, right?" Aiden asks with a knowing smile.
"Oh… Yeah. I didn't know then. I mean, that show doesn't really air back home in Teungeb. It's also not really clear for me from the name of the show that the show was for amateurs. The staff of the show also rushed me and the other contestants to sign the contract or whatever by giving us summaries." Tayaw shrugs. ///
"Ohhhhhh. Bull…" Peter says, amused at Tayaw's answer.
"You don't believe him?" Charlotte asks.
"Oh. I don't. I know enough about the guy. He definitely knew, alright. Smart guy like him? He can't just pull an ignorant immigrant card." Peter says.
"Wait, how do you know you know, dad?" Lexi asks in defense of Tayaw.
Charlotte and Peter exchanges looks at Lexi's question. Charlotte after all, through her husband, is already in the know about Tayaw's involvement with her husband and her husband's employer and the extent of it.
"I just know, alright. You can ask Tayaw yourself." Peter simply deflects.
///"So, it was an honest mistake, huh?" Aiden nods.
"It was, the majority of it. At the time, as the show went on through the rounds, I noticed. At least I'm admitting that. So, in the end, when I won, I just gave back the prize money." Tayaw says.///
"He doesn't need it anyway." Lexi remarks.
/// "So, do you have someone special in your life?" Aiden switches topics once again after closing that chapter.
"Like, a girl?"
"Yeah. What else could it be?" Aiden clarifies.
"Okay. Cultural differences… Anyways, a girl… No. Never really had someone that special." Tayaw replies.
"Never had a girlfriend?" Aiden asks, surprised.
"Yeah. There's really nothing wrong with that, right?" Tayaw shrugs. / //
"Aww… You have a chance, Holly." Lexi starts to tease Holly.
"Shut up, nerd." Holly rolls her eyes, but does not disagree with Lexi's quip.
/// "Nothing wrong with it, but how come? Talented, and may I say, handsome guy like you, should have no problems meeting ladies, right?" Aiden asks.
"Maybe. Maybe not. I'm just wary of relationsh.i.p.s, that's all." Tayaw says.
"Oh? How so?" Aiden asks in interest.
"I mean, I've got a LOT of friends in relationsh.i.p.s, but most of the guys are quite… miserable. Hehe." Tayaw chuckles.
"Oh, don't be so negative. I'm happy with my wife." Aiden says.
"Bah… All of them say that, but if you look at their eyes, they tell a different story. It's in the eyes, man. They want to get away. I actually think most of them are just staying in their relationsh.i.p.s just for the s.e.x." Tayaw casually drops.
The crowd on the other hand; *OOOOOOHHHHHHHH* around 50% of them groans out of surprise, *LAUGHTER* 30% of them thought of Tayaw's statement as a joke, and the remaining 20%, a majority of which are men, *APPLAUSE* sincerely agree. ///
"Puhah! Hahaha!" Peter bursts out laughing. Before he can continue enjoying himself, however, he felt a glare from Charlotte.
"Hey, honey. I'm not like that with you. I got lucky. But Tayaw's not wrong either." Peter shrugs. "Huh." Charlotte only grunts.
/// "Okay. But you're right. Some of them are actually happy. And you're one of them… Right?" Tayaw asks Aiden.
"Oh of course." Aiden confidently says."///
"Ohhh… Tayaw's gonna get Aiden in trouble. Haha. Honey, look! Look, look. Look closely at Aiden. His legs are probably uneasy." Peter says.
"You're enjoying this too much." Charlotte scoffs.
/// "Then good for you. My parents too, are very lucky to have each other; they had me when they were 25. They have been together a long time too before that. I don't see myself finding love that early." Tayaw says.
"Hmm. Now that you said it, there are really less and less young people getting married nowadays." Aiden says.
"True. But hey, it's a different time then." Tayaw says. ///
"Hey. I can't believe he's younger than Holly." Charlotte whispers to Peter, finding Tayaw being too well spoken and opinionated at his age, incredible.
"I know, right? … Are we bad parents?" Peter whispers back.
Unlike Peter's amus.e.m.e.nt earlier of Tayaw's comments, he is taking Tayaw's recent ones more seriously.
