Josh: (jumping up & down) Can I play with your phone?
Alex: No.
Josh: Can I play in your car?
Alex: No.
Josh: Can I play with your dog?
Alex: (he frowns) I don't have a dog.
Josh: Oh...well then, can I play with your updog?
Alex: ...Joshua, I do live in the world. I'm not that out of the loop.
Josh: (he sighs and folds his arms, sits down cross-legged on the floor) Well, what can I do then? You have to look after me, you promised Aunt Caroline!
Alex: I'll have you know I did no such thing! Your Aunt Caroline left you here to swan off with her fancy man! I don't know when she'll be back and now she isn't answering any of my phone calls. You are a problem.
Josh: I'm bored!
Alex: Read a book.
Josh: I'm hungry!
Alex: Are you hungry, Joshua, or are you just looking for attention?
Josh: No, I'm really hungry, I swear! I haven't eaten since, like, Tuesday!
Alex: Well, that's a fucking lie, isn't it????
Josh: (he gasps) You can't say words like that! Besides, you don't know if I'm lying! If you don't get me some food right now, I'll tell my Aunt Caroline that you practically starved me! I'm only ten! I can't use an oven by myself!
Alex: (he frowns) What do you even eat? I've only ever seen you eat chocolate!
Josh: (he shrugs) I dunno.
Alex: You don't know what you like to eat?
Josh: I dunno! (he shakes his head)
Alex: ...Joshua, I'm going to ask you one last time or I really am going to starve you. What do you want to eat?
Josh: (he thinks and taps his chin) Hmmm...do you have any baked beans?
Alex: I do not. Also, who the fuck eats baked beans?
Josh: (he frowns and points at him) You said it again! I'm telling Aunt Caroline!
Alex: You do that. Anything else?
Josh: Hmmm... (he thinks again) ...Do you have any Sauvignon Blanc?
Alex: ...That's wine.
Josh: Yeah, I know!
Alex: You want wine for dinner?
Josh: Mm-hm! (he nods decidedly)
Alex: You're ten years old.
Josh: My Mum lets me drink it at home!
Alex: No, she doesn't.
Josh: (he sighs) FINE, THEN! Can we go out to eat?
Alex: Depends, you're not going to ask for something nasty, are you?
Josh: (he grins and jumps up) McDonald's!!
Alex: Oh, Christ, your Mother really does neglect you, doesn't she?
Josh: (he keeps jumping up & down) McDonald's, McDonald's, McDonald's, McDonald's!!!
Alex: If I get you McDonald's, will you shut up for five minutes?
Josh: Yes.
Alex: Do you promise?
Josh: Yes!
Alex: Well, tough luck, you're still not getting it.
Josh: HEY! (he throws a Pokemon card at him like a ninja star)
Alex: (he catches it) What's this? (he turns the card over) ...Weedle. Of course. Of course, it's Weedle.
Josh: GIVE ME BACK MY WEEDLE!
Alex: Or what? (he reaches up to put it on top of a very high cupboard)
Josh: Or...or I'll scream!
Alex: These walls are soundproof, Joshua. I could skin you alive and nobody would hear you scream.
Josh: (he frowns) No, they're not!
Alex: Would you like to test that theory?
Josh: No... (he frowns) I'm STILL hungry!
Alex: Right, get your coat. I'll take you to McDonald's but I'm not going in.
Josh: No, you HAVE to come in with me!
Alex: And why, pray tell, is that?
Josh: Because I have to use the toilet and you can't let me go in alone, I'm a child!
Alex: (he frowns) What the fuck are you talking about? We haven't left yet, use the loo here!
Josh: Yeah, but I always use the toilet when I go to McDonald's! It's tradition!
Alex: ...Traditio - alright, listen here, you little shit! (he bends down to his level) You are not going to use the toilet at McDonald's, you are going to use the toilet here, then I am going to take you to McDonald's, and you will quietly eat your food while I wait for you in the car.
Josh: Uh huh, and then what?
Alex: What do you mean "and then what"?
Josh: Well, what are we going to do afterwards?
Alex: We are coming straight back here and then your Aunt Caroline is going to pick you up.
Josh: No, she isn't! She said!
Alex: She said what?
Josh: She said she isn't coming back 'til Tuesday morning! She's gone away to the seaside with my Mum, my Dad, and her new boyfriend!
