CHOOSE ME!

Part 23

Alex's pov
I was so excited to meet Charlie's family I woke up early and started packing. I had to slip out of his arms carefully so I didn't wake him but I was used to that as I had to do it every morning to take my meds. I successfully managed to slip from his tight grip and rushed to my room to get a bag so I could begin packing, we were only staying for a night so I didn't over pack. A thought came to me that I didn't know what his parents were like so I called Ben, he told me they were religious and may take a while to come around but they were nice, I didn't know Charlie was religious.

Suddenly, I felt two arms wrap around my waist and a chain leaning on my shoulder, "what you doing?" Charlie asked kissing my cheek after. "I'm packing to go to your parents house later," I relied to him putting my hands in his, "we're into staying for a night why are you packing so much?" he asked taking his hands off me. My body got cold at the loss of his touch, "I know but I want to be organised, also why didn't you tell me you were religious?" I asked curiously, "because I'm not, my parents are but me and my brother aren't," he said whilst finding another bag so he could go and pack too.

But I'd already packed for him. "Where's all my stuff!" he shouted from his room, "I've packed for you!" I shouted back. Loud footsteps creaked the floor as he made his way back to me, "why?" he asked looking utterly confused, "because I wanted to," I replied and kissed his lips.

We went to the kitchen to make breakfast and we sat down at the table, "when are we leaving?" I asked excitedly, "as soon as your ready, mum called to say she's set everything up for us so they're ready when we are," he said shoving a spoonful of scrambled eggs in his mouth. "Will they be ok, I mean look at this," I said revealing hickeys printed all over my neck, "they'll have to deal with it," he said showing off his too.

I rolled my eyes and got ready to leave, I decided to cover up the marks with makeup. "Hey Charlie come here," I called as I wanted to do the same for Charlie but I when he caught on to what I was doing he ran out of the room screaming. I ran after his with the sponge and chased him around the flat. He somehow managed to get behind the TV stand and hid from me there until I found him and dragged him to the sofa.

I sat on his lap to make sure he didn't go anywhere and held his neck so he couldn't move, his hands found their way up top and rubbed my back seductively, "well this just got kinky," he said as I gripped his neck tighter. I tried not to laugh but I couldn't help it and I let out a loud snort which left us in tears of laughter on the floor.

Charlie then got a call and wiped his eyes before answering, "oh hi mum.....yeh we'll set off now, see you soon............yeh I-........lo........love you too," he said and hung up, "she's talkative," I mocked but he just smiled and we took the bags to the car. It was a couple of hours drive to his parents house and I fell asleep once again, but I was woken up from my dream by Charlie shaking my shoulder and whispering my name gently.

The bright light made me squint and cover my eyes but I soon adjusted, I hopped out of the car and helped Charlie bring the bags inside. When his parents answered the door their faces dropped, "I thought you said you were bribing a new partner," his mum said as she pointed to the bags for her husband to take away. His dad sighed and rolled his eyes knowing exactly what was going on.

I offered to help him but he just shook his head and took mine, "it is his partner Georgie," his dad said whilst his mum fidgeted with her cardigan, "well you better come in," she said but stopped Charlie on his way past again touching his neck. "Is that...makeup," she said wiping it away revealing a big hickey with small teeth marks in the middle.

She tutted and walked away in a huff, "sorry for her and for calling you 'it', I just didn't want to presume," his dad said holding his hand out to shake mine, "it's fine, I've been called worse," I tried to joke but he looked sad. "I'm so sorry my boy, you better look after Charlie, he's not as tough as he seems," he said quietly so Charlie couldn't hear him.

Another boy who looked almost identical to Charlie bounded down the stairs just like his brother did and high fived Charlie, "nice to see you again and you must be the famous Alex, hi I'm Jack, nice to meet you," he said holding his hand out for me to shake, "I presume you've met mum already," he said pointing to the smeared makeup on my neck and, "yeah we did," I replied awkwardly.

"She'll come around the second you mention kids or marriage so just mention that and she'll be begging you to marry this idiot," he said looking at his brother in disgust, "I don't know why you would but he seems to love you sooooo," he said and went to the other room to talk to his mum. "Well that went well," Charlie said sarcastically.

I rolled my eyes and asked him to tell me more about his family, "well my mum is called Georgia but you can call her Georgie, she's as you can tell, very sensitive. My dad is called David and he's pretty chilled with everything. And my brother is called Jack but that's his middle name and he's known about you for a while now, also don't ask him what his first name is unless you have a death wish," he said and I tried to take in everything he said so I knew who I was dealing with.

Charlie was in the shower before dinner and I was sat on my own in his room. I was bored and didn't want to poke around his stuff so I just looked at a few of the pictures on his shelves. He looked so young in some of them, there were a few where he had goggles, a swimming cap and swimming trunks holding a golden medal around his neck and his brother was falling into the pool behind him in one. I laughed and my eyes made their way down to a little plastic case.

I opened it and found a some glasses, they were made of black metal and I could imagine Charlie wearing them. I tried them on and found that his eyesight really was awful, how does he see without these things? I put them back and decided to help his mum with tea so I made my way downstairs.

She had her back towards the door, "what have I told you about coming into my kitchen whilst I'm cooking! And before you say anything else, you are NOT having a snack!" she shouted, clearly not realising it was me. I laughed whilst leaning on the door frame with my hands in my pockets and coughed a little, "oh sorry dear, I thought you were one of those pigs that I live with," she said making us both laugh, "it's alright, but Charlie really is a pig isn't he," I said making her wheeze as she laughed at me.

"Indeed he is, anyway what can I do for you dear?" she asked me turning back to the food so it didn't burn. "I was wondering if you needed help with making tea," I said nervously. This would be the first time I have done something like a family, she cooed at me and asked if I could stir whatever it was she was making.

We talked for a while and she told me embarrassing stories about Charlie, his brother was right that she'd come around quickly. "So is your family as insane as ours?" she asked whilst nibbling at some lettuce, "ermmm, I guess you could say that," I said awkwardly and not really sure how to talk about it lightly.

She was about to ask something again but a cough came from the doorway. It was Charlie, he was wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, his hair was dripping wet and he looked so hot even though he wasn't doing anything, "we're serving it up now darling," she said standing up from her seat at the island and politely pushed me to the side to dish up the food.