Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-38232361-20190511172838/@comment-38232361-20190515073428

"Well I wouldn't say that. A majority of my job is to mediate and negotiate, it's honestly pretty tame for the most part..." I try to reassure my houndish mother in-law.

"Daddie got shot at by some guy with four arms last week!" My daughter blurts out without thinking.

The table goes silent as everyone drops their jaws in shock. I try to defend myself. "That wasn't related to my job, Ashie! I was on another planet to meet with a client when some druggy jumped out from an alleyway and tried to mug me! He didn't even shoot, he was using a painted toy gun and hoped I would just give him my stuff without realizing it was fake!"

"Why didn't you tell me!?" My wife and mother yell at me in unison, the latter accidentally dropping her fake French accent for her real, heavy, Scottish accent.

"It wasn't that big a deal! It was just some punk kid with a squirt gun who thought he could score some easy money from an offworlder!"

"Not that big a deal!?" My mother then burries her face in one hand while the other fills her glass almost all the way.

"I didn't want you two to worry!"

My wife scoffs and shakes her head while my mother downs her whole glass, her face turning bright red from inebriation and possibly frustration. She then starts massaging her temples with the one hand thats not on her glass.

"Sorry..." Ashie looks down at her plate dejectedly, her ears and tail drooping down low.

I give her a headpat and then kiss her on the forehead. "Dont be, I should have told mama and nana." I then wrap my arm around Nikki and slowly rub her shoulder with my thumb.

"I'm sorry. To both of you... to everyone, I guess..." I kiss my wife on the cheek and rest my head against hers.

"Forgive me?"

"Asshole..." Nicole mutters as she leans her head on my shoulder, her tail slapping against the back beams of her chair. My mother looks up a little to give a small, tired smile between her fingers.

"But, uhhhh yeah. It's normally not really all that exciting. For me and Nina."