Chapter 152

Erik's POV 

Every cliché about meeting a girl’s parents ran through my head as I got in the taxi to head to Cassidy’s house. I even imagined her father with a shotgun sitting on the front porch. So, when I arrived and there was no shotgun and Cassidy’s mother greeted me with a friendly smile, I was very much relieved.

“Hello, I’m Erik. Cassidy invited me over.”

“It’s nice to meet you. Bob!” she hollered into the other room. “Cassidy’s friend is here.”

“Does he look like an asshole?” the man asked loudly from the other room.

“Bob, he’s in the house. He can hear you.”

I had to laugh at the way the two of them interacted. Before that moment, I had never really thought about what it would be like to grow old with someone. I hadn’t had an example of that sort of relationship in my house, so it had been difficult to imagine.

Sure, I had seen cute old couples at the mall or out at restaurants, but I never imagined that I might have something l