in class 14

Our son, Billy, has never been good with the ladies. Through high school, he never had a girlfriend and just went to prom with a group of buddies. College was the exact same way. My husbund Roy and I were beginning to think there was something he should tell us until one day he finally brought a girl to meet his parents. Alicia was a very pretty girl. She had short brown hair with streaks of blond and red, and the brightest blue eyes in the world. Best of all, she seemed very fond of Bill, and that's what parents just really want to see when they bring dates home.
Okay, so our first impressions were not so good with Alicia. Mostly, it was Roy's fault. When he asked her about her parents, she had told him she was an orphan. It would have been fine if he hadn't asked her WHY she was an orphan! How personal...
Then, Roy had the audacity to ask her if she had any children we didn't know about on Meet The Parents Take #2. She blushed and poitely said no but then asked her if she was sexually active. Oh, and if she had any STDs and if she had been tested for HIV.
Alicia stopped coming over after that.
When we called Bill a few weeks later, he told us that Alicia had dumped him because his parents, well his dad. were insane. Bill was unhappy, and it was our duty to get her back.
Now Roy isn't a very.... hearts and flowers kind of guy. But he has money, of which he does not like to spend. It was time we hit the jewelry store.
It was all I could do to stop from crying a few weeks later when Bill asked Alicia to marry him. My plan had worked! We bought her a vintage diamond and saphire ring dated from the 1920s, and lied and said it was Bill's great-grandmother's. She of course said yes and things are going more smoothly now, after a much needed apology to Alicia from Roy about his personal questions. They are getting married in May.