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Nodding, I said, “Indy Watson.”
The smile lit up my mom’s face as she linked her arm through mine to lead me into the living room.
For the next hour or so, I told my parents about the girl who’d caught my eye and held me captive for nearly two weeks.
To say they were thrilled was an understatement. And when they learned I was going to be picking her up to take her out on a date on Saturday, they begged me to bring her by.
While I refused to make them the promise that it would happen on Saturday, I did tell them that I’d talk to her about it.
As excited as I was to be able to go back to the resort on Saturday to see Indy, it was safe to say my parents might have been even more thrilled about it.
SEVENTEEN
Indy
“Can I tell you something that might freak you out?”
It took no more than half of a second after hearing that question for my body to tense. It had barely been twenty-four hours since Griffin left me standing in my new place and took his camper down the access road and away from the resort.
How could he already have bad news to give me? Was it getting away from me and the confines of the camper and resort that did it?
I took in a deep breath in a vain attempt to brace myself for whatever he was going to say, realized there was very little I could do to soften whatever blow was heading my way, and answered cautiously, “Uh, okay.”
Griffin didn’t immediately respond, which only served to make me grow even more tense. Clearly, he was struggling with sharing whatever he had to say, because he probably knew it wasn’t going to be good.
Finally, he blurted, “My parents already want to meet you.”
“What?” I gasped, completely unprepared to hear those words.
Griffin must have assumed I didn’t hear him, because instead of realizing my response was all about the shock I was feeling, he shared, “My parents begged me to bring you over at some point on Saturday, so they could meet you.”
Was he serious?
I didn’t know what to do, and though I’d braced myself to hear horrific news, which this wasn’t, it was good I’d done that. My body was still holding on to the tension, refusing to let it go as I processed Griffin’s words.
His parents wanted to meet me.
They wanted tomeetme.
“Listen, sugar, I don’t want you to freak out about it or worry,” Griffin started, his voice breaking into my thoughts. “I’ve already explained that this is still new between us, and if you’re not ready, then?—”
“I want to meet them,” I declared.
“What?”
“I want to meet your parents, Griffin. I mean, of course, assuming that’s what you want, too.”
“You do?” he asked, evidently surprised.
Even I was a bit shocked by my reaction. I’d just agreed to meet Griffin’s parents, and he and I hadn’t even been dating for a full month. It was the very opposite of taking things slow between us.
But there was something about it all I couldn’t ignore.
He’d just left here yesterday. His parents had already requested to meet me. That could only mean he’d gone back to their place and told them about me.
Griffin hadn’t hidden the fact he was close with his mom and dad, but I didn’t think he’d tell them about me if he hadn’t been thinking about me. Or, more specifically, if he hadn’t been thinking about me in a way that led him to wanting to share the existence of me in his life with them.
I took it to mean good things, and after having experienced enough bad to last me a lifetime, I didn’t think it was wrong to see the good in this, despite how quickly it was happening.