"I hope not. I mean, we have Lexi still." Charlotte sighs.
/// "Hey, I know some people you can hang out with. I can ask them for you." Aiden suddenly offers.
"Nah. No thanks. I like my man cave as it is." Tayaw's quick refusal amuses the crowd.
"Come on. Why not?" Aiden refuses to relent, just for show.
"Well, once I get a girlfriend, my life, my house will no longer have signs of me and will revolve all around her." Tayaw says, with the men in the audience cheering once again.
"Well, not really. I mean, I have football or baseball nights in my bas.e.m.e.nt." Aiden says.
"Bah. Listen to what you're sayin'. 'Bas.e.m.e.nt'. How come you have to use the bas.e.m.e.nt instead of the living room where the TV and the couch, that I'm guessing you bought, are ready to use for you and your buddies for one night a week? Hm?" Tayaw asks.
Aiden can only stare at Tayaw, speechless.
"Exactly." Tayaw smirks smugly, which them men in the crowd cheered on once again.///
At this point, Peter's eyes are acc.u.mulating tears from stopping himself from laughing. He can feel Charlotte's glare and it is making hair on the back of his neck stand.
///"And! And, it's hard to make women happy. Why is John from the Yankees so miserable compared to when he was an honest to God, Christian V.i.r.g.i.n? Why did Joe from HomeDepot have to renovate his kitchen the Nth time when he's already satisfied with the original arrangement? Why can't Jack the mechanic just laugh at things he finds funny and enjoy things he wants to do just because Jennie might get mad? I don't wanna get through all of that crap." Tayaw says. His ranting gathered another round of support from the men in the audience. ///
"Puh! Hah! *aherm* *aherm*" Peter can no longer keep his laughter and bursts out a syllable of it before suppressing it once again.
"Hahahahaha!" Lexi on the other hand, laughed in place of Peter.
"Come on mom. You glaring at dad like that is making Tayaw's point. Dad, a lot of times has to tiptoe around you just avoid getting you mad. Why are you not happy, mom?" Lexi says.
"Alright. Stop it, Lexi." Peter tries to prevent drama from starting, but inside, he is pleased that his daughter is speaking up for him.
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Jericho 9 PM - The Duhill House
/// "with every action he made, grabs a chance before it fade
as maybe he won't have - a chance to see tomorrow"
Tayaw sang the last verse and the instruments soon closed the song.
"That was Isaac's 'Invisible Man' from his mini album 'On The Road'. Please purchase it from iTunes or stream for free on YouTube and Stoppify. We'll be right back." *commercial break*///
"Damn. He's awesome!" Lee exclaims over the commercial break.
Lee, and the rest of his family, are currently in their living room couch watching the broadcast of 'Late Night with Aiden Gerty' on their huge flat screen. Once again, he was texted by Tayaw about another TV appearance.
"Heh." Peter can only chuckle as he too is impressed by Tayaw's performance.
"I know that we're living next to a celebrity, I still can't get over that that's the same hunky film nerd." Lexi remarks.
"Alright. Popcorn? Anyone?" Charlotte offers as she stands up. She does not like the music style of the song Tayaw just performed.
"ME!" is the unanimous response of the family.
While the commercial is running, Lexi starts getting busy with her laptop once again.
"Hey. Can't you stop studying for once and just chill? It's the school break." Holly tells Lexi.
"I'm chill. And I'm not studying." Lexi replies, her attention still on her laptop.
"At least look up?" Holly says as she is starting to get annoyed by Lexi's divided attention.
"Heh. Coming from someone who is always on her phone…" Lexi casually criticizes.
"Wait… Why aren't you on your phone?" Lexi realizes and finally looks up.
"Probably because her crush is on TV." Peter answers for Holly.
"Dad!" Holly says, embarrassed at Peter's comment.
"Let me see that. What are you looking at anyway?" Holly then grabs Lexi's laptop to divert the attention.
"Hey!" Lexi is dumbfounded as Holly is not the type of person to touch her things.
"Twitter?" Holly asks as she takes a look at the screen.
"Yeah… Give it to me, we'll read tweets about Tayaw." Lexi takes back her laptop.
