A/N - My dumbass just realized that the NWSL season would've already been over.

Sorry y'all lmfao. Hope y'all don't mind that I haven't had a lot of football in it lately...

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- Paige's POV - November 16th -

I am so fucking nervous right now, and I am freaking the hell out.

I am going with Jade to her parents' place for dinner where I'm also meeting her family obviously, and again, I am freaking the hell out.

Also, off topic, my birthday was yesterday and I didn't do a lot, just spent time with Jade.

"What do I even wear?" I ask quickly. Jade turns around as she's buttoning up her shirt. "Baby, hey." She says softly as she steps towards me. "Calm down, okay? Take a few breaths for me, please?" She says and I nod as I do as she asks.

"You good?" She asks and I nod again. "Wear anything you would like to. My family doesn't care what you wear, they just care about who you are as a person, and I promise you that they'll like you." She says, and I nod slightly. "Well they might not like that you're nineteen but you act way more mature than other nineteen year olds do." She says and I nod again.

She finishes getting dressed as I begin to figure out what I'm gonna wear.

I get dressed into this, just without the hat:

"How do I look?" I ask Jade. "You look beautiful, as always." She says, making me blush and smile. For some reason, my nose scrunched anytime I blush now.

"Ahhhhh, you're so cute." She says with a small laugh before we share a small kiss.

We do a few more little things before we leave.

While in the car, we listen to some Billie Eilish, and I can't help but laugh when her hand automatically lands on my thigh.

"What?" She asks as she looks over, then back up at the road. "Nothing." I say. "Mhmmmmmm." She hums.

After a few minutes, I go on Instagram to be able to film a story. I make sure it's filming before I take Jade's hand and put it slowly on her own thigh. I look over at her, and she doesn't look over, just puts her hand back on my thigh. I do it again, and she sighs before resting it on me again.

I go to reach for her hand, but stop when she says something.

"That is the spot for my hand, leave it, baby." She says with a laugh. "Mmkay." I say, flip the camera around as my smile grows and I still take her hand but I lift it up and kiss it before resting it back down where it was. I stop filming before I write on the video then post it.

After a couple more minutes, we arrive at a beautiful home. There's already some people here also, as it seems.

Jade gets out of the car before quickly walking over to my side to let me out.

"Come on my beautiful girl." She says with a smile, making me smile, but I just look down because I'm nervous. "Hey..." She says and I look over to her and she has her lip out in a small pout. "It'll be alright, don't be nervous." She says and I nod slightly.

"We're doing this together, PK." She says and hugs me. "I know." I say and she pulls away from me slowly. "Let's go." She says softly as she takes both of my hands and helps me out of her car. She then shuts the door as we walk hand and hand towards the front door of the house.

She just opens the door, making me a laugh a little.

"After you." She says with a smile. I walk in, her following, and we walk side by side down the small entrance hall, and it opens up into the huge living room/dining room/kitchen.

"Hey, everybody." Jade says happily and loudly. "Hey!" They all say back. There's, I'd say her parents, and four others, two around her age, and two younger than me.

Her Mom I believe comes over and hugs her before turning to me.

"You must be Paige. I'm Claire, nice to meet you." She says with a smile. "Nice to meet you, too." I say shyly. "Hey, Dad." I hear Jade say as she hugs her Dad.

"Oh, she's a pretty one." He says as he looks over at me, and I smile. "I'm David." He says as we extend hands. "Paige." I say and we shake hands. "Nice to meet you." He says. "You too." I say with a nod.

Her parents go back over to the counters as Jade leads me over to the others who are sitting around the living room.

"Paige, I'd like you to meet Zach and Andy, short for Andrea. They're the twins of the family." Jade says and the two laugh. "Hi." They say. "Hey." I say. "And then you have dumbass Jacob." She says as she motions to a teenager on the end of he couch.

"Ass." He mumbles making both of us laugh. "Hey." He says and I wave. "And last but not least, little Aubrey." She says and motions to the little girl who stands in front of us. She can't be more than six years old.

"Hi." She says as she looks up at us. "Hi, sweetie." I say with a smile. "You play football, right?" She asks, and I stoop down.

"That I do, little one." I say and she smiles. "Paige." I hear and look up at my girlfriend. "Ask who her favorite player is." She says.

"Who's your favorite player, Aubrey?" I ask curiously. "Ali Krieger, she's a very cool... Uhm..." She says and I smile. "Defender." I whisper. "Defender!" She says and I laugh. "Well, guess what?" I say. "What?" She asks curiously. "I know her. She used to be my teammate, but not only that. She's my Mom." I say. "Really?!" She asks excitedly, and I nod. "That's so cool." She says happily. "Yeah!" I say.

"Dang, a five year old knows more about soccer than we do." Jacob says. "No, just more than you." Andrea says. "Rude." Jacob says. Jade and I take a seat on the love seat and Aubrey sits on Jade's lap.

