45 - The not Spaghetti Dinner
Part 46
Raised Fair Share of Hell
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Two weeks later - Faith’s pov
Once finishing my last class of the day I borrowed my roommates car heading out to the rig site that my boyfriend had been working on day and night for the past two days, trying to clean out one of the major parts of the machine that pulled the oil from the dirt below it.
Cooper’s father was standing in front of his son who was sitting on the tailgate of a white truck with the company logo on the side of it. “Well…I want you to come see your mama.”
“She’s still here?” Cooper asked with knitted brows.
He explained back to him. “She’s gonna stick around a while. We’re gonna give it another shot.”
“Why would you do that?” My boyfriend shook his head with a gentle smile on his face.
Tommy chuckled knowing he was being ridiculous. “Cause that’s how fucking stupid I am - Son, I’m sorry for looking into her behind your back. I just don’t think you should have dropped out and I was thinking maybe she could convince you-“ He glanced over his shoulder seeing me leaning against the car I had parked beside his work truck.
Cooper lightly glared at his father, changing the subject instantly to the dinner. “What time should me and Faith be at the house?”
“You’re mama," said seven. But you know it’s whenever we get the work done for that day.” Tommy explained before I pushed myself off the car and began walking over to the pair. I was wearing an orange flower shirt, dark blue jeans and knee high brown boots.
I sent his father a smile waving when I had reached the pair. “Hi Mr. Norris.”
“Hi Faith, I’ll see you two later.” He nodded, walking back over to his vehicle and leaving the oil site.
Putting a hand on my hip I asked him simply. “Are we going somewhere with him tonight? I thought this was an unplanned date night since you’ve been working nonstop for the past few days.”
“My mama is apparently planning a family dinner even though we haven’t ever had one in like the last ten years. I would’ve told you sooner but he just told me about it tonight, so I’m sorry.” He apologizes with a half smile on his face.
Rubbing my hands down my arms I slightly felt nervous at the thought of meeting the rest of his family. I wasn’t sure how his father felt about me recently. “It’s okay I guess. I just hope they’ll like me.” The way I heard his father talk about his ex didn’t sound anything like my parents' relationship so I was terrified his mother wouldn’t like me.
“I’ll still like you afterwards, Faith. That’s all you need to remember when we have dinner with them.” Cooper responded by sliding off the edge of the truck tailgate, kicking up dust with his boots. He raised his right hand tilting my chin upward so I’d look him in the eye. “Cross my heart and hope horses are in heaven.”
Chuckling, I scanned my gaze over his messy work clothes and stopped at the green hard hat that was sitting on his head. “I like seeing you in uniform, Norris.” My mothers words ringing in the back of my head when he wore his cowboy hat he got from the gang back home.
“I wouldn’t really call this a uniform, babe.” Cooper held out his arms looking over his dirty yellow shirt, blue jeans and boots he was wearing at the moment.
Gently tugging him into me by the fabric of his shirt I wrapped my arms around his neck connecting his lips with mine. “It’s a uniform to me. Hey uh - are you done with work I was thinking we get out of here and return Caroline’s car a little earlier and have some us time before family dinner.” I smirked lightly with our faces almost touching the other.
“Uh - sure we can do that.” He leaned down kissing me lightly getting the idea of where my head was at. We made the drive out to Tech leaving her car in the parking space I had taken it from before I climbed up into the passenger seat of his truck.
Crawling over his counsel I placed my lips over his and to my surprise he didn’t pull away. My hands started to trace his form, I began to run his fingers up and down his chest softly while I began to feel his hand start to crawl underneath my shirt unknowingly. He removed his hand feeling me jump away from him, brown eyes filled with sympathy. “Sorry-sorry I - I uh - we don’t have to do anything you’re not comfortable with.”
“I’m a virgin, Cooper. I’m not rushing into anything physical. Unless you want to..”
His face turned bright red like a tomato. “I’ve never had sex either. I’ve - I’ve just kissed some girls before you but that’s all.”
Running my freehand through his hair I noticed his red ball cap laying on the dash of his truck. Picking it up I pushed it down onto his head, chuckling. “Well then we don’t have to rush into nothin’ like my Aunt Beth thinks we have.” Cooper nervously chuckled, leaning in and reconnecting our lips for another kiss and we stayed there until it was almost dinner time.
