Secured Sevenfold

Jacky’s POV
The house was beautifully decorated, but the tent in the garden was the masterpiece. It was huge and it looked amazing. There I was the past few days, worrying about nothing being arranged and suddenly there was a party.
The guys had arranged most of it, but they just needed to put it together, and now it was time. I was putting the last touch to my makeup and my hair in the bathroom when I heard Brian enter the room.

“Jacky? You done? The families will arrive soon!”
I stepped into the room and looked at Brian, who had his back to me. I knew he would look amazing, all dressed up and even from his back I could tell I wasn’t mistaken.
“I’m already done, don’t get your panties in a twist”
He quickly turned around, his movements already in the next step when he took a good look at me. Brian froze in the middle of the room, his eyes wide, his mouth open, gapping at me. He stood there for a good minute, before he was finally able to stammer out a few words
“You look… damn.. you look amazing!”

I knew he would like this dress, but I wasn’t aware it would have this affect on him. My dress was long, skintight and left my shoulders bare because of the offshoulder model. The silky fabric was purple, covered with black lace. The fabric was covering my legs in a tight skirt, but from the hips up it was more ‘Jacky’. My sides were only covered by the lace and my cleavage was just deep enough to make a lot of heads turn and apparently my boyfriend drool.
I hadn’t been quite sure when I fitted the dress, I wanted to look perfect for Brian’s parents and had looked for a little more conservative, but my sister had pushed me to buy this one and look ‘smoking hot’ as she had put it. Mission accomplished.

Brian bridged the distance between us and looked me over, putting his hands around my waist to hold me.
“It’s almost a shame to undress you” his hands moved over my back, already unzipping me. I pushed his hands of me and giggled “Brian!”
“Oh baby, you can’t dress like that and expect me to keep my hands of you” he pouted
“You can undress me all you want later tonight, but now you just told me your family is almost arriving, we should go down” I was already half way to the door, grabbing Brian’s hand, but he pulled me back and held me close to his body. He kissed me, softly at first, but soon his kiss grew more and more hungry and I couldn’t find anything in me to stop it. We got totally lost in it, until suddenly the door opened.

“Junior! Why aren’t you waiting for you parents downstairs, like all the other good boys” A man came walking in and even though his remark kinda gave him away, I could see this was Brian’s father, Brian looked like him.
Brian jumped away from me as if he was burned and looked at his dad.
“Can’t you knock?!” he groaned.
“Now now, I can totally understand you are distracted with such a beauty around” Senior winked at me, showing me a slight smile, but then he pulled his son in for a hug “But I haven’t seen you forever and it would have been nice if you had been there to greet us”
“I’m sorry” Brian whispered as he got out of the hug and stood next to me again.
“Dad, this is Jacky, my girlfriend” I put out my hand to the man, expecting him to shake it, but he brought it to his lips and kissed them softly.
“I’m Brian senior, but you can call me papa Gates, wouldn’t want you to be distracted by the name if my son does his magic on you in the sack” I instantly heat up and felt the blush coming over my face.
“Dad! Could you for once just act normal!?” Brian put his arm around my waist and pulled me towards him. I didn’t know what to say, which immediately made me realize I must be making a really bad first impression.

I stood up straight and held Brian´s hand and I looked his father straight in his eyes.
“It’s really nice to meet you mr. Haner, I’m Jacqueline Thompkinson”
Brian snapped his head to me “Jacqueline?!” he let out surprised.
“Don’t look so surprised! You didn’t really think my father named me like a boy now, did you?”
All three of us stood there, looking at each other a little awkwardly. Then we heard some commotion down stairs, I guess even more family arrived.
“Come on, let’s go and meet the others” Brian’s father proposed “Suzy will be thrilled to meet you, Brian hasn’t brought home a girl in ages” he smirked as he walked ahead of us
“Dad! Goddamnit” Brian groaned as we headed down.

I tried so hard not to fall down the stairs, that I only noticed the little group of people waiting for us at the end of the stairs when I was right in front of them. A blonde woman who looked at me expectantly, a girl with purple hair who looked at me angry and a guy with the same kind eyes Brian had, scanning me from head to toe.
“A little less obvious would be good, you ass” Brian wacked the guy to the head. Guess that was his brother. Brian introduced me to all of them and Suzy pulled me in a tight hug, and whispered in my ear “You must be really special, he hasn’t introduced any women to us in a long time. Please don’t hurt my boy”
The request the woman made was so heartfelt that it almost brought me to my knees. Brian said his family was weird, but I just saw 4 people that loved their son/brother endlessly. It was good that I did too, we would get along just fine.

Matt’s POV
It was getting more and more crowded in our living room and soon I would have to give the welcoming speech and we should lead the people outside to the tent.
I was prepared for that and I was only slightly nervous, the fact that my parents still didn’t show up made me more nervous. I really wanted to introduce Joe before everything got out of control.
Now it was still quite enough to have a normal talk, I saw Johnny’s parents already running around and I think I saw Arin’s mother and father, but I didn’t get the chance to talk to any of them, but we had a lot to catch up.

When the door opened I caught a glimpse of Zack’s parents and brother and that would mean my parents couldn’t be far away.
They were still living close to each other so maybe they came together, that would explain a lot.
“That’s Zack’s parents coming in” I leaned down to Joe and she nodded, looking curiously at the couple. Joe was looking amazing, just as her sister, they really outdid theirselves in the dress shopping.
“Go over there, I will get a drink for them, will be there shortly.” I pushed her into the direction and quickly moved over to the bar section getting two glasses of champagne for the parents.

