Mommy and Daddy's Night Out

Punk and Lacy haven't had a night to themselves in a while. He wasn't going to do anything crazy, but he wanted them to enjoy themselves. He figured he would take them to the drive in and have dinner. After he dropped off the kids at Ellie's house, he went to buy some flowers and then headed home. "Lace? I'm back." he said as he walked in.

"Hi." She said as she sat on the couch folding the kids' laundry. Ever since that night at the club she'd been short with him.

"Hey." he said as he walked in and handed the flowers over to her. "I bought these for you."

She looked up and took the flowers. "What for?"

"Because I can?" he said. "I wanted to do something nice."

"Well thank you, they're very nice." she said.

"You're welcome." he said. "So listen, I took the kids over by Ellie's and she offered to watch them for a bit so we can go out. I figured we could go to the drive in and have dinner."

She arched a brow and quirked her lips. "I don't know if I feel like dealing with anymore of your ring rats."

He sighed. "Lace, seriously? Come on."

"Don't 'Lace, seriously' me." she shook her head.

"I told you that it meant nothing to me and that I didn't even notice how that girl was all over me." he told her. "I'm really, really sorry."

"How the hell could you not know if some one was flirting with you?" she rolled her eyes. "I think you knew and you decided to ignore it. You are not naive at all."

"Whatever the case, it's not like I was hitting on the girl or anything. I didn't even want her near me."

"Phil please, if the roles were switched and you even thought a guy was talking to me, you would have pummeled him into the ground and claimed me as if I were property, so don't make it look like I'm over reacting."

"I know." he said. "You have every right to be this upset."

"So you thought flowers and a movie were going to just defuse me?"

"Actually no. I just wanted for us to try to enjoy a night out."

"Uh huh." She said blandly as she set her flowers to the side.

"Please? Just try to put this aside and move on from it."

She crossed her arms and looked at him for a moment before rolling her eyes and getting up to go upstairs.

"...is that a yes?" he called out.

She came down a few moments later with her sweater and her purse. "Come on, before I go back to doing laundry."

He opened the door for her to go out first. "After you."

Lacy went out to the car and got into the passenger's seat, closing the door behind her.

He locked up the house and then got into the car, starting it and beginning to drive to the drive in. "I told Ellie that we'd let her know if we'd pick up the kids later or not. They usually always have fun there."