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The sound of light turbulence was what made Storm stir in her sleep as her head lie rested comfortably on Justin's shoulder, she sharply inhaled a breath and stretched just a bit while looking at Justin and seeing him on his Macbook making her giggle and lean over to see him doing some work.

"Even when you're off, you're still working."

"I'm distracting myself..."

"From?"

"Well, we're about an hour away from my hometown, and I'm a little--"

"--Nervous?" Storm interjected as she rose a questionable eyebrow and saw Justin break eye contact with her which made her tile her head and reach over to close his Macbook and take his hands in hers and bring them to her lips to kiss. "You're going to be fine."

"Trust me, a week with my mother can feel like an eternity in Hell."

Storm giggled and shook her head as the sound of the pilot speaking over the intercom was heard which she ignored as Justin rested his head back against the soft seat cushion. "Well, your mom hasn't met me yet, so we'll see."

"Keep saying that."

"Why's that?"

"Because you're gonna enjoy the hour left we have on this plane."

Storm rolled her eyes playfully as Justin gave her a goofy smile and reached out for her face and gave her lips a few kisses before relaxing back in the seat along with Storm as they tried to enjoy the rest of the plane ride.

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Justin and Storm looked around the airport in search of Willow -- with no luck, they both decided to walk hand in hand to the cafe nearby and sit down at the table with the window and the view of the airport entrance in sight with their luggage underneath them as they sat down in the black and fancy decorated metal high chairs while the soft sound of Lego House by Ed Sheeran played through the cafe.

"Where is she?"

"I don't know...she was supposed to be here before we landed."

"Well, call her again?"

"Yeah..." Justin trailed off as she exhaled a heavy breath and rose an eyebrow as he pressed his phone back to his ear and let the phone ring for a few and suddenly hear the voicemail system start up again making him scoff and hang up the phone.

"No luck?"

"No. Look, I'm just going to call us an Uber--"

"Jay-bear!"

Justin's heart felt like it dropped to the pit of his stomach as he heard the familiar feminine voice from behind him which made him stop himself from turning around to meet her gaze -- but Storm had her eyes locked on the woman as she approached them with a wide pearly white smile on her pink lipstick coated lips.

"Jay-bear?"

"Storm--"

"Shut up."

Storm absentmindedly clenched her jaw as the woman stopped herself at the table and looked down at the two which gave Storm a better look of her, she was very beautiful and tall with dark brunette wavy curled hair that just above her shoulders while she stood dressed in a nude colored button up peat coat that stopped mid thigh with a matching miniskirt and white shirt tucked inside with a pair of nude pump heels.

"Wow...Isabelle, how are you? What...are you doing here?"

"Well, I just got back from Miami, you know I model."

"Right, um--"

"--And who's this, Jay-bear? Your assistant?" Isabelle questioned as she stuck out a hand for Storm to shake which made her raise an eyebrow as Isabelle giggled and moved a bit closer to her side of the table and spoke out again. "Nice to meet you--"

Isabelle was interrupted by Storm mushing her pink manicured fingers out of her face and plastering a fake smile on her lips and letting Isabelle's smile fade from her lips -- the initial goal from the beginning since she shouted for Justin.

"Well, Isabelle, it seems you jumped the gun. I'm Justin's fiancée, anything else you want to know?"

"Fiancée, huh?"

Storm nodded.

"Jay-bear, I didn't peg you for the marrying type, I mean...considering how many girls you were with before you left--"

"You know what, Isabelle, I think it's time for you to go." Justin spoke up suddenly as he quickly rose up from his chair and making it screech against the wooden floor while Isabelle rose an eyebrow and laughed softly.

"Oh, well I guess I'll see you later on tonight, right?"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh, I forgot you went M.I.A. for three years...yeah, your mom and I are like best friends. Long story short...I'm coming over for dinner tonight, she likes for me to fill her in on my trips over dinner."

"My God..."

And with that, Isabelle waved them both off and walked off with her heels clicking against the wooden floor as she caught up with a tall and broad man who was assumedly her bodyguard as he carried her purse and they headed off out into the crowd of people while Justin sat back down slowly in his seat and sighed softly.

"So...old girlfriend?"

