Chapter 3: First Date
I woke up in the morning, I stayed in my room the rest of last night. I took a shower, brushed my teeth and got ready for school (This is the link for her outfit, the school outfit is the top one: first_date/set?id=96932864). I went downstairs and my dad was in the kitchen. "Hi dad." I said while smiling. "Good morning Mandi." My dad said. "Hey so I think you should be home by midnight tonight." My dad said. That was unusual, usually my dad let me stay out later. "Okay. Is there any reason why you want me to home by midnight?" I ask my dad. "I just think we would all like it if you got home earlier." My dad said while stirring his coffee. "We? Matt convinced you to change my curfew didn't he?" I asked my dad. "Matt did talk to me but he doesn't know that I changed your curfew. Matt just wants what is best for you." My dad said. "But he acts like he is my dad." I said.
"Mandi I didn't want to bring this up until later but if anything was to ever happen to me your brothers are the next adults who will get custody of you, you two need learn to get along." My dad said. "Custody of me? Dad are you sick?!" I asked. "No I am just getting older and I want to have a backup plan for you if anything does happen where I can't take of you." My dad said. "Okay. Who is next in line to get custody of me after Matt and Jeff?" I ask. "my nephew, your cousin why do you ask?" My dad said. "I was just wondering if you had a back up plan if Matt and Jeff didn't want custody of me." I said. I heard someone speak from the entrance of the kitchen. "Of course we would take custody of you. We don't always get along but we still love you. Why would you think we wouldn't?" I heard Matt ask. I turned around and saw Matt. "How long have you been standing there for?" I asked. "Long enough to know that Jeff and I are next in line to be your legal guardians which we would accept. Why would you think we wouldn't?" Matt asked again.
"Matt I know you love me and you say you would take care of me if anything happened but your not thinking it through. You just can't drag a 15 year old teenager along on the road with you when you are touring. We would clash too much, do you really think you could handle being in charge of me all the time, Matt it would be different from now. Can you do that? Can you handle that responsibility? Do you want that responsibility? I would change your life forever. I don't know if you can handle that and I don't know if I can handle doing that." I said. "Doing what?" Matt asked. "Changing and wrecking your life. If you ever took custody of me things would never be the same for you. I know you wouldn't have the heart to say you couldn't do it but I don't have the heart to know I would responsible for wrecking your life." I say while tears start to form in my eyes, I try to push them back. Matt looked at me and then he came over and pulled me into a hug.
"Look you will never and I mean never wreck my life. I would go into a worm hole and back just to make sure you were okay. I love you that much, that's why I don't want anything or anyone to hurt you. If I could sign a paper right now that guarantees that I would take you if anything ever happened to dad I would sign it right now." Matt said to me. I am still in his arms I look up at him and say "Matt you still don't get it. If you did that I would be the biggest mistake you ever made. I may say I hate you sometimes but I could never do that to you." I said to him, meaning what I said. "Amanda Hardy you are not and will never be a mistake! I would never let you go out into the world alone, hell I don't know if I would even let you go into this world with Jeff as your guardian. I would never let anything happen to you and I would never let you be in the wrong hands. You are the most amazing, caring person and I know you love me but I am your older brother and older brother love overpowers little sister love. Being your older brother makes me not even want to trust Jeff with you. I would gladly be you guardian because I care about you and no one can understand how much I care for you. No one can ever take you away from me, ever. Okay? Not even yourself." Matt said while looking down at me.
I was still crying into his chest. I just nodded. "Now promise me that you know you are nobody's mistake." Matt said to me. "I am nobody's mistake." I said to Matt. "You are also the most amazing girl on the planet and you are a gift to us all." Matt said. "You bet I am." I said then laughed. Matt also laughed at me. "I'm sorry for going behind your back and going to dad to get what I wanted. If you don't want me to go to the game I won't go. I'm sorry Matt just please say you forgive me?" I ask Matt. "Of course I will and I'm sorry about what I said to Nick I shouldn't have embarrassed you that like and I guess if you really want to go you can." Matt said. He mumbled the "you can" part. "Really? Thank you Matt!" I said and jump up and tried to hug his neck. "Ya, ya but you do have a curfew and I want you two to stay with your group until he takes you home am I understood?" Matt said. "Yes Matt. Dad thought my curfew should be 12 can it be, please?" Matt looked at me and then at my dad. My dad said "Its up to you son." "I guess but midnight not a minute later." Matt said with an I'm serious about this expression on his face. "Ok. Thanks Matt you are the best brother ever!" I said.