"Why don't you guys tell Paige a little about yourself?" Jade says, and her siblings look curious. "It takes me a little bit to be able to say things about myself." I say, ad they all nod.

"So, I guess I'll start since Jade and I are the coolest and less boring." Andy says, causing me to laugh a little bit.

"I'm 23, just graduated from Harvard Law. I actually used to play soccer but gave up on it in highschool for basketball, before I decided that I wanted to do Law." She explains and I nod. "Cool." I say.

"23 as well, obviously. Uhm... I went to MIT and now I'm working towards a job with my friend who has a tech industry." Zach says. "Impressive." I say.

"I'm still in highschool, play football and baseball, that's about it." Jacob says and I nod. "And this little one is in kindergarten, and as you now know, loves football. Well your football." Jade says. "Which is very cool." I say and hold my fist out for Aubrey to fist bump, which she does.

"So, how about you?" Andy asks. "Well, I graduated highschool, moved to England for a few months and now I'm back. But, the team I'm with now didn't make it very far in the playoffs, and I was out due to a surgery anyways so, yeah."

"What surgery?" Jacob asks. "I had my appendix removed." I say and he nods.

"So, where are you from?" Zach asks. "Orlando." I say. "Nice." Everyone says and I nod. "How d are ya, not that it matters anyways." David asks. "I turned nineteen yesterday." I say and he nods. "Happy late Birthday." Everyone says and I laugh. "Thanks." I say.

"So you're not in college, right?" Jacob asks and I shake my head.

"Miss valedictorian of her class over here is too smart for college." Jade says and I blush. "It's sorta true." I say. "How come?" Andy asks. "I was a very advanced student in the sense of already understanding AP things in the seventh grade. During highschool, I literally did mainly nothing in any of my classes because I would work ahead to just go ahead and earn my credits so I didn't have to do anything required really senior year." I say. "That's cool." Zach says and I nod.

"So, the thing about your Mom being Ali Krieger, that's for real?" Zach asks, then gets slapped upside the head by Andy.

"Yeah, and Ashlyn Harris is my other Mom. My childhood was a little rough in the sense of losing my biological parents at around her age." I say and motion to Aubrey. "But, after a little while, I was adopted by Ali and Ash and they... they honestly saved me." I say. "How so?" Andy asks curiously. "When I entered the system, I was separated from my biological siblings since one was overseas on deployment, and then my older sister had just aged out of being able to go into the system, so she couldn't take me in since she wasn't stable enough." I say. "Damn, that's rough." Zach says and I nod. "But, we've all reunited and we're all happy so that's all that matters." I say and everyone nods as Jade takes my hand in hers.

- Later -

We all talked over dinner, which was really amazing by the way, and now we're outside around the fire pit with a fire going.

I get a FaceTime request and see it's Mama, which is actually ironic.

"Excuse me." I say as I stand up and head over by the fence while the FaceTime connects.

"Hi." I say when I see her appear on the screen. "Hey, Paigey." She says with a smile. "What's up?" I ask. "Nothing much, just checking on ya today." She says. "Oh. I'm doing good today. I'm with Jade at her parents'. They're really nice people." I say. "That's good. I can let you go if I'm interrupting." She says. "No, no you're fine. There's actually someone who might want to meet you." I say. "Okay?" Mama says.

"Hey, Aubrey." I say, getting the little girl who's running around, attention. She runs over to me. "I have someone here on the phone." I say. "Who?" She asks curiously. "Mama, I want you to meet Aubrey. Aubrey, meet Ali." I say as I stoop down so she can see the phone.

"Hi!" Aubrey says. "Hello!" Mama says. "Tell her who your favorite player is." I whisper to her. "You're my favorite football player." Aubrey says. "I am?" Mama asks with a smile, and Aubrey nods. "She told me that earlier." I say. "I know you don't play anymore but I don't really care." The five year old says and we laugh.

"Well I'm honored, Aubrey." Mama says. "Yay!" The five year old yells in happiness. "Aubrey, come here sweetie." Claire says. "Bye, Ali." The little girl says. "Bye sweetie." Mama says with a large smile.

"She's so cute." Mama says. "I know." I say.

"Mama, heeeelp." I hear in the background, and she looks over before laughing. "I'm gonna go help your mother and sister with a school project." She says. "Okay. Hey Mom, Oak!" I say loud enough for Mom and Oakley to hear in the back. "Hi!" I hear. "Night, Paigey." Mom says. "Goodnight." I say before we end the call and I head back to everyone.

- Later -

"Thank you again, for dinner, it was amazing." I say as I hug both of Jade's parents, one after the other. "Ah, no need to thank us. You're always welcome." Claire says and I smile.

I then say bye to them before saying bye to Jade's siblings before we leave.

"That wasn't so bad, now was it?" Jade asks as we're on the way back home. "Nope, not at all." I say with a laugh. "But now it's your turn." I say, and Jade gulps.

I know my Mom's are gonna like her, but I don't know how easy they're gonna go because I know they're hesitant now after my past two relationships.