"What? Isabelle? More like the girl that was obsessed with me. One of the reasons I was glad I left Canada."

"Really? Cause...if it's okay with you, I'd like to start calling you Jay-bear."

"Don't you dare."

"I might just add it to my wedding vows."

Justin groaned and felt his cheeks start to get hot as he held his head low while hearing Storm giggle and place her hands on Justin's hands from across the table -- but the moment was suddenly interrupted by the sound of someone's heels clicking fast against the wooden floor again making Storm and Justin look to see Willow coming into the cafe.

"I am so sorry. My phone died, but I'm here now...you guys have a good flight?"

"Just a little turbulence, but I think we'll be okay."

Justin side-eyed Storm as she simply kept a sly grin on her lips and got up from her seat and grabbed her luggage which made Justin follow her actions and head out of the cafe with Willow and let his fingers interlace with Storm's and bring the back of her hand up to his lips and kiss it making her smile up at him.

Once the three of them headed for the entrance door, they suddenly stopped in their tracks as a group of people came up to them quickly and started to frantically ask questions and make them all take a step back as the flash from the cameras started to overpower them as people tried to walk around them -- only causing more of a mess.

"Jay...what's going on?"

"Did you know they were following you, Willow?"

"No. Paparazzi hasn't been bad like this--"

What does it feel like to be home?

Have you been in contact with Isabelle Kingston?

Who's the mystery woman?

The questions kept coming -- as did the flashes of the camera which made Storm give Justin's hand a squeeze as she used her free hand to hold up and try to cover the camera's flashes, but she was suddenly noticed by one of the paparazzi's which made her smirk and flash pictures of her and the diamond ring on her finger and step closer to get a better picture and so they could hear her question over everyone else.

"Is this your fiancée?"

"We're not answering any of your questions. We're just trying to get home."

"Mr. Bieber, please. I'm Stacey Brooks, I work for National Post, we just want to know what happened to you. Why did you leave Canada for three years?" Stacey spoke out before pulling her phone out of her jean jacket pocket and pulling up the camera and recording everything that was happening.

"Fuck off."

Justin suddenly mushed her phone out of the way as he motioned for Willow to follow behind as he took a tighter hold to Storm's hand as they tried to walk away from Stacey -- only for her to be hot on their trail while she continued to record.

"What are you back for? To return to the family name?"

"Just go away!"

Justin clenched his jaw before turning back to Storm and seeing that she held an expression on her face that Justin couldn't put his finger on making him sigh and take Storm to Willow's car, with Stacey still hot on their tale to the car and still recording the scene just as Justin opened the door for Storm and whispered sorry to her one last time before tossing the luggage in the back and turning back to Stacey.

"Go away! There's no fucking story here!"

Stacey backed away from Justin and bit the inside of her cheek as Justin huffed and moved away from her and over to the passenger side of the car before slipping inside, but as he did, he took a quick glance at Storm in the backseat to see she was looking at him with her arms crossed over her chest.

Justin felt a pang in his chest as he kept quiet -- guilt if you will as he sat in the passenger seat slouching while he let Willow drive them back to the house without another word being spoken between the three of them.

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After a while of driving, Willow finally stopped her car in front of the gated door and was immediately stopped by a tall broad man with a bald head staring down at her with an unreadable facial expression as she plastered a wide smile on her lips.

"Hey, Fred."

"Willow."

"How are the kids?"

"Doing just fine," Fred spoke out while nodding his head once in her direction before looking past her and looking over to Justin in the passenger seat and nodding to him. "Mr. Bieber."

"Fred...good to see you, man."

"Likewise."

Fred stopped the conversation shortly and looked to the backseat and saw Storm sitting and staring at him in amusement with her arms crossed over her chest making Fred simply look back over to Justin, in hopes for an answer on who Storm was.

"My fiancée."

"Congratulations."

And with that blunt of a response, Justin nodded to Fred and let him bend back up to his regular height and turn his back to press the button behind him and let the sudden buzz be heard sharply before Willow sighed heavily and rolled the window back up and continued to drive as Storm scoffed.

"Are we at a home or the White House?"

