Total pages in book: 15
Estimated words: 13717 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 69(@200wpm)___ 55(@250wpm)___ 46(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 13717 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 69(@200wpm)___ 55(@250wpm)___ 46(@300wpm)
"You don't? You are?" She wiped her cheeks again as she looked at me hopefully.
"No and yes."
"How come?"
"Because we don't have anything to hide, we haven't done anything wrong, granted our first time together might be a little unorthodox, but so what, it's not like we went behind anyone's back and cheated. The fact that I fell even further in love with you is just fate, how could I regret that? I don't and neither should you. I mean put it all in perspective, would you rather we had gone on as before, me with her, you with someone else?"
She covered my mouth with her hand as if to keep the words hidden.
"No, I'd be miserable if we had."
"So you see, all she did was spill the beans a little before we were ready, but that's alright we just have to tell our parents and then we'll be in the clear."
"What if they hate the idea, what if they won't let us be together?" She started stressing again.
"Ssh, ssh, ssh, it's going to be okay, first of all, we're both over the age of consent in this state, second, I have enough money to take care of us for the rest of our lives and last, they don't have any reason to deny us, it's not like we're related by blood or anything like that. We're not planning to run off and get hitched or anything crazy, we're still going to go to school and do all the things we've planned our whole lives, we'll just be doing them as a couple." I squeezed her as she sat in my lap, she seemed to be relaxing somewhat until we heard the door close downstairs; dad was home. She tensed up once more and I had to give her a quick kiss to take her mind off her fear.
"Cut that out babe, nothing's going to go wrong, I won't let it, just remember, no matter what, we stay together, agreed?"
"Agreed." I studied her eyes to make sure she was okay, the next few minutes will decide if we were making this journey as a family with the blessings of our parents, or if we were going it alone, one thing was for certain, we were making it together get and I.
"Good, now let's go talk to them."
We found them in the kitchen with Rachel in the middle of asking dad what he was doing back so soon, while dad was in the process of asking where we were.
"Kids, oh thank heaven, I thought one of you were hurt or something, okay son, what's so important that I had to come home and why aren't you two in school?"
"Dad, Rachel, we have something to tell you."
I took Isabella's hand in mine; the look that passed between them said that they hadn't missed the implications of that.
"Okay kids let's go into the den."
We all followed dad into the den where he sat in his usual recliner while Rachel took her position next to him on the arm rest. Isabella and I sat on the love seat across from them.
"Okay let's have it."
"Well, uh.... ahem... Isabella and I have become a couple."
There was no sound for a solid two minutes, no one moved or said anything.
"That's the big news, that's why I had to rush home like a bat out of hell with visions of one of my kids bleeding to death?"
I looked from one to the other in complete confusion, granted I didn't want or expect them to go all psycho on us, but I expected some resistance or at the very least some questions.
"I don't understand, aren't you going to yell at us and accuse us of fooling around behind your backs and all that other stuff?"
"Son, you've known Isabella for nine years, in that time you're about the only person who could ever get her to open up and she's the only one you've ever opened your heart to besides me since your mom left us. You two were always destined to be together, both Rachel and I saw it a long time ago, we discussed it and realized we were fine with it but we decided to let it take it's course without putting in our two cents. You're both smart, well-rounded young adults who've always proven yourselves to be responsible and we're both very proud of you, what I don't understand is why the sudden urgency, why was it so important that we learn this now?"
Leaving out the more salacious points of the story, I told him about what had happened that morning. Isabella started crying again and Rachel, for the first time since I've known her found her motherly crown and slipped it on, offering comfort to her only daughter while dad fumed.
"Well that's a tad vicious, lucky for you you've seen her carriage and demeanor before it's too late, I understand the growing pains of high school and peer pressure, if you want my honest opinion, ignore it, it may seem hard now but if you ignore pettiness it eventually will go away. I could also suggest going away for the next few weeks, head to Europe or something before you start college, but then again why should you run away? You did nothing wrong, just fell in love, you shouldn't be penalized for that."