To all who wondered: Why is Callie acting so normal when her mother has just died horribly? Well I am sorry to break it to you folks Callie has PTSD. Before you worry about my knowledge on this illness, I have had very personal dealings with it and I will leave it at that. She has gone numb. I just haven't had enough chapters written to really show it. She will be melting down sometime soon. Just not now. So you will have to wait to be fully justified. I thank all of you for the reads and suggestions. It is spring break from school for a while so I will be able to write more I hope to put out four chapter by the end of this week. Wish me luck
Callie was having to face the serious facts; she had never in her life been on a date. Sure what happened between her and Gunner happened, but it still was not a date. Now she has a date will devilishly handsome Dimitri. Tall, Lean, with a killer fucking accent. This is a time that she would have actually been pleased to have anyone here to talk to, mostly she wanted her mom. Her mom. Just thinking about her mom forced her eyes start to prickle with tears. Just a few weeks ago her mom was always there when she woke up in the morning, when she went to school, and when she got home for the night. Now she was going on her first date, and had depressed herself thinking about it that she was losing the drive to even do this. What if they had sex? Not that she didn't know what she was doing, but she had only learned it from movies and the internet. Now she had to pick out an outfit to match, and she had no where to start.
"Think Callie." She said to herself "You need to fucking think! You have your first date in two hours. What do you do?
Lacy! She had Lacy's number from the first time that they went clothes shopping. It wasn't the person that she really needed but it would work. She dialed the number on her phone and listened to it ring.
"Hello." Said Lacy on the other end of the phone
"Hi Lacy. It's Callie."
"Hi callie!" Said Lacy perky as ever on the other end of the phone "What can I do for you?"
"I just got asked out on a date." Said Calllie
"Well good for you!" Said Lacy
"Well the thing is…"Trailed Callie "That I have never been on a date before. I don't really know what to do or wear."
"I am on my way." Said Lacy "Go shower and do your nails. I'll be there in 30 minutes."
30 minutes, a shower, and a fresh coat of nail polish later there was a knock at the door. Callie opened it to find Lacy standing there with a bag of what looked like cosmetics, and a coffee holder with two coffees in it.
"Hi." Said Callie letting her in
"How long until your date?" Asked Lacy sweeping past Callie
"Hour and a half."
"Good." Said Lacy "Now sit."
Lacy pulled out a chair of the table in the kitchenette, and made Callie sit there while she arranged her hair painstakingly for 30 minutes.
"So." Said Lacy "Where did you meet this guy?"
"I went to get coffee and he sat down, we talked, and he asked me out." Said Callie "I have never been on a date before so I said yes."
"What about Gunner?" Asked Lacy
"What about him?"
"I thought you liked him." Asked Lacy
"I did but I did not know him, so I was stupid."
"You don't know this new guy." Said Lacy
"I know." Said Callie "But that's the point of a date, to get to know someone."
"From what I heard you and Gunnar were getting close-ish." Said Lacy
"We kissed, and stuff but then he came over here high, and I kicked him to the curb."
"Sometimes, the ones that put up the biggest front are the ones that need to be loved the most."
Callie shot Lacy a look at that one.
"What do I look like to you?" Asked Callie "One of those people who subscribe to the romance novel shit."
"Hey." Said Lacy "You never know." I could make a woman out of you yet."
After trying on outfit after outfit lacy was pleased enough to let the ordeal be over with. Callie came downstairs in tight jeans, knee high black boots, and a red low cut blouse. She had to admit that Lacy did have taste. As she reached the bottom of the stairs, Lacy coming down behind her, the doorbell rang.
"Now one last thing." Said Lacy "Make sure you go somewhere public, have your phone on you at all times, and do not be one of those girls who has sex with a guy on the first date."
"Got it Lacy." Said Callie giving her a quick hug "Thanks for all of the help."
"She opened the door to her Tall, Lean, accented date leaning in the doorway looking like sex on legs. Maybe the sex part of what Lacy told her would be harder to do….