Our Promise

Meeting The Parents

Recap:

"That was so fun! Thank you for teaching me how to skateboard Dominic. So what's the big surprise?" I asked bracing myself.

"Get ready to meet my parents." He said with a smile. A devastated look appeared on my face as I looked away from him for a moment before walking inside without telling him goodbye.

I am going to actually meet the parents that probably still remember me as the poor girl that they wanted to get Dominic away from and is the reason why Dominic moved here in the first place. To get away from me but of course he doesn't remember this. I am going to finally meet the parents that hate me.

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Last night surprisingly I had a great sleep. You would think that I would stay up all night and think about meeting Dominic's parents and the truth is, I did. I stayed up for a good hour thinking and predicting about what would happen but then I realized, why am I thinking about something that has not even happened yet? I knew that I was just going to sike myself out before meeting them so I just shut my eyes and let the darkness consume me.

Right now I am straightening my hair to get it as straight as a pencil. For some reason and I don't know why but I really wanted to impress Dominic's parents. I knew that all I needed to do was to be myself but Dominic's parents are not like that.

Even though I never met them, I knew that it was going to be a tough day. It says something about a person if they hire someone to go see what their son is doing when he was eight years old. His parents went through all that trouble finding our secret spot and when they found out that their oh so precious son was hanging around with a six year old girl that needs money, they automatically sent him here to live with his cousin Felix.

Through all that trouble that his parents went through to make sure that Dominic does not hang around with poor people like myself. You can see now why I am a little nervous to meet them. The only positive thought that was running through my mind was that they may have forgotten about me. If Dominic has forgotten about me then i'm sure they did to. That is my only hope and I am holding onto this thought for dear life. This thought was the only thing that made me sleep well last night.

On the other note, Dominic was younger than his parents so of course he would forget such a big thing like me but his parents had a longer memory span than him and would most likely remember me.

The thing that always made me confused was how I remembered everything about him including the promise that he made to me although he did remember all the memories with me, he failed to remember my name and the promise. I did not get how I remembered everything and I was younger than him. If anything it should of been the other way around, him remembering everything and me forgetting.

I am glad that he however remembered most of the memories with me when I was younger and I am hoping for the day when he remembers the promise that he made to me. That and the crucial fact that I am in fact the little girl that he is remembering.

I finally got out of my house after staring at myself in the mirror for at least 15 minutes and right when I walked out my door, straight away I spotted Dominic walking towards my house.

"Well look at you Clara Jones looking all dolled up and fancy. You do know that it's only my parents right?" He glanced down at the summer dress that I was wearing.

"Your parents are a big thing Dominic and I want to leave a good impression. Now where is your car?" If he walked here from my work then there must of been a vehicle that took him here.

"Yeah about that you see um." he scratched the back of his neck and looked down at this feet.

Oh no. That's the sign signalling for trouble because if he's nervous then I should be petrified.