I'm afraid I couldn't help laughing when I read that line about Franky not minding Tami being pregnant (I guess meaning he would be willing to marry her) because she "knew how to behave at the table."
Suddenly, I'm thinking- what, is Tami a chimpanzee? And I'm seeing her at dinner with Franky's folks: napkin tucked daintily under her chin, silverware clenched in hairy fists on either side of her empty plate, staring intently at Franky's Dad a few seats down...
...and NOT jumping on the table, reaching back under her dress into her diaper and grabbing a handful of poo to fling at him for not passing the potatoes fast enough.
The way all Franky's previous girlfriends used to do.
Hee.
Anyway, that said... the plot and the suggested questionable relationship between Tami and Franky AND the "open ending," taken together, were "edgy" enough that I am left wishing this were a longer story. So I could enjoy all the missing bits this shortie leaves for me to only imagine.
Such as what, exactly, DOES Tami's knowing "how to behave at the table" actually MEAN?
Anyway- nice read. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you. This is so sweet of you.
I imagined Franky being a very simple basic guy, who doesn't really know how to behave at the dinner table. That is to know which side of the plate to put two knives and two forks, which glass is for wine and which is for water, how long one supposed to wait after the prayer before putting your spoon in a soup, etc. So when they both sat at the dinner table with Franky’s parents, the parents were impressed seeing that Franky finally did it right and figured whose influence this was. And yes she didn’t jump on the table and did other similar damage.
Thank you again