Cooper and I parked his truck in the doorway where he rang the doorbell hearing a loud squeal coming to the door before it got gently opened by a tall blonde woman in a red dress and high heels. “Hey, baby, come here. Oh, my God, you're so skinny. God, you're filthy. Have you been playing football?” She hugged him, grinning brightly eyeing his clothes up and down.
I gently push the door closed behind me, biting my lip, feeling my face turning red at her question. “I-I was - we - we were dropping her roommate's car off.” Cooper cleared his throat doing his best to not become a blushing mess in front of his family.
They didn’t need to know what we were really close to doing in the backseat of his truck.
Thankfully she didn’t notice how embarrassed we both were and asked her ex husband even though he didn’t seem to be the one running the dinner show. “Mm. Well...God, wash your hands. Oh, babe, take your boots off. And do we have time for Cooper to take a shower?”
“Hell, it's your show, honey.” Tommy responded by sending me a concerned look.
“I'm not gonna take a shower.” Cooper didn’t agree with what she had suggested and rather intertwined my hand with his closest one introducing me. “Uh mom - this is Faith Dutton, my girlfriend. Faith, this is my mom Angela.”
Angela gasped throwing her arms around me quickly, hugging me before she held my shoulders looking over my body. “Oohhh she’s got some muscle to her. Do you work out at the gym daily?”
“I grew up working on a ranch my family owns out in Montana. Ms. Norris.” I smiled lightly seeing she was still grinning at me so I must be making a good first impression.
“That’s so fascinating. Do you like do horse shows out there or ranch weddings?”
Shaking my head no I wasn’t exactly sure how to respond to her question. “We don’t really do that sort of thing.”
“Her family raises cattle that they eat type stuff, mom.” Cooper takes my hand in his eyes, seeing my whole body stiffening with nerves.
“Here, come sit next to your sister. Tommy, grab her a chair from the kitchen.” She gently pushed us in the direction of the table. He got up from his seat, came back into the room and sat me beside his son.
Cooper whispered to his sister taking the seat next to her. “You smell like the beach.”
“You smell like a goat.” She challenged back.
A larger guy who clearly worked with Tommy attempted to leave the room. “I'll see y'all after a while.”
“Sit.” Angela shouted and the guy came back sitting across from me at the dinner table. Angela took her seat at the front of the table with her husband at the other end and a huge grin on her face. “My whole family together for the first time in...it's been ten years. Sorry. I'm just so fucking happy. Should we bless it?”
Tommy shrugged his shoulders. “Why not? I can use anything I can get today.”
Angela grinned holding her daughter's hand. “Grab hands.”
“I couldn't care less.” Intertwining my hand with my boyfriend and his father’s hand in my other I heard Cooper scoff and roll his eyes.
“God cares.” Angela scolded her daughter who still wouldn’t hold her brother's hand for a minute. “Ainsley, hold hands.”
His sister muttered under her breath, placing her hand over his. “So gross.”
Closing my eyes I held in a laugh when she began the prayer. “Lord, thank you for this day and thank you for bringing my family back together. And thank you for Dale and Neal...and my son’s new girlfriend.”
One of Tommy’s other workers who looked to be an attorney corrected her. “Nathan.”
“Oh, shit. Sorry, Nathan. Nathan, God. Course you know his name 'cause you're God, but I didn't know it. I know it now.Thank you for this food...which looks damn good, if I do say so myself...I found a butcher that imports wild boar from Italy, if you can believe it. If you're gonna make a Bolognese, it is by far the best to use wild boar
and not just ground pork.” She cursed looking up at the ceiling and I glanced over to my boyfriend with a very confused expression on my face at the way she was doing a prayer.
Dale, the larger guy near Cooper’s father asked softly. “Are we still praying?”
“I'm not sure. Maybe she forgot.” Tommy opened his eyes, shaking his head.
Angela finally got onto finishing her odd prayer so we could all start grabbing some food from the table in front of us. “Help us to be mindful of those less fortunate. Help us to celebrate you by living our very best life. Amen.”
“Well this is definitely different from my family dinner. Everyone is still sitting at the table actually eating, unlike my aunt Beth.” I whispered into my boyfriend’s ear.
Cooper smiled in my direction responding with some food in his mouth. “Trust me they’ll be fighting soon enough. Then we can go and get ice cream or something afterwards if you want.” I swallowed the bite in my mouth feeling someone staring at me for a long time. Shifting my gaze I eyed his younger sister who was giving me a disgusted look.
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