Chapter 4

Sabine's P.O.V

"Look, dad, why do you have to be such a dick for when it comes to me dating him!?" I questioned my dad after he flipped out.

"Don't you cuss at me, and you know that he's a bad influence on you!" he retorted.

"Gregg, calm down! Her boyfriend is not that bad, I know cause she talks about how good of a person he is!" my mom fired back. Great. Just as I knew it, my mom got involved in our fights for at least the first time.

"Bo, stay out of this! You know the rules very well, and one of them was to stay away from him."

"Not my fault that you have such a problem with him, dad! Besides, you don't even bother to get to know him! Heck, when I introduced him last Sunday to you to show you that he takes really good care of me, you kicked him out and told him to stay away from me!"

"Gregg, our daughter has a point. Just calm down and just let her go. Besides, she knows the one she's dating is a good person at least."

"You see, dad? Even mom's on this one, unlike you."

"You know that he's been a nuisance for both me and you, Sabine, and yet you're still going out with him."

"Because I love him! I love him because of who he is!"

"That does it! You're grounded!"

"Gregg! She didn't even do anything!"

"Bo, Sabine did the one thing I told her never to do: go out with that piece of scum!"

"That's because she loves him and she loves him for who he is! Gregg, Ezra sounds like a good person because our daughter talks about him all the time."

"He is a piece of scum who I can't stand to see!"

"And that's because you don't even take the time to get to know him, and you're always jumping to conclusions, dad!"

"Sabine, I thought I told you to go to your room!"

"I haven't even done anything, but you always think that me dating the one I love counts as a punishment! It doesn't in my case, and I'm going out because me and him made plans earlier!"

Just as dad was about to retort, we heard a knock at the door. "I'll get it." I said angrily, thinking that these were our Mandalorian neighbors coming to us about us fighting again. It's not even my fault that my own dick of a dad just won't calm the fuck down for once in his life, and actually trust me that I'm dating a good person! God, if they really get on my case again... I opened the door, and guess who was there? Boba and Pre. "What do you two want? Is it about us fighting again?" I asked with an eye roll.

"Sabine, Boba and I are getting sick of this house always being a fight fest." Pre said. "It's getting annoying, and we both were pissed off for the fact that our episode of Cops got interrupted by you three fighting about whatever it was that you were fighting about."

"Pre, it's not even my fault that my dad just won't take a chill pill for once in his damn life." I retorted.

"If it's all three of you fighting about something, then it is your fault because you've thrown yourself in this." Boba said.

"It's not even my fault that he's always starting up something, Boba! Even if it was my fault that I got involved, he just won't take a chill pill and chill the heck out." Just as I said that, my dad came over, pushing me out of the way. "Ow!"

"You two leave, now!" he ordered.

"Gregg, if your family get into another fight, we're going to have not only the police involved, but the Mandalorian way involved as well." Pre threatened, Boba nodding.

"You wouldn't even dare!" my dad retorted, glaring at both our neighbors as if they were asking for it.

"I think he will, and so will I if you don't keep that mouth of yours shut, Wren!" Boba retorted. My dad grabbed him by the shirt, but Boba got him off and pinned him to the open door.

"Guys, break it up!" my mom ordered, running over to try and break them up.

"Stay out of this, Katan!" Pre threatened, glaring at her as if she was asking for it with his fist raised. My mom backed away slightly.

"Will all of you just stop fighting! You're all fighting in front of a teenage girl for crying out loud!" I said.

"Yeah, you heard her, Wren." Boba said.

"Fett, I will kick your ass." my dad threatened.

"Guys, please calm down!" I pleaded.

"You heard my daughter! Break it up before I break it up myself!" my mom threatened the three Mandalorians.

They stayed like this, glaring at each other with Boba still having my dad pinned against the door. I'm surprised that a Mandalorian fist fight hasn't even broken out yet, for once between these three. My dad, Boba, and Pre would end up clashing whenever they'd get into a feud, with Boba making my dad's face bloody one time when I was fourteen. Since that day, they became rivals and still are to this day. This is the first time actually that they haven't even clashed, probably because I wasn't present when they would be fighting. After about five more minutes of them staying like this, Boba released my dad. "You're still gonna get your ass kicked, Fett."

"Try me." he threatened.

"Boba." Pre stepped in, putting his arm across Boba's body to prevent a fight between these two breaking out. "Let's leave them. They know what's coming since we warned them. Come on, let's go back and watch Cops."

"This isn't over, Wren." Boba said. Pre and Boba went back downstairs and went home. After witnessing that, my mom came up to me.

"I'm sorry you had to see all that." she said, hugging me.

"I am too, and it just had to be with those two. Anyway, I'm gonna go out now." I said.

"No, you are grounded!" dad yelled in anger.

"Gregg, our daughter is just being active in her love life, give her a break!"

"Being active in her love wife with a complete piece of scum!"

"Dad, he is not a piece of scum and I love him!"

"To your room right now, and that is an order!"

"I'm not going up! I already made plans with Ezra!"

"Gregg, she's made plans, she's going out!"

