How To Tame The Beasts -- Alex Gaskarth Fan Fic

Chapter Thirteen

"Your dad scares the crap out of me, you know," Alex said as he sat down on my bed. 

I walked over to my mirror, looking over my make up quickly.  "Wow, the first person you're scared of," I said with a chuckle, turning to look over at my boyfriend.

He smirked.  "I just want him to approve of us is all..."

I walked over to him, letting one of my hands to graze his neck. "It's kind of cute," I said, leaning closer to him, but before we could kiss he then pulled away. 

"Not here," he said quietly, a shy smile coming across his face.  It was as if we had suddenly changed roles.

A growing smile was on my face as I said, "what? Are you scared my dad is going to catch us?"

He looked away, towards the entrance of my bedroom, and then looked to me.  "Kind of," he admitted.

"You're such a wimp," I teased, sitting down beside him and leaning back against my bed frame.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," he said, gently poking my side, causing me to jump.  "At least I can take being tickled."

I pouted my bottom lip out at him.  It was true; Alex wasn't at all ticklish.  Well, not in any places I had tried. 

"Anyways," Alex spoke now, leaning forward on his knees, "I actually wanted to talk about something serious."

I feigned shock and my mouth popped open. "Oh no, something serious?!"

"Shut up," he mused, poking my side again and I let out a squeak at that.

"Okay, tell me," I said, leaning into him.

He licked his lips, looking down at his hands for a brief moment before taking my hand in his. "Stella, I take our relationship seriously, you know that, right?" he asked and I nodded my head, suddenly growing nervous.  "Okay, because if I didn't take it seriously, I wouldn't ever bring this up.  I actually wanted to introduce you to my mom."

I blinked, processing what he had said.  Yes, I knew he had a mother, he had mentioned her before, but for some reason I never really thought about him actually living with her anymore.  Silly of me to dismiss such an important detail, but it was true, nonetheless. "Y-Your mom?"

He nodded his head.  "Yeah, my mom." He gazed back down at his lap, clearly nervous.

"Yeah, sounds awesome.  Why are you so anxious?" I asked, leaning closer to him and rubbing my hand down his back.

He shrugged his shoulders, let out a nervous chuckle. "I just...really want you guys to get along.  I've never introduced a girl to my mom before, despite her nagging me to find a girl all the time."

I raised an eyebrow.  "Does she know about me?"

Alex nodded his head. "Yeah, she knows about you.  Even before I officially met you, she knew I had a, uh, crush on you." He rubbed the back of his neck, growing embarrassed.

I let out a giggle.  "Yeah? Well, I'm excited to meet her.  I take it you guys are close?"

He nodded his head once again. "Yup," he answered. "We always have been.  For along time, it was just me and her. I mean, it still is, but now you're in the picture."

"How come you never mentioned her much before?" I asked, tilting my head to the side.  Although he had brought her up in the past, like when he told the story a few weeks ago, he  never quite elabarated further than that.

He shrugged his shoulders. "I'm kind of protective of her.  Like, a lot."

"More than me?"

"Probably just the same. Although, I don't really show it around her because she'll nag me about it.  She knows I'm protective, though."