“Come on in–did you not notice your sleeve’s torn?” Parrish immediately spotted the loose threads dangling from Alessia’s cuff.

“I snagged it on something by accident.” Alessia didn’t have the heart to admit she’d gotten it caught while sneaking through an alley.

“Go change first. Come back down when you’re done.”

If it had been anyone else, Alessia would have rolled her eyes and walked away. But with Parrish, she could only nod and head upstairs without a word.

As soon as Alessia disappeared into her room, Parrish grabbed Cole by the ear, making him yelp and clutch at Parrish’s hand, face twisting in pain.

“Dad, let go! Ouch, ouch, that hurts!”

“Oh, so you *do* feel pain, huh? I told you to bring Lessie straight home, but what did you do? And what’s with that mess on your head?”

“I think it looks pretty cool, actually.”

Seeing Cole’s smug grin, Parrish flicked him hard on the forehead.

“Is that how a student should look? You want to dye your hair every which way over winter and summer break, fine–but you’d better have it back to normal before school starts tomorrow.”

just dyed it! Doing two colors at once is really rough on my

“Then shave it off.”

on, Dad, just let it go.

eyed him suspiciously. “And this plan will actually

class?”

like you do, Dad.” Cole draped an arm companionably over Parrish’s shoulder, standing on

the words, Parrish’s tone

stern.

fixes her hair, you better

said, thumping his chest

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going to be painful… maybe I’ll talk to your teacher and

I don’t do it too often, it’s fine. He’ll

Parrish at ease,

I need a shower.” Parrish waved him off, shooing Cole and his wild, rainbow–colored

to find Jade sprawled across her bed, watching reality TV

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