You stole a piece of me

She Met My Mum...

"Awww my little girl is growing up!!" My mum says excitedly.

----------------------------------a few weeks pass---------------------------------

Me and Cole, we've been keeping this casual, nothing really changed between us. We hug, we flirt, we mess around, we'll have long meaningful chats and we'll have days where we don't talk at all. It's all so new to me, that I'm not sure what a normal paced relationship is like, I'm just taking everyday as it comes and when I'm ready for more, Cole will know about it.

My mum ships us together like her life depends on it! She never fails to slip in something along the lines of 'you two make such a cute couple' or 'you guys have the cutest friendship'. There's always something like that, which she manages to slip into conversation. Cole gave his mum, my mum's phone number. She hasn't heard anything yet, but apparently Cindee has mentioned to Cole that she's thinking about it more and more but just hasn't decided how she wants to approach it yet, which is understandable, they haven't spoken to each other in about 15 years, it would be hard to know what to say to anyone after that length of time has passed.

I'm a bit worried that Cole has such a close relationship with my mum and sister, yet he hasn't asked me or taken me to his house to meet his mum. I don't know how to take that, but I'll talk to him about it, at some point.

---------------------- COLE'S PERSPECTIVE -----------------------

Me and Sav, god what can I even say about her? She's brilliant, and I trust her with everything. I've been burned many times by girls, but she's just different. I can't tell what specifically it is, maybe it's the connection we apparently had as babies, but man I am falling for her. I just, need more. I told her that if anything was to happen it would be on her terms, in her own time. But my love language is physical touch, and no I'm not talking about sex. Don't get me wrong, it's crossed my mind on more than one occasion, but losing your virginity is a big thing and by no means do I want to pressure her in that way. But if she's not ready to kiss, then that is miles in the future and I'm okay with that. But I do want more, I want to sweep her off her feet and kiss her like nobody is around, but more than anything I just want to be able to call her mine.

Nobody at our school knows that we're anything more than friends, I'm in no way ashamed or anything like that, but she wants to take it slow and becoming a couple publicly opens both of us up to be laughed at, ridiculed or ridiculously over the top support. Which can be misleading, and could lead either me or Sav open to the wrong sorts of friends, the bad influences and the fake friends who want to try to steal someone away for themselves. I hate to sound as paranoid as I am, but I've been burnt before. I feel hard-wired now to think about all of the worst case scenarios, so I have to balance it out with the best case scenarios as well. I see a life with Sav, and I wish she knew.

I've been thinking about introducing her to my mum, since I know her family so well, she should have the same chance with my mum. The only part that makes me nervous is that Sav, is so much like her mum, I'm not sure how well that would sit with my mum. But no matter what, Sav is by far the best person I've ever had the pleasure of being around, let alone actually having a shot with her.

It's a Friday evening, so Lisa should be fine with me taking Sav out for a couple of hours. I picked up my phone and sent her a text, simple as 'Hey darling, am I alright to come pick you up at about 6:30?' My phone dings with a reply almost instantly.

Sav <3 : Hey, yeah I'll see you then xx

Sav <3 : How should I dress? Dress up warm or formal or what? x

Me: Dress fairly nice, but not too over the top?

Sav <3 : What on earth? You've seen my closet, so you can just pick what you think is best when you get here and I'll get dressed quick xx