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They’ve been dating for a week since the winter dance and Devi still keeps tutoring Paxton.
They usually do it at his house and making out after.. sometimes at hers in the bedroom with the door open, obviously,
and the watchful eyes of her mother, most of the time it scared Paxton out of his wits that she might yell at him again as the first time he has it,
he vowed to himself and prayed to God or whatever above to never have to go down that roads ever again.
but you know teenagers, they couldn’t keep their hands to themselves!.
every time he answers the question right or done perfectly well with the assays she assigns to him.
all he wanted to do was swap her into his lap and snog her senseless, her mother be damned.
but all they could really do under the over-bearing Indian mother checking every 15 seconds of their studying,
was to keep sending heart eyes to each other, holding hands, tuck her hair out of her face behind her ear,
and the unspoken of the midnight spiderman routine that will happen again for sure.
however, this does not go unnoticed By her mother, while they have the door open as she makes it clear every time he comes by to not be sitting near each other,
she senses something in the air that she couldn’t quite name. but something is definitely going on with her daughter and this boy for sure and she wanted to find out what is.
so after they finished an hour-long of this Tutoring. when they both coming down the stair while she was preparing Dinner with Nirmala and Kamala set up the table.
He was halfway to put his shoes on when Nalini spoke and makes him froze into place.
“Paxton, why don’t you join dinner with us. it must be exhausted with all the tutoring you had ”
Devi eyes went wide and Paxton gobsmack, speechless
“Please handsome boy, we would love to have you here” Her grandmother was obviously head over heel for Paxton.
not only she said that but she pulled him toward the table and put him to sit on the chair, padded his head, and went to grab some bowl
“Good!, we’re having curry, hope you like spicy food” (Nalini secretly add more level of the spicy without anyone noticed)
so he sits across from Devi and the girl sends him an encouraging smile, he nervously smiles back and said thanks to Kamala for tuck the food on his plate.
Paxton took one bite and chewing, then he got hit when the taste sink in, his eyes start to sting.
“You ok there, boy?” asked Nalini, looking at him like a hawk,
He’s trying to speak but the spice hit him hard to his tongue. he grabbed a glass of water and drink it so fast that it spilled all over his shirt.
“Mom! this is too spicy than we normally had!” cried Devi after she took one bite of her own.
“It’s ok, I can handle wasabi just fine, this is easy pieces,” Paxton said, trying to smile while the tear rolling down his face.
Devi now fuming with raged knowing too well that this was all her mother doing.
“How could you do this to him mom!, what is it that you have against him so much,” Devi said
“Honestly Devi, it’s just a spicy food, anybody can deal with that” Nalini deadpanned trying to keep a straight face
“I don’t think he can, oh poor boy, let me get you some more water,” said Kamala while rushing to get the water at the refrigerator
“it’s ok Devi, I’m alright, it’s just I never have this kind of food before,” He said after recovering but Devi is ready to explode at her mother, everyone saw it coming
“Hey, hey, it’s okay, I’m fine, see?” Paxton said while rushing over to catch her hand, to everyone surprise, she calms down immediately
“Can you at least be nice to him?” she directly to her mom and trying to control her temper.
“What is going on with you and this boy, why are you so nice to him? don’t think I didn’t see what just happened there, last time we had that boy,
Ben was it? you were really rude to him if I remembered correctly, I don’t understand what so different with this Yamaha boy”
“Ben Gross was here?” interrupted Paxton’s eyebrows twist in confusion
“He’s my friend! and he’s important to me! why can’t you be nice to him like you were with Aneesa!??” now Devi was shouting
“I don’t get it what did you see in him,” Nalini said shaking her head.
“It’s because of him that I could walk again!!!”
everybody at the table just freeze at what they’ve been doing and stare at Devi in shock, Nalini mouth hanging open, unable to reply.
after that, Devi bolts out of the table and opens the front door, and ran off, Paxton recovered from the shock rushed over to put his shoes on, and ran after her.
Nalini still shooked from what she just heard, look over the table and see Kamla still holding a water bottle and Nirmala gave her a disapproved look.
“Really, Nalini, He’s the sweetest boy I’ve met. and now we know that he’s helped Devi from that trauma she went through,
you could at least give him a chance, you’d see how your daughter is happier since she has that boy come into her life.
And His name is Hall-Yoshida. Not Yamaha” Said Nirmala then she cussed in different languages and shaking her head