Elena's POV

In, out. In, out... I mentally repeated to myself. Trying to keep in mind that I have to remember how to breathe.

Ethan and are currently on our way to his parent's house where his whole family will be. He's completely fine, while I'm here trying to remember to breathe.

"Do you think what I'm wearing is too short?" I worriedly asked, looking over at Ethan.

He took his eyes off the road and scanned me.

"If it were up to me, I'd have your dress way shorter. But since you'll be meeting those idiots that are related to me, I don't mind the length. Maybe I'd prefer the dress a bit longer when you're around them, but I guess that's fine." He shrugged and focused on the road.

"So it's too short?" I asked again.

He reached for my hand and took it in his. He laced our fingers together and then kissed the back of my hand."No, it's just fine. Stop worrying so much about messing up or my mom not liking you or whatever it is that you're thinking. They'll be happy to meet you, if anyone's supposed to be worried right now then it should be me." He said

Oh my word! Why didn't I think of this?! What if his mom doesn't like me? Or maybe the brothers don't like me? Or the father? Or...

"Wait." I stopped my internal battle. "Why should you be the one that's nervous?" I asked pointing at him.

"I'm taking my baby's mother to meet my family. Don't you see just how destructive those two are? This meeting could either strengthen or break the bond between us. So I'm hoping and praying to all the Gods out there to see us through." He explained.

He's completely right. If his parents don't like me then they could have him keep the baby after I've given birth, or maybe even worse.

I tried not to think of the negatives and also tried to not be selfish. Here I was thinking I'm the only one worrying when Ethan was just as frightened as I was, or maybe even worse.

I stopped overthinking when I felt that the car stopped moving. I looked over at Ethan just to see that he was already looking at me with a smirk on his face.

"What?" I asked

"Nothing. Just waiting for you to finish over think." He smirked

I rolled my eyes and shook my head at his madness.

"Why'd you stop?" I asked then looked out the car. Only now did I notice that we reached what I'm thinking is the parent's house.

We were parked in front of the house and there were like six or seven other cars outside.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but.. we've reached." He sounded a bit down.

"What's wrong?" I asked, placing my palm on his cheek.

"Nothing." He said and undid his seatbelt

I undid mine as well.

"Don't 'nothing' me. Tell me what's wrong." I said, turning so I could get a better view of him.

"My brothers can be a little too... I don't know. I just hope they don't scare you away." He says.

"Nobody's going to scare me away," I reassured him.

"Hopefully." He smiled

"Not hopefully," I started and made my way to straddle him. "I'm telling you that no one and I mean no one is going to scare me away. Okay?" I asked a placed a kiss on his lips.

He nodded and prolonged the kiss before I could pull away.

"Now, anything I should know about the people inside?" I asked once I pulled away from him with my hands on his shoulders.

"Some of my brothers are really big flirts. So please don't let them get to you." He pouted. He looks so cute!

"I promise I won't. Now let's go in and meet your family!" I excitedly said.

I was about to reach for the door but he pulled my hands back to his shoulders and placed his hands around my waist, then smashed his lips on mine.

The kiss was very passionate and soft. It was like he was sending a message through the kiss, almost as if he was confessing his feelings through the kiss.

I gasped and yanked away from Ethan when there was a knock on the window, which caused me to hit my head on the roof of the car.

"Ooowwww." I looked out and saw a guy who looked very young and very familiar too.

"You alright?" Ethan asked as he looked me in the eye. He looked so worried.

I nodded and rubbed the back of my head.

Ethan let out an annoyed sigh when the guy outside waved and smiled at us.

"Especially this brother," Ethan said.

Ethan's brother opened the door and then held his hand out for me. I looked at Ethan and he let out another sigh.

I placed my hand in the guy's hand and got off Ethan, then out of the car.

Ethan followed after turning off the engine.

I was so busy looking over at Ethan that I didn't notice Ethan's brother kissing the back of my hand.

He did it repeatedly till I noticed. I giggled because he looked funny with his hand behind his back that was bent to an almost ninety-degree angle, whilst repeatedly kissing my hand.

"That's enough Sean!" Ethan called out with an annoyed voice.

Sean quickly let go of my hand and put his hands up in surrender.

"Chill bro, I was just greeting the fine lady here." He said.

"Last time I checked, greeting consisted of words coming out one's mouth and not your lips continually smacking onto their limbs." Ethan chastised

"Oh please brother, it's not my fault you don't know how to properly greet," Sean said coming to stand near me. He pulled me to him and then placed his hand on my waist.

