The Meet and Greet //r.sl

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Jasmine's POV

After sitting on the beach a while more Ross suggested getting into the ocean. "Rocky told you about where I was taking you so I'm guessing you came prepared?" "Yep" I slipped out of my dress since I was wearing my bathing suit under the dress and walked to the ocean. "You coming or not" I yelled towards him. He took off his shirt and pants leaving him in his board shorts. He ran to the water splashing me. "Why would you wear swimming trunks under skinny jeans." I laughed at him. "Um, cause I didn't wanna change." he blushed. I giggled swimming to him and wrapping my arms around his neck. He picked me up so I wrapped my legs around his waist and rested my head against his bare chest. I jumped down from his hold and splashed him with water, which turned into a full on water fight. We stayed in the water for awhile longer until I started shivering so he sat me on the blanket and wrapped his jacket around me and held me into his chest. "So I was wondering if you would like to meet my family." Ross asked. "Like your siblings and parents." I questioned. "Well yea and Ratliff of course, we'll save the family in Colorado for later." "Yea totally, I am still am R5er at heart." I responded. "Awesome cause I owe Rydel since she helped me get ready and she really wants to meet you." he laughed. "Ok but can we stop by my place so I can change, I don't want go in a wet dress." "Ya, lets go." he pulled me off my feet and I slipped back into my dress. It was already starting to stick to me. "Um, could you turn around please I can't stand wearing wet board shorts under my pants." he blushed. "Sure, wait do you have spare underwear to put on?" I questioned. "Um, no I'm just gonna wear my pant." he replied. "Um, ok." I laughed at the sudden awkward situation. I started packing everything back into the basket that were leftovers. Ross kneels infront of me and puts his shorts in the basket. "Ew, remind me not to eat these leftovers." I said to him. "Very funny babe." he said jokingly, folding up the blanket. I smiled at the nickname, some girls would say it made them feel degraded but it made me feel like I was cared about. I picked up the basket and saw Ross staring at me. "What" "I'm the luckiest guy on Earth." he stated in a dreamy tone. I simply smiled and said "I think that goes for both of us." he smiled and grabbed my hand leading me to the car. He took the basket from my hand and put it and the blanket in the backseat and opened the passenger door for me. "For milady" he said in a British accent. "Why thank you kind sir." I said back in a fit of giggles. He hopped in his side and drove back to my place. "Wanna come in?" I asked Ross. "Yeah sure" We walked into the elevator and I pressed the button that led to my floor. "You live on the top floor." Ross asked. He seemed uncomfortable. "Omg, are you afraid of heights." I said feeling bad that I asked him to come up now. "Yea, well kinda." he said clutching onto my hand. I took his hand in both of mine. "It's ok everyone has fears." I said softly planting a kiss on his lips and hugging him. The elevator dinged and we stepped out into the corridor leading to my penthouse. "Your parents home?" He asked. "Probably at work." I answered simply, unlocking and opening the door. We walked up to my room and Ross sat on my bed while I found something else to wear. I picked out a tight white v- neck shirt, black skinny jeans and blue jean fabric platform peeptoe heels. I got those and went to my bathroom attached to my bedroom and changed, then I reapplied my makeup and brushed my hair I stepped out to see Ross laying on my bed with his eyes closed and a small smile. I walked up to him and ran my hand through his hair and placed a small kiss on his forehead. His eyes open and his smile grew wider. "Hey my beautiful girlfriend."

I put my hand on his cheek and rubbed it with my thumb. "Girlfriend, I like the sound of that, boyfriend."

