It was the next day after her argument with Trent. And Gwen was still fuming, LeShawna tried to reason with her friend, as they gathered their school materials from their lockers.

"You really think that's the reason he doesn't want you to meet his mom?" LeShawna asked Gwen.

"Yeah what else could it be?" Gwen answered.

"I don't know? Maybe... maybe his mom is sick or something?" LeShawna said.

"I never thought of that. But even if she is why would he be so against it? Why wouldn't he just tell me that?"

"Girl I don't know. I better get going! Trent is on his way over here." LeShawna said before walking away.

"Hey." Trent said to his girlfriend.

"Hey..." Gwen replied.

"I'm sorry about last night." Trent told her.

"Its okay. Lets just forget about it." Gwen told him.

"Actually I have something to tell you. I talked to my mom and she would love to meet you!"

"Really!" Gwen asked.

"Really! And she wanted to know if this Sunday, you wanted to come over for dinner?"

"Sure!" Gwen exclaimed.

"You're not mad anymore, are you?"

"No... I just thought I wasn't your mom's ideal girlfriend for you."

"Why would you think that?" Trent asked.

"The last guy I dated his parents were less than thrilled with the way I looked." Gwen told him.

"Assholes." Trent said.

"Yeah they were!" Gwen said.

"So who was he?" Trent asked.

"It was Cody... Cody Smith." Gwen replied.

"Cody Smith!" Trent said in disbelieve.

"Yeah Cody Smith!"

"The short skinny guy who writes for the school newspaper?" Trent asked still in disbelieve.

"Yeah that's him... we only dated for like a month though. I heard his parents talking bad about me, because of the way I dressed, my hair just bullshit." Gwen said.

"Let me get this straight! His parents didn't like you because you are goth, but the girl he is dating now Sierra Campbell has purple hair."

"Hypocrites I guess?" Gwen said.

"And crazy you are perfect!" Trent said.

"You're not bad yourself." Gwen said in a joking tone.

The rest of the day went surprisingly quick after school Trent went over to Gwen's house. She was stuck watching Shawn again.

Then Saturday the two went to Geoff's house, for a party which ended early after the cops were called.

And then it was Sunday the big dinner, Gwen wore a nice black dress and bought Trent's mom some red roses, Trent told her it was her favorite flowers.

"Are you sure I look okay?" Gwen asked Trent before they went inside his house.

"You look perfect! Don't worry she will love you." Trent told before he opened the door.

They walked inside the living room Gwen was in awe, the furniture looked brand new, they had a huge flat screen TV, and everything was clean and in place. The Davison house was beautiful, compared to the Wilson's rather modest home.

Pictures of the family hung on the wall photos of Karen with Trent. Photos of Trent's older brother Ryan in his military uniform, the two brothers looked a lot a like.

"Mom were here!" Trent called.

His mother walked out of the kitchen she was a very attractive women, slim, she had shoulder length hair which was dark black, and she had piercing green eyes.

"Hi! You must be Gwen!" Karen said. "Trent is always talking about you."

"Only good hope." Gwen said.

"No nothing good." Karen said Gwen stood there not knowing what to say, "Its fantastic!" Karen added.

"Oh! You scared me for a minute!" Gwen said with a smile. "I wanted to give you these roses."

Karen accepted the red roses. "Oh red roses my favorite how did you know?"

"Just a guess!" Gwen said with a wink.

"You two go into the dinning room. I am going to put these roses in a vase. And then I'll bring in dinner! I hope you like chicken Gwen!" Karen said.

"See everything is going fine." Trent told Gwen.

The two went into the dinning room and took a seat at the table. Shortly after Karen brought in the dinner she made chicken, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and corn.

During the dinner Gwen and Karen go to know each other, the basic information what Gwen wanted to do after high school, and info on her family. Gwen learned Karen worked as a real estate broker, she also told her stories about Trent when he was a child.

After dinner Karen told Trent and Gwen to sit in the living room, and watch some TV while she cleaned up. After she finished cleaning up the dishes Karen asked Trent to go out and pick up some Ice cream for dessert.

"Are you sure we need it?" Trent hesitantly asked.

"I want some desert don't you two?" Karen asked.

"I could go for some Ice cream!" Gwen said.

"See us girls want some Ice cream haha!" Karen said with a laugh she gave Trent the money, and told him to pick up some vanilla Ice cream.

"Okay... I'll be back in a few minutes. Don't talk about anything important without me!" Trent said to his mother.

"Don't worry! I'll just tell Gwen embarrassing stories about you!" Karen joked.

"I mean it." Trent said before making his exit.

Karen sat next to Gwen on the couch the two chit-chatted for a bit. Before Gwen noticed the picture of Trent's brother Ryan in his military uniform.

"Is that Ryan?" Gwen asked.

"Yes! That's my Ryan he's been in Afghanistan for about a year now."

"Ryan and Trent look a lot alike." Gwen said.

"They both look like their father." Karen told Gwen.

"It's really brave of Ryan." Gwen said.

"I know but I worry... a lot!" Karen said.

"Yeah its understandable. Especially after what happen to their dad. Trent told me... about how he died in Afghanistan."

Karen looked confused, "Is that what Trent told you?" she asked.

Gwen noticed Karen's strange reaction. "Yeah it's what he told me... is something wrong?"

"Yes... I don't know if its my place though."

"What is it?" Gwen asked.

"Trent's father didn't die in Afghanistan."

"He didn't?"

"No... he was never in Afghanistan."

"Iraq?" Gwen asked.

"No." Karen replied.

"Ms. Davison I'm confused... Trent told me his father was in the military."

"Gwen Trent's father was never in the military... he died of a drug overdose.

"Wh-what!" Gwen said shocked.

"He... was an addict."

"Oh my god!" Gwen said in shock.