Cherry || Owen Joyner

sixteen

The next morning, I was on the couch with Carolynn. She was showing me her wedding pictures from last year.

They both looked really good. Carolynn looked beautiful in her wedding dress. As she was showing me pictures, Owen came down the stairs.

He came over to us and flopped on the couch. "I have an idea." Owen spoke as we turn to him.

"Oh no." I speak as he looks at me offended. "It's not bad. I wanna go see my parents today." His parents live thirty minutes away.

He's told me how his parents are divorced and he has two half sisters with a biological sister.

"Oh that's nice. I bet they'll love that." Carolynn smiled at him. He looked at her and then looked at me.

He has a hopeful look on his face. "I was actually hoping you would come with me, Saylor." My mouth suddenly went dry.

He wants me to meet his family. "Wait, really?" I ask looking at him. I glance over at Carolynn. She looked surprised.

"Yes. Please. I'll love it if you came." He pleaded. I sigh as I think about it. We aren't dating. But we are very good friends.

And it sounds like he really wants me to come. "Okay, I'll go with you." He smiles as he wraps his arms around me.

"Thank you! I'm gonna go get ready." He jumps up and goes back up the steps. I look over at Carolynn.

"I didn't know you two were that serious." She rose her eyebrow towards me. I violently shake my head.

"We aren't like that." She gives me a look like she doesn't believe me.

I waited for her answer. "He wants you to meet his parents. Sounds pretty serious to me." She tells me.

"He probably just wants me to drive him there." I deny, again. She just shook her head.

"You can believe whatever you want but if I were you, I would get dressed." That's when it hit me.

I'm meeting his parents. And I had nothing to wear. "Please help find me something." She smiled and agreed.

We get to my room to see Owen fixing his hair. He had on a t-shirt and basketball shorts. "Get out, I have to dress." I tell him.

He drops his jaw and shakes his head. "Wow." He walks out as I close the door. I lock it as she starts looking through my things.

After a few minutes of searching, she hands me black skinny jeans with holes in the knees and a black champion shirt.

I put it on and tuck the shirt into the jeans. When I show Carolynn my outfit, she smiles.

"It looks cute." She compliments. I put on light makeup and look at myself.

It think this will do. "Thank you." I tell her. She smiled as we walked down the steps.

Owen was laying on the couch, scrolling through his phone.

He looked at me and smiled. "You ready?" He asked while sitting up.

"Yeah. I'll see you later, Carolynn." He stands up as we walk out the house.

I unlock my car and get in my drivers side. Owen gets on passenger as I pull out.

"So, I figured we could hang out with my dad first. And then we can go to my moms." He explained.

He had typed in his dads address on my phone and sat it down.

"It sounds good to me." I smile. I follow the gps all the way to his dads house.