Alex: ...What?
Josh: She didn't want me to tell you until she was gone! All my stuff is already upstairs.
Alex: (staring off into space) .....................................................Tuesday is in four days time.
Josh: Yup! (he grins) Can we go McDonald's now? Oh, also, my Dad wanted me to give you this! (he hands him a small piece of card with some numbers written on it)
Alex: What's it for, what are these the numbers to?
Josh: No idea! (he bounces) Two Big Macs, a Large Fries, Two portions of Chicken McNuggets and a Medium Fanta Orange! Since you won't let me go to the toilet at McDonald's, we could order it for delivery here instead!?
Alex: Oh my God. I don't think I can do this. Four days...four days of this....!
Josh: What's that? (he points to Headless Betty)
Alex: (tapping on his phone to order Josh's food) That's Headless Betty. She's very precious to me, so you aren't to touch her.
Josh: What happened to her head?
Alex: Somebody cut it off. Why the Hell am I being asked to sign up for "McRewards"? The only reward you'll ever get from eating this horseshit is the hard-learned lesson to never eat it again!
Josh: Can I have an Apple Pie as well?
Alex: Are you actually going to eat all of this?
Josh: I dunno. (he shrugs) Sometimes it makes my tummy hurt and then I get sick. Reaaaaaaaaaally sick, all over my Mum's carpet!
Alex: (he stares at him, unimpressed)
Josh: ...Okay, fine, I'll just have the Chicken McNugget meal.
Alex: Right, order's in. Can you be trusted to be left alone for a few minutes while I make some tea?
Josh: I dunno.
Alex: You don't know a lot, do you, boy...?
Josh: WAIT! If you leave me alone, what if Headless Betty starts crying because she doesn't have a head?
Alex: She won't.
Josh: (he points) Well, what if that ugly old gross stuffed cat comes back to life and bites me?
Alex: ...............What did you just say to me?
Josh: It's so old and weird-looking! Why do you even have that?
Alex: Don't insult my cat again or I'll flush your McDonald's down the toilet, do you hear me? JOSHUA! I said, do you hear me?
Josh: Well, wouldn't that be bad for the pipes...? (the doorbell rings and he jumps up) OOH! FOOD'S HERE!!! (he runs to the door and swings it open)
Caroline: (soaking wet, standing at the door) Joshie...!! I had such a terrible argument with Henry! Can you believe he said I was overdramatic?! Well, I showed him!! I poured my margherita into his petrol tank and left! I'm sure he'll have fun shelling out for that!
Alex: CAROLINE! OH, THANK GOD! I'VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!
Caroline: (she frowns for a second and then chuckles) That's...nice? I think? I thought you were going to kill me for leaving Joshie here unannounced.
Alex: I was! But now I don't care! I don't care anymore because you're back! You're back and now I don't have to deal with him anymore!
Josh: HEY, I've been really well-behaved today, actually!
Caroline: (she smiles) Awww, have you? (she ruffles his hair) What a good boy, being so good for his Uncle Alex!
Alex: Do not call me that.
Caroline: Being so good for his... (she squints apprehensively) Buddy?
Alex: He is not my buddy. Also, who the Hell says "buddy"?
Josh: Aunt Caroline, Aunt Caroline!! I have to tell you something, it's really important!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caroline: Oh, what is it, Joshie Darling?
Josh: Alexsander stole my Weedle!
Caroline: What's a Weedle...?
Alex: Here. (he retrieves it and tosses it back to Josh) I was going to take it hostage if you refused to go to sleep tonight.
Josh: Weedle!!!!!! (he hugs the card close to his chest) OH! Aunt Caroline, I gave Alexsander that number from my Dad!
Caroline: Oh, there's a good boy, Joshie! (she turns to Alex) Did you call them then?
Alex: Call who?!
Caroline: The number, silly! For the mechanic!
Alex: What mechanic?! I don't need a mechanic!
Caroline: Ohhhhhh, he didn't tell you, then?
Alex: ........Tell me what?
Josh: I poured Pepsi into the petrol tank.
Alex: WHY?
Josh: I dunno. (he shugs)
Caroline: It's a good one! It really works!
Alex: ... (he physically drags Caroline and Josh outside the front door and slams it shut) AND STAY OUT!
The McDonald's Delivery Driver: ...Umm...order for number seven...?
