"I'm nervous." She said.

"What are you nervous for? They already love you."

"Maybe, but as your friend. What if they think i'm not girlfriend material? We grew up having burping contests around them for heaven's sake!"

"Cristina." I gently set my hands on each side of her face. "Breathe."

She listened and took a deep breath in and out.

We were currently outside of my trailer. After I told my parents that we were a couple now, they were very happy for me and invited her over for dinner. But obviously, Cristina was a little anxious about it.

"Okay, i'm ready to go in."

We walked in and my Mom and Dad instantly greeted us.

"Hi Cristina." My mom said as she gave her a hug.

My dad only shook our hands but you could tell he was happy to see her by the smile on his face.

"Hi Mr. And Mrs. Hunter."

"Please dear, you can call us Chet and Verna now."

"Okay Mrs—" She cut herself off. "Verna." She finished.

"See sweetie, sounds like much less of a mouth full, doesn't it?" She said walking over to the kitchen.

"It's a beautiful name Verna." We began walking towards the table and getting ready to take a seat.

"Why thank you sweetie. Yours is just as beautiful."

My mom started putting plates of food on the table and we all sat down to start eating.

"This food is wonderful Verna. I wish I could make food like this."

"Well sweetie hopefully sometime I could teach you how."

"Mom if you want the trailer to last us the month I don't think you wanna do that."

"Hush boy, where are your manners?" My dad said.

"No he's right. I tried making pancakes one time when we were little and I almost burnt Cory's eyebrows off. I burn everything I make. I could probably burn water." We all started laughing.

"Oh well honey. Maybe I could just teach you the stuff I did without the stove."

"That would be really cool."

"Pardon me for askin', but how did you two start liking each other? I mean a small part of me always thought you two would be cute, but Shawn always used to cringe at the idea."

I laughed. "It's kinda a funny story actually. I started liking her about 3 years ago when she sang to me as my birthday present. I was super secretive about it."

"I started liking him a couple months after I dumped my ex. I don't know if it makes sense, but I felt that being in that relationship taught me what a relationship without love was. And being with Shawn..." I grabbed his hand. "made me feel the exact opposite."

"I understand dear. Sometimes you don't understand what you until you don't have it."

"Exactly."

"So which one of you said you liked the other one first?" My dad asked.

We both laughed. "Dad remember that dentist appointment Cristina set me up about 2 months back?"

"Yeah. Thanks for that by the way."

"No problem."

"Well, they put me on that laughing gas stuff to numb me up...and while I was drugged, that's when I told her."

My dad started cackling so hard his face turned red and my mom giggled.

"YOU TOLD HER WHILE YOU WERE LOOPY?!" My dad shouted.

"Yeah! It was the only way I was able to tell her without probably bursting into flames of embarrassment. At the time I thought she didn't like me back."

"What happened after?" My mom asked.

"Well I didn't remember anything I said to her. So the next few days everything was semi-normal...until about four days later when she confronted me about it."

"After we both got everything about the dentist out in the open, he said he didn't just like me, that he loved me. And I told him I loved him too."

"Awww, isn't that just the sweetest thing?"

I chuckled at myself knowing that ten seconds later we made out on the couch in the corner. Cristina noticed and kicked my foot under the table.

We talked a bit more and Cristina eventually was fully relaxed. Everything went very well and about an hour later we left to go hang out on our own.

"I think they liked me."

"Cristina they already loved you."

She giggled as we walked with my arm around her.

"Now all we have to worry about is the dinner with my parents tomorrow."

"Speaking of which, is this like a causal dinner?"

"Yeah. Dress normal." We walked in silence for a minute or two. Until we realized we have no idea where we are going. "So what do you wanna do now?" She asked me.

"We should go see a movie."

"Okay. But you always pay so i'm paying this time."

"No you are not!"

"Yes I am!"

"No you aren't!" She kissed me roughly to try and persuade me. "You still aren't paying." I said as she pulled away.

She smiled. "Yes I am. But we'll settle this when we get there."

Once we got to the movie theatre, we asked the teller for two tickets and I reached for my wallet to pay. But I couldn't find it anywhere in my pocket.

"Looking for this?" She held up my wallet. I tried snatching it from her but she was too quick.

"You sneaky little clepto."

"But i'm your sneaky little clepto."