I approached the box kind of knowing what would I find in there, but it couldn't be... Could it?.
After some paper tearing and cardbox folding, I had her jumping at me with the cutest smile, inside that box was Abby, here, on my birthday.
You would think that I jumped into her arms and we hugged during some of those minutes that taste like forever but happen during a few seconds. You would think that we smiled to each other and kissed, the nicest kiss ever. But no, I did just whatever any regular guy could do in that situation... I ran the other way around, like 5 meters away from her... I was in shock, my heart was pumping, and I couldn't really believe what was going on.
I guess I transmitted some of my puzzled mind to Abby, since she just frowned from her place (5 meters away from me), and gave me that -what is going on honey?- look that she gave sometimes. This happened in an open area, but it is surrounded by some halls in the upper level... I turned up sensing that there was people standing there, and I saw my mother with the camera ready, another friend, and quite several other people... WHAT?!?!...
... My family was here looking at my face, as my girlfriend was trying to get out of a huge box, and I was thinking -hey!, how come she knows me parents already?... I was supposed to introduce her to them... Like in TWO freaking days -. This all happened during seconds, and when I realized I was thinking a bit too much, I just shut my brain off and decided to go and hug her... That felt nice.
They were all into this, my brother, some neighbors... Everybody knew but me, and they did a great job in keeping it a secret, which actually surprises me. The day before, the day I was left in the house by my self just watching TV and with no food, my parents and Victor went to pick her up, took her out for dinner and all that. During all this I was pissed off in my house because there was no food around, and they had left no car keys that I could use to go buy anything. Abby spent the night in our neighbor's house... so close!!... He he he... That was a nice surprise, and quite a cool birthday present if you ask me.
I don't really remember how I spent the rest of the day... It's possible that I had people over, and probably that was some sort of welcome party to Abby... I honestly don't remember... all that mattered is that she was here... The wait was finally over, and I remember walking holding her hand and talking about whatever... Just smiling. Mostly likely I took the day off from work too...
[Note: Here in Mexico families are quite old fashioned about relationships, family and all that... It's normal that young people live with their parents till they get married, and in a lot of houses the idea of having your girlfriend visiting your room is close to the idea of being condemned for an eternity of hell and damnation... Although my parents seem very cool a lot of the times, I was amazed by the way they reacted to Abby being here... Needless to say, Abby got to stay in my house].
It was nice having her around... Of course she had her own room... My parents were not that open minded, but still we could be together till quite late and kiss good night. Back in Macomb we really did lived together for quite a while, which made the summer harder to bear and the living together but not really arrangement a little awkward. That arrangement though was only temporary, until we found her a nice place to live and all... We were not going to kick her out of the house, but the idea of she living apart sounded good for all of the parts. Even for me.
That summer went by terribly fast, we visited all this places, went to the zoo, parks, downtown, just about everywhere you can go in my city. I had a great time with her... Then eventually Chris my German friend, who I did meet in Macomb too, came over to my city as well, so I had two international guys to guide around, I just love that... Meeting people from all sorts of places, showing them around. Good times.
Eventually school started, I was going to have a very bad semester although I didn't know it at the time. The year I spent in Macomb I took all the easy classes and electives while I was there, so that I could have more free time to have fun... But that meant that I had all this terribly hard courses to take, courses that were supposed to be taken in a two hard classes per semester basis, yet I was going to have them all in one. That wasn't the only problem really... After a month of she being here it was obvious something was going on with Abby, when I look back now I know that feeling was there even since I opened that gift box. Much later she told me what it was... At the moment though I was too busy putting my life together, balancing school, my job, and my international girlfriend that needed a bit more attention than regular girls... (at least until she started making her own friends and knew to move her self around the city).
Time happened terribly fast, it wasn't summer anymore all of a sudden, and before I knew it Abby's parents where coming over to visit. They wanted to meet my family, my city, and check on their girl... That was odd, a parents meet the parents thing felt a bit too formal... As well Abby was still living in my house and I know that was something that her parents where uneasy about...
Still, they came over... It was interesting. Parents meeting the parents... although my parents knew hardly any english, and neither did hers knew spanish... as well, I remember the talk I had with Abby's father, a deep talk in which topics such as she living in my house were discussed..
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sniff... back to work!!...
** cheers!
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