They were on their dare - Zhenya and Gordy. Zhenya was wearing a red sundress with red ballet slippers, and Gordy was wearing jeans with a button-up top.
"You look handsome," Zhenya said. Her mother had told her father he was handsome once, and then he kissed her. Maybe that was what happened when you called someone handsome.
"I'm going to take you for Ice Cream," he told her. Afterall, they were big 10-year-olds and they didn't need parents to supervise them at the movies. No, this was a proper date, thanks to that dare Clara gave them.