"Wait, he gave you a lap dance?" My best friend, Briana asked, I could see her now, sitting on her bed with wide eyes, almost dropping her phone. "And your father didn't beat him up?"

"No, but he's meeting him today, I asked both of them to be nice," I said, applying some light, pink lip gloss to my plump lips. As I screwed the top back on I heard my doorbell ring. I slipped on some baby blue flip flops, looked in the mirror one last time then flew down the steps to answer the door. Behind the door was Langston, dressed in gray skinny jeans and a white v-neck with his rosary hanging around his neck.

"Hey," he greeted me, as he gave me a hug.

"You know my dad saw the lap dance right?"

Langston smiled with an amused look on his face "Really? So where is he?"

"Right here," My dad said from behind me. I mouthed 'be good' to Langston. I moved out of my dad's view of Langston.

"Hello, nice to meet you,"Langston said, sticking his hand out to my father. I was totally impressed with the way that he became so classy that quick. I think my father was impressed too.

"Nice, hand shake you got there,"My father said. I knew then that my father decided to gie him a chance with me, although I saw his eyes travel to the tattoo on Langston's arm. "Where are yo taking my little girl?"

"We're just going to a cookout with my family and best friends. I'll have her back ten."

"Her curfew isn't until twelve."

"But, to make sure she's safe I'll have her back by ten." I smirked at Langston's facade; my father was so gullible.

Me and Langston started down my walkway side by side. "Nice," I complemented him as he smiled down at me. When we reached his car, he opened the passenger door for me and helped me in, then went to his side and hopped in the car and took off. "Do you have practice talking to girl's dads, or something?"

"No, I'm jus that much of a gentleman," he told me. He turned on the radio and Drake's Over came on.

"Oh, no" I exclaimed and changed the radio station, the song changed to Katy Perry's California girls "That's more like it."

"You don't like Drake?"

"I really don't like rap music all that much."

He looked at me, surprise expression on his face. "Kinda ironic, your boyfriend's a rapper,"

"Boyfriend?" I asked before i could think about it. I mean this is only our first date and it' hasn't really started.

"I mean- I meant- that," Langston struggled for the right words.

"I know what you meant," I let him know. The rest of our car ride was filled with getting to know each other a little more. I wasn't able to stop laughing the whole time."Wait how did you crack your knee bone and break a rib cage bone and ,miss everything in the middle?"

"I was doing a trick on my skateboard but something went wrong" he explained "the skateboard went somewhere and I landed on my knee and then I kinda fell down the rest of the steps on my chest."

"You skate?" I asked turning to him quickly. Nice.

"Yeah, why?"

"I kinda have a thing for skaters."

Langston chuckled, looked at me and shook his head. Langston turned off his car and exited to help me out. He guided me around the side of his house to his backyard, where the aroma of food on the grill filled my nose. We were greeted by people in the back eating and having a good time. Many eyes were on me as Langston guided me toward his house with his arm wrapped lazily around my waist.I was kind of nervous to be meeting his family, he must have noticed because his grip on me tightened. We entered his house through the backyard, we stood in his kitchen. There was a woman cooking over the kitchen.

"Hey ma,"Langston said to the woman. No, I'm about to meet his motherI panicked in my head. She turned around then smiled when she laid eyes on both of us."This is Tymarra."

"Oh, so this your girlfriend?" She asked, there goes that word again.

"Well, she's not-" Langston started.

"Yes," I interrupted him, deciding to just go with the plan. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Are the guys here,ma?"

"Yeah, out back eating, as always," She said and turned back around to finish cooking. We walked into the backyard to the boys I saw at the talent show. The Rangers.

"Oh no, what is the competition doing here?" The lights skin boy of the group said in mock complaining.

"Aw, make me feel like I'm not wanted here." I said taking a seat on the bench next to the boy on a bench.

"It doesn't matter what Juluan wants" Langston said, sitting next to me and placing his arm around my shoulder " This is our first date."

"Nigga this is a cheap first date, if I was a girl I would smack you," Julian joked.

"I like this date," I said leaning my head on Langston's shoulder.

The rest of the date was fun and filled with a lot of laughter. I finally warmed up to some of Langston's family and all of his best friends, they were all pretty funny and single. I might juts have to get Briana hooked up with one. The sun was starting to go down and most of the people had left. A few people were scattered far away from us two, who were laying on the picnic table staring up at the few stars that we could see. We were making small talk amongst ourselves.

I looked at Langston who was looking at me smiling. "What?" I asked, a smile appearing on my own face.

"You have gorgeous eyes," he told me, I could feel my face heat up.

"And, you have a gorgeous smile."

"Well you know," he said popping the collar of his shirt.

"You just ruined the moment."

"Well maybe I can fix it," he said, putting a hand under my chin and bringing his lips down to mine. It was a sweet kiss. Everything a first kiss is supposed to be. No tongue or roaming hands involved, just a simple, slow peck on the lips. That released a million butterflies into my stomach. For the next half of minute we just stared into each other's eyes. An applaud of 'awwes' sounded from behind us. We turned to see his mother and some of his cousins looking at us with huge smiles on their faces.

Just then I noticed that Maxwell's Pretty Wings was about to go off oln the radio. "I guess we have a song," Langston said, taking the words from my mouth. I smiled and gave him another peck on the lips.

Just in case ppl dnt know how 2 pronounce my name, you pronounce it like Tah-mare-u. In case U didn't get that it's the sisters name off of 'Sister Sister' ... yes the crazy one.