Chapter 32: Chapter Thirty-two

Olivia

I'm sleepy and tired on the way home, and I spend the way sleep. Jason wakes me up as the car stop, and I'm glad that we have arrived.

"I'm so tired, I can't wait to get into bed." I say smiling up at him. The look he gives me is a guilty one and I wonder why. When I look out the window in his side I realise why though.

"Jason, where are we?" I ask him cautiously. I swear if this man bought a house I'm giving him his ring back. I'm tired of all the surprises.

"Come on, I want you to meet someone before we go home." He says and opens his door and gets out and rounds the car to open my door.

"Who exactly am I meeting?" I ask him now widely awake, coming out of the car with his help.

The driveway of the house we're standing infront of is beautiful with flowers and the greenest grass I've ever seen, it's also not very long. But what has my attention is the house. It's huge, almost as big as Jason's house in Mountain View. The walls are covered by ivy but only half the bottom, making it look like a ghost house. But the paint under the Ivy is white, making it a beautiful contradiction.

"My parents. Don't worry they are going to love you just as I do." He tells me with a smile.

We walk up to the stairs of the house towards the door and it opens before we knock. Joseph being the one to open the door, I smile feeling relieved that at least someone I know besides Jason is here. But just as my smile widens, a middle aged woman with blonde hair comes up behind Joseph and with a smile passes him and jogs towards Jason and hugs and kisses him on both his cheeks. Jason surprisingly hasn't let go of my hand during his hugs with his mother.

"My God, it's been ages since we last saw you." She tells Jason, who has a frown on his face.

"Mother we saw each other a month ago stop being dramatic." He says to her then smiles and pulls me to stand next to him infront of his mother. "Mother this is Olivia Willow. Olivia this is my mother Talia Osbourne." I don't miss how he doesn't mention my place in his life and I wonder why but ignore it

"Hello Mrs Osbourne, it is nice to meet you." I decide to say something since she seems to be stuck. I stick out my hand to give her a shake, the one without the ring. She is not even looking at me, she is looking at Jason like she is confused about what is going on. I get the feeling that I'm not expected, Jason didn't tell his parents he's coming with me.

"Mother, Olivia is greeting you." He chastises his mother like she's a two year old through gritted teeth. I decide to take my hand down though, if she won't shake my hand then I won't beg.

And like him chastising her wakes her up, she turns head towards me then, her neck stiff and greets me with a fake smile. "Hello. It's nice to meet you." She says and I hear Joseph Snickers from behind his mother, noting then that he's been there watching the exchange the whole time. His mother doesn't even put out her hand to shake mine. I'm glad though, because this puts us in a very least place for each other. Her in mine? I hate her already, and the feeling is mutual.

She turns back inside the house then and tells us to come in. Joseph hugs his brother and turns to me with a genuine smile and opens his arms for a hug. I walk into it, but I'm only able to give him half a hug because of my hand that's still in Jason's hand, who I haven't looked at yet because I'm boiling.

"Don't worry about her, she'll come around." He whispers in my ear then let's me out of his arms. I don't care whether she does or doesn't, and I don't want her to come around either anyway. He then turns to his brother and says, "If you're angry now, I can't imagine how angry you'll be when we get to the dining room." in a low voice.

Before we go further in the house, Jason offers to take my coat but I decline. If I'm going to share the morning with his mother and whoever else is in there then I need every type of shield I can get. With the coat he pulls me to him forcing me to look at him and I see then that he's also angry, more so than me.

"I'm sorry babe. I didn't mean to ambush you like this. And I'm sorry for my mother's attitude." He says to me, and I soften a little and lean in to kiss him. He's not forgiven though.

"We'll talk about it when we get home." I tell him with a tight smile. He closes his eyes and leans his forehead on mine and says "yes ma'am".

Hand in hand we walk further inside the big house with the pure white mat covered walls and in my mind I conclude that there has never been children in the house except for Jason and Joseph when they were young. And my heart rejoices because then if Jason and I have kids in the future, I won't have to worry about them coming here.

They have marble for the floor and it looks beautiful with a mixture of blue orange and purple. The colours blend beautifully together. The house really is a contradiction even inside. But it must also take long to get it cleaned. And I'm happy we won't be staying long, I hope anyway.

The voices coming from behind the closed door to our left, Jason's side, are loud and filled with laughter and Jason groans. He opens the door for us to come in and the room has at least ten people excluding us. They all turn to look towards the door as we come in and their laughter dies. Joseph is standing alone in the far corner and seems to be watching the whole thing.

A slender woman stands up then and comes running towards Jason. She is beautiful I'll give her that. She goes to hug Jason and I tighten my small hand in his and he steps back before she can touch him. She stops then and smiles up at him.

"Hello Jason, it's been too long." She says sounding disappointed but still flutters her lashes at him and she looks ridiculous doing it.

"Hello, Jessica." He replies to her. When she turns to look at me, her eyes are on fire with anger and I decide to anger her more.

I remove my hand from Jason grasp and thrust it towards her, with the ring on display and say, "Hello I'm Olivia, Jason's fiance." And the room goes extra quiet.