Selena's POV
"You're dating your English teacher?" He asked me calmly.
"Yes."
"How old is she?"
"Twenty-two."
"Are you happy with her?" He asked me concernedly.
"A lot happier than I've ever been with anyone else." I told him with a smile.
"Then I'm happy for you. Does your mom… Does she know about this?" He asked me.
"Yeah. She found out the day after we got together because she came into Demi's room and saw us in the same bed, cuddled up and kind of worked it out." I told him. A look of horror crossed his facial features and I quickly added more. "We haven't done anything together, you don't have to worry about that."
"You promise me? You would tell me if you had, right?" He asked worriedly.
"Yes dad, I would tell you."
"Good. How long have you and her been uhm… together?" He asked awkwardly. I think it was still sinking in for him.
"Yesterday, but I really like her and I genuinely hope this lasts." I told him with a small smile playing on my lips at the memory of the previous day.
"I'm happy for you baby girl. Now, shall we go and get some of that pizza before your mother and uhm… girlfriend, devour it." He said awkwardly. I chuckled and followed him through to the dining room, where my mom and Demi were talking about the pizza boy.
"I take it your talk went okay?" My mom asked me, looking between my dad and I. He had his arm resting on my upper back and was using his other hand to grab a slice of pizza.
"It sure did. Demi, I'd like a word with you at some point later. It's nothing bad, it's just a 'father talk' that I've given to all of Selena's boyfriends in the past." He said, sitting down next to my mom. I sat next to Demi and she took my hand in hers underneath the table.
"No problem. You're Selena's father, you're obviously going to be protective of her." She said knowingly before taking a bite of her pizza.
It was ten PM by the time we were finished eating, so much for an early night, huh?
"Want to go up to bed?" I asked Demi who was sitting on the couch whilst I lay with my head in her lap and she stroked my head.
"Yeah sure." She yawned out tiredly, stretching her arms. I got up and went over to my parents, who were cuddled up on the other couch.
"Night guys. I love you. Are you coming up to say goodnight in a bit?" I asked them, knowing the answer already because my mom always did, and so did my dad when he was here.
"Of course honey, we'll be up in a minute. Demi, would you mind staying whilst I have that talk with you now?" My dad asked. Demi nodded and I suddenly felt worried about what he would say to her.
I left the room nervously and went upstairs to wait for Demi and my parents, all the while praying that my dad didn't say anything too embarrassing.
Demi's POV
"I don't have a problem with you dating my daughter. I admit, the student-teacher thing is a little weird to me but I'm not going to stand in the way if it makes her happy. I swear to god, Demi, if you hurt my little girl, I'll kill you. Understand?" He told me in a deep, intimidating voice. I nodded and looked at Mandy, who looked slightly embarrassed.
"I understand. I won't hurt her. If I do, I will personally come to you and let you kick my ass because if you didn't I'd be doing it to myself 'cause I'd be feeling so awful." I told him honestly.
"Good. You can go up now, that's all I really wanted to say." He said, motioning toward the door. I nodded and got up. Just as I was leaving he called me. "And Demi?" I turned back to face him again. "Welcome to the family." He said with a smile. I grinned back, glad to have been accepted by him as well, and went upstairs and into Selena's room, where she was lying under her covers with her eyes half-closed.
I climbed into the bed and got comfy before Selena shifted over so that she could rest her head in the crook of my neck and kissed my pulse-point softly.
"Goodnight baby." I muttered quietly to her. She smiled lazily against my neck and whispered back.
"Goodnight love."
Selena's POV
Demi fell almost straight to sleep and just five minutes after she had, my parents tapped the door quietly and I called them in.
My head was resting in between her neck and shoulder and my arm was slung over her stomach and I was curled into her side. Demi had her one hand resting over her stomach and holding onto my hand, whilst her other arm was underneath me.
"Just coming to say goodnight kiddo." My dad whispered, clearly quite shocked that Demi was in my bed and that we were so close. I knew it was going to take a while for him to completely get used to the fact that I was seeing a girl rather than a boy.
"Night mom, night dad." I mumbled tiredly with a smile. The both came up to me and took it in turns to kiss my forehead goodnight, before leaving.
"We love you." My dad whispered before closing the door. I whispered it back and kissed Demi's neck again before falling asleep myself.
Two weeks later
Two weeks passed all too quickly for my liking. The day before my dad was due to leave we all went out for a fancy meal after school on the Friday night of December first, stayed up all night playing on the Nintendo Wii, considering we would all be going to the airport at four AM to take my dad there.
Four AM came around all too quickly and Demi and I were in the back of my mom's Audi whilst my parents were in the front with my dad driving.
