Paul's POV:
I followed Stephanie through the gate blocking her house from the street and my eyes widened slightly at the sight of her house. I couldn't believe someone who only had four people total in their family could have such a huge house, my house was basically a cardboard box compared to this place. I parked my car directly next to hers, noting that mine was pretty much junk-yard ready compared to the others in the area.
"Nice digs," I whisteled as I got out of the car and walked over to her.
"Thanks," She said looking down and blushing just a bit.
I reached over and grabbed her hand and held it in my own. "Want to give me a tour or something babe?" I asked wagging my eyebrows suggestively.
"Oh but of course Mr. Levesque." She giggled pulling me toward the front door.
"So do you guys have like a bunch of maides and a personal chef?" I asked half joking but also curious to know if it was true.
"No," She laughed again. "We have a cleaning person come like three times a week but other than that my mom basically cooks everything for us."
"That's cool, do they go on business trips a lot?"
"Not really, I mean my dad obviously isn't home a couple of days a week, but my mom makes sure she is always here."
"So do I get to meet them at all?" I asked as she opened the door with her key and grabbed my hand again. I was half curious because I wanted to actually meet her parents, but the other half of me was worried that I would become some dirty little secret of hers.
"Of course, my dad doesn't come home until tomorrow, but if you want to stay for dinner you can totally meet my mom tonight."
"Just might have to do that." I smiled as I allowed her to pull me into the living room.
"So this is the living room, we have a ton of movies and a couple different game systems if you are into that sort of thing."
"Steph I'm a guy, of course I am into that kind of thing."
"Oh yeah." She laughed. "So do you want to tour the rest of the house or just hang out in here."
"What about upstairs?" I said wiggling my eyebrows at her again.
"We do have a couple of hours until my mom will be here so why not." She said pulling me around and back into the entrance. I followed her up the stairs and down the hall counting the doors on the way.
"Do you guys really need like eight bedrooms up here?" I laughed.
"Well I guess we do," She laughed. "Lots of room for guests and everything. So this is my room…do you like it?"
I looked around the room with a small smile on my face. It had a huge king size bed covered in pink and lavender bedding and a ton of pillows. The walls were a light shade of pink with white doors and white curtains for the window. She also had a ton of pictures on the wall, a few posters of bands, but mostly pictures of her and friends and what I assumed were her family. "It is very girly but I can definitely tell that it is yours."
"What do you mean you can tell it is mine?" She laughed.
"Just that it fits your personality."
"Oh okay, well how about I give you a tour of my bed sweetie." She giggled pulling me over and pushing me back onto it.
I smirked at her and she crawled up and straddled me, leaning down to kiss me. I placed my hands on either side of her hips and then ran my right hand up her side and to the back of her neck. Just as I deepened the kiss and flipped her over onto her back however, we heard someone calling from down the hall.
"Stephanie sweetheart can you come out here for a minute."
"Oh my god," She said pushing me off and standing up to straighten her clothes. "It's my mom."
"You are about to get in a ton of trouble aren't you?" I asked chuckling at the look on her face. I stood up as well and straightened my shirt as she pulled open the bedroom door and started to walk out.
"Hey mom,"
"Hey sweetie, how was your day?"
"It was good, brought Paul home for you to meet." She said gesturing behind her so that her mom would look around and notice me.
"And why was he in your bedroom young lady?" Linda asked sternly.
"I was just giving him a tour of the house, he was just basically making fun of my room a second ago."
"No I wasn't," I laughed walking over. "I was saying that it fit her perfectly. "I am Paul, nice to meet you ma'am." I said sticking my hand out to shake hers.
"You too dear," she said shaking my hand. "Why don't you kids come back downstairs okay? You are so lucky your father doesn't come in until the morning."
"I know mom, sorry." Stephanie said following her mom down the stairs with me behind her.
"Do you kids want anything to eat?"
"Sure," I smiled politely. "Anything sounds good right now."
"Alright,"
I watched her walk away and then followed Stephanie back into the living room and picked up my backpack off the carpet and carried it over to the couch with me. "Should we study for that History test?"
"I suppose…we can't do anything else now." She sighed.
I laughed and reached over to grab her hand for a minute. "Don't worry baby, I am sure there is plenty of time for that later."
"You're right," She giggled as we sat down.
Just then her mom walked back into the room carrying two cans of soda and a plate of cookies. "Here you are dear." She said smiling at her daughter. "So, Paul right?" She asked looking at me as she sat on the arm of a chair across from us.
"Yes ma'am." I said taking a cookie off the plate and biting into it.