"Aren't you going to introduce us, bro? You know what, I'll do it mys-" I gasped as Ethan punched Sean mid-sentence and he fell to the ground.

Ethan came over to me and placed his hand on my waist and led me inside.

"That'll teach you to not touch what's not yours. And by the way, meet Elena, who you will address as sister. Lena that's one of the people that are related to me." Ethan said as we walked away from Sean and to a big door.

"Why did you do that?" I asked shocked.

"He touched you. He has and had no right to do that." Ethan nonchalantly answered back

"But what if he's hurt," I asked

"He's endured worse. Come on." He said as he opened the door.

The inside of the house was way more beautiful than the outside. Both the in and outside of the house complimented each other. The foyer was very big, the ceiling was very high up.

"How many rooms do you guys have?" I curiously asked

"Eleven, I think." He said after s thought.

"Eleven?! That's a lot." I said back.

"Not if you're raising nine kids. Trying raising nine kids in a five or six-bedroom house and you'll see that eleven is decent." He chuckled

"Nine kids is a lot." I said

"Well, we've already started. So after this one, we can just continue practicing till we get to nine. What do you think?" He whispered to me with his head in my neck whilst chuckling.

"You're mental" I whispered back as we neared a room where voices were coming from.

We got into what looked like a family room and it looked like everyone was there.

"Oh look! They're here." His mom gushed and rushed to us. She was literally the only woman in the room before I walked in.

"Yah, yah cool down mom, we can see." One of the guys said

"Oh my goodness look at you! She's so beautiful Ethan. How'd she end up with you? Never mind that, why is it that I'm only meeting her when she's two months gone?" His mom said as she pulled me away from Ethan and hugged me.

"How are you darling?" She asked when she pulled away.

"I'm good and you Mrs. Knight?" I asked back with a smile. This woman is very energetic.

"I'm ecstatic. Oh Lord, another girl in the family beside me and Brenda." She replied back. Who's Brenda?

"Why are you twats still sitting there. Come introduce yourselves. I don't know why y'all always have to put my teaching to waste. You guys behave like y'all grew up on a farm and were bred by—" she was cut off as they all stood and started introducing themselves

"I'm Michael"
"Dylan"
"Jason and that's Mason" twins. Cool.
"Lucas"

"Richard"
"And I'm Marcus." All the names came out at once. I must say Ethan's family was blessed with people who God took extra time to sculpt. I can tell that they got the looks and black hair from their mom.

She had blue eyes that only twins seemed to inherit.

"And you!" She pointed at Ethan. "Why haven't you answered my questions?"

"Cool down darling. How do you expect him to answer your questions when you have everyone talking at the same time? You're gonna scare her away." Ethan's dad walked in.

"Oh you're right, Kevin. Are you alright darling? I'm not freaking you out, am I?" She asked looking at me.

She's just so adorable."No, not at all." I smiled back at her.

"Now answer!" She looked at Ethan

"Answer what?" he asked as he pulled me closer to him.

"Why am I only meeting her when she's two months pregnant? What happened to the time you were dating and all?" She asked, her foot tapping furiously on the marble floor.

She thinks we dated before I fell pregn- Wait.

"I'm not two months pregnant," I said back.

"You're not? How many months are you?" She asked scanning my tummy.

How she even figured out in pregnant is beyond me because I'm wearing a black dress that's not even that tight.

"She's pregnant?" Everyone, but Ethan and his mom and I asked back.

"Yeah, I'm almost three months down the line." I smiled

"How'd mom kno-" one of the twins started before he was cut off

"Awwww man! So she is pregnant?" Came Sean's voice from the doorway.

His cheek was red and kinda swollen.

"Shut up if you don't want to be looking like a chipmunk." Said Ethan to Sean

"We were keeping our relationship private, but those reporters just happened to be present that day by the cafe." Ethan told his mom.

She nodded, then looked at me. "You are gonna be having one chubby baby." She told me and then looked at my tummy.

"I'm still confused about how mom knows that she's pregnant." The same twin repeated.

"Argh, we'll continue talking at dinner. Let's go eat. And you, you better tell me why you have my icepack against your cheek" she said to Sean, then led the way to the dining room.

My tummy grumbled when I heard her say dinner. My face warmed up as everyone looked at me. Ethan chuckled and then kissed my neck.

"To think that I thought you wouldn't be eating here after that warm-up dinner you had at home." He chuckled in my ear as he dragged me to the dining room, ignoring the looks everyone was giving us.

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