We arrived at the airport at five and sat with my dad in the first class departures lounge until six when he was called for boarding,
"I'm going to miss you so much Dad. You're only gone for a week this time though, right?" I asked hopefully.
"Unfortunately not baby girl. Three weeks in Germany. The manager of the German side of the company set up three weeks' worth of meetings and things when it was supposed to be one. I'll be back on the twenty second… back in time for Christmas." He said with a sad smile. He scooped me up into his arms and hugged me tightly.
"I guess we'll see you then, then." I said sadly, resisting my urge to cry.
"Yeah. I hate this just as much as you do 'Lena bear. I'll call you whenever I can. I love you."
"I love you too, Daddy. Have a good time in Germany." I said with a small smile. My dag hugged my tighter before putting me back down onto the floor.
My mom said her goodbyes and my dad turned and went down the tunnel to the plane.
I couldn't stop the few tears slipping from my eyes as he left but it was okay because Demi wiped them away softly with her thumb.
The plane took off and we headed home, all too tired to stay any longer, especially when there was no reason to.
When we got home it was quarter past seven, and we all just went straight up to bed. I was too tired to move, so Demi carried me up and dropped me gently onto the bed where we snuggled up and fell asleep, not waking up until two PM.
When I woke up, Demi wasn't in the bed next to me, so I got up and went downstairs to find her. She was in the study writing something down and working on her school laptop. I assumed that she was planning a lesson or something.
I snuck up behind her and wrapped my arms around her shoulders. Kissing the top of her head, I looked at her screen. She was apparently planning a lesson on Macbeth.
"Morning." I mumbled to her, admittedly still tired.
"Afternoon, you mean?" She offered. I chuckled and moved around the chair to sit on her lap.
"Oh, 'Lena baby, jump up. I need to plan this lesson, I can't have you sitting on my lap distracting me. I'll only be another twenty minutes at the most, then you can sit on me all you want." She compromised with me, biting the back of my neck and sucking on the skin. I moaned quietly, not completely sure where my mom was, and got up after a while.
"Fine then, I'll be in the living room or something." I said, pretending to be annoyed with her.
"Oh come on baby, don't be like that. I tell you what; you go shower and get ready then when I'm finished with this I'll get changed as well and we can go and do something; we can go on a proper date. Would you like that?" She asked with a smile.
"I'd love that, but what if someone sees?" I asked her.
"We'll go somewhere secluded, or just somewhere far away. We could go to the cinema or something if you want, where it's dark and no-one will recognise us?" She asked. I nodded in agreement and kissed her softly before going upstairs. I went into my mom's room where she was lying on her bed watching TV, wrapped up in the covers.
"Mom, can I talk to you for a minute?" I questioned. She looked at the door and nodded tiredly, pointing towards her bed.
"Sure you can, talk away." She said with a small smile.
"Mom, you know how it's hard for me and Demi because we have to hide everything and we can't do normal couple-y things like going out because she's my teacher?" I asked. My mom nodded and I carried on. "Well I was thinking; would you be okay with me and Demi going away for a couple of weeks, to another country, on holiday where no-one there knows that she's my teacher so we can do what we want?" I asked.
"If that's what you want. Where are you thinking?" She asked.
"I don't really know. Somewhere hot, somewhere soon. Probably the Caribbean or something." I told her with a shrug.
"If that's what you want to do then that's fine by me. Do you want me to book it for you? I don't think they'll let you book because you're under eighteen, unless you want Demi to do it?" She asked me.
"No, I want to surprise her. If you could do it then that would be great. I'll look online now at places and let you know?" I asked. My mom nodded in agreement. "Is there a spending budget?"
"Is there ever a spending budget?"
"No?" I asked her, unsure of the answer.
"Then there isn't one now. Go ahead and look, I'll go down to the travel agents whenever you're ready." She said with a smile. I nodded and left her room, heading into my room and turning on my laptop.
After twenty minutes of scrolling through hotels, I found one in Jamaica that looked beautiful called Sunset Beach resort; all inclusive for $2000 per person per fortnight. It looked pretty much perfect for what it was intended.
"Mom! Can you come here a minute?" I called. Demi was still working downstairs and my mom came in and looked at my laptop screen.
"That's lovely. Do you want me to book there?" She asked. I basically gave her details before she pointed out a potential problem.
"What about Demi getting time off work if she doesn't know about it?"
"Shit, I didn't think about that one…" I thought about it for a few moments before coming up with a plan. "I'll tell Demi that we're going away for two weeks to stay with Grandma and Grandpa, I'll tell her they want to meet her and talk her into getting the time off work." I said ingeniously.