"Oh. This one! TLD Grimmauld. This guy's a huge author. Wow, he's live tweeting." Lexi says.
/@isaacyawat Great set!/ /Check out my friend live! #isaacyawat #latenightwithaidengerty #dabellumburning #invisibleman/
"I guess they're really friends, huh." Lexi says as she reads some more.
/@tldgrimmauld thanks man./
"Oh. Those are boring." Holly rolls her eyes and opens her phone to look at some of the tweets herself.
A few seconds using her talent of spotting 'interesting' tweets, she is starting to enjoy the things she is reading.
"Hey Lexi, look at these." Holly wants to share.
/I don't know who this guy is, but he's beautiful!/
/@isaacyawat I love you!/
/Isaac Yawat is so easy on the eyes. Remove the shades please!/
/Isaac Yawat's jawline. It's distracting me from what he's saying./
/Isaac can sing me to sleep./
"Oh… wow… They love him." Lexi is almost speechless at the tweets.
"Oh my god…" Holly too is almost speechless the deeper she and Lexi go with the tweets.
/@isaacyawat can split me in half from bottom up, iykwim./
/@isaacyawat definitely has THAT energy. My legs are weak just thinking about it./
/I'm thirsty. My thirst for Isaac never stops./
/I love Isaac's film. But I have a film I want Isaac to see. ???? ???? ????/
/I'm gonna film my ***** for you Isaac!/
/I want Isaac to smash my meat./
"EEWWWWWW! GROSS!" Lexi can no longer read the dirty tweets.
"What's gross?" Charlotte is back with bags of microwaved popcorn.
"Hey! He's back!" Thankfully for the two girls, Lee saved them from a potentially embarrassing situation with their mother.
///"We're back!" Aiden greets the audience.
"Isaac…" Aiden then gets the attention back to Tayaw.
"Sup?" Tayaw asks.
"That was a great performance man. Your voice, the guitar. It was incredible." Aiden compliments.
"Thank you. I was afraid I had gotten rusty. I haven't played in months until the rehearsals with Da Bellum Burning guys." Tayaw says and tips his hat to the band.
"About that. When did you start playing music? You have to have some inspiration, right?" Aiden asks.///
"Uh oh. He's gonna talk smack again…" Lexi comments, cringing in anticipation.
The family, except for Lee all got anxious earlier when Tayaw was talking about how he was not inspired by anyone as a film maker.
"Oh boy…" Peter chuckles.
Tayaw's next words however are contrary to their expectations.
///"Oh yeah. Couldn't help not to. As a child, I listened to artists like Lee Baker, Annabelle Moore. You know, country music greats… With my singing, I tried copying them, but as my voice changed, I had to find my own sound. With the guitar, I started playing when I was 13. Wasn't good at first, of course. But after listening blues and jazz guitarists like Babson, Johnston, Fischer and Thompson… " Tayaw starts to ramble.///
"Wow. He's not only a film nerd, he's an even bigger music nerd." Lexi says.
"Yeah… he cannot stop talking about them." Holly agrees.
/ //"Not too long ago, you had some sort of a mini controversy, right?" Aiden switches topics.
"I… am not sure what you're talking about." Tayaw says with a smirk.
"Heh. You know, your appearance at the 'Music Night at the Apollo'. You do know that that was only supposed to be for amateurs, right?" Aiden asks with a knowing smile.
"Oh… Yeah. I didn't know then. I mean, that show doesn't really air back home in Teungeb. It's also not really clear for me from the name of the show that the show was for amateurs. The staff of the show also rushed me and the other contestants to sign the contract or whatever by giving us summaries." Tayaw shrugs. ///
"Ohhhhhh. Bull…" Peter says, amused at Tayaw's answer.
"You don't believe him?" Charlotte asks.
"Oh. I don't. I know enough about the guy. He definitely knew, alright. Smart guy like him? He can't just pull an ignorant immigrant card." Peter says.
"Wait, how do you know you know, dad?" Lexi asks in defense of Tayaw.
Charlotte and Peter exchanges looks at Lexi's question. Charlotte after all, through her husband, is already in the know about Tayaw's involvement with her husband and her husband's employer and the extent of it.
"I just know, alright. You can ask Tayaw yourself." Peter simply deflects.
