Dani and I stood on her porch, she looked over to me. Seeing me fidgeting with my hands she spoke.
"Sweetheart, I know you're nervous. But my mom will absolutely adore you, and Evelyn will also love you, she loves meeting new people." She took my hand and squeezed it. I took a deep breath in, and released it. "I'm just bad at meeting new people." I responded.
"New people make you nervous, hm?"
"Yeah." My hands were shaking.
"You'll have me by your side the entire time, okay? I will always be in sight. If anything is wrong just give me a sign, or walk to another room and I will drop everything to make sure you're okay, because that is the only thing that matters to me."
Her words warmed my heart.
"Ready?" Dani asked. "Ready." I smiled, Dani nodded before unlocking her door. A few seconds later a woman who didn't looked like her was stood in the hallway.
Dani and her mother hugged.
I miss my mother's hugs.
"Hi." The soft cheery voice of Dani's mother filled my ears, "You're Alexandra, am I right?" She asked. "Mhh." I nodded, not correcting her on the name.
"She prefers Alex." Dani met my eye, I smiled. 'Thank you.' my eyes spoke to her. She winked.
"Oh, Alex, what a lovely name." The woman leaned in for a hug. In the corner of my eye I saw Dani inspecting my reaction. I accepted the hug, it was fast, but nice.
For some reason I felt comfortable with her.
"Oh, how rude, I haven't introduced myself, my name is Hannah." She pulled away from the hug, her hands still on my shoulders. "Danièlle has told me so much about you."
"She has?" I asked, surprised by the fact that I had even been more than mentioned to Dani's mother. "She talks about you a lot on our calls."
"Now I'm intrigued, what kind of things has your daughter been telling you about me?" I asked, then looking over to Dani, who now was the one who nervously turned her head down.
"I've heard a bit about your time this summer." Hannah started. "Oh?" I couldn't help but laugh. "Didn't hear more than how beautiful you were and how in love she was with you after a week of talking to you." Hannah teased her daughter. "Mom!"
I blushed.
"Then I heard about the age thing.." She said. "I don't care by the way, as long you two are happy."
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