《 shy ~ greece, nhc 》{COMPLETED}

Ch. 19

I wake up on Sunday with a large smile on my face. Peeling my eyes open, I notice how my room is slightly illuminated by the sun peaking through my curtains. I can hear the birds chirping and I can smell something amazing wafting into my room from the kitchen. Right now, I feel like I’m in a movie; last night was surreal. Reece is actually my boyfriend. We are together. I can kiss him whenever I want, I can compliment him whenever I want, I can stare at him without looking weird whenever I want.

I then remember something else; my dads coming home today. I jump up excitedly. He’s always away for his job, on business trips that end up lasting weeks. Of course I miss him endlessly, but I know it’s important for us that he’s away so that he can actually earn money. He gets the whole summer off, which is great of course.

I quickly have a shower and get changed, pulling on a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt. Then, I run downstairs, skipping into the kitchen where my mum is standing by the stove, flipping what looks like a pancake. Can this day get any better? When she hears me enter she turns around, an excited grin appearing on her face.

“So? How’d it go?” She asks, putting down the spatula. I can’t hide my smile and I sigh happily.

“Oh mum, it was amazing. He asked me to be his boyfriend!” I exclaim, grinning madly.

“And you said yes, right?” She asks.

“Of course! I’d be stupid if I said no.” I say, surprised.

“I thought so. Just making sure. Did he like the food?”

“Did he? I’m pretty sure that was his favourite part.” I chuckle. My mum smiles proudly, going back to cooking the pancakes. Once she finishes them up, she places two on my plate, handing me the syrup. I thank her and immediately tuck in, almost moaning at the delicious taste.

“You’re dad is coming back at around lunch time.” She says suddenly, after a minute of silence. I nod, continuing my eating.

“Are you planning on telling him about Reece?” This time I stop eating, considering this for a minute. Was I going to tell my dad? No, more importantly... why wouldn’t I tell my dad? He has the right to know. I just hope he lets us date; my dad is extremely protective.

“I guess so, yeah.” I say eventually. My mum nods before going back to eating. My minds wanders back to Reece, and realising how much I miss him already, I quickly shoot him a text asking if I could go round to his later on. Jesus, one night and I already miss him. I spend the rest of the morning finishing up homework and studying, and soon enough lunch rolls around.

At around 2pm, I hear the front door open, and I jump in joy. The door is barely open by the time I run downstairs, and I immediately give my dad a hug.

“Uff, George, that was quick.” He chuckles, hugging me back.

“I missed you.” I mumble.

“I did too kiddo.” He laughs, pulling away to hug my mum. We go into the dinning room where lunch is waiting for us and we talk about everything that has happened this past month. He tells me about what it was like in Italy and I tell him about school, and eventually my mum decides to bring up the topic of a certain blonde haired boy that I seem to be slightly infatuated by. And for some reason, I’m slightly nervous.

“George, wasn’t there someone you wanted to tell your dad about?” My mum hints. I nod and look at my dad, who’s raising his eyebrows with a little frown on his face.

“I’ve uh, I’ve met someone.” I mumble. I hear my dad sigh.

"Boyfriend or girlfriend?” He starts off, his voice hard.

“Boyfriend.” I answer, not making eye contact.

“Are you sure this it isn’t too soon? After everything that happened with Jake, are you sure you’re ready?” He asks immediately. Of course this is what he’d think of.

“First of all, it was six months ago. And besides, Reece is different; he would never hurt me.” I say. My dad still looks doubtful though.

“What makes you so sure about that?” He asks, crossing his arms over his chest.

“Just trust me dad. You know I wouldn’t go for someone like Jake again. I learnt my lesson. Reece is amazing, you’ll love him.” I try to convince him. He looks at me sceptically, but eventually sighs.

“Fine. I’ll give it a chance. But the second he hurts you, just know I won’t give him a second chance.” I feel my eyes water as I quickly go to hug him, my temporary moment of fear over. Not knowing if he would allow me to date Reece or not was absolutely petrifying. He hugs me back, chuckling.

“But, I’m going to need to meet this ‘Reece’ of yours. I need to make sure he’s perfect for you.” My dad says, pretending to be buff.

“Alright but not yet. Reece struggles with meeting new people, he has social anxiety; he could barely have a conversation with mum without freezing up and almost running for it, I don’t think meeting you would help his self-esteem.” I explain, watching my dads eyebrows furrow.

“Why would meeting me affect his self-esteem?” He asks, putting on a mock offended expression.

“Remember when you met Jake?” I spit his name out as though it were venomous. But, I do remember my dad going into a full-on interrogation with Jake, which makes me think he could probably do it with Reece as well. That kind of thing would definitely scare Reece off. “He refused to come round if you were there after that.”

“I had my reasons though. I knew he wasn’t right for you and that there was something suspicious about him.” My dad snorts.

“Yeah, but I can’t risk it with Reece, I like him too much. He’s special.” I say, a small smile subconsciously forming on my face.

“Alright, fine.” My dad eventually gives in.

*****

A few hours later, I find myself sitting in Reece’s room on his bed whilst he works at his desk on his computer. We aren’t speaking, mainly because Reece is concentrated and I’m too deep in thought. In fact, I’m so deep in thought that I don’t notice Reece has put his computer away and has come to lie next to me.

“A penny for your thoughts?” He whispers. I snap my head towards him, seeing his cheeky smile.

“I was just thinking about us. I told my dad about us and he barely accepted it at first.” I explain. Reece’s smile drops and his brows furrow.

“What do you mean he ‘barely accepted us’?” He asks, sitting up. I do the same and we sit face to face.

“Well, after everything I went through with Jake, he was extremely sceptical about letting me date again. I mean, I eventually convinced him... I don’t really know why I’m thinking about this now to be honest.” I chuckle, picking at the sheets.

“It’s fine. I told my parents and they were extremely happy. Ecstatic if anything.” Reece chuckles, shaking his head. I grin and grab his hand.

“I’m so lucky to have you.” I whisper.

“As am I to have you.”

Heyy!!

GUYS YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED. So basically, I needed to upload Chapter 18 but I didn't have Internet on my iPad so I passed the chapter from my iPad to my mums iPhone through airdrop and then to my phone through whatsapp... long story short, I forgot to delete it on my mums phone and she read it. She asked me about it the next day and i just said i was doing my friend a favour and i made up this long ass story to try and confuse her, i mean i think i succeeded but still, for the whole night she knew i had written it, like she read the kiss and the kinky thing jsksksj it still makes me cringe thinking about it.

ANYWAYS, I'm finally (hopefully) getting my Internet back tomorrow which means I'll be able to upload much more yayy.

Hope you enjoyed this, sorry bout my rant hahah xx
Byee xx