I met Tasha when my best buddy Tom called me and asked me for a favor.
"My cousin Natasha just moved to town and Gail (his girlfriend) and I want to show her around, but Gail thinks Nat will feel like a fifth wheel so she wants me to set her up with a date."
I was leery. I'd been on two blind dates and they both had been disasters. Tom and I being as close as we were he knew all about those disasters so he had to be desperate to call me. I found out later that because of what he knew he had called four other guys before having to resort to calling me. All four turned him down. I wasn't the only one leery of blind dates. I really, really didn't want to do it, but Tom was my best friend so I felt honor bound to help him. I figured that it wouldn't be too bad since it would be a double date with Tom and Gail. I resigned myself to a bad day and then I asked my mom to drive me over to Tom's. I had my license, but I didn't have a car yet and Tom's request came on too short a notice for me to arrange to borrow mom's car.
Mom dropped me of at Tom's and I took a deep breath and walked up to the door to meet my fate. Tom's mom answered the door and gave me a big smile.
"Hi Bobby. How are you?"
"Fine Mrs. Bagley."
"They are waiting for you in the living room. You kids have a fun time okay?"
"We will Mrs. Bagley" I said not expecting to have anything but a miserable time.
I watched her walk back to the kitchen and wished I was old enough to throw her over my shoulder and run off with her. She was the sexiest woman I'd ever seen and I'd beaten my meat with her on my mind more times than I could count. The Bagley's had a swimming pool and I'd seen Tom's mom dozens of times in a bikini and just remembering them gave me wood. I wasn't positive, but I think she knew it and made it a point to let me see her in her almost nothing suits. She turned as she reached the kitchen door and saw me watching her walk away and she gave me a wink and a smile. My cock almost ripped through my pants and I had to stand there until it wilted otherwise it would have been obvious to every one when I walked into the room.
I got myself under control and then I walked into the living room and got instant wood all over again as all thoughts of Mrs. Bagley disappeared. Sitting next to Gail on the couch was the most beautiful and sexiest looking female on the planet. Tom walked up to me and whispered, "Down boy" and then he introduced me to his cousin. I took her hand and I swear to God I don't know where it came from, but instead of saying "Hello" I asked:
"Will you marry me?"
Tom and Gail cracked up, but Natasha looked me right in the eye and said:
"I don't know. Are you a good kisser?"
"If I'm not I'll bust my ass working on it until I meet your standards."
She turned to Gail and said, "What do you think?"
"He's a nice guy and if I didn't already have Tommy I'd go for him."
Tasha turned back to me and said, "I hope you can handle a long engagement because I'm not getting married until I finish college."
"I'll get the ring as soon as you tell me your size."
"Enough of this heavy shit" Tom said, "Let's go show Nat around."
We left the living room with Natasha and I holding hands and I saw Mrs. Bagley watching us with a strange look on her face. Tom had his own car. He and Gail were both all ready eighteen. I was two months behind them as far as birthdays went. We got in the car; Tom and Gail in the front and me and Tasha in the back. Tom and Gail called her Nat, but I wanted my own name for her so I started calling her Tasha.
We drove all over town and pointed out things to Tasha. Where the high school was, the roller rink, the arcade and all the other places where kids hung out. She was particularly interested in the park, specifically the trails that led into the hills and fields behind it and the running track that ran around it.
"I run to keep fit" she said and then Tom piped up and said, "Then you and Rob have something in common. He runs track at school and runs all the time to stay in shape."
"Do tell" Tasha said. "We can run together then."
"You bet" I said, "The family that plays together stays together."
"The family?"
"Of course. We will have kids when we marry won't we?"
"I don't know. I'm sort of career oriented and I don't know if kids will fit in. I plan on being a lawyer like my dad and if the schedule he keeps is the same for other lawyers I might not be around much to raise them."
"Hasn't seemed to hurt you in any way."
"That's because my mom was a stay at home mom and she was there to see that I was raised right. You plan on being a stay at home dad?"
"No. I'm already slated to get a Business Management degree, go to work for my dad and then take over the business when he retires."