///"So, it was an honest mistake, huh?" Aiden nods.
"It was, the majority of it. At the time, as the show went on through the rounds, I noticed. At least I'm admitting that. So, in the end, when I won, I just gave back the prize money." Tayaw says.///
"He doesn't need it anyway." Lexi remarks.
/// "So, do you have someone special in your life?" Aiden switches topics once again after closing that chapter.
"Like, a girl?"
"Yeah. What else could it be?" Aiden clarifies.
"Okay. Cultural differences… Anyways, a girl… No. Never really had someone that special." Tayaw replies.
"Never had a girlfriend?" Aiden asks, surprised.
"Yeah. There's really nothing wrong with that, right?" Tayaw shrugs. / //
"Aww… You have a chance, Holly." Lexi starts to tease Holly.
"Shut up, nerd." Holly rolls her eyes, but does not disagree with Lexi's quip.
/// "Nothing wrong with it, but how come? Talented, and may I say, handsome guy like you, should have no problems meeting ladies, right?" Aiden asks.
"Maybe. Maybe not. I'm just wary of relationsh.i.p.s, that's all." Tayaw says.
"Oh? How so?" Aiden asks in interest.
"I mean, I've got a LOT of friends in relationsh.i.p.s, but most of the guys are quite… miserable. Hehe." Tayaw chuckles.
"Oh, don't be so negative. I'm happy with my wife." Aiden says.
"Bah… All of them say that, but if you look at their eyes, they tell a different story. It's in the eyes, man. They want to get away. I actually think most of them are just staying in their relationsh.i.p.s just for the s.e.x." Tayaw casually drops.
The crowd on the other hand; *OOOOOOHHHHHHHH* around 50% of them groans out of surprise, *LAUGHTER* 30% of them thought of Tayaw's statement as a joke, and the remaining 20%, a majority of which are men, *APPLAUSE* sincerely agree. ///
"Puhah! Hahaha!" Peter bursts out laughing. Before he can continue enjoying himself, however, he felt a glare from Charlotte.
"Hey, honey. I'm not like that with you. I got lucky. But Tayaw's not wrong either." Peter shrugs. "Huh." Charlotte only grunts.
/// "Okay. But you're right. Some of them are actually happy. And you're one of them… Right?" Tayaw asks Aiden.
"Oh of course." Aiden confidently says."///
"Ohhh… Tayaw's gonna get Aiden in trouble. Haha. Honey, look! Look, look. Look closely at Aiden. His legs are probably uneasy." Peter says.
"You're enjoying this too much." Charlotte scoffs.
/// "Then good for you. My parents too, are very lucky to have each other; they had me when they were 25. They have been together a long time too before that. I don't see myself finding love that early." Tayaw says.
"Hmm. Now that you said it, there are really less and less young people getting married nowadays." Aiden says.
"True. But hey, it's a different time then." Tayaw says. ///
"Hey. I can't believe he's younger than Holly." Charlotte whispers to Peter, finding Tayaw being too well spoken and opinionated at his age, incredible.
"I know, right? … Are we bad parents?" Peter whispers back.
Unlike Peter's amus.e.m.e.nt earlier of Tayaw's comments, he is taking Tayaw's recent ones more seriously.
"I hope not. I mean, we have Lexi still." Charlotte sighs.
/// "Hey, I know some people you can hang out with. I can ask them for you." Aiden suddenly offers.
"Nah. No thanks. I like my man cave as it is." Tayaw's quick refusal amuses the crowd.
"Come on. Why not?" Aiden refuses to relent, just for show.
"Well, once I get a girlfriend, my life, my house will no longer have signs of me and will revolve all around her." Tayaw says, with the men in the audience cheering once again.
"Well, not really. I mean, I have football or baseball nights in my bas.e.m.e.nt." Aiden says.
"Bah. Listen to what you're sayin'. 'Bas.e.m.e.nt'. How come you have to use the bas.e.m.e.nt instead of the living room where the TV and the couch, that I'm guessing you bought, are ready to use for you and your buddies for one night a week? Hm?" Tayaw asks.
Aiden can only stare at Tayaw, speechless.
