The Alpha's Indian Mate

Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13

Since the day Drew had walked me home, I had been trying to get myself to tell my mother that I had agreed to go on a date. I didn’t really know how she would react, seeing as I had never really been asked out by anyone before and so we had never had that conversation. You know what I mean: the ‘be careful and use protection’ conversation that most other parents preach to their teenage daughters. Deep inside I knew my mother would not be telling me to be careful but would be locking me up if she thought I was going to have any form of intimacy with a boy. She was strict like that.

Friday night, I had stayed in – nothing out of the ordinary for me. Saturday was my lazy day; involving books, movies and catching up on Made in Chelsea (please don’t judge me). So by 3.00 in the afternoon I still hadn’t told her and I was starting to spas out.

“Are you ok?” She asked me, her eyebrows raised as she watched me spill my bowl of popcorn all over the kitchen counter.

“I’m fine”

“You’ve been acting quite jumpy today. Did something happen at school?”

“No…Its just – I am going on a date with this boy today at six” I vomited the words out and I concentrated on picking up the spilled kernels  rather than seeing her reaction.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” She finally asked and I had to look at her.

“I didn’t know how you would react”

“Who is this boy? I am assuming he’s from school” She asked as she sat down on the breakfast stool and indicated for me to sit on the stool beside hers.

“Yes, he’s from school. His name’s Drew and he’s really sweet and he has a twin brother and a younger sister who I am friends with”

“It is quite sudden, all of this, isn’t it? We’ve barely been here a week and you go to your first high school party and now your first date” She seemed to be pondering over the apparition of my social life which had never been there to begin with.

I had always been a shy girl. I’d had a small circle of friends who accepted me for who I am. They were the only people I could let myself be free around. I had never really been the type to go out, preferring my laptop and some novels to going out to the park and loitering around as all the popular people in my old school used to do. The current circumstances must be more shocking to my mother than they were for me.

“I can go, can’t I?” I asked and she smiled at me – a gentle motherly smile that made her seem much older than she was.