Page 47 of Blinded By Love

Why would he put it on me?

"Jaclyn! Get your ass over here so you can meet my mom!" I hear Natalia shout from outside. I open the car door and get out, going to the back of the car. Hayden and Chris are getting bags out of the trunk while Natalia talks to a very beautiful woman. She looks like she is in her early fifties or maybe late forties. Natalia turns around and waves me over. "Jaclyn. Come here. I want you to meet my mom." I walk a little closer to Natalia and the older women. "Meet my mom," Natalia says while motioning her hands to her mom. “Alex or Alexandra but everyone calls her Alex.”

"Hi, it's nice to finally meet you," I say and offer my hand to her but instead of taking my hand in hers, she pulls me in a hug.

I tense up as she wraps her arms around me but I slowly hug her back to be polite.

"Oh, Jaclyn, I have heard so many things about you from Natalia and Hay," she says as she lets go of me. "I'm Alexandra but you can call me Alex for short."

"It's nice to meet you and I hope they were good things." I chuckle, looking at Natalia.

"Oh, trust me they were. Especially from Ha-"

"Hey, Alex!” Hayden calls from a few feet away. “I think the kitchen might be burning down! You should go check that out.”

Why would he call his mom Alex?

I never met someone who called their mom by their first name.

"Hayden, relax.” Alex rolls her eyes but she still has that soft smile on her face while looking at Hayden. “But yes, let's go inside. I'm making food," Alex says and she walks towards the house as we follow her.

"You'll meet my dad during dinner. He is at work right now, but he will be home soon," Natalia says. I nod my head as we both walk through the front door. "I'm pretty sure mom is making pasta. She loves pasta."

"Good because I love pasta too." I smile at Natalia. Their house is huge. I've never really had the luxury of visiting or even sleeping in a house this luxurious before. All of my friends lived in apartments. I could tell they paid a lot of money for it because the driveway was very long. "Your house is so nice," I say as Natalia and I walk into the kitchen.

"Thanks. My mom and dad actually reconstructed this house, and my mom was super involved with the interior," Natalia says.

I look at Alex. "You did? It looks amazing," I compliment her.

"Thank you, honey. Now I am going to start making dinner. Natalia your dad is on his way so how about you girls freshen up. Also, show Jaclyn around the house and where she will be staying. I'm pretty sure Hay put her bags in the guest room," Alex says.

Natalia nods her head and grabs my hand pulling me out of the kitchen.

After Natalia lets me get settled, she shows me around the house. Their house has so many rooms.

There is a theater room, a library, an office, another office, a second living room that was upstairs, and the dining room.

Natalia showed me her room which looked a little plain but that's because most of her stuff is at her apartment. Natalia also had her own bathroom too which was super nice. She showed me the guest room which looked like a normal guest room. While I was in the room, I changed into something more appropriate. I didn't want to meet Natalia and Hayden's dad while wearing sweats and Hayden's sweater. I already met their mother like this.

I have to share a bathroom with Hayden since both of our rooms are kind of connected. Her parent's room is on the floor above us. They have a whole floor to themselves which is surprising because I didn't know they would need that much room.

Natalia is now showing me the game room which is the last room in the house. She opens the door and we hear Hayden and Chris yelling at each other while playing a video game. "And this is the game room. If you can't find any of the boys they're probably in here."

"What games do you have?" I ask as I sit next to Hayden on the couch.

"Uhh, Need For Speed, UFC 3, COD, some other games too that I don't really play anymore," Hayden says while playing around with the controller.

The game they were playing was COD.

Mateo would play that game a lot. I was never able to watch TV in the living room because he was always playing. My mom wouldn’t care though.

She never did care about anything he did, even when he cheated sometimes. She loved him too much and I think she felt like she was indebted to him because he got her out of a dark place that was caused by her mother passing away.

"Chris, watch your left!" Hayden yells even though Chris is right next to him.

The guys play the game while Natalia and I play Air Hockey. They have every game in this room you can think of plus a bar. I can already tell they spent a lot of money on this room.

Natalia told me that her dad owns his own business while her mom is a lawyer. They make a lot of income together and it’s now not a surprise why Hayden has a Porsche and Natalia has a Range Rover.

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