The Secret

Chapter 19: April Fools?

Summer is amazing. Every day, every single day, Jason and I are together. We go to the movies, go to the beach, play video games, he even got us tickets to my favourite bands consort for next summer. Mostly though we just hang out. We even sometimes just sit together but do our own thing.
"Shadow, your boyfriends here," my mom calls up.
"He's not by boyfriend," I wish he was. I hurry to the living room where he's sitting on the couch talking to my mom.
"Hey, you ready to go?" He asks.
"Where?"
"Your gonna find out," he laughs and grabs my hand. Our fingers lace and he opens the door.
"Bye mom."
"Bye you two."
We pull up to a house white house with a beautiful wrap around deck. As we get closer, blue windows pop out from the white panels. It's amazing. Jason gets out of the car and I get confused. He opens my door and pulls me out of the car once again lacing our fingers.
"What's going on?" I ask.
"Just come on. I promise it's nothing bad," he tries to insure me. I walk with him slowly, making sure I have an escape route no matter the situation. A woman in around her twenties, opens the door. Jason pulls me into the house then puts his arm around me, sensing my hesitation and fear.
"I hope you two are ready for the chaos," the woman says then opens a door. My eyes widen and I drop to my knees.
"They are the cutest little puppies I've ever seen!" I skreech.
"I told you it wasn't going to be bad," Jason laughs.
"They're so cute!"
"I'm glad you like them but nows the hard part. Picking the one perfect one to take home with you."
I look up at him with a confused face, "take home? You mean I can have one?"
"Ya or I payed for one for nothing," he tells me. My heart pounds with excitement and I can't control my excitement. Without any more question, I look around. I see one in the corner of the group looking scared and not caring about me at all. She's adorable but then there's this one trying to climb up my shirt to get closer to me. He's the one. I pick him up and he licks my face. I catch a glimpse of Jason between the face licking and he's smiling. He says thank you to the women then leads me to the car before I even know whats happening.
Before I know it, were in front of his house.
"I'll be right back. Um do me a favour and if a truck pulls up, kinda duck please," He says as he gets out of the car.
"Umm okay," I say trying not to question him since he just got me an adorable golden rechever puppy. He is in and out of the house like a shot He throws a big dog bed with bags in it into the back then hurries back to my house. "What was that about?"
"Nothing. So have you thought of a name?"
"Ya, I was thinking maybe Alec," I say. I love the name Alec.
"I like it. Why that name though? Any reasoning behind it?"
"Ya. I watch this show called Shadow Hunters and my favorite characters name is Alec. Also in Greek, Alek means defender of mankind, protector of man. Plus it suits his little face. How did you know golden retrievers are my favorite breed? Or did you just guess?" I ask.
"Well I talked to Kayla and she told me that. Then I talked to your mom to make sure I was okay to bring a puppy into your house," he explains. Wow, how much more amazingly perfect can he get?