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Pacing back and forth Martin ignored the young couple waiting at the dessert counter. Like a child waiting for punishment to be handed down Lily waited at her table patiently.
“How can you almost get yourself killed?” he asked Todd ignoring Lily completely.
“Well I don't think she purposely set out this morning to get her self-killed,” Todd replied then quickly looked at Lily who shook her head to concur.
“That is my point Papi, she doesn't think.”
“I think she thinks,” he said getting confused. “I think.”
“Exactly, I think we should ground her.”
“Oh fun,” Todd said clapping his hands and turning to Lily. She gave him a look as if he jumped on board the whacky train and ordered the kool aid with Martin. Realizing he was just getting caught up in the exciting prospect of grounding Lily he calmed down and turned back to Martin. “Now sweetie, Lily, while in our care is an adult-”
“Is she?” Martin inserted quickly. “Do adults run out onto busy streets in front of buses? NO! She must learn.”
“Learn what?” she asked. Todd just looked at her bewildered trying not to laugh.
“Look baby, she just wasn't paying attention,” Todd said trying to get serious for him.
“Ese es mi punto.”
Lily stood up obviously insulted. “How dare you!”
Raising his hand to stop her Todd interjected. “Settle down Rosetta Stone, your Spanish is a little off.”
“He didn't just call me a whore?”
Todd just shook his head. “That's punta, pun-ta,” he said pronouncing it. “He said punto, point, that's his point.”
“Oh ... continue then.”
Todd decided to ignore her completely and turned back to Martin. “Now Bear, I know you're just upset because we almost lost our Lily today.”
Starting to feel his emotions bubble outwards he tried to hide them with another excuse. “I am upse...

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...picking what pops on the television is their entire business model,” he said rolling his eyes.
Returning to the kitchen Martin became a little embarrassed. “It is still not the same.”
Yelling back he mimicked his accent. “It is kind of the same ... Papi.”
“You're horrible,” Lily said finishing up the tea sack and waiting for the water to boil.
The door chime went off and now a slew of people poured into the store.
“I know,” Todd said heading to the counter.
“Don't you like the men on Vampire Diaries?” she asked curiously.
“Men, ha! ... Now Magnum P.I., that Mr. Tom Selleck is a man.”
“You know that show ended in the eighties right?”
“Not up here honey,” he said pointing to his head. “That is one moustache ride that will be forever up here.”
Turning to clear some things off her table she started to feel a little disturbed. “I don't even want to know what that means.”