After a long time of thinking, I decided to do the poetry slam. After all, there wasn't any harm in doing so. It could be fun in the long run, as long as it didn't conflict with my solo. Then again, my solo was going to be before the poetry slam, so I was going to focus on my solo first.

As soon as school ended, I remembered something that I had been dreading.

Meeting Mae's mom.

Don't get me wrong, I was sure Mae's mom was amazing, but Mae was my first girlfriend, so I was a bit nervous meeting her mom.

I walked with Mae outside of the...