"Exactly." Tayaw smirks smugly, which them men in the crowd cheered on once again.///
At this point, Peter's eyes are acc.u.mulating tears from stopping himself from laughing. He can feel Charlotte's glare and it is making hair on the back of his neck stand.
///"And! And, it's hard to make women happy. Why is John from the Yankees so miserable compared to when he was an honest to God, Christian V.i.r.g.i.n? Why did Joe from HomeDepot have to renovate his kitchen the Nth time when he's already satisfied with the original arrangement? Why can't Jack the mechanic just laugh at things he finds funny and enjoy things he wants to do just because Jennie might get mad? I don't wanna get through all of that crap." Tayaw says. His ranting gathered another round of support from the men in the audience. ///
"Puh! Hah! *aherm* *aherm*" Peter can no longer keep his laughter and bursts out a syllable of it before suppressing it once again.
"Hahahahaha!" Lexi on the other hand, laughed in place of Peter.
"Come on mom. You glaring at dad like that is making Tayaw's point. Dad, a lot of times has to tiptoe around you just avoid getting you mad. Why are you not happy, mom?" Lexi says.
"Alright. Stop it, Lexi." Peter tries to prevent drama from starting, but inside, he is pleased that his daughter is speaking up for him.
Jericho 9 PM- The Duhill House /// "with every action he made, grabs a chance before it fade as maybe he won't have - a chance to see tomorrow" Tayaw sang the last verse and the instruments soon closed the song. "That was Isaac's 'Invisible Man' from his mini album 'On The Road'. Please purchase it from iTunes or stream for free on YouTube and Stoppify. We'll be right back." *commercial break*/// "Damn. He's awesome!" Lee exclaims over the commercial break. Lee, and the rest of his family, are currently in their living room couch watching the broadcast of 'Late Night with Aiden Gerty' on their huge flat screen. Once again, he was texted by Tayaw about another TV appearance. "Heh." Peter can only chuckle as he too is impressed by Tayaw's performance. "I know that we're living next to a celebrity, I still can't get over that that's the same hunky film nerd." Lexi remarks. "Alright. Popcorn? Anyone?" Charlotte offers as she stands up. She does not like the music style of the song Tayaw just performed. "ME!" is the unanimous response of the family. While the commercial is running, Lexi starts getting busy with her laptop once again. "Hey. Can't you stop studying for once and just chill? It's the school break." Holly tells Lexi. "I'm chill. And I'm not studying." Lexi replies, her attention still on her laptop. "At least look up?" Holly says as she is starting to get annoyed by Lexi's divided attention. "Heh. Coming from someone who is always on her phone" Lexi casually criticizes. "Wait Why aren't you on your phone?" Lexi realizes and finally looks up. "Probably because her crush is on TV." Peter answers for Holly. "Dad!" Holly says, embarrassed at Peter's comment. "Let me see that. What are you looking at anyway?" Holly then grabs Lexi's laptop to divert the attention. "Hey!" Lexi is dumbfounded as Holly is not the type of person to touch her things. "Twitter?" Holly asks as she takes a look at the screen. "Yeah Give it to me, we'll read tweets about Tayaw." Lexi takes back her laptop. "Oh. This one! TLD Grimmauld. This guy's a huge author. Wow, he's live tweeting." Lexi says. /@isaacyawat Great set!/ /Check out my friend live! #isaacyawat #latenightwithaidengerty #dabellumburning #invisibleman/ "I guess they're really friends, huh." Lexi says as she reads some more. /@tldgrimmauld thanks man./ "Oh. Those are boring." Holly rolls her eyes and opens her phone to look at some of the tweets herself. A few seconds using her talent of spotting 'interesting' tweets, she is starting to enjoy the things she is reading. "Hey Lexi, look at these." Holly wants to share. /I don't know who this guy is, but he's beautiful!/ /@isaacyawat I love you!/ /Isaac Yawat is so easy on the eyes. Remove the shades please!