Never Too Late

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Authors: Amber Portwood, Beth Roeser
us like, “No.” Back then he was just this Christian boy straight out of Cicero. He went to church every Sunday—literally, every freaking Sunday. So he left that CD for us. It wasn’t his thing.
    Some time after that I called the apartment from wherever I was hanging out, and this man picked up the phone. I said, “Hello?” And this guy goes, “I’m layin’ in your bed right now.”
    “Excuse me?” I was freaked. “Who the hell is this?”
    “I went through your underwear drawer.”
    Then I could pretty much hear him grinning. It was totally the Christian guy out of Cicero! He’d gotten into a fight with somebody in his family, and he went and stayed at my mom’s house while my brother was at work. He was just playing with me. Never gave me any reason to think he actually went through my underwear drawer. But about a week later, he called the house when I was home and asked if my brother was around. I told him no, he was at work. But then we stayed on the phone. He and I ended up talking for about eight hours that night. What I didn’t know was that he had taken my brother to work that night, so he knew he wasn’t there. It was a set-up to get me on the phone and ask me on a little date, which he did.
    Our first date was amazing. We picked up a couple of friends and went to see
Final Destination.
On the way there I found out there was a lot more to him than meets the eye. He showed up in a nice polo shirt and khaki shorts. Of course I had my lip pierced and my long black hair. I wasn’t really sure what to make of him. I was sort of thinking he was some kind of straight-edge football player. But on the way to the movie, his friend Jordan kept saying this weird stuff, going, “Show her your nipples, Dude! Show her your nipples!” The next thing I knew, my movie date lifted up his shirt and showed me that he had his nipples pierced! Not only that, but there was a huge tattoo of a sun in the middle of his chest. I stared at him with my mouth open, like, “What in the hell?” And I remember being relieved, because I had thought he was this goody-goody dude and he definitely was not.
    After the movie we all went out and got something to eat, and then we dropped them off and it was just me and my date. We were sitting in the car outside his house and I said, “Oh my god, dude, I can’t go home now. I’ll get in so much trouble. It’s too late.” I didn’t want to risk going home after my mom had gotten there and having to explain what I was doing. I wanted to act like I’d stayed the night with a friend.
    So he said, “Listen, you can just sleep here. I’ll stay in the car with you.” It was really sweet of him. He was sitting in the driver’s seat and I kind of laid on his shoulder. Of course, after about an hour we had to face how uncomfortable it was. So he said, “Hey, maybe I can sneak you inside.” We made it into his room and he put his arm out for me to lay on. He was so nervous he was shaking a little bit, his arm was out completely straight. I laid down on it, but I could tell he was freaking out so I started kissing his hand. I kissed all the way up to his arm and all the way to his face and then I started to kiss his lips. I had to give him a little bit of a lesson, but it was really sweet. We just made out that night, nothing else. It was just a perfect night. Then I woke up to him shoving me off the bed onto the floor when his grandpa walked into the room.
    Still, even the morning was good. After his grandpa left, he started playing the guitar for me. I love a man with a guitar, but he was very, very good. He’s probably the best guitar player I’ve heard out of any of the guys I’ve been around. The way he plays is just so gentle, and he has a beautiful singing voice. It’s just so pretty. He played a song for me and sang to me a little bit. It was the sweetest thing.
    We just had something special. We instantly liked each other and had feelings right from the beginning. To me

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