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Yesterday was an amazing day and Marshall truly treated me like a queen. When we came home then we were both so high from the amazing romantic night and how we had shared the words with each other, so we had a lot of amazing sex and it was just really really great.

Today we're gonna have dinner with my mom and Sam and I'm a little nervous because of the argument I had with my mom when I dropped Tyler off. If I knew that I would've got back together with Marshall then I would never have told her, because she's gonna have a hard time accepting Marshall from now on. I was just so angry when all that happened and I never thought that we were gonna get back together.

My mom is a very overprotective mom if it hasn't occurred to you yet. My parents have always been like that, I guess. They always liked Kyle but Kyle was just the perfect guy, I'm not saying that Marshall isn't that because he truly is, but he has a lot of problems with him from his past and he hasn't been a saint. Kyle was a saint, he maybe came from a twisted family who had a very wrong view of how the world should be like, but it didn't effect Kyle and he wasn't like his family at all. Every parent would wish that their daughter would marry someone like Kyle.

The thing is that right now we sit in the car on the way to my mom and Sam's house and I have no idea how to break this to Marshall. I know that I have to prepare him if my mom can't shut her mouth.

"I have to tell you something." I sigh deeply and he looks at me shortly with a questionable look before his eyes returns to the road again. "When I dropped Tyler off at my mom's then we had an argument."

"About what?" He asks but I can see that he already knows that this has something to do with him.

"About you." I say and I hear him sigh deeply.

"Your mom doesn't like me?" He asks.

"When I caught you with Tammy then I was so angry." I begin to tell him. "I never thought that we would get back together so I made the biggest mistake and told my mom what had happened."

"So what was your argument about?" He asks looking at me shortly again. I can tell that he tries to hide his anger but I can sense it. I can tell that he's angry and that he's irritated about the fact that I've told her.

"She doesn't think you're ready to commit to me." I tell him honestly. "She doesn't think you're done with all the women."

"Great." He says through his gritted teeth showing a bit of anger now. "Your mom hates me."

"She doesn't hate you." I try to comfort him.

"Well, she doesn't exactly love me either, does she?" He says.

"Marshall, she's just very overprotective." I tell him. "She'll accept you."

"Good fucking job dropping the bomb on the way over to her when you've had the whole fucking weekend to tell me, Jenny." He says making eye contact with me again shortly. He's angry.

"Sorry." I say as I know it's not okay. I should've told him before. "I just didn't wanna ruin our weekend."

Marshall doesn't even say anything and I have no idea how to break the ice. I should've told him the same day that it happened or at least yesterday and not on the way over to her.

"Well, this is gonna be fucking great." He mumbles and by that breaking the silence.

"I'm sorry, Marshall." I say and he doesn't say anything. "Maybe it's not gonna be that bad. She knows I love you and that she has to accept you."

"I don't want her to accept me just because she has to." Marshall says. "I want her to accept me because she actually thinks I'm a cool guy."

"She will." I promise him.