Erin’s feeling impulsive the next morning, and gets a quick haircut. She likes it! It feels good to be able to control something in this house.
Interesting! No real desire to interract with Duncan while she’s so pissed off but absolutely intends to leverage this to get him to cook, lmao
Duncan: Morning, babe.
Erin: Don’t you ‘babe’ me. I’m really, really mad at you.
Duncan: That’s fair.
Duncan: Maybe you should take the day off. We should probably talk about this?
Erin: No way, I’m behind on work enough as it is and I need some space to think about us.
Duncan: You’re not thinking of-
Erin: I can’t even look at you right now.
He wants to make up with Erin but like… he also wants to go on a date, and she’s at work? So like, what’s he supossed to do? Stay home and look after the baby and not date? Change diapers? Fuck that.
It’s totally not his fault, if she’d stayed at home with him he wouldn’t have gotten so restless…
Duncan: I missed hanging out like this.
Vivian: Me too! So what, do you and Erin have like an open marriage set up?
Duncan: Uh, yeah! That’s exactly what we have.
Duncan: Adorable, right? I gotta admit I wasn’t sure about the whole baby thing at first but the little dude’s really growing on me.
Vivian: I guess he’s cute. I’m not really into children.
Duncan: Damn, no food in the house. And I can’t leave the little guy at home…
Vivian: It’s cool, I’m not really hungry for food…
Vivian: That was fun, we should do this more often!
Duncan: Yeah, totally. Just give me a call, any time. Wait, no, actually, daytime hours are best.
Duncan: Babe! Listen, listen, I really am so so sorry, I didn’t mean to-
Erin: We’ll talk about it later.
Duncan: Don’t leave me hanging like this babe, the uncertainity is killing me!
Erin: That’s too bad, but it’s not my problem.
Aiyanna: Woah, hey!
Duncan: I am so fucking glad to see you, Erin is crazy mad at me and might divorce me and-
Aiyanna: Because you cheated on her like you did me? Excuse me if I’m not overflowing with pity.
Duncan: You gotta come inside with me, maybe you can talk to Erin? Like, convince her not to dump my ass?
Aiyanna: You’re really hopeless, babe.
Erin: It was just a kiss as far as I saw, but god knows what else has been going on… it’s like I leave him unsupervised for one second and he starts cheating on me!
Aiyanna: So, Duncan say you’re thinking of leaving him and I’m supossed to convince you not to.
Erin: Sweet of him.
Aiyanna: Are you gonna leave him?
Erin: I’m… not sure yet. I love him and I want to beleieve he can do better, but…
Aiyanna: I mean, he’s definitely kind of a dirtbag and probably deserves it but I think deep down he-
Erin: Wait, are you still holding a candle?
Aiyanna: What? No!! As if! Surely if I was I wouldn’t be having this conversation with you? Right?
Erin: True, I’ll give you that.
Lewis grew up that evening! He’s clumsy, a libra, and a heavy sleeper like his mother. I’m happy to report he has his dad’s huge ears and his mom’s high cheekbones!
Duncan: Hey, little dude! Since it’s his birthday, how about we order pizza to celebrate and make tonight into a party?
Aiyanna: Sounds kinda awkward.
Duncan: No way, it’ll be fun!
Duncan: Hey, little dude! Since it’s his birthday, how about we order pizza to celebrate and make tonight into a party?
(Don't even think about it, Duncan...)
Duncan: So, are we good?
Erin: What, is a pizza meant to make up for everything? You know I prefer home-cooked meals.
Duncan: It’s not my fault, babe. We’re out of groceries.
Erin: Why didn’t you pick some up?
Duncan: I didn’t wanna leave the little guy home alone! Jeez, if it’s that big of a deal you could go get some up while I tidy up-
Erin: And leave you and Aiyanna alone together? Ha, I don’t think so. You get the damn groceries, and try not to ‘accidentally’ make out with anyone on the way there.
Duncan: I’m back.
Erin: Pretty quick. Usually you don’t come back for hours and come back smelling like beer.
Duncan: Give it a rest, babe.
Aiyanna: Oh, hey, speking of, did you get any beer?
Erin: His first word! Duncan, did you hear?
Duncan: Uh-huh. Cool.
Erin: Nightie night, Lewie! What am I going to do about your father, hmm?
Aiyanna sticks around for a while.
Aiyanna: I should get going.
Duncan: Fair enough. Goodni- mmph!
Aiyanna: Wow, uh. Just pretend that never happened! We gotta stop doing this.
Duncan: We really do, it’s just…
Aiyanna: …hard to break out of old habits.
Duncan: Yeah.