Her Savior

☆Chapter 22☆

"Aww, how cute,
"It's giving the couple of the year,"

I open my eyes to see Anaya, Lorenzo, Isabella, and Angelo standing at the foot of the bed.
Lorenzo starts moving, and I see him open his eyes, also looking at them with a confused expression on his face.

"What's going on?" he asks
They continue to stare at us, so I check to see what they're looking at.
My head is on Matteo's chest, my arm thrown over his waist as well as my leg over his own. Matteo has his arm around my back holding me and his other around my waist.

I look up and see him already looking at me. He turns his head towards the newly found stalkers and apparently photographer when I see Lorenzo taking a picture.

"Alright, you lot need to get out right now," he tells them, and they all start leaving. Angelo turns and says, "Get ready, we're leaving soon. The plane landed 5 hours ago," then leaves.

I look at Matteo and try to get up making sure I don't hurt my wrist.
"Morning," I say
"Morning, how's your wrist?"
"It's better now, thanks by the way"
"No worries"

I get off the bed and head into the bathroom to brush my teeth. When I'm done I leave the bathroom.
"We're not going to shower now, we'll shower when we get to the house," Matteo tells me and I nod my head.

Before I leave the room, I make sure I have my phone.

While Matteo's in the bathroom, I fix up the bed. I stop in my tracks when I realize I didn't have any nightmares last night.

That's the first time in a few years.
I hear the door open and I go back to fixing the bed.
"You didn't have to do that,"
"It's okay, I wanted to," I tell him.

"Alright then, you ready to leave"
"Yeah let's go"
He walks to the door and opens it for me and then walks behind me.

We see the others leaving their rooms and we all get off the plane.
The warm Sicilian weather is inviting. It'll probably get hotter late since it's still early right now.

I see a black car pull up and I move behind Matteo scared something is about to happen.
"Don't worry, that's the car taking us to the house"

I'm such an idiot, how else were we supposed to get there? By flying, teleporting perhaps.

One of the guards standing here which I hadn't noticed opens the door for us. Isabella, Anaya, and I get in the back seats while Angelo, Lorenzo, and Matteo get into the seats in front of us.

The car drives off and conversations start and me being included as well.

"So, Aaliyah, what going on with you and my brother?" Isabella whispers.
"Nothing, why would something be going on?"
"Mmm, somebody's stolen my best friend's heart," Anaya says as they both laugh.

"Goodness," I say. "You know, I could ask both of you the same thing" I look at them.
"Yeah Anaya," Isabella says.
"Don't act so innocent now, we've seen you and Lorenzo," Anaya tells her.
"Yeah look who's talking," I say and they laugh.

"What are you guys whispering about?" Lorenzo asks as they all look back.
"Uhm, periods," Isabella says panicking.
"Yeah right" Lorenzo replies seeing right through her lies.

After about 10 minutes we stop at a huge gate, the driver rolls his window down and the people standing in a little cabin thing open up the gate. Behind those gates is a huge house I've never even dreamed of. There's a fountain in the middle of the area and steps leading toward the entryway.
"Wow," Anaya says.

We all exit the caf and the driver drives around somewhere probably to park the car.

The surrounding trees and grass have been precisely cut, but one leaf or grass is out of place.
The beautiful flowers bloomed and majestic.

We walk up to the stairs and the door is pulled open from the inside. We walk in and somehow, the inside is more beautiful than the outside. 2 staircases lead upstairs and on the right is a living room with a huge flat-screen TV.

A woman and man walk down the stairs and when they get down the resemblance to who I presume are their kids is uncanny.

Matteo and Isabella look so much like their parents.

"My babies," the lady squeals quaking toward them and wrapping her arms around them.

"Hey Mom" they reply.
"Aww I missed you guys so much. You're father's been giving me a headache." She says.
"Oh, is that so?" He says pulling her into his arms.
"Honey" she complains.
"Oh my goodness," Isabella says.

"Oh, it's my other babies" she continues walking toward Angelo and Lorenzo"
"Hey Aunty" they answer.

I can't help but look at their relationship and wish I had what they had with their families.

Not wanting to ruin anyone's mood, I erase those thoughts from my head as she starts walking toward Anaya and me.

"It's my future daughter-in-laws, Aaliyah and Anaya. Aren't they just gorgeous honey"
"They indeed are" he replies and I send them a small smile.

She pulls us into a hug and we both hug her back.

"I'm Stella, Isabella, and Matteo's mother, and that's my husband Vincenzo. You can call us by our names, mum, dad, aunt, uncle, whatever you prefer" she finishes
"Thank you so much for letting us stay here, we really appreciate it,"
"Oh nonsense, you're my sons' future wives, this is basically you're new home," she says and I feel color rushing up my cheeks.

Maybe this is my second chance at a family and if it is, I'm not taking it for granted.