"I don't think my husband and I have ever seen you around before."
"Mom you don't have to third degree him." Stephanie said her face turning slightly red.
"It's okay," I said smiling at her. She was adorable when she was embarrased like this. "My parents and I just moved to town about a week ago."
"I see, and you already seem to have put some kind of spell on my daughter."
"Mom!"
"Now Stephanie it was a joke honey, relax okay? I just want to get to know him a little better." Linda responded laughing softly at her daughter.
"Well, she is a really sweet girl so I wanted to get to know her better."
"I am just happy that she seems to of found a nice young man to spend her time with instead of that young man she was dating before you."
"What guy were you dating before me?" I asked curious now. I knew that she had dated before me, she was gorgeous, but i guess I had just assumed that she had only ever really dated guys like me in the past or something.
"Don't worry about it okay?"
"His name was Andrew, thankfully he moved out of town because he was almost as much of a trouble maker as that guy your brother used to hang around with before he left for school."
"Okay mom thanks for the convo, can we get to our homework now please?" Stephanie said not answering her mother.
"Alright, you two enjoy yourselves, I will be in the kitchen."
We watched her walk out of the room and I heard Stephanie take a deep breath. I looked around to see her rolling her eyes slightly. "Sorry about her," She said pulling out her books.
"It's okay, I am pretty good with parents."
"Oh I see, so you are PA huh?" She giggled elbowing me softly in the side.
"PA?"
"It means parentally approved silly."
"Is that a bad thing?" I asked not really understading what she was trying to say.
"Not for you, but most of the guys around here…yes."
"So I am the exception then huh?"
"Of course," She laughed.
"And why is that?" I asked wanting to know how she saw me. I knew that I shouldn't feel so insecure, especially now, but somehow I couldn't help myself.
"Well because you are so hot of course, plus you are super sweet."
"But mostly the hot part right?"
"But of course darling." She laughed in a bad English accent. "Should we get started then?"
Later that night I walked into my house I replayed parts of the day in my head; especially the goodbye kiss I had gotten on the front porch. I walked past the living room with only a brief greeting to my mom before making my way up to my room. I had just sprawled out on my bed to replay the kiss in my mind again when the phone rang.
"Hello?" I asked answering it without looking at who was calling.
"Hey man,"
"Oh hey dude what's up?"
"Not much, I am excited to come visit this weekend though." My friend Chris said. I could hear that he really was excited to come, which made my mood brighten as well.
"Me too dude, I have so much to tell you…and show you." I added at the end knowing he was going to ask what that meant.
"What do you mean show me?" He asked right on que.
"I may or may not be dating the hottest girl in school." I said smuggly.
"No way dude…you?"
"Of course me, just you wait man."
"Are you only saying that to make me jealous? But really you are either single or dating some average looking chick?"
"No way dude, just wait until you see her."
"Well why don't you send me a pic of her then or something?"
"Because you basically called her a dog and I want to be able to see your face when you see how wrong you are."
"Whatever you say man. So how are things at the new school anyway?"
"Pretty good, there is this group of jerks of course but I made a new friend that I think you will like as well."
"What kind of jerks?"
"Maybe worse than Andrew was,"
"Worse? Is that possible."
"Oh yeah, lucky for you, you don't have to meet him I don't think."
"Dude I wish I could just move in with you guys, I could get away from this dumb school…not to mention my stupid sister."
I laughed at his comment about his sister. She was constantly following the two of us around when I would come around, and according to him, when I wasn't there as well. "Does she still have a crush on me?"
"Probably, she thinks she is super mature now that she is in eigth grade."
"She might be," I laughed again. It felt amazing to be able to just talk to Chris and not worry about him trash talking my girlfriend or asking about my past school.
"Doubtful, like I said I am really excited to get away for a few days."
"My mom already has the guest room done up for you and everything."
"Awesome, your mom is the best."
"Yeah I guess."
"She is, you just don't know that because she likes me better than you."
"Not possible dude."
"It is a fact Paul, she wanted to leave you at my house and have me be her new son, but then she thought it would hurt your feelings or something." He laughed.
"Whatever dude, anyway I better go. I need to call Steph before I go to sleep and I want to catch her before one of her dumb friends calls about a hair crisis or something."
"Wow dude, you have a girlfriend who helps friends with hair crises."
"Trust me man, you are going to love her."
After that I said my goodbyes and then called Stephanie. After talking for about an hour we hung up and I got up to take a quick shower before bed. A few hours later as I lay in bed getting ready to go to sleep I just couldn't keep the smile off my face.
Who knew that high school could be so amazing to me.