If Paul would have just typed the name of his girlfriend's son into any reasonable search engine than he probably would have found a way to be even more nervous than he already was. Luckily, or maybe unluckily, for him he just walked up to the Jackson residence expecting to meet a completely normal teenage boy. Who was also the son of the woman he was dating, and believed he was in love with. Yeah, nothing to be nervous about at all… He desperately wanted this to go well and the boy to like him, if not, well he could just not bear to lose Sally. It would break his heart. As he walked up the last flight of stairs he was trying his best to recall everything Sally had ever mentioned about him. The only thing he could seem to remember was that, his name is Percy and he had been skateboarding when he last saw Sally. Neither was of much use in starting a decent conversation.
Taking a deep breath he headed towards the door he had already gone through several times to study with Sally. Forgetting the doorbell he knocked three times on the door. He then tried the knob and found it unlocked, that was not normal. They were in a not so nice part of New York City, and every time he had come over so far the door had been locked. Worried, he opened the door and ran in to see if there was anything wrong. He saw smoke coming from the direction of the kitchen. Practically panicking now he dashed into the kitchen only to find Sally scolding a boy who appeared to be Percy for leaving what appeared to be very burnt, though bluish, cookies in too long.
Percy looked rather sad and sheepish about the prospect of being responsible for burning the cookies. He interrupted his mom though to tell her Paul was there. This surprised Paul a little bit for he had been relatively quiet and Percy had gave no indication of seeing him. He took the second of Sally's surprise to get a look at Percy. Percy was tall for his age, looked nothing like Sally, had strange sea-green eyes, and looked pretty strong. Sally came over and greeted Paul giving him a kiss on the cheek. Percy just nodded towards him. "Paul this is Percy, Percy, Paul.", Sally said. Percy came over and supprisingly, unteenagerly, shook his hand and said simply, "Nice to finally meet you.". To say Paul was surprised was an understatement this looked like it was going to be a lot easier than he thought.
They sat down to a meal of ordered pizza, thanks to Percy's cooking. Paul noticed how quiet they had become, as he and Sally couldn't talk about anything writer/English teacher related without cutting Percy out of the conversation, and Percy couldn't talk to his mom about, well, whatever it was they normally talked about. Rather awkwardly trying to start up a conversation, Paul asked Percy what his favorite book was. Percy just awkwardly informed him that he didn't really like to read. This rather surprised Paul, after all the Boy's mother had dreams of becoming an author. So without thinking about it and rather rudely he asked, "Why?" Now Percy seemed even more awkward when he had to tell Paul that he couldn't really read at all due to his severe dyslexia. Paul was now extremely embarrassed and quickly replied, "Percy. I'm sorry, I had no idea."
Percy just brushed it off by saying "Don't worry about it. I know you didn't mean to offend me so it's all good." Trying to change the subject, and knowing that both the guys were big basketball fans, Sally said, "So, I here there is a championship game on tonight." After that the conversation flowed smoothly with Percy and Paul jabbering away together about how the players compared to one another and which team they thought would win with Sally adding an occasional comment here and there. After their makeshift dinner was finished they ended up turning on the game. Soon, after a bunch of rooting for their team the game had ended and it was time for Paul to leave. Not that Percy was aware of this though he had fallen asleep unbelievably fast after it was obvious which team was going to win.
Paul left that night thinking about what a great kid Percy was, and how amazingly well that had gone for meeting his girlfriend's son for the first time. He had been scared at how this would affect his relationship with Sally, but Percy was a great kid. If anything it just proved that Sally made a great mom and he loved her all the more for it.