12. The Boy Is Mine

The Maraj family pulled up outside Trattoria L'Incontro, one of the Italian restaurants in the city. After parking up across the street, they got out the car and walked towards the restaurant.

"Tell me again why we're here" Carol asked.

"I just wanted to have a nice meal with my parents" Nicki smiled a 'convincing' smile.

Carol didn't push the subject any further but she knew something else was up. It was a shock when she spotted Drake and his parents sat at a table.

"Table for three, madam?" A waiter asked them.

"No thank you, we already have a table" Nicki said walking off.

"Already have a table?" Robert said. Carol shrugged as a response. When they finally caught up to Nicki, she was sat next to Drake. They both took the two remaining seats at the table.

Sandi leaned over to Carol and whispered, "Do you know why we're here?"

"I have no idea" Carol responded. The four adults looked up and stared at the two teenagers. Nicki and Drake did not reply. They simply waited for a waiter to come and take their orders.

After ordering their drinks and food, Drake decided that they should tell them soon. He took his phone out his pocket and text Nicki.

* We should tell them soon.

Nicki heard her phone buzz, she looked at it and saw the text from Drake and responded.

* After we eat.

Drake felt like his and Nicki's parents were taking their time eating, he only ordered a small meal so he got through it in no time where as Nicki ordered a rather large meal. About 10 minutes later, everyone had finished and Drake and Nicki were ready to spill the beans.

"Are you going to tell us now?" Dennis asked.

"Yes" Drake replied, he gently grabbed Nicki's hand and joined his and hers. "Nicki and I have something to tell you all,"

"We are dating" Nicki finished his sentence for him.

There was a moment of silence before Sandi left out a sigh of relief and said.

"That's great, I was thinking you were going to tell us something else" Dennis nodded in agreement.

"Like what?" Drake asked.

"It does not matter" Sandi said.

"So mum, dad are you going to say anything?" Nicki asked.

Carol looked over at Robert then replied, "We're both happy for you two"

"Really? I expected you to be mad about it"

"Why would you think that?"

"I don't know... You're just really protective over me so I thought you wouldn't like me having a boyfriend" Even though Drake isn't my first boyfriend.

"Just because we're protective does not mean that we do not want you to live your life" Robert smiled. Nicki smiled back at him.

~

As they walked out the restaurant, Drake and Nicki were walking behind their parents talking.

"So glad we finally got that out of the way" Nicki said leaning into Drake.

"Me too, now we don't have to kiss behind closed doors or anything like that"

"I know" Nicki said and Drake pulled her toward him kissing her.

Their kissing session was disturbed by both of their parents beeping their horns. 

"Stop that kissing and get in the car" Carol shouted.

Nicki giggled then kissed Drake one more time before running to the car.

~

"So what did you do this weekend?" Candi asked.

"Oh nothing much, what about you?" Nicki said.

"The same as you, but oh my God never guess who asked me to go to prom with him?" Candi squealed.

"I don't know... Who?" Lauren said.

"Dominic!"

"You mean Dominic," TT started to say.

"Yes!"

"Shut up! NO he didn't!” 

"How?" Nicki asked.

"When?" Lauren questioned.

"I walking to the grocery store and he saw me and call me over to him. So obviously I went to him and we were talking for a bit then he asked me who I was going to prom with and I said no one then he said he wasn't going to go but his friends persuaded him to so he's going and then he said he was going with no one as well next he asked if I wanted to go with him and I said yeah" 

"Ooh girl!" TT said.

"Lucky you!" Lauren told her.

"Told you, you would get a date" Nicki smiled.

~

The bell rang indicating the end of the day.

"Before you go, record down this please. Finish question 37-52 on the worksheet"

"Oh my God! Why?" A student moaned.

"You gave us homework last lesson" Another student said.

"That was last week and this is a new week so write down the homework and be quiet" 

Nicki was annoyed that she had homework and she also had to cheer tonight since the football team had a match. After writing it down, Nicki ran out the classroom door so she wouldn't be later than she should have been for cheer practice. 

~

The football team was doing pretty well they had 5 minutes left to play and the score was 23-25. The cheerleaders were standing at the side cheering for the team.

"That's alright, that's okay. We will beat you anyway" The cheerleaders wooed and shook their pom-poms.

The New York Bashers only need score a minimum of cheer points to win this game.

The crowd watched in anticipation as they only had one minute to finally score a goal.

Peter passes the ball to Jason. Jason runs with the ball, he moves left, he moves right. And... TOUCHDOWN!

The New York Bashers win the game!

"Jason! Jason!" Everyone cheered.

The football team gathered around Jason lifted him up and carrying him across the field. All the cheerleaders performed a final time before running off the pitch.

~

"Well done girls" Ashley, the head cheerleader told the cheerleaders as they were getting changed out of their 

"I really think our cheers helped them" Chelsea, one of the cheerleaders said.

"Me too" A few cheerleaders agreed with her.

"Well you can go straight home after you get changed" Ashley told them then she left the changing room.

After getting changed, Nicki went to her locker to grab the rest of her stuff when someone grabbed her from behind.

"Get off me!" She screamed. The person let go and Nicki turned around ready to slap him or her until she realised who it was.

"Hey. Nicki it is right?"

"Yeah. You played really well today" 

"Thanks, I came over to ask you something. I know we've never had a real conversation but I feel like we have a sort of connection or whatever. So would you go to prom with me?"