SF Chapter 115: New House Final
Daniel headed to one of the rooms where his cousin and his friends were. It was the game room.
"Hey, they're already serving food. What are you guys doing in here?" he asked as he opened the door.
Howard and Raj were playing a Mortal Kombat arcade machine. Near them, Jake, Luke and Dylan were on a racing simulator, competing against each other.
Meanwhile, Leonard and Bernadette were at the air hockey table.
Sheldon was standing in front of the model railway, utterly fascinated, somehow having found a conductor's hat from God knows where.
"This model is amazing," he remarked. "That is a rare model," he added, pointing at one of the trains.
Dani shrugged. "Came with the house. I don't know anything about these kid toys."
Sheldon turned to him, horrified. "Came with the house? Kid toys?" he repeated in outrage.
"Daniel, this is not a kid toy! This is a precision-scale model railway with historically significant rolling stock-"
Daniel ignored him and mocked Howard. "Ha, loser," he said, seeing that Raj was winning three to zero.
"Bet you can't do any better!" Howard challenged him.
"Let me see that," Dani moved over to the controls Howard had been using, while Raj started a new game.
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After a while, someone else opened the door to the room.
"Dani, I told you to call them, not to start playing too," Claire sighed.
"Just one more, sis. I'm being humiliated in my own house," he whined, losing to Raj one more time.
"In your face!" Howard yelled, repeating what Raj had whispered in his ear.
"Let me help you, D-Money," Phil said, rolling up his sleeves as he walked over to them.
Dani made room for his brother-in-law to take a shot. Claire watched that, shook her head, and decided to head back to the living room.
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After lunch, everyone stayed a little longer, until each group gradually started heading home.
"Hey, your parents are already leaving," Dani said as he opened one of the rooms.
This time, it was a mini library, with a large office desk in the corner.
Closer to one of the bookshelves, Alex was reading, almost lying down in a very spacious armchair.
"Oh," she finally said, lowering the book when a hand touched her head.
"Pride and Prejudice, no wonder you're so focused," Dani smiled, seeing what she was reading.
"Have you read it?"
"Of course, my little snappy niece. When I'm not working, wooing girls, having a great time with family and friends, or taking a nap, I'm reading!" he pointed out.
Alex glanced around. "I might do the same as you, Dani. I'll run away here too when I turn sixteen," she said, meaning the same thing as Haley.
Dani raised an eyebrow, then held up two fingers. "Two rules: what happens in Dani's house stays in Dani's house. And no judging my guests."
"You'd let me stay here just like that?" she asked, a little surprised.
"I wouldn't mind Haley either," Dani remarked. "But I prefer you," he confessed. "With you, I know that when you turn seventeen or eighteen, you'll be moving into a dorm room on campus."
"And I'm being honest, Alex," he finished. "Because with you, Sis might actually agree to let you stay here somehow."
Alex paused for a moment. "Thank you, Dani."
She went on, "I'll think about it when I turn sixteen and see how it goes. I don't want to be a babysitter."
"Because I can totally see you ending up with an accidental baby!" she smirked, running toward the door.
"Oh, you little pygmy, come back here," Dani said, motioning with his hand. "I'm trying to be an awesome uncle, and you're cursing me!"
[Claire commentary]
The Dunphy matriarch looked tired and a bit annoyed, sitting on the couch in her living room.
"Haley already made a fuss, and now she's going to keep whining about living with her uncle," she said, making a face.
"And, as usual, Alex kept provoking her by saying she wanted that too," Claire revealed about the conversation her two daughters had on the way home.
"For a brief moment, I wanted to turn the car around and leave both at Dani's house," she confessed. "Getting rid of the two of them while also punishing my brother at the same time."
A little while later, Luke walked up to her with a backpack on his shoulders.
"Mom, I'm moving to Uncle Dani's place," he announced.
Claire just put a hand over her face.
[Commentary ends]
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Daniel was on the deck of his brother's house.
"Hey, bro, I'll still be living here for the time being," he said, clinking his wine glass against his brother's, "until you get into a committed relationship."
Charlie clinked glasses with him, but said in an admonishing tone, "Don't curse me."
"Do you ever think about stopping and settling down?" Alan asked, looking at Charlie from where he was also sitting nearby.
"Maybe, eventually..." Charlie muttered.
Dani looked at Alan. "When that happens, you know you'll need to find your own place and start paying rent, right, Alan?"
"I think your lifestyle isn't that bad, Charlie," Alan remarked.
"They talked about us, Daniel," Charlie said, turning to his youngest brother. "But out of the three of us, Alan is the most shameless." He scoffed.
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Dani ended up going back to his own house, especially since some "guests" had returned.
He was lying down in his bed with Mischa stretched out on top of him, both of them naked.
"Hey, your stepbrother gave me a love letter," Mischa revealed.
"Classic Manny..." he muttered.
"Love letter. Wearing a suit. You are a bad influence," she teased.
He denied it. "Nah. That's not my fault. He was already like that when I met him."
She adjusted herself more comfortably.
"We lost Lexi," she said, amused, changing the subject. Her friend was once again in the screening room, watching a movie.
"Huh, she's worse than the kids in the game room," he joked.
Mischa deadpanned. "You were there too. And you stayed for quite a while."
"I'm the host. I had to stay with my guests," he defended himself.
She snorted. "Yeah, right!"
"But I still prefer the adult entertainment," he smirked.
She rolled her eyes.
But feeling something poking her, Mischa picked up the condom from the bedside table.
"We need to make the most of it. Next week, my New York family is coming because of the Premiere, and then we might have to be a little more discreet," he said, pulling her in for a kiss.
What followed was a long series of moans.
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