"Me too." He whispered. "Come on sleeping beauty." I laughed standing up. He quickly pulled me back down to where our faces were inches apart. "Sleeping Beauty can't wake up with a kiss." he smirked. I closed the gap and kissed him while running my fingertips on his collarbone. "Now get up handsome." I said pulling him off my bed. "Um, if prefer the nickname sexy but whatever." he said wrapping his arms around my waist. "Watch is we haven't even been dating for an hour." I laughed. He looked down and blushed deeply. I rubbed my nose against his and that only made his blush worse. I laughed and pulled him out of my room and into the living room. We stepped out into the hallway and I locked the door, then we walked to the elevator. Once we got in and I pressed the button that leads to the lobby Ross clasped his arm around my waist. I giggled to myself remembering he was afraid of heights. I placed my arm around his back and waited for the elevator to get to the lobby. We walked out to his car and he once again opened my door. "Your so sweet." I giggled tapping his nose. He laughed and got in the car. Once he got in he sped of to his house. He placed his hand on my knee, he noticed me looking at his hand so he quickly moved it. "I'm sorry i didn't-" I cut him off by placing a kiss on his jaw. "Relax we're dating not strangers remember." I giggled at his nervousness. "Right." he put his hand back on my knee. The rest of the ride was silent. He parked outside his house and sat there. I unbuckled and ran my hand through the back of his hair. "So my family is pretty crazy but they love almost anyone so you don't have to worry about them hating you and my parents are laid back so you have no reason to worry." he said fully turning to face me. "Ok." I replied, cause I was kinda excited to meet them. He cupped my face in both of his hands and kissed me hard on the lips. Just when I started kissing back there was a bang on the passenger window that made us pull apart. I turned to see Rocky smiling. I looked at Ross and saw him glaring at his older brother. "Perfect timing Rock." he mumbled to himself. He stepped out of the car and pushed Rocky aside so he could open my door. " For my lovely." Ross said in a British accent. I stepped out and kissed his cheek. "Whoah, so your Ross' lady friend, nice pick bro." he directed the last part to Ross. "Hi, I'm Jasmine." I stuck my hand out to Rocky. "Wait your the girl that made Ross daydream the whole way home after the M&G." he shook my hand. "Ok Rocky this is Jasmine, Jasmine you already know him." Ross introduced us. Ross lead me to the front of their house with Rocky following behind. He opened the door and held it for me to walk in. "Thank you." I said to him. Rocky walked in and whispered to Ross making him glance at me then smile and nod. Rocky walked ahead into the familyroom. "What was that." I asked letting curiosity take over. He bent down to my ear and whispered "Rocky told me your a keeper and I agreed 100%." Just the fact of his cool breath hitting my ear sent shivers down my spine. He pulled back and grabbed my hand leading me to his family. As soon as we were in view the chatter died down and everyone's eyes were on me. "Um, guys this is-" "Your future wife." Rydel finished for him. I looked down and blushed. I looked beside me and saw Ross blushing too. "Aw, guys we're making them blush." Riker teased. "Oh, Riker stop teasing your brother and his girlfriend." Stormiest scolded. "Hi, I'm Ross' mother please call me Stormie." she hugged me. "Nice to meet you Stormie." I greeted her. "I'm Mark, Ross' dad." he held out his hand. "Pleasure to meet you to Mark." I grinned, shaking his hand. "She's a keeper Ross don't let her go." he pointed to Ross. Ross slipped his arm around my waist and gave me a squeeze. "I know and I plan on keeping her for a long time." he answered, but was staring into my eyes. I smiled at him and placed a hand over his heart. "Aw, Mark their just so cute together." Stormie said squeezing her husbands arm. After that all of R5 including Ryland came up and introduced themselves to me. Stormie invited me to stay for dinner. I was going to object because I didn't want to intrude but Ross jumped at the choice of me staying longer. So now we were all sitting at the dinner table while Stormie passed out plates of lasagna, which made me almost drool considering it was my favorite Italian dish. I was seated between Rocky and Ross, Ryland between Riker and Rydel on the opposite side and Stormie and Mark on the ends of the table. It was quiet until Rydel spoke up. So Jasmine tell me about yourself." she asked. "Um, well my full name is Jasmine Marie Carter. My dad owns Carter co. and The Carter Apartments, my favorite color is yellow, I can surf, skateboard and snowboard. I like ice hockey but can't skate to save my life and I have a brother and sister named Jason and Jessica ages 23&17 and I'm 18 so that's basically it." "Wait stop the captains ship, you don't know how to play ice hockey?!" Riker exclaimed. "Um, yea" I chuckled nervously. "Dude it's your job to teach her." he said to Ross. "Yea just let me know if you see a frozen over pond." Ross replied sarcastically.

*After Dinner*

I volunteered to help clean the dishes but Stormie denied since I was the guest. So that gave Ross the opportunity to drag me to his room. Before he opened the door he said "Sorry if it's a bit messy I didn't have a chance to clean since I was planning the date." He opened the door and sat down on his bed. I closed the door behind me and sat down beside Ross but he pulled me into his lap. "Your family's nice." I said breaking the silence. "Yea that's one way to put it." he laughed. He scooted up to the headboard of his bed and patted the spot next to him. I scooted beside him and rested my head on his shoulder. "Im glad you said yes." Ross said. "You make it sound like you proposed" I laughed. "Not for a while, I like us like this for right now." he chuckled. Ryland came through the door just then with a hand over his eyes. "Guys were watching a movie in the basement if you wanna come. "Relax Ry were just talking and yea sure we'll be down there. Ryland uncovered his eyes. "Ok, we need help picking out a movie." he walked out the room. Ross got up and held his hand out for me. I intertwined our hands and we walked down the steps together and to the basement. Ince we got there Ross plopped down on a couch pulling me down with him. "Ok so we have the choice of 'The Gallows' or 'Pitch Perfect'." Rydel said. All of the boys picked 'The Gallows' since it was a horror movie, so that out rules mine and Rydels votes. She popped the movie in and handed out blankets for everyone but me and Ross had a larger one to share. The movie started and I moved to sit across Ross' lap so my back was to the arm rest and my head was on his chest. Ross put his right arm around my waist and his left hand above my knee. the movie is now closer to the scarier scenes and my head is under the blanket and Ross is drawing patterns in my leg with his index finger. I looked out of the blankets at the wrong moment. As soon as I looked at the TV a possessed person jumped at the screen. "Ahh!" I screamed and his back under the covers. "I knew I shouldn't have looked, I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight, good bye rest." I was mumbling to myself trying to forget the scene I just saw. I uncovered my head and laid it in the crook of Ross' neck so I couldn't see anymore if that horrific movie. Mark came in and told Riker to pause the movie which sent a wave of relief through me. "Kids, there's a major storm heading to Northridge so it would be safe to keep all outlets unoccupied just in case." he informed us. "Well I guess that means I should be heading home, bye Ross" I said kissing his cheek and getting off his lap. "What!? No I'm not letting you go out there with a storm heading here alone" he exclaimed jumping off the couch and grabbing my hand. "Now, she's not going anywhere until this storm has passed by, your last name is Carter right and your dad owns Carter co.?" He questioned me. "Yea why?" I know your dad I'll call him up and let him know why your not home." he said walking upstairs. Rydel walked up to me. "So to keep ourselves busy wanna have a sleepover?" She asked.