We pull up to my house in under ten minutes, and I quickly unbuckle my seatbelt and get out of the car. Stefan follows closely, and before I make it to the front door, my mom opens it for me.
"Hey, Mom," I say. She gives me a grateful smile and opens the door even wider to let me in. When she sees Stefan, her smile only seems to grow.
Cindy begins to cry again, so my mom tells us that she’s going to check on her and leaves the two of us alone on the front porch.
"So... I had fun tonight," I say shyly, my voice almost in a whisper. I don’t know how it’s possible for it to be so easy yet so hard to speak to someone. I felt compelled to tell Stefan about how I felt, but I was still extremely nervous around him.
"I had fun tonight, too." He smiles at me, and in that moment I completely for
