The Love We Got

Chapter 2

The next morning at around 10:40 I went downstairs to get something to drink and saw everyone at the table. "Good morning Monica." "Good morning Jo." "Skylar." "Yes grandma?" "Don't you have something to say?" "No." "SKYLAR." She blew her breath "Fine good morning." "Thank you now Monica don't you have something to say to Skylar?" I opened the fridge got my bottle of water then closed the door. "Nope." I turned around and came back in the dinning room and saw grandma Jo giving me the evil eyes. "Good morning Skylar." "That's better now come over here and sit down so we can say our prayers and eat this delicious breakfast." "Actually I can't." "Why not?" "A friend of mine asked if they could take me out for breakfast." "Why on heavens earth would you do that?" "I didn't know that there was anything wrong with me going out to eat with a friend." "There isn't its just when was the last time you sat down and ate breakfast with us like a family or even cooked breakfast I had to do it myself this morning." "I always cook breakfast, I'm always here it's Skylar who's never here." "Well it's not Skylar's fault that she's busy with school, work and things like that." "I'm always busy with school too, but I still make time to be with my friends, family, and do homework this is the first time that she's stayed here in almost 3 months and besides she been dropped out." " Like I said before she's just been busy and its her business if she wanted to drop out or not." "All I wanna do is go out to eat with a friend, but you won't even let me do that your making a big deal out of nothing." "You need to watch who your talking to." "You know what your right I'm sorry, I'm just going to go upstairs and take a shower before my friend gets here." I went upstairs, put my clothes out on my bed, took a shower when I got out my phone said Ray texted me 10 minutes ago saying he was outside so I rushed and put my clothes on and ran down the stairs and saw Skylar flirting with Ray so I stopped to see what they were saying. "So Ray can I ask you something?" "Sure." "Why do you even like Monica she a hoe." "She maybe a hoe in your eyes but she's a queen in mine." I walked over to the couch with a big smile on my face then Ray jumped up. "Hey beautiful." He hugged me "What are you so happy about?" "Nothing much." "So you ready to go." "Yup." "Okay then come on slow poke." I giggled as he grabbed my hand and lead me to his car where he opened the door for me. "Thank you." "Your welcome." I got in, he closed the door behind me, walked around the front got in, and closed the door then just looked at me with a big smile on his face. "Are you okay?" "Yup, you okay? "I'm a little scared." "Why is that?" "The way you're looking at me is making me a little nervous." "Oh shit sorry." We laughed. "It's okay Ray... so we're we going?" "We're going to IHOP." He pulled off and started driving. "Can I tell you something. "Of course." "I've never been to IHOP before." After I managed to keep myself from jerking when he slammed on the brakes I just slowly turn around and looked at him." Are you serious right know?" "That's what I should be asking you." "You seriously never had IHOP before." "Yeah crazy right?" "No, this is perfect." "Wait... how?" "Because I get to be the first one to take you to IHOP." "Okay I think you're a little too excited right now." "You haven't seen me get excited yet." "Are you serious?" "No, i'm just kidding but I do tend to get a little to excited about things." "Well, that's a good start to getting to know each other." He smiled at me "Well maybe we should get going so I can get to know you better." " Okay."

After about 15 minutes later we arrived Ray got out and opened the door for me. "Thank you." "Your welcome." He closed the door then grabbed my hand, looked at me and smiled, all I could do was blush. "Good morning, how many?" "Just two." He replied "Okay, right this way." The waitress told us. We followed the waiter to the table and sat down. "Hi my name is Lexi and I will be your waiter for today so how about we start off with your drinks." "I'll take a sprite for me and the lovely lady." "Okay I'll be right back with your drinks and here are your menu." She told us. "Thank you." She walked away as we picked up the menus and chose what we wanted. "Okay I think I want to try the Belgian waffles combo." "Your gonna loooovvvveeee it that one is actually one of my favorites... so that's all you want?" "Yup." "Alright." It was and awkward silence for about a minute I looked back down at my menu just thinking until Ray grabbed my hands. "Monica?" "Yeah?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah. Why wouldn't I be okay?" "I was talking to you, but you were staring off into Monica land." "Oh sorry about that." I let go and put my hands in my lap. "I sort of do that a lot." "No its cool... so tell me something about yourself?" "Like what?" "Whats your favorite color?" "Purple." "Mine too... ummm whats your favorite food?" "Tacos, and pizza." "Tacos are my favorite too, any talents?" " I can sing, I write, dance, draw, play the violin." "Well maybe you can teach me how to play sometime." "Sure." "Okay so whats your favorite song?" "I don't have one." "Why?" "I don't really listen to music much." "WHAT? Everybody listens to music." "Not me." "Wait what do you mean you don't..." He got cut off by the waitress. "Okay here are your sprites." She sat them down on the table. "Thank you." I said "Thank you." He replied "Your welcome, so have you guys figured out what you want to order?" "Yes 1 Belgian waffle combo and a Chicken and waffle." "Will that be all?" She asked. "Yes." "Alright I'll be back with your food as soon as possible." "Take your time." She walked away and Ray looked back to me. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T LISTEN TO MUSIC?" "I said I don't listen to it much now stop yelling at me and get over it big head." "Who you calling big head?" "You big head now stop playing with me before I cut you." "What with that butter knife in your hand?" "You can do wonders with a butter knife." I asked him jokingly "Oh really?" "Yup what you think I'm lying?" "Yes." "I can come over there and prove it to you if you want." "Okay." I stood up. "Okay I'm sorry I'm playing." "That's what I thought." I sat back down. "You know I would have never taken you as the crazy type?" "I know." I said smiling "You wanna know something else though?" "What?" "I think I might be crazy about you." "Ray stop it you hardly even know me." "I know but I feel like we have this strong connection." "Maybe you shouldn't fall so hard, and fast with me." "What do you mean?" "Well, what if you find out something about me and it might change the way you look at me." "I doubt that will happen." "You okay?" He asked me clearly seeing I looked a little down "Yeah I'm fine." "You sure?" "Yeah... I'll be right back." "Okay." I got up, went to the bathroom and texted Ty