I turned around again and heard the voice of Maria being all excited calling Joe’s name which made me frown.
“James, it’s so nice to finally meet her, isn’t it?” Maria asked and looked happily at her husband.
I saw Zacky standing next to Joe, an arm around her waist and when I approached I saw Joe’s confused look and Zack’s guilty face.
What was happening here?
“Zack told us so much about you, it is so nice to finally meet you, Josephine.” James Zack’s father hugged Joe and I got more and more the feeling that something was going wrong here, totally wrong, why would they be so happy of meeting Joe?
And why did Zack tell so much about Joe?

“Thank you, it’s really nice to meet you, too. It’s a great opportunity to meet all the families.” Joe said and the smile in Maria’s face was only getting brighter.
“Matthew, nice to see you again.” James smiled when I neared them and shook my hand.
“Thank you, James. Nice that you took the time. Maria, hey, you look amazing.” I smiled shaking Maria’s hand and saw Zack trying to walk away without notice.

“Zack, can I talk to you for a second?” I asked and grabbed his jacket.
“Well, I thought… I mean.. I heard my name being called-” Zack tried to walk away again and just as I was about to stop him, I heard my mother’s voice from the door.
“Matt!” She yelled and I sighed, shit…
“Mom, Dad?!” I turned around but I would get a grip on Zack again, he would have some explaining to do.
I grabbed Joe’s hand and earned a disapproving look from James and Maria, but ignored that and moved towards the door to greet my parents and take my time to introduce Joe.
I leaned down to her and whispered in her ear “I love you, babe. You don’t have to worry, alright?”
She nodded, but I saw the panic in her eyes.
I stopped in front of my Mom and she hugged me with a lot of enthusiasm and was whispering in my ear “It’s been way too long, since we saw you, Matthew Charles!”
I rolled my eyes. “I know, Mom. We are busy, I will promise to make more time alright?” I asked when it was time to hug my Dad.
“How was the travel, good? You didn’t bring Amy with you?” I asked not seeing my sister anywhere around.
“No, she had a basketball match, she wanted to try to come later, but couldn’t promise.” My father announced and I felt Joe’s hand grabbing mine tighter and I knew she must be nervous as hell.

“Mom, Dad… I want to introduce a special person to you. I know I haven’t talked about it before, but I wanted you to meet her now. This is Josephine, Joe, meet my parents. Kim and Gary Sanders.” I motioned towards them and Joe made a hesitant step forward.
“It’s really nice to meet you, Mrs. Sanders.. Mr. Sanders.” She shook the hands of my parents and they nodded and smiled.
“Oh look there is Maria and James with Zack” My mom said and made a move to go and I frowned, what?
No, wait a second….
“I don’t think you got what I wanted to tell you. Wait, Mom.” I held my hand out to stop her.
“Well, what is it, hun?” My mom looked at me expectantly and I motioned to Joe again who also looked more than confused.
“Well, Joe and I… I mean I wanted to introduce her to you because she is my girlfriend.” I said and hugged Joe closer to me with a smile, kissing her temple.
“Oh hun… You don’t have to do that, really” My mom touched my cheek and patted lightly.
“Yeah, boy. You don’t need to lie to us, everything is fine.” My father clapped my back and again the made a move to leave.

I looked at Joe and she stared back at me “What is happening here?” I asked her and she shrugged her shoulders when another thought crossed my mind.
Oh that asshole didn’t, did he?
“Mom, Dad!” My parents turned around again standing now next to Zack and Zacky’s parents.
“What do you mean I don’t have to do that? What is this about?” I asked meeting the eyes of my Mom who smiled at me lovingly.
“You don’t have to tell us Joe is your girlfriend, hun. We love you with or without a girl by your side. And we already know that Joe is belonging to Zack, you know… mothers talk… and Zack does call his parents every now and then.” The information slowly sunk in and I saw Zack make a step back, but I moved forward grabbing his collar.

“Wait a second, my friend. I think you have something to straighten out here. Don’t tell me you told you parents, that Joe is your girlfriend. The line is thin and I think you crossed it a couple of times lately.” I narrowed my eyes on him and Zack had at least the nerves to get a slight pink color on his cheeks.
“Matt, don’t.” Joe pushed my arm away from Zack and I knew that our parents were staring at us, but they knew us since we were little, they knew it would be okay in a couple of minutes… or days…
“I.. shit.. I… Mom, Dad… Joe is not my girlfriend, alright. Matt and Joe are a couple, I just… couldn’t stand you asking me about a girl in my life all the time.. and since I feel comfortable with no current girl I thought I could just tell you about Joe… you were so happy, so I didn’t bring it over my heart anymore to tell you it’s not true …. I’m sorry.” Zack said and his Mom looked shocked.
“Zachary James Baker, are you crazy?” That would be punishment enough for now, but I would come back to that, I still couldn’t believe he was telling everyone Joe was his… I was still pissed at him for the dream thing, but this… he really pushed the boundaries of our friendship!

I turned back to my parents, meeting the curious eyes of my parents, who took a closer look at Joe now.
“Can we start over again, this was really a bad beginning. But we heard a lot of wonderful things from Zack’s parents about you.” My mother looked at Joe and me with an apologizing smile and Joe nodded returning her smile.
“Josephine Thompkinson, It’s very nice to finally meet you.” Joe said and I laid my arm around her waist, starting over again.
“Mom and Dad, meet Joe, my girlfriend.”

Notes

That wasn´t too bad, was it? ;-)

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