~~ Abigail's POV ~~
I get out of the shower and dress into jeans and a long sleeve star wars shirt. I walk downstairs to find Austin cutting up some veggies in the kitchen, "You smell good," he says as he walks up to me and gives me a kiss on the forehead.
"Thank you," I say as I watch him cook, "When is Pamela getting here?"
"An hour or so," he says as he places all the veggies into a bowl.
"I can't believe you made two lasagna's within thirty minutes," I go to the counter and look into the trash can, I take out the cardboard that the lasagna was once in, "Alan came didn't he?" I say holding up the cardboard box.
"Pamela doesn't need to know," he says as he puts the cardboard back into the trash, "I realized that I didn't know how to cook lasagna and that it may take a lot longer than I wanted it to if I made it fresh so I had Alan pick up two types of lasagna's for me."
I shake my head, "Told you so," I say as laugh
"Oh shush," He smiles at me, "anyways, you excited to meet Pamela?"
I nod, "What about you? You nervous?"
"Of course I'm nervous. My little girl is gonna meet the girl I'm dating, it's quite nerve-wracking and I've never thought I would ever go through this but I'm glad I am," he smiles at me.
"You still consider me your daughter even though the adoption isn't complete," I say as I watch him set the table.
"Of course, I do. Even though the adoption isn't complete it doesn't mean I consider you as a daughter, I've told you that."
"I know, I just... I never thought that someone could love me as a daughter again and it's taking me a while to get adjusted to it," it will wake me a while.
He nods, "Help me set the table," he says handing me some plates
"Four plates?" I ask
"In case Alan decides to barge in and use the 'I was just around the neighborhood' excuse so he can eat our food," I nod.
"That boy can eat," I say as I place the plates on the table.
"Tell me about it," Austin says as he chuckles, "I feel like I'm constantly feeding him."
The doorbell suddenly rings, I look at Austin as he looks towards the hallway entrance, "Should I go get it or should you?"
He looks at me quickly, "I'll go and get it," he says as he walks out of the kitchen.
I think Austin feels more nervous than I do at the moment. But at the moment my palms felt extra sweaty, I dry them as quickly as I could on my pants as I hear Austin greet someone at the door with a small laughter, I hear their footsteps come closer to the kitchen.
Austin smiles at me while the girl who I assume is Pamela stands next to him, she smiles at me, "You must be Abigail," she says walking up to me and shaking my hand.
"The one and only," I say smiling, "It's nice to meet you..." I waited for her to tell me what she would prefer to be called.
"You can call me Pamela, sweetie," She says smiling.
"Well, dinner is almost ready. Abigail, why don't you show Pamela the house while I finish setting everything up?" Austin asks
I nod, "Okay," I look over to Pamela, "Follow me," I say
She nods and follows me to the living room, "This is the living room where we do most of our living," I say gesturing to the living room, "Would you like to see upstairs first?"
"Sure," She says
I smile and lead Pamela upstairs, "So there are three bedrooms, the first one to the right is my room and across it is Austin's. You can always tell it's his because his door is different from the others," I point to both of the doors, "Then there is down the hall and is the guest room and a bathroom then at the very end is the small upstairs living room and the door to the band room," I say as we reach the small living room.
"Wow, it's a pretty big house," she says looking around.
I nod, "We still have downstairs but it isn't as big," I say as we walk back downstairs, "The garage door is across the hall from another bathroom," I say pointing to the garage door that was on the right side of the hall, "Then there is my favorite room, the theatre room and it's in the basement," I say as I go down the basement.
"Wow, who redecorated it?" she asks
"Previous owners," I put my hands in my pockets, "We usually play videos games down here, it's like the hangout spot," I say
"It's amazing," she says smiling, "How do you like it here?"
I smile, "I love it here, I lived in a big house back at my foster home but now that it's just me and Austin living here it feels like there is just so much," she smiles.
"Yeah, it can feel that way," she says.
"Let me show you the backyard and maybe Austin has dinner ready," I say as we walk back upstairs. I lead Pamela outside to the backyard, "Okay, so there's a medium size pool and it's big enough to have a bounce house," I say
"I love bounce houses!" she says laughing
She's pretty cool so far, "Me too," I say, "and that's it for the tour," we smile and walk back inside and to the kitchen.
"Did you get the grand tour?" Austin asks as he smiles at us.
Pamela nods, "It's a beautiful home," she says smiling, "Is dinner ready?"
He nods, "Serve yourselves," he says pointing to the food.
We serve ourselves and sit down at the table, Pamela and Austin sat together while I sat across from them.
"So, Pamela what do you do for a living?" I ask as I play with my food a bit, I put a bit in my mouth and take my time chewing.
"I'm a model," I kind of thought she was, she has the body. I wish I had that body. A body that I can finally be comfortable with myself. Austin starts talking to Pamela about the places he's been and the crazy fan stories.
But his voice was a blur because all I could focus on was how much I hated my body.
"Abigail?" I look at Austin, has he been calling me for a while? "Did you hear what Pamela said?"
"No, sorry, I was thinking about something," He gives me a worried look.
"Well, Pamela asked what you plan on doing as a career," He says
Pamela smiles, "I know it's a bit early but some kids already have it planned out," she says
"I'd like to be a doctor," I say smiling
"A doctor?" Austin asks, "You've never told me that."
"I know, it's just something I've thought of," I say
"Why do you want to be a doctor?" Pamela asks
Because I want to help people like Austin, I could've said that but I chose not to, "I don't know like I said it's something I thought of doing but I'm quite not sure yet," Pamela nods.
"Well, you've got some time to think about," She says as she gets up and puts her plate in the sink.
"I could've done that for you, Pam," Austin says grabbing his plate and getting up.
I look down at my plate and realize that I haven't eaten anything, I get up quickly and walk over to the trashcan while Pamela and Austin playfully argue over the dishes, I throw away my food that I didn't eat and hide it with my used napkin. Then place my plate in the sink, "I'll wash dishes," I say
"Thank you," Austin says smiling.
Austin and Pamela leave the kitchen to go to the living room. She really does make him happy.
I wrote this chapter about three times and it never saved because Wattpad was acting up so I had to rewrite it and then my laptop turned off on me when I was writing and it's just been a big mess then it said my chapter was already published when I only had like a paragraph so I had to delete it all so the chapter could be a draft but I did it! I wrote the chapter! So I hope you guys like it!