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Ashton: (laying on Alex, watching tv, some kind of serial killer documentary) ...Babe? (she sits up to look at him)
Alex: Hm...?
Ashton: Do you think I'd look good dead?
Alex: ...... (he turns slowly towards her) ....What?
Ashton: Well, if you were a serial killer -- I mean, one who just goes around killing random women for fun. Would you think I was pretty enough to kill?
Alex: (looking perplexed) ..............................Can I phone a friend?
Ashton: BABE! (she laughs)
Alex: This has got to be the strangest question you've ever asked me...! I mean, what is even the correct answer to that?!
Ashton: What do you mean?
Alex: Well, if I say that you're not pretty enough to kill, then I'm calling you unattractive! If I say that I would kill you, then I'm...well, worse!
Ashton: ...Yeah, I hadn't really thought of it like that. You're right. (she shrugs and lays back across him) Oh well!
Alex: ....................................................................I feel as if you want me to say something but I don't know what it is.
Ashton: (she smiles quietly and continues to watch the tv) .........Would you cut up my body and keep it in the freezer? (she twirls her hair)
Alex: (he frowns) Are you trying to be flirtatious????
Ashton: (she rolls her eyes) You're just getting that now?
Alex: Well, I'm very sorry to break it to you, Ashton, but I have never fantasised about murdering you. I'm not sure why I'm sorry to break that to you, in all honesty...
Ashton: Ugh! (she throws her arms up) Don't ever tell me I don't try to be romantic!!!!!!
Alex: I......what kind of romance was that?!?
Ashton: Shh. I can't hear the documentary! (she lays back down)
Alex: (he puts his head in his hand, questioning reality)
Ashton: ...... (she giggles and sits up again) You're so easy to mess with, you know that?
Alex: OH, ASHTON, I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!!!!!!!!
Ashton: (she grins) I know! I hate you too, babe! (she kisses his cheek) Pour me some more wine, would you?
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I think the funniest thing about Gary (Caroline's brother-in-law, married to Sophie, Caroline's sister) secretly wanting to be platonic bffs with Alex is not just the fact itself but the ways in which he tries to execute it, poorly and unsuccessfully
Completely useless shit like sending Alex an email invite to a library coffee morning (which he never even opens because firstly why the fuck would he open an email from Gary, and secondly where in the hell did he get his email address)
Buying VIP tickets to one of Alex's concerts just to stand there in the front row dedicatedly miming all the words with a deadpan expression while holding up a sign that says "Alexsander for president" (they live in the UK where presidents aren't a thing)
Sending him a "Happy Palentine's Day" card on Valentine's Day and signing it from "Gary Gardens xoxo" and then writing "No homo" directly underneath the crossed out x's and o's, followed up by a smiley face with a moustache and a lopsided thumbs up
Silently offering him a ticket to an Avril Lavigne concert inside the men's bathroom at a fancy restaurant in the middle of a dinner comprised of Gary, Alex, Caroline, Sophie, and Ashton (he takes it and then gives it to Caroline at the table, directly in front of Gary, who frankly is emotionally wounded by this move)
Washing Alex's car for him while he talks to Caroline and Sophie inside his house, because that's a nice thing for a friend to do to help out their favourite buddy <3 (Alex finds it so bizarre and a little bit insulting as if Gary was trying to insinuate that his car was dirty, so he throws his tea over him, mug included)
Sending him TikToks, like, 24/7 (Alex never even notices because he doesn't check his TikTok notifications since he accumulates so many)
Noticing that Alex never drinks the tea that Sophie makes for him, so he makes him one himself and reassures him that it's "definitely not poisoned" (This concerns Alex, because why would he say that specifically, unless it was poisoned. IS GARY IN CAHOOTS WITH SOPHIE????)
Vehemently defending Alex on public forums and referring to him as his "close family friend" without his knowledge or consent
Worrying about Alex's cholesterol for him and encouraging him to increase his intake of whey protein (Alex thinks he's trying to sell him something and tells him to fuck off)
Making sure he's reminded to drink plenty of water on hot days, and handing him cool damp towels (Despite Alex having rejected them, like, five times already)
I love Gary <3 <3 <3 One of my favourite barely-talked-about NPCs
Also he dislikes his wife and wishes that he never even married Sophie. Maybe a little bit of a crush on Caroline?
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