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There are probably worse things to get phone calls about.

However ones from the police station which involve words such as "child" and "car accident" are pretty bad. Especially when the child involved your fifteen year old ward.

Which is exactly the sort of phone call Andrew got on Saturday evening.

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"No, sir," he mumbles, getting into the car as well. "Sorry, sir."

"Now, tell me the truth," he said, starting the car, "Was it really about a girl?"

"Yes... well... yes." He's not looking at Andrew. Instead he's watching traffic.

"I have all night, Alec, so I urge you to be as explanatory as possible."

"We were talking... like I said. And I don't know how it got around to cars. But it did. And I mentioned the car you had. And she wanted to see it. I didn't think there was anything wrong with that."

He gives a nervous shrugging gesture.

"There was something wrong with not asking before using my property. There was something wrong with driving so poorly that you smashed it to pieces. How did you even manage to drive it that poorly?"

Alec mumbles something.

It sounds like 'she kissed me'.

Andrew sighs, trying to keep the slight smirk off of his face. "I see. In the future, perhaps, you'll be more prepared for that type of eventuality, and won't drive off the road when faced with feminine wiles."

"She's a girl! Why would she kiss me!?"

Which possibly makes sense in Alec's mind. His general lack of interest in girls has placed them still slightly above the cootie stage. Or at least if he's not interested in them, then they shouldn't be interest in him, right? Along that train of thought he never thought of himself as anyone who girls would be attracted to.

"I assume she found herself, for some inexplicable reason, attracted to you. Or to my car."

Andrew was mean enough to imply that it was probably the car.

"Probably," he agrees morosely.

"So... I showed her the car and she wanted to see what it was like inside of it and... it seemed like a good idea at the time..."

"Alec, I have a hint for you, regarding future decisions. If you ever even suspect that you may end an experience telling me that something seemed like a good idea at the time, don't do it in the first place."

"I'll... try to remember that one sir."

He sighs a bit. "I didn't think I was stealing the car. I was going to bring it back."

He shakes his head as they get closer to the apartment. "Alec, do you even have a license?"

It amuses Alec sometimes that Andrew doesn't always keep up with his doings.

"Yes. Well, a permit. Not a license yet."

He may have forged Andrew's signature to get the permit.

"Meaning you shouldn't be driving by yourself, without adult accompaniment."

As if Alec would ever be allowed to get a license now!

Indeed! Or at least not for a long while. Long. Long. Long while.

"Would you have?"

"Accompanied you? Not tonight, but there are plenty of nights to impress girls."

And now Alec gives him the horrified look of a teenager whose dad just offered to come on a date with him.

"I don't think you being in the car would help impress anyone. Sir."

Andrew smirked. "Please, Alec. Some people find me very impressive."

He parks the car in front of the apartment and gets out, still talking. "On the other hand, I would have had little to no interest seeing you attempt to impress a girl, so no, I wouldn't have come along. And then you wouldn't have had the car."

"If you were in the car there would be no way I could impress anyone. No matter how impressive you are. If anything it would probably ruin any chance I had to ever impress anyone at all." He says this with all the seriousness that a teenager can muster when it comes to school politics.

You may impress adults Andrew, but we're discussing teenagers now. And no one cool has their dad -acknowledged or not - around.

"Then I think you'll have to find some other way to impress girls. Some alternate mode of transportation, until you can legally and appropriately use mine. The bus is a cheap option."

At this point, he's simply messing with you, Alec. But it's so amusing to irritate teenagers.

Alec looks miffed and properly messed with. Never mind the fact that he doesn't exactly want to impress girls.

"Are you going to show me how to drive so I don't crash into things and ruin your cars?"

"You can take driver's education in school. I believe they offer it during your junior year."

He unlocks the door to the apartment and ushers Alec in.

Not looking at Andrew he makes a grab for a pack of cigarettes he left on the table earlier before saying,

"So you're going to trust them to teach me?"