Well now that Raylyn is officially my boyfriend I am the
happiest girl in the world, yeah I’ve liked him for years so I deserve to be
happy, right? So I would consider Raylyn to be my first “real boyfriend”. Why
do I say this well we are constantly together any chance we get. I’m dragging
him to my family get togethers, begging him to come help me and mom clean out
the garage, and any other reasons I could come up with to see him. So of course
my mom likes him at this point since he is helping mow the yard, cleaning out
the garage, putting together furniture, and fixing the riding lawn mower but
most importantly because he makes me happy. So now that I’m dragging him
everywhere with me he begins to take me to his family’s cookouts and Memorial
Day “parties”. And to my surprise his mom really seems to like me. She has started
to brag to other family members how it’s about time Raylyn got a girl that won’t
get him in to trouble and she can trust us together, I guess it just surprised
me since I haven’t really talked to her much since once again I’m really shy
and care WAY to much about what other people think about me. So now it’s been
about three months since he asked me to be his girlfriend and it’s our senior
summer so I decide that we need to do something. So I plan a trip for me him
and my mom to go to six flags. Now it’s the day before we were going to go to
six flags and my back starts to hurt really bad so me and mom decide that six
flags might not be the best idea so mom calls and talks to his mom about us
going to gulf shores for the weekend and to both mine and Raylyn’s surprise she
says its fine. So now we are on our way to the beach and of course I start to
feel sick (me and road trips are not friends) and I am beyond embarrassed. But
Raylyn was so sweet and let me use him as a pillow so I could sleep the whole
way there. We stayed at a hotel in Mobil and it was right beside a little park
called alligator alley so of course Raylyn wanted to go see the alligators (I
am terrified of alligators, well any animal I know could eat me for a snack)
but since I knew Raylyn wouldn’t let anything hurt me I decided to be brave. We spent the entire weekend at the beach,
down by the pool and looking for alligators but soon our weekend was over and
it was time to head home. This is when I noticed that things at Raylyn’s house
were a little off since his step dad made him text him and let him know what mile
marker we were passing on the interstate. What parent does that? I mean it’s
not like we had told them we would be back at a specific time or anything. It
hit maybe five o’clock and he got a phone call from his angry step dad wanting
to know why we were running late and after that phone call for the first time I
saw a side of Raylyn I had never seen before. I could see the hurt in his eyes
and could tell that he did not want to go home but at this point I didn’t know
why. We got home to moms house a few hours after he had gotten that phone call
so he quickly unloaded his stuff from the car and told mom bye and thanks for
letting him go with us. Then he said bye to me and his not wanting to go home
became more obvious but I didn’t say anything, we said our byes and he was on
his way home. It wasn’t until later the next day that I heard from him again
but I was too afraid to say anything about what I had noticed the day before.
