Chapter 11 : Dinner

[Finn POV]

"MOM WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Haley immediately started screaming, while I let out a secrete sigh of relief. If she came in while I made her daughter cry then I might not get home alive.

"Umm, Yes! Dinner is ready!" and with that Mrs. Dunphy ran the hell away. Well I ain't no genius but that sure as hell wasn't a dinner call. The question is why was she so chill when I walked in, but scared shitless now? Did she realize I was a guy that fucking late? Haley must have been able to see how utterly confused I was because she started to get red in embarrassment.

"God damnit mom, did you embarrass me today too?!" I could hear her mutter, ah so it's a regular occurrence. That is oddly reassuring. I lightly flicked Haley on her forehead and she yelped.

"Alright then time to eat, then I'll go home and finish up this homework by tomorrow." I got up and grabbed my guitar bag, I'll leave right after dinner so might as well move it down.

"Still didn't watch the first episode..." Haley grumbled as she followed me downstairs, and whose fault is that exactly woman! As we walked towards the dinner table I saw Phil, whose face lit up upon seeing me.

"What's good Finnster!" ...what? Why is Phil cosplaying as a 90s gangster? I turned to Haley who looked like she wanted the ground to just swallow her. Well Phil is certainly a character, but the least I can do is accommodate him yeah?

"Nothing much, what bout you?" I said with my own gangster accent while extending my fist, and I kid you not Phil looked he won the god damn lottery! I saw from the corner of my eye that Claire was eyeing my guitar.

"Wow, that's a guitar! Do you play?" Unexpectedly the question came from the little kid of the house, Luke.

"Yeah Luke, I play the guitar and write a few songs." The little kid had stars in his eyes and everything.

"Wow that's so cool!" This kid is hyping me up, can't say it feels bad.

[Haley POV]

"Yeah Luke, I play the guitar and write a few songs." Oh lord almighty, yeah Finn plays the guitar REALLY well but his songs...are questionable on the best of days.

The lyrics of his songs are sometimes so brain numbing that people would question how the fuck does a brain even work like that. Oddly enough it was still pretty catchy, for the wrong reasons.

Unfortunately Finn helped Dylan with one particular song of his.

[Flashback]

"I just wanna do you, do you! Do you wanna do me, do me! Underneath the moonlight" Now I appreciate the sentiment but what the flying fuck.

"That's the one right there Dylan, we got it! The next billboard number one!!" Finn and Dylan were celebrating like they won the super bowl...

[Flashback End]

Please don't sing an original song today Finn, I can't take anymore embarrassment today!

[Finn POV]

As dinner went on Phil, Luke and I were conversing about many things. Cartoons, movies, hobbies music etc. It was really fun, surprisingly so. Haley looked like she ate a lemon since dinner started, what's got her so freaked out? And Claire was still staring at me suspiciously while Alex looked like she couldn't give less of a fuck if she tried.

We finished up dinner and I was planning on leaving now.

"Finn can you please play a song?" Luke unleashed his most powerful move, his puppy eyes.

"Yeah Finnster, let us hear a song of yours!" Even Phil joined in, who looked at Claire for support.

"Yes Finn, we would love to hear your songs." Claire said with some scheming look, what is going on in that woman's mind?!

Haley's face went pale when the word original song came up, Ahhh I see now. My songs before were pretty catchy, but absolutely incredible meme material! I let a massive grin come onto my face.

"My songs are better now, don't look so worried." I whispered to Haley while pulling out my guitar.

The whole family gathered around me as I sat on the sofa. Alex still just kept reading but would occasionally look up. I tuned my guitar again because it got messed up on the bike ride.

"How are you tuning it without a tuner?" Alex for the first time all night asked me a question, I looked up and saw her looking confused.

"I can tune my guitar by ear, it's pretty helpful when I want a custom tuning." Alex looked shocked, I mean normal people don't really know how hard that is. Only other musicians know the experience or talent that takes.

"You play any instrument Alex?" She jerked.

"How did you know?" I started lightly chuckling at how much of a hard ass this twelve year old is. Which she clearly didn't appreciate.

"Only other musicians know how hard it is to tune by ear, especially non standard tunings." That seemed to calm her down, oh someone has a bit of an ego there don't they.

[Claire POV]

"So you do have talented friends after all." Alex said to Haley who looked ready to gloat, poor girl has always been a bit slow.

"Finn is the best guitarist I've ever seen! Wait what the hell did you say!" That was quicker than most times, so progress I guess.

I feel bad for being so suspicious of a boy who just lost his mother but I need to look out for Haley, the say songs are the window to a writers heart. So we should be able to see what time of person is Finn.

[Phil POV]

When I first met Finn I knew he was a good kid, but after today I KNOW he's a great kid. He even insisted on paying me back for the chips I bought him. He's a troubled kid whose working things out, so I hope he continues music as his outlet.

[Luke POV]

Holding the guitar looks cool, I wanna try it too!

[Haley POV]

I stopping bickering with Alex because it looked like Finn was going to start. And then started such a light and yet heavy tune, something that would be very hard to forget. I knew this night would stick with all of us for a long time.