"Do you even care about our daughter and who she dates!?"

"Yes I do, and I believe she's made a good choice!"

"Will the two of you just shut the fuck up for once in your lives!? You're both giving me a headache!"

"Sabine, shut your mouth and go to your room where you belong!"

"I'm not going upstairs because I'm not grounded!"

"You are and you know that clearly! Now get upstairs!"

"NO!"

"Gregg, you heard our daughter! She is not grounded because all she's doing is seeing her boyfriend! Sabine, go out and have fun. I'm going to talk to your father here in the meantime."

"You are not going out!"

"If mom says it's okay and since I clearly did nothing wrong according to me and her, then I'm going out, and you can't do anything about it, dad!"

"I run the house, and you listen to me!"

"We both run the house, Gregg! And since you clearly can't control yourself, I'm in charge here, and I say that our daughter is permitted to go out and see her boyfriend!"

"Since when did you make yourself in charge, Bo!?"

"Since now since you can't calm the fuck down!"

"I am perfectly calm!"

I couldn't take this anymore, so I left my house and headed over to meet up with Ezra at the nearby mall. I decided to take the bus over there, waiting up for it at the bus stop. The bus came around five minutes later, and luckily I had just enough money in these jeans to pay for a bus ride. I took my seat and pulled out my phone. When I pulled out my phone, I saw that I got a missed call from Ezra. I called him.

"Hey, babe."

"Hi, Ez. Sorry that I wasn't able to take your call, thanks to yet another fight with a certain SOMEBODY."

"Damn, I'm sorry about that. Are you on your way?"

"Right now I am. I'll be there in a few minutes."

"See ya then, Sabine. Love you."

"Love you too. Bye."

I hung up and sank into my seat as I tried to forget everything about the last fight. Why can't he just simply give Ezra a chance!? The dude's not a bad kid for crying out loud! Why does he hate him so much!? Will he ever accept him? Will something worse happen between me and dad and will Ezra be involved? I had so many questions.

The bus stopped at the mall, and I stepped out and headed inside. I got another text from Ezra when I headed upstairs on the first escalator that you see when you come in, and he said that he sees me when I got off. I looked around for him, then saw a kid wearing an orange adidas jacket with dark blue jeans and orange and red sneakers waving at me. It was Ezra. I waved back to him and he started walking over to me.

"Hi, babe." he said.

"Hey, Ez." I replied, hugging him then kissing him quickly on the lips.

"Nice to see that you could make it. What do you wanna do?"

We both looked around for something to do on this level, then we happened to find an indoor bowling alley. "How does bowling sound?" I asked.

"I'm up for it. Watch me drill you." he replied cheekily as we started walking over.

"Ezra, you're going to lose to your own Mandalorian girlfriend tonight."

"How much you wanna bet?" We both laughed at that.

"10 million?" We laughed again.

"Do you even have that kinda money, babe?"

"Maybe. Do you?"

"I'm asking you."

"I'm asking you."

"You."

"You." We laughed as we continued teasing each other.

"We'll see who wins tonight, and it's gonna be this awesome boyfriend right here." he said as we entered the bowling alley. I sulked then kissed him.

"Never underestimate us Mandalorians."

"Who said anything about that?" I gave him a playful punch on the shoulder, which he returned, both of us laughing after he punched me. As we laughed, we came up to the front desk. "Two please for one game, unless you want to play more, Sabine."

"We'll see after this first game. Is that cool?"

"Sure thing. So that's one game then."

"9 dollars please." said the guy at the counter. Ezra payed him and then we went to throw on our bowling shoes. We threw our shoes on then went to go pick a ball.

I used a pink one that was just light enough for me, while my boyfriend used an orange one. "Orange, Ezra?" I asked with a smirk.

"What? It's sorta my color." He smiled back then kissed me. We broke our kiss and went over to the first lane to sign ourselves in. "Ladies first." I smiled and kissed him, then I took a seat and put my first name in. He signed in next, then the game began.

The game was intense, and we both turned out to be really good at bowling. On the first game when I went up, I got a strike, and I got one my second time up. He also got a strike on his first time up, but got a spare on his second time. Then on our third time up, I got a spare and he got a strike. We both were really good at this, and we were practically neck and neck. I was leading by a slight bit.

I got further into the lead as I got another strike on my fourth time up. "Sabine, you're too good at this." Ezra said.

"I warned you, but you underestimated a Mandalorian." I replied teasingly, pulling him in and kissing him on the lips. "Besides, you may as well admit that you may lose to your own girlfriend tonight."

"I have a girlfriend?" he asked, but was smirking. I smirked back and kissed him.

"One who's gonna beat her own boyfriend at this."

"Don't get your hopes up, and watch this!" He rolled his ball down, but it went wrong and it rolled off to the side.

"Watch what, Ezra? You messing up miserably on that one?"

"I have a chance to get a spare, just you wait." He rolled his ball again, and knocked all the pins down, except for the one that was on the far right. It was moving, looking like it was about to get knocked down. Lucky for me, it didn't and it set itself upright. "Dammit!" Ezra exclaimed, face palming himself hard.

