I had gone home with my girlfriend to go to my baby sister's graduation. She has never met my family and since my sister was going to ask her if it was ok to be staying with us now would be the perfect time for them too meet. I had walked through the door and Nerissa was by my side no one was in the living room so I called out and asked if anyone was home. Cassie came flying down the stairs and jumped into my arms.
"I wasn't expecting you to be here today I thought you were coming on Wednesday."
"Well I thought I might surprise you and spend some time with the family while I have the chance and I also wanted everyone to meet my girlfriend, Nerissa. Cassie this is Nerissa. Nerissa this is my ever growing baby sister I told you all about."
Cassie let go of me and bounced right up to her and almost knocked her over to give her a hug.
"It's so good to finally meet you Cassie, your sister has told me so much about you and so far it all seems to be very true." She had a smile of delight on her face despite that my over happy sister still latched on to her.
Once my sister let go of Nerissa she took our hands and pulled us into the kitchen. She must have been cooking because the house smelled wonderful. Cassie pulled herself up on the counter top and sat there while mindlessly stirring what she had in the big pot.
"So how long are you guys staying? Mom and dad will be so excited to meet you and all they have been talking about is getting the house ready for your arrival. I swear they act like you never come back and when you do it's all they talk about for a month. "
"We will be here until Sunday when we have to drive back. I have to teach my classes on Monday night. So maybe we should be getting some things worked out before we go?" I gave her the time to ask her now before it will be too late. She smiled and caught on quickly.
She took a deep breath and turned to Nerissa and let it out slowly. "I know I have just met you and you don't really know me, but you are my sister's girlfriend and when I asked her she said I had to ask you. I will study at the university and I don't really want to stay here all summer. I want to go up there and find a job for the summer before my classes start. I don't really have enough money to get an apartment and I know sissy has an extra bedroom in hers and I really wanted to know if I could stay there. I can help with the rent once I have a job and I won't be too much trouble I promise. Please! Oh please! Can I stay with you?" She batted her eyelashes and did the face that mom and dad would let her get away with anything with. She looked so innocent and it was hard to say no to her.
Nerissa looked at me then looked at her then looked at me again. "Why didn't you tell me your sister wanted to stay with us? I would have cleared out the room and had it ready for her already. You know I would do anything for you. Why did you not tell her that she can stay with us? She is your sister after all. Maybe you didn't want her to stay?" She folded her arms across her chest and gave me the I want the truth and I'm not playing around look.
"Of course I want her to stay with us I just wanted her to ask you first. It is also your apartment and you would have to put up with sisters. I would love to have her stay with us you know I think high thoughts of my sister." Cassie jumped down and hugged me so hard I couldn't breathe. She turned to Nerissa and jumped to her and hugged her and thanked her. To my surprise she leaned up on her tippy toes and kissed her on the lips. It wasn't a lingering kiss just a quick peck but it took me and Nerissa by surprise. Then mom and dad came through the door.
"We are in here mom and you have a surprise!" Mom and dad came around the corner into the kitchen and she saw me and my girlfriend holding hands. It took a minute for her to make the connection and it seemed like minutes before she said something but it was really seconds. She looked at me then at Nerissa. Her eyes traveled down to mine and our hands joined together. She put her bag on the counter and turned to my dad with her hand out.
"I have won the bet and I believe that you owe me fifty bucks." She told my dad. We all just looked puzzled at her. She turned to me. "See I bet that you would bring someone home with you. I also sais it would be a woman." She said with a evil grin on her face. "See you never had a boyfriend, you never talked about boys never even looked at them as far as I saw. But I figured out why. And I put all the pieces together. I always thought but I never actually knew until we went shopping for your collage. There was this girl at the mall; you couldn't take your eyes off of her so I put it all together."
"So why didn't you say something if you knew. I thought that you wouldn't approve. I was nervous to bring her home because I didn't know how you would act. You should have told me that you knew."
"I figured you would tell me if and when you were ready. I didn't want to be the nosy mom that has to know everything about my daughter's sex life. Please introduce us to your beautiful darling before she thinks that we are rude." She gave me that look that only mothers can give their children.
"I'm sorry where are my manners? Nerissa this is my mom are and dad, Mom dad this is Nerissa." Nerissa held out her hand and my mom looked at it and shook her head. "Oh no sweetheart, come give me a hug." So she and my dad did. And the conversation was off. We ate dinner and everyone was getting along. They asked me about how my classes were going, if I had summer classes to teach, how I met Nerissa and what she does. Then we turned to Cassie. I schooled her about all her plans and how she did her last year of high school. She was graduating as 6th in her class and has a full scholarship to the university where I work. At dinner I got the impression that Cassie would't tell mom and dad that she is staying with me this summer. I was going to tell them about it soon if she didn't.