/ /Isaac Yawat's jawline. It's distracting me from what he's saying./ /Isaac can sing me to sleep./ "Oh wow They love him." Lexi is almost speechless at the tweets. "Oh my god" Holly too is almost speechless the deeper she and Lexi go with the tweets. /@isaacyawat can split me in half from bottom up, iykwim./ /@isaacyawat definitely has THAT energy. My legs are weak just thinking about it./ /I'm thirsty. My thirst for Isaac never stops./ /I love Isaac's film. But I have a film I want Isaac to see. ???? ???? ????/ /I'm gonna film my ***** for you Isaac!/ /I want Isaac to smash my meat./ "EEWWWWWW! GROSS!" Lexi can no longer read the dirty tweets. "What's gross?" Charlotte is back with bags of microwaved popcorn. "Hey! He's back!" Thankfully for the two girls, Lee saved them from a potentially embarrassing situation with their mother. ///"We're back!" Aiden greets the audience. "Isaac" Aiden then gets the attention back to Tayaw. "Sup?" Tayaw asks. "That was a great performance man. Your voice, the guitar. It was incredible." Aiden compliments. "Thank you. I was afraid I had gotten rusty. I haven't played in months until the rehearsals with Da Bellum Burning guys." Tayaw says and tips his hat to the band. "About that. When did you start playing music? You have to have some inspiration, right?" Aiden asks./// "Uh oh. He's gonna talk smack again" Lexi comments, cringing in anticipation. The family, except for Lee all got anxious earlier when Tayaw was talking about how he was not inspired by anyone as a film maker. "Oh boy" Peter chuckles. Tayaw's next words however are contrary to their expectations. ///"Oh yeah. Couldn't help not to. As a child, I listened to artists like Lee Baker, Annabelle Moore. You know, country music greats With my singing, I tried copying them, but as my voice changed, I had to find my own sound. With the guitar, I started playing when I was 13. Wasn't good at first, of course. But after listening blues and jazz guitarists like Babson, Johnston, Fischer and Thompson " Tayaw starts to ramble./// "Wow. He's not only a film nerd, he's an even bigger music nerd." Lexi says. "Yeah he cannot stop talking about them." Holly agrees. / //"Not too long ago, you had some sort of a mini controversy, right?" Aiden switches topics. "I am not sure what you're talking about." Tayaw says with a smirk. "Heh. You know, your appearance at the 'Music Night at the Apollo'. You do know that that was only supposed to be for amateurs, right?" Aiden asks with a knowing smile. "Oh Yeah. I didn't know then. I mean, that show doesn't really air back home in Teungeb. It's also not really clear for me from the name of the show that the show was for amateurs. The staff of the show also rushed me and the other contestants to sign the contract or whatever by giving us summaries." Tayaw shrugs. /// "Ohhhhhh. Bull" Peter says, amused at Tayaw's answer. "You don't believe him?" Charlotte asks. "Oh. I don't. I know enough about the guy. He definitely knew, alright. Smart guy like him? He can't just pull an ignorant immigrant card." Peter says. "Wait, how do you know you know, dad?" Lexi asks in defense of Tayaw. Charlotte and Peter exchanges looks at Lexi's question. Charlotte after all, through her husband, is already in the know about Tayaw's involvement with her husband and her husband's employer and the extent of it. "I just know, alright. You can ask Tayaw yourself." Peter simply deflects. ///"So, it was an honest mistake, huh?" Aiden nods. "It was, the majority of it. At the time, as the show went on through the rounds, I noticed. At least I'm admitting that. So, in the end, when I won, I just gave back the prize money." Tayaw says./// "He doesn't need it anyway." Lexi remarks. /// "So, do you have someone special in your life?" Aiden switches topics once again after closing that chapter. "Like, a girl?" "Yeah. What else could it be?" Aiden clarifies. "Okay. Cultural differences Anyways, a girl No. Never really had someone that special." Tayaw replies. "Never had a girlfriend?" Aiden asks, surprised. "Yeah. There's really nothing wrong with that, right?" Tayaw shrugs. / // "Aww You have a chance, Holly." Lexi starts to tease Holly. "Shut up, nerd." Holly rolls her eyes, but does not disagree with Lexi's quip. /// "Nothing wrong with it, but how come? Talented, and may I say, handsome guy like you, should have no problems meeting ladies, right?" Aiden asks. "Maybe. Maybe not. I'm just wary