"Then it isn't looking to good for kids is it."
"It isn't a deal breaker, but I'll need to break it gently to my mom. She has her heart set on grandkids and since my sister and her husband found out they can't have babies mom is looking to me to provide them."
"Get off the subject you two" Tom said. "You have years and years before you start sweating that stuff."
Before the town tour was over I'd made a date with Tasha for the next day. Tom dropped me at my house and just before I got out of the car Tasha leaned over and kissed me. It was just a quick one, but it was on the lips and it was our first. The first of many I hoped.
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When I got home I was in a great mood and my parents commented on it at supper.
"I met your daughter in law today."
"You what?"
"You heard me right. It will be a little while yet because she says she has to graduate college before we will get married. I'm seeing her again to morrow night and I might bring her by and introduce you."
Naturally they didn't believe it for a minute. To them it was just a teenaged son babbling about his newest crush. To change the subject my dad asked if I'd decided on what car I wanted for my birthday.
"It is only a week away so we are getting short on time."
"I know what I want, but I'm afraid that when I tell you I might be banished to my room until I'm twenty-one."
"It can't be that bad."
But it would be and I knew it. My dad was a dyed in the wool one hundred percent Chevy man. To him Ford meant 'Fix or Repair Daily' and MOPAR meant 'Mostly Old People and Rednecks.' I hesitate to even mention how he felt about foreign cars. When he told me that he was going to buy me a car for my eighteenth birthday he told me to figure out what I wanted.
That weekend he took me around to a couple of car lots. All Chevy dealers of course. We looked at Cameros, Impalas, Blazers, Suburban's, Silverado pick up and even Corvettes. All used, but he'd already told me that I wouldn't be getting new. He told me to think on it and let him know.
So here we were at the supper table with him wanting to know my choice. I looked at mom and said:
"You might want to make him a stiff drink before I tell him or at least sit on his lap and hold him down."
Mom laughed, got up and went over and sat down on dad's lap and then I said:
"It is a convertible. It has a white top and the color is 'Sea Mist Green.'
"That doesn't sound like a Chevy color."
I took a deep breath and said, "It isn't. It's a Ford color and it is on a 1993 Mustang that has the 5.0 engine and a five speed tranny."
"What!!! No son of mine is going to be seen in a fucking Ford!"
"Watch your mouth dear" my mother said and then I said, "Fine. You pick out my present then" and I excused myself from the table and went up to my room.
I was digging through my closet trying to decide on what to wear on my date with Tasha when my dad came into the room. He watched me for a minute or so and then:
"Where is this piece of shit that you want?"
I told him and he shook his head in disgust, said "I thought I'd raised you better" and he turned and left.
Five minutes later my mom came in, smiled at me and said, "That was the most fun I've had all week. The only thing that could have made it more fun is if you would have picked out a Dodge Charger."
"I knew he wouldn't like it, but he did give me a choice."
"I know honey and it is mostly my fault. He intended to just buy a car, park it in the drive and toss you the keys on your birthday, but I talked him into letting you choose. Now you need to make some more choices. What kind of cake do you want and how many are you going to invite to your party?"
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Mom let me use her car for my date with Tasha and when I got to her house she introduced me to her parents. They seemed nice although I could read the expression on her fathers face. It pretty much said:
"You do anything to my daughter I rip off your head and shit down your neck."
I didn't think it was the right time to tell him that I was going to be his son in law. I promised to have his daughter home by her curfew and we left. As we pulled away from her house I said:
"I don't think your father likes me."
"He's like that with every boy I go out with. He is very protective of me."
I took her to the movies and we held hands as we watched. After the movie I took her to Harry's Malt Shop which turned out to be a mistake, but it would be four months before I realized it. There were half dozen kids there that I knew so I had to introduce Tasha to them. I saw the interest in Eddie Wooter's eyes, but I didn't think anything about it. As gorgeous and sexy as Tasha was she was bound to draw the eyes of the opposite sex. I was just glad that Tom had gotten me with her before any of the other guys knew she was in town.