strong (z. herron)

038; on a date

"i'm back!" zach simply spoke, pacing his keys down and slipping off his shoes. his family had already been gathered in the kitchen so all he did was walk in, going into the fridge and grabbing a water. 

"where have you been?" his mom asked as he greeted her with a kiss on the cheek. zach bit his cheek as he tried his best to contain a smile, just sitting right next to his brother on the other side of the counter. 

"i was on a date." he spoke nonchalantly, causing ryan to raise his eyebrows, now suddenly wanting to pay attention to his brother. 

"a date huh?" he questioned and zach nodded, a small smile already settled on his lips as he took a sip from his water bottle. 

"yup." 

"well was this special girl by any chance called aniela?" josh asked his son. 

they all knew aniela, being as she had come over a couple times, but besides that all zach did was speak about her. every time something as small as her smiling at him happened, he would go home and just rant to his mom how precious her smile is. 

and the entire family knew how zach felt about aniela, just by the way he spoke about her. and myta took pride in the face that she was the reason he texted her. well really she texted her, just through zach's phone and against his will. 

"maybe." zach responded, closing the water bottle and wiping his mouth for any excess water. reese sighed as she turned to look at zach, the sound coming out rather dramatically which caught zach's attention. 

"what's up reese?" he furrowed his eyebrows, a confused expression covering zach's face as he turned to look at his little sister. 

"when are you going to ask her to be your girlfriend?" she scrunched up her face and zach looked down with the smile back on his face, a blush covering his cheeks. 

"I already did." he responded causing the family to erupt in cheers. 

"atta boy!" josh ruffled his hair, as ryan shook his shoulder. myta laughed as she watched them congratulate him. 

"took you long enough yeah?" myta teased causing zach to narrow his eyes at her. 

"you just had to say that didn't you." he shook his head as his mom laughed. 

"sorry we've all been waiting for a while." she shrugged and zach shook his head, a small laugh escaping his lips. 

"wait wait what did she say?" reese asked rationally, never having got the answer from zach. 

"she said yes, who wouldn't? i'm awesome." zach joked, shrugging and reese nodded as an excited grin settled on her face. 

"you see we like her." ryan pointed at him and zach furrowed his eyeborws. 

"what do you mean?" 

"what you thought we liked kayla?" josh raised his eyebrows and zach rolled his eyes. 

"well i'm not with kayla, i'm with aniela now. and i'm happy." another blush came across his cheeks and ryan tilted his head slightly as he watched his brother. 

"how can you be happy you've just asked her ou-" he was cut off by his dad slapping the back of his head. "I mean yay he's happy." ryan spoke unenthusiastically to bother zach and the older boy only rolled his eyes.

zach looked over to his mom, just to see her sitting there with a raised eyebrow as if she were waiting for something. zach shifted uncomfortably, thinking she was waiting for him to confess something he had done in school, but then he remembered that they weren't in texas anymore and there was nothing he could really 'do wrong'. 

"yes..." he trailed off, sending the same perplexed look back towards his mom. 

"i'm waiting for my thank you." she simply spoke, causing the other three to become more invested in the conversation. 

"thank you? what for? birthing me? thanks mom?" he tilted his head to the side as he tried to figure out what myta meant. 

"i think she meant for texting aniela for you." ryan pointed out and zach opened his mouth to shoot back a response. 

"no! i was the one who texted her." zach spoke uneasily, not knowing if his statement was even correct or not. 

"no no, i seem to remember 'you just murdered your son' very clearly." josh defended and zach pursed his lips, knowing they were right. 

"thanks mom." 

"for what?" she raised her eyebrow, pulling it all out of him just to prove that she was right. 

"for causing my happiness, i don't know!" he laughed, jumping off the stool and going off so he could go to his room. 

"i'm gonna go text the guys before they yell at me because they found out through her and not me." he spoke waving them off and disappearing into his room. 

"i've never seen him this happy." josh wrapped his arm around his wife as they look at zach's door, which was now closed. 

"he could barely wipe that smile off of his face." she let out a sigh of content, before high fiving her husband. 

"never mind i can't tell the guys maddy already did." zach walked back out of his room, "you guys up for a movie?" 

"always." reese said, grabbing zach's hand and pulling him into the living room. 

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