of relationsh.i.p.s, that's all." Tayaw says. "Oh? How so?" Aiden asks in interest. "I mean, I've got a LOT of friends in relationsh.i.p.s, but most of the guys are quite miserable. Hehe." Tayaw chuckles. "Oh, don't be so negative. I'm happy with my wife." Aiden says. "Bah All of them say that, but if you look at their eyes, they tell a different story. It's in the eyes, man. They want to get away. I actually think most of them are just staying in their relationsh.i.p.s just for the s.e.x." Tayaw casually drops. The crowd on the other hand; *OOOOOOHHHHHHHH* around 50% of them groans out of surprise, *LAUGHTER* 30% of them thought of Tayaw's statement as a joke, and the remaining 20%, a majority of which are men, *APPLAUSE* sincerely agree. /// "Puhah! Hahaha!" Peter bursts out laughing. Before he can continue enjoying himself, however, he felt a glare from Charlotte. "Hey, honey. I'm not like that with you. I got lucky. But Tayaw's not wrong either." Peter shrugs. "Huh." Charlotte only grunts. /// "Okay. But you're right. Some of them are actually happy. And you're one of them Right?" Tayaw asks Aiden. "Oh of course." Aiden confidently says."/// "Ohhh Tayaw's gonna get Aiden in trouble. Haha. Honey, look! Look, look. Look closely at Aiden. His legs are probably uneasy." Peter says. "You're enjoying this too much." Charlotte scoffs. /// "Then good for you. My parents too, are very lucky to have each other; they had me when they were 25. They have been together a long time too before that. I don't see myself finding love that early." Tayaw says. "Hmm. Now that you said it, there are really less and less young people getting married nowadays." Aiden says. "True. But hey, it's a different time then." Tayaw says. /// "Hey. I can't believe he's younger than Holly." Charlotte whispers to Peter, finding Tayaw being too well spoken and opinionated at his age, incredible. "I know, right? Are we bad parents?" Peter whispers back. Unlike Peter's amus.e.m.e.nt earlier of Tayaw's comments, he is taking Tayaw's recent ones more seriously. "I hope not. I mean, we have Lexi still." Charlotte sighs. /// "Hey, I know some people you can hang out with. I can ask them for you." Aiden suddenly offers. "Nah. No thanks. I like my man cave as it is." Tayaw's quick refusal amuses the crowd. "Come on. Why not?" Aiden refuses to relent, just for show. "Well, once I get a girlfriend, my life, my house will no longer have signs of me and will revolve all around her." Tayaw says, with the men in the audience cheering once again. "Well, not really. I mean, I have football or baseball nights in my bas.e.m.e.nt." Aiden says. "Bah. Listen to what you're sayin'. 'Bas.e.m.e.nt'. How come you have to use the bas.e.m.e.nt instead of the living room where the TV and the couch, that I'm guessing you bought, are ready to use for you and your buddies for one night a week? Hm?" Tayaw asks. Aiden can only stare at Tayaw, speechless. "Exactly." Tayaw smirks smugly, which them men in the crowd cheered on once again./// At this point, Peter's eyes are acc.u.mulating tears from stopping himself from laughing. He can feel Charlotte's glare and it is making hair on the back of his neck stand. ///"And! And, it's hard to make women happy. Why is John from the Yankees so miserable compared to when he was an honest to God, Christian V.i.r.g.i.n? Why did Joe from HomeDepot have to renovate his kitchen the Nth time when he's already satisfied with the original arrangement? Why can't Jack the mechanic just laugh at things he finds funny and enjoy things he wants to do just because Jennie might get mad? I don't wanna get through all of that crap." Tayaw says. His ranting gathered another round of support from the men in the audience. /// "Puh! Hah! *aherm* *aherm*" Peter can no longer keep his laughter and bursts out a syllable of it before suppressing it once again. "Hahahahaha!" Lexi on the other hand, laughed in place of Peter. "Come on mom. You glaring at dad like that is making Tayaw's point. Dad, a lot of times has to tiptoe around you just avoid getting you mad. Why are you not happy, mom?" Lexi says. "Alright. Stop it, Lexi." Peter tries to prevent drama from starting, but inside, he is pleased that his daughter is speaking up for him.