"My turn." I said. I rolled and got half of the pins knocked down, then got a spare in the end. I was now further in the lead. "Don't worry if you do end up losing to your own girlfriend."

"At least I have a chance still to catch up to you." He rolled his ball and got a strike. "Strike! Take that, Sabine!"

For the next couple of turns, I was now messing up and he was catching up to me further. By the time we were on the ninth round, he was already in the lead. It all comes down to round 10 now. I concentrated, rolled the ball, and got a strike. "Good luck, Ez." He concentrated and got five pins knocked down, then, while aiming for a spare, he messed up when his ball rolled to the side. I won!

"I guess I was right about my own boyfriend losing to his girlfriend."

"Indeed you were. Good game."

"Good game." He kissed me passionately on the lips for about a minute, then we left the bowling alley.

For the rest of our time here, we had a good time. We ate dinner at TGI Friday's on level 2, played some games together at the arcade on the same level, then we ended it off with two games of laser tag. We were both on the same team during our first game, but when we decided to play again, they placed us at opposite teams, and we kept on going for each other. Needless to say, we both got an equal amount of tags on one another, but his team, the green team, won against my team, the orange team. After a fun time, Ezra took me to the top of the mall's parking garage. Why was he taking me there, I had no idea, but I had a feeling that it was something awesome.

When we got up there, we were both looking at the city's skyscrapers in the distance, all of them lit up and illuminating throughout the night. It was so beautiful, especially with the best boyfriend a girl could ask for here with me. We both looked into each other's eyes. "I love you so much." I said.

"You've made me one of the happiest people in the world, Sabine. I love you too, and I have something special for you." he informed me.

"What is it?"

"Sabine, we've been dating for about a month and a half now, and so far, we're doing quite good in this. And since you've made me so happy, I want you to have this." He handed me a small red box with a heart on it, and it said "for you, my love" in the heart. This was a gift from him that I was more than happy to accept. I opened the box up and smiled widely at what was in there, and I also started crying tears of joy.

It was a necklace that was platinum, and it had a heart that looked exactly like the one I drew a long time ago. About a month ago, I was in love so much with Ezra that I'd practically draw the both of us in my spare time in my room. This heart was one of them; a heart that had me and him with our foreheads connected inside it. I showed it to Ezra one time, and he loved it a lot. But this exact heart, on a necklace!? My heart was beating with so much love and joy while my eyes became more watery. "Do you like it?" Ezra asked.

I looked at him, crying tears of joy still. "I love it, Ezra, it's so beautiful." I moved in and kissed him with immense love and passion, and he returned the kiss. "I love you so much. You've made me really happy, Ezra." I said in between my kisses. We broke our kiss and I tried on my gift.

"It looks beautiful on you." he said.

"Thank you for this gift. I love it so much." I replied. I pulled him in and we kissed passionately for a couple of minutes. When we broke our kiss, we decided to head back to his place, where I decided to spend the night.

While going back to where he lives on the bus, I decided to call mom and tell her the news. "Hi, dear." she said.

"Mom, guess what Ezra did today?" I said, unable to contain my excitement to tell her.

"What did he do?"

"Do you remember how I used to draw him and us in hearts, which I still do?"

"Yes."

"He bought me a necklace, and he actually got it in one of the designs of one of my hearts. He's made me so happy!"

"That's sweet of him! Do you like it?"

"I love it."

"That's sweet to here. So, what are you doing now?"

"I decided to stay with Ezra for tonight if that's cool with you, unlike with dad."

"Sure thing. And don't worry about your dad, I got him settled and we divided ourselves from each other for now. And if he calls you and you tell him what you're doing, don't worry about him because as long as you are happy with your boyfriend, then I'm happy, Sabine. I'll handle your father. Enjoy your night with him and contact me before you go to bed."

"I will. Love you, mom."

"Bye."

I hung up and rested my head on Ezra's shoulder until we got to his house. When we got there, we went up to his room and cuddled together in bed.

"Sabine, there's been something I've been meaning to ask you." he said.

"What is it, Ez?" I asked.

"Well...you see, this might be a big thing here." he said nervously.

"Ezra, why do you sound so nervous?"

"It's just that, uh, well...I think it's time that we push our relationship a little bit further."

My eyes widened. "Ezra, are you sure about this?"

"Sabine, I love you so much and I've been meaning to ask you this for a while now that our relationship has developed enough."

"I love you too, but, are you sure you're ready for this?"

"Anything for you."

"And are you saying that we should do this tonight? I've never done it."

"Me either. I'm nervous about this, but it's been something that I've been meaning to ask you."

"I know. I'm really nervous though, Ezra. Besides, I don't think I'm ready for this."

"Sabine, we're both 17, and I think it's just about that time. Listen, like I said that night where you became my girlfriend, I'm willing to do anything not just for you, but for our relationship as a whole. I've been in love with you from the moment when Hera introduced me to you, and now that we've come a long way, I'm nervous but I'm ready for this moment in our lives."

I was really nervous about this, but now that we've come a long way, I was ready too. I wanted my boyfriend to take me.