"That's a pretty good plan. I'll book it for you and let you know the dates, then you can tell Demi and she can get the time off. If she can't then we'll think of something. Okay honey?" My mom asked. I nodded and hugged her affectionately.
"Thanks mom. I'm going for a shower and stuff then me and Demi are going out." I told her. My mom nodded and I went to get ready.
After half an hour of showering and drying my hair up, I got changed into black skin-tight jeans, a white t-shirt and a black waistcoat, topped off with a black fedora and went downstairs to find Demi, who was still planning her lessons.
"It's been an hour, are you nearly done?"
"Sorry baby, lost track of time. I'm done now." She saved the work, closed the laptop screen and turned round to face me. "Wow… You look gorgeous." She complimented me. "I mean, not that you don't always look gorgeous, because you do, but today you look… y'know, especially gorgeous." She rambled. I giggled and moved to straddle her lap.
"I know what you meant. Thank you. I'd tell you the same, but I think the better word would be completely breath-taking." Today she was dressed in a royal blue Amy Winehouse t-shirt that read 'Rehab? No, no, no', and white jeans. Her hair was up in a loose pony-tail and she had on a necklace that I'd recently brought her with the two female Venus signs linked together. She hadn't taken it off since I'd given it to her.
"You're a little charmer, aren't you?" She asked with a huge smirk. I chuckled and she wrapped her arm around my shoulder.
"That I am lovely. That I am." I told her with an obnoxious tone in my voice. Demi laughed loudly as we climbed into my car.
"So where do you want to go?" She asked me, even though I was in the driver's seat.
"I don't know. How about we go to the cinema? Like you said; it's dark in there." I asked with a casual shrug of my shoulders.
"Yeah sure. I'll check the cinema times before we go. Anything in particular that you want to watch?" She asked. I shook my head and she pulled her phone out of her pocket. "There's three films starting in twenty minutes time; The social network, Paranormal Activity 2 3D and Life as we know it."
"I don't mind as long as it's not Paranormal. I still get the occasional nightmare from the first one, and I watched it over a year ago. How about Life as we know it?" I asked. Demi agreed and I pulled into the cinema car park.
"I take it we can't act all 'couple-y' until we actually get into the dark theatre?" I asked her, although the answer was already obvious.
"I'm sorry baby, but no, we can't… Just in case there's anyone here from school. I know it sucks, but it won't be forever." She told me, slightly saddened it seemed. My phone buzzed in my pocket and I knew from the buzz pattern that it was my mom calling me.
"I know. I know it's not your fault either. How about you go get the tickets and I'll get the popcorn and drinks?" I asked as we walked in to try and get on my own to call my mom back.
"Yeah sure. I'll come get you when I've got them since the concessions line is a lot longer than the tickets one." Demi said with a smile. I nodded and left.
I called my mom back and got in the queue.
"Hey honey." My mom greeted me when she answered.
"Hey mom. Did you sort it?" I asked her.
"Yeah. It's booked for the fourteenth of January and you'll be coming back on the twenty-eighth. It's all-inclusive and you'll travel by limo to the hotel from the airport. Just tell Demi that you're going to visit family a few towns over, and then surprise her when you get to the airport or something?" My mom asked me.
"Yeah I will. That's great mom, thank you. I have to go, Demi's coming. I love you. Bye." I said, cutting her off as Demi grinned at me.
"Hey. Who was that?" She asked.
"Just my mom. Listen, uhm… On January fourteenth we're going to visit my Grandparents in Texas for two weeks. I want you to come with us because it'll be a good chance to have a get away from school. You up for it?" I asked her, inwardly praying that she'd say yes.
"I don't know. I'll have to try and get the time off work but it should be okay. I'll speak to Mrs Jacobs on Monday but it should be fine because I haven't used any of my three weeks paid vacation." She said as we got to the front of the queue.
"A medium popcorn and a large lemon-soda please?" I asked. I turned to Demi. "Did you want anything else?"
"No thank you."
"Okay, that's seven dollars please." Said the blonde girl behind the counter before I handed her the correct money.
"There's your change and enjoy your movie."
"Oh I think we will." I whispered to Demi as we walked off and into the theatre that was screening Life as we know it.
I'm so sorry for not updating sooner. I haven't been motivated to write after everything that's happened with Demi. I have a couple more chapters written and I normally post the next chapter when I finish another one. I wrote this waaaay before Demi went to rehab. The t-shirt with Amy Winehouse on genuinely was not a joke, I just wrote it ages ago. Now I felt the need to add this AN. I don't know when I'll next be posting, but I doubt it will be too soon. Sorry.
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