Is This Right? (GirlxGirl)

That Night

CHAPTER 8

So yeah, life was great, life was fun, life was fantastic, and believe it or not, I'm not being sarcastic.

I hung out with Charolette, and we hadn't kissed since Wednesday. Friday came around and I was surprised to find that my usual excitement for the weekend was replaced with a major disappointment.

"Promise you'll message me?" I begged cutely holding onto Charolette's wrist. I gave her the puppy dog face.

She groaned slightly, "Don't do that," She grinned at me, "You know that I have to say yes if you do that,"  She smiled again, putting her hands around my waist.

 I wrapped my hands around her neck, "Why do you think I do it?" I asked pulling her into a hug.

She smiled and pulled away, I found myself surprisingly disappointed. Struck by a sudden idea, I grabbed her wrist, "Come with me," I urged puling her towards the parking lot of the library, this is where my mom picks me up from school everyday.

"Uh-oh, where're we going?" She asked as I dragged her along.

"You'll see," I said smiling back at her.

The thing is, I hadn't stopped talking about "my new friend, Charolettd" to my parents all week. They were  a little freaked out when I told them she was Asian and not black, I don't know why, probably just the name.

I started towards the dark black flex with the yellow Long Beach sticker on the back windshield. I knew my dad was off today so I wasn't surprised when I saw him in the car.

She said, "Where're we going?"

I was extremely nervous at this point and you may be wondering why. I'll get into that after the meeting, I pointed to the car.

She raised her eyebrows behind her hair, nodded, but said nothing.

I walked over to the driver's side of the vehicle, the window rolled down, I took a deep breath, "Dad, Mama, this is my friend Charolette that I've been talking about lately,"

This is where I held my breath.

You see, my step-mom, Kat, the one I referred to as "Mama" is super strict and never let me hang out with boys because she thought I was straight. She never trusted me, no matter how much of the truth I consistently told her. She grounded me for the little things. She turned molehills into mountains. For instance, one time, she grounded me for two months because my room wasn't clean. Over summer. Yeah, I know.

Whatever, back to the actual scene at hand.

As soon as I finished my sentence, Kat said, "Hi," and Charolette gasped at my ear, at the exact  same time, it was barely noticeable to me, and definitely not noticeable to my mom, I couldn't even tell if it really happened, but I bet it happened because I had just said in front of her that I talk about her in front of my family.

My dad smiled, I breathed. I usually didn't have a problem with my dad, he isn't around a lot.

"Nice to meet you," Charolette said politely, I was dancing inside and my heart was doing back-flips.

"Very nice to meet you too," My mom was actually being decent!

Before things could get awkward, I said, "Well, yeah, we have to go, but thanks for meeting my parents Charolette, like I said they have to meet any of my friends before I hang out with them. Hey, I'll see you Monday," I said to her.

She nodded and gave me a quick hug and smiled and waved to my parents.

I got into the car beaming as she walked away.