"Oh, that's probably my future daughter-in-law, how do I look?"
"Mom!"
"Just kidding, sort of," She says in giddy excitement before going to answer the door.
So embarrassing. I quickly slip my shoes on and run after her before she can embarrass me anymore.
Darleen is dressed similarly to me, so I guess I picked it right.
"Don't let her fool you, she's not as shy as she pretends to be," Mom winks at Darleen.
"Mom!"
Darleen giggles.
"Let's go, goodbye mom!" I shout as she tries to take our picture.
"Have a good time, remember what I said. And be back by eleven, it's a school night you know."
"Don't worry, Ms. Clifton. I'll have her back by curfew," Darleen assures her.
"You can keep her forever if you want, we don't mind," Oli says coming downstairs.
Why!? How am I a part of this family?
"Come on!" I drag Darleen out the door.
"What? I like your family," She laughs.
"Stop it, they are embarrassing."
She kisses me on the cheek, I feel my face go red. Then she opens the car door for me and helps me in. Just as we pull out of the driveway, I catch Jade looking at us through the window, she quickly closes the curtain.
What is her deal!?
Darleen takes me out to eat at a decent restaurant. The whole time I am a nervous babbling fool, but she doesn't seem bothered by it. By the time we are done I have talked about, global warming, ferrets, shoe durability, and biology.
Kill me now.
Then we go to the movies.
During the movie, she grabs and holds my hand. I don't want to seem rude by retracting it, but I don't want to give her the wrong idea. So, for half the movie I debate whether I should remove my hand. By the time I decide an awkward amount of time has passed and it would be too late now. So, I hold her hand.
When we get out it's around 9:30ish. She takes me to her house.
"Mom, Dad, this is Skylar." She introduces me to her parents who are sitting at the bar chatting.
"Nice to meet you," Her mom smiles at me.
I feel my face go red as Darleen tightens her hold on my hand.
"So are you two...?" her dad trails off.
"We aren't dating yet, but I hope to change that by the end of the night," Darleen smirks at me.
"Hehe." I force a burst of nervous laughter.
"I see. Well, we won't bother you then." Her dad winks at her.
"We'll be in my room." Darleen drags me away.
No! not this again, abort, abort! Crud!
"Darleen maybe I should go home, it's getting late and---"
"No way, your mom said 11, I still got a couple of hours that I intend to use."
I sit on her bed; she sits next to me.
"I got your clothes for you; I'll give them to you when you leave."
"Okay."
"So."
"So..."
"What do you want to do?"
I want to go home! Abort!
"I dorish lieyhb" Babble! No! I need English.
She giggles.
I run my hands down my face.
"Look, I'm not going to go full animal again."
I look at her through my fingers.
"Honestly, scout's honor, unless you want us to mess around a bit. Then I'm all yours," she moves closer to me.
"Really?" I ask.
She nods.
I slowly remove my hands from my face.
"So now that we have that cleared, maybe now would be a good time for me to ask you out on another date?"
I shrug.
"Say yes," She pushes me down on the bed with a devious smile on her face.
I look away from her.
"Say yes," She starts to tickle me.
I try to hold my laughter in, but she ups her tactic.
"Say it!" She laughs as I squirm around.
I can't help but burst into laughter as I try to escape her fingers.
"Okay!" I give in.
She stops.
"No take-backs," She kisses me on the cheek.
"No fair, you cheated," I pout.
"All is fair in love and war."
She hovers over me, her eyes locked on my lips. I can't help but let my eyes drift to her lips.
"Can I kiss you?" she asks.
I nod.
So she does.
Maybe mom's right. Maybe I should give Darleen a chance. She's nice, she's funny, she's pretty. All the qualities a girlfriend should have, but she's just not Jade. No! Don't think about Jade when you are kissing Darleen! Bad!
She deepens the kiss.
Her hands explore my body, inch by inch. Slowly, her thumbs dig into my thighs as she trails her hands up to the crotch. The effect it has causes a ticklish sensation to form in my guts. I lean into her touch, my hips coming off the bed to lean into her. Her lips break from mine before they go to my neck then to my collar bone, my sensitive spot.
I take a shaky breath and let her work her magic, then she moves back to my lips and kisses me again. After a couple of kisses, I push her off.
"Now I really should get home," I say.
"Mmk, just so long as you know we have a lunch date tomorrow."
"But---"
"They won't care if we ditch for lunch, so long as we are back in time for class. I'll meet you in the cafeteria and then we will go from there."
"Okay."
After that she takes me home, giving me back my now dry-cleaned clothes. She walks me to my door.
"So, um I don't want to jump to conclusions, but does this mean we are like official or something?" She chews on her upper lip, avoiding my gaze.
Maybe Darleen isn't so bad. She looks cute when she's nervous. What could it hurt to give this a chance? Heck, maybe I'll finally get over Jade and move on like a normal person. I can't help but smile at her.
"Depends," I say.
"On?"
"On how good the date is tomorrow," I tease.
"Then you better be prepared to be blown away," She smirks.
I giggle.
She leans down and kisses me, I quickly pull back, knowing my mom is probably spying on us.
"See you tomorrow." She smiles.
"Yeah, see you rorow, I mean Tomorrow!"
She giggles at me and with a final peck on my cheek she walks back to her car.
I quickly retreat inside.
As I suspected both Oli and Mom were spying on me.
"Rorow!" Oli mocks me.
"Mom!" I complain.
"Aw, I'm so proud of you, your first date! How adorable. You know I remember my first date," she pulls me into a bear hug.
"Mom!" I pull away.
"Rorow!" Oli chases me upstairs.
"How am I a part of this family!?" I shout before slamming my door shut in Oli's face.
I look out my window and see Jade looking at me, she doesn't look mad, just annoyed.
Sigh.
I need to get over Jade. Maybe Darleen is just the girl to help me do it.
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