"One other thing when Jeff or I tell you something you need to respect our decision. That means you can't go to me or dad if Jeff says no and vice versa." Matt said. "Okay but you have to be fair." I said. "Okay how about this if you think one of us is being unfair and we are too worked up to talk to you can talk to the other one and Jeff will calm me down or I'll calm him down and we will talk about to see if it is really unfair." Matt said to me. "Okay." I said. "Can you take me school today?" I ask Matt. "Isn't Jade going to take you?" Matt questions. "I can text her and tell her not to. I just want to spend some time with you when we are not fighting, if you want to hang out with a 15 year old." I said. "Hey that 15 year old is my sister so of course I would love to spend time with her." Matt said. "Okay I need like 30 minutes to fix my make up then we can leave. Hey can we go to that place with the cinnamon buns?" I ask. "Yes but we would to leave in 15 minutes think you can do that?" Matt asks. "Yeah" I say then go upstairs to fix my up. Luckily I was wearing water proof mascara. I just put some more mascara on then I put some make up on to cover up my face so it doesn't look like I have been crying. I went downstairs and told Matt I was ready, we got into his car. After we went to get breakfast Matt dropped me off at school.
*Skipping to lunch* At lunch I sat with Nick. "Are you coming to the game tonight?" Nick asked. "Yes and I can also go out for dinner after but I have to home by midnight and we can't leave our group but you can drive me home." I said. "You probably think I'm a loser having all these rules I'm sorry but this was the only way Matt would let me go out tonight." I say to him. "No it's fine as long as I'm with you." He says while stroking my hair back. "Look I'll see if my dad can talk to Matt about us not having to be in a group the whole time." Nick said while putting his arm around me. "Thanks and good luck with that." I said we both laughed. Nick wanted me to stay for practice but I told him I was going to Jade's house and we were going to get ready for the game together. I already had my outfit and makeup with me.
*After School* I went to Jade's house and we both got ready I wore (Bottom outfit when you click on the link. The makeup on the top is the make up she wore to school, the make-up on the bottom she wore with the make up on top when she goes to the game. Link: first_date/set?id=96932864) Jade wore a blue sun dress with a jean jacket and black boots. We had to get to the game 45 minutes early because Jade had to drop her sister off since her sister is part of the cheer leading team. We watched the cheerleaders and football team for about 30 minutes then they got a break. Nick came over to me and we talked. "Hey." Nick said. "Hi." I said. "So I asked my dad to talk to Matt so we wouldn't have to spend the whole night in a group." Nick said. "What did he say?" I asked curious. "Matt had already called him and my dad said and I quote "You better behave yourself and go along with his rules or I won't be able to stop Matt from beating you up. He can be very determined when he wants to be." Nick said. "Ok and he's right, Matt can be very determined when he wants to be." I said.. "I'm sorry about having rules." I tell Nick. "It's okay remember what I said as long as I get to be with you." Nick said. I smiled. Nick had to go back to field because the game was about to start.
We won 28 to 40, which our team scoring 40 . After the game was over we all got pizza and took it to the park, it was a picnic. All the guys had a blanket set out a blanket for them and their girlfriend or date, we looked at the stars and talked all night until 11:40 then we decided we should leave since it would take about 10 or 15 minutes to get to my house, since my curfew was 12. As we were driving I said "That was amazing, laying there and seeing the stars it was just beautiful." I said. "Just like you." He said. "I really had a fun time tonight maybe we could do it again." Nick said. "Yeah I'd like that. So was this a date or just two friends hanging out?" I asked. "It can be whatever you want it to be." He said. "I want it to be a date, our first date." I said. "Yeah I'd like that." He said smiling. He pulled over a couple blocks from my house. "Why did you pull over?" I asked. "So I could do this without anyone trying to kill me." He said then he cupped my face with his hands and kissed me. It was short but I felt so much passion and happiness in it, I was in shock that he kissed and of the way I felt. I smiled "So are you ready to go home now?" He asked. I kissed him one more time and said "Now I am."
When we pulled up to my house it was 11:55 and there was a red convertible which means it was Matt's girlfriend, Tiffany. I liked Tiffany we always got along, she was like a sister to me and she could always help calm Matt down. "I had a great time I can't wait until we do it again." He said. "Me either plus your a really good kisser." I said. "Your not that bad yourself." He said. He gave me a side hug since we were in a car then I went inside at 11:58 P.M.
Tiffany's Point of View:
Matt said he was in Charleston for a while. He called me today saying how worried he was that Mandi was going out with some football player so I decided to fly out to be with him. Me, him and Jeff were going to hang out watch movies, play video games but was too worried to do anything he was quiet and pacing the whole night. "Honey she'll be just fine." I said. "It's 11:55 where is she? Her curfew is in five minutes she's 15 years old, she shouldn't be out this late." Matt said. "Don't worry she'll be here by midnight." I said. "I swear if he did anything to her I'll kill him." Matt growled. "I'll help." Jeff said. "Oh no not you to Jeff, don't worry I'm sure she's just fine." I said. We looked at the TV then Mandi walked through the door at 11:58 P.M. "Mandi!" I screamed and almost tackled her to the ground while running and giving her a hug "Tiffany!" She screamed and hugged me back, Mandi is like my little sister we get along really well, we are like best friends.