Home to you

Chapter 27

"We're almost there." He wakes me from my nap. I can feel the tierednes in my bones but as quickly as I think about what is going to happen in the next half an hour I'm wide awake. I can feel my heart beating plainfully fast though We're still on the high way. "They will love you." He says calme but I can see that he is nervouse himself. "Why are you nervouse?" I ask him while correcting the position of my beanie. "Because you are the first person I really start to care about. I mean they meet my ex girlfriends but you now..." I giggle at his loss of words "yeah I know" I say and stare out if the window. As always I'm fascinated by the US landescape. While we left California and the palmtrees behind we now entered a world that was as cold and snowy as New York again. "So Minnesota.." I start slowly. "Tell me something about your home town." I say. "Oh it's the most beautiful place on earth. Not even Africa or Australia can beat Minnesota. When we were little we always used to go outside on an adventure." Connor starts and then he continues for the rest of the journey about story's of him and his friends in wild nature. While chatting I realize that we had left the high way and were driving through a small town. I can feel myself getting nervous again and then I see the driveway Connor it's driving the car to. It's a giant house. I know they are four siblings and his dad is a doctor but I didn't expect the house to be this size. While I stared at the house Connor got out of the car and is suddenly opening my door. He can probably see the fear in my eyes so he leans closer and starts rubbing my knee. "It gonna be okay. I promise. And when they hate you, which will not happen, we can just drive back to LA." He says smiling and once more I fall for him. How does he always know what to say to calme me down? "Okay let's get this over with." I say quickly and get out of the car and into Connors arms. He quickly kisses me on the cheak and then takes my hand and leads me to the front door. He rings the door bell. And then we wait. After sometime I can hear footsteps behind the door. And then the door opens. Right in front of us stands the person that I can only imagine is Connors mother. "Connahh...??" She asks seaming shocked. "Surprise" he justs says shyly back and then she almost knocks him over by hugging him so tightly. I lose contact to Connors hand but I don't care. She brings some distance between him and her only to look into his face with her hands on his cheaks. "We all missed you so much." She says and then hugs him again. And then her eyes wander for the first time to me. She let's go of Connor and then takes a step in my direction. "You must be Troye. We heared so much about you it's wonderful to finally meet you in person." For a moment she seams unsure but then she hugs me as well. "Welcome to the family. Come on in you two." She says and let us enter the house. I exchange a look with Connor. He never said that he had talked to his family about me. We stand in a giant hallway. The walls are all covered with photos of the family on holidays and sport events. "Dustin and Brandon are watching tv." She just says. "Where is dad?" Connor says while taking of his shoes. I take mine of as well putting them right next to Connors. "He had an emergency call and is back in the practice but he'll be back in no time. I'm cleaning in the dinning room maybe you should first say hello to Dustin, Brandon and Nicola." And with that she is gone. "Come on lets see what Dustin and Brando are doing." Connor says and takes my hand back in his leading me in the living room. On the couch Dustin and Brando where both lying watching some random sports event. "Hey" Connor says trying to get their attention. "What up Con?" Brando just says his eyes still fixaded at the tv screen. Connor seamed extremely pissed that is brothers didn't even bother to great him while i thought it was rather funny that they acted like they didn't care witch reminded me of Tyde. "I though you might want to meet my boyfriend but I guess I was wrong so we.." He was interrupted by Dustin falling of the couch trying to get up very quickly. He almost run in our direction which scared me just a little bit. He stretched out his hand in my direction an took mine to shake it. "I'm Dustin Connors older brother, nice to meet your." He just says smiling. "Troye." I just say. "Like we didn't knew that already." Brandon says from the couch. I look in his direction and he smiles. "Connor speaks about you all the time." Dustin explains and smiles in Connors direction which makes Connor blush. "Not true." He just says. Brandon starts to imitate Connor "You guys have to listen to Troyes new music it's just amazing. Have I told you that Troye is coming to playlist. Did you know that Troye..." "Okay stop it." Connor says blushing even more wich makes me chuckle. "So what are you guys watching?" Connor asks and then they are talking sports and I get lost not understanding anything. I just look around the room trying to get a picture of what's it like to have grown up here. Back in Australia Connor and I had tried to explain each other what it was like to grow up in such a big family which we had in common. "So let's find Nicola." Connor pulls me back from my daydreams. "Sure" I say and follow him back in the hallway and in the kitchen. "Nic" Connor screams while entering the kitchen. "Connor" she screams in a high pitched voice. She jumps into his open arms. Connor once told me that she was his favorite sibling. I could clearly see that this feeling was mutual. "I missed you so much." She mumbled into Connors neck. I would get jealous but Connor was gay and it was his sister. He slowly lifted her and let her back on her feet. "So I thought you maybe wanted to meet Troye." Connor says shyly. She smiles in my direction. "It's so nice to meet you." She says. "Thank you, you too." I say shyly. "Wait till dad comes home. He will be thrilled." Connor giggles and I feel like I didn't understand a joke. "I really love your music by the way." Nicola says looking in my direction. "Thank you." I say not really sure what to say otherwise. "Relax." She just say and I grin shyly. "It's kind of hart." I say. "Now you know how I felt back in Perth." Connor says and leans over to me to kiss my cheek which makes Nicola aww. And then she runs back to the pots on the stove. "Dinner isn't going to be ready until 5 p.m. Maybe you should go shower and relax or so." That was clearly a hint to get us out of the kitchen. "Fine." Connor says and we leave again. We get our luggage out of Connor trunk and then we head upstairs. Even though the house is big Connors room is very small. " so this used to be my room. My parents redecorated it of cause." He says smiling. "It's nice." I say still feeling awkward in this house. Connor takes a step in my direction. He slowly grabs my hand. "I know you are scared and that it is awkward to be here but I promise it will get better." I slowly nod and Connor hugs me. I let my head rest on his shoulder and breath in his familiar sent. "I love you, you know that right?" I say slowly. His hands slowly pattern my back. "Yeah I know." Connor says and kisses my cheek.