I'd been talkin bout the fact that I keep my hairbrush out in my car, with my hairbands around my stick-thing (I drive an automatic so Im never sure what to call it- you dont exactly shift gears with it... <<;;).

Dad hijacked the topic after a second and my mind just froze. HOW exactly did he mean 'stick thing'...? Gage is all skin and bones, so I joke he's made outta sticks (Or I call him my personal Jack Skellington since I love The Nightmare Before Christmas), and the familyl's picked up on the habit. But he's also a /guy/, and my dad's almost more pervy than *I* am so...
I was understandably distraught.

The expression in the last panel's supposed to be somewhere between confusion and disgust/trauma.
I dont like the way I look in the second panel. At all.