Justin and Willow snickered as they drove slowly over to the left side of the front of the house where it was three other cars perfectly parked next to each other -- besides the free spot for Willow to park hers which made Storm look in astonishment as Willow put the car in park and took off her seatbelt.

"Yep, we're definitely at the White House."

Justin shook his head and got out of the car and opened Storm's door for her and offered her his hand -- only making her hesitantly place her hand in his and cause Justin to crease his eyebrows and shut ehr door and hold her waist with both his hands and place her back against the door.

"You sure about this? I mean, we can stay at a hotel."

"I'm pretty sure this place is a hotel."

"I'll take that as a yes..."

"Come on, you two!" Willow shouted as some service workers came out of the big front door and started to head for the car and open the door to grab everyone's luggage which made Storm scoff and grab onto Justin's muscular shoulders.

"Yes. I'm sure about this."

Storm then guided Justin by his hand as they took a handful of their luggage as the workers guided them back into the house where Storm automatically stopped and looked at the large and beautifully decorated foyer which made her feel like her breath was taken away just by the sight.

"This is..."

"Beautiful?"

The sound of the feminine voice from afar made Storm and Justin turn around to see an older woman with blonde hair that showed gray at the roots with her perfectly sculpted face that had thick black glasses to compliment them walking toward them with her arms wide open making Willow smile wide.

"Grandma..."

"Honey...always lovely to see you," She spoke as she looked over Willow and kissed her forehead gently before letting out a deep breath and looking up at Justin and seeing him looking down at her with a sudden gleam in his hazel eyes. "And you, young man..."

"Hey, Grandma..."

Without another word, Justin's grandma had wrapped her arms around Justin's waist and brought him into a warm embrace that made him feel a sudden feeling in the pit of his stomach that he never wanted to go away as he wrapped his arms tightly around her small frame and brought her closer to his chest and resting his head on top of hers.

"God, I missed you..."

"As did I, Jay...as did I..."

Once the two released from their hug, Justin sharply inhaled a breath and walked closer to Storm and interlaced their fingers and brought her closer to his grandma and let Storm feel the sudden jitters as her blue-green colored eyes lit up at the sight of her.

"And you might be?"

"I'm Storm. Storm Blackwood, Justin's fiancée."

"Fiancée? Oh, this is wonderful! Now Justin can finally give me some more grandchildren!"

"Whoa, wait--"

"We just got engaged--"

"Oh, come on, you two aren't getting any younger."

Storm and Justin shared a look.

Justin and Storm stopped their continuous nervous talking over each other when they hears Justin's grandma starting to laugh which made them both look each other's way again and crease their eyebrows as her laughing started to come to an end.

"I'm just kidding! You two should have seen your faces."

"Grandma--"

"Storm, honey," She interjected as she licked her lips and walked closer to Storm and found herself placing her small hand in hers and smiling wide as Storm had her full attention while she spoke out lowly. "I just want to thank you for taking care of my grandson for all this time."

"Oh?"

"Yes, and please feel free to call me Grandma or Joanne."

"How about Granny Jo?"

Joanne looked over to Justin quickly.

"She's a keeper, Jay."

Justin chuckled nervously as Storm looked back at him and winked his way which made him simply grin and shake his head as she turned back to Joanne and patted her small and wrinkled hands.

"Well, the house is amazing, Granny Jo..."

"Actually, it's a manor."

The sound of another feminine voice made everybody look toward the white marble decorated staircase with the gold colored railing and seeing another woman coming down the steps with dirty blonde haired that was in beach curls that stopped a little after her shoulders while dressed in a pink polka dot dress that stopped just below the knee with a pink and black trimmed jacket hanging off her shoulders while her nude heels clicked fiercely against the stairs.

As silence fell over everybody, Justin took the chance to lean closer to Storm and whisper lowly enough for only her to hear. "That's my mom."

"She doesn't seem too bad."

Once she reached the last step of the staircase, the smile she had on her lips started to slowly fade as she raised one of her perfectly arched eyebrows and looked over Storm before looking over to Justin and quickly walking over to him and kissing both of his cheeks with his face cupped in her hands.

"Oh, Jay, honey..."

"Hey, mom..."

"I can't believe it. God has finally answered my prayers."

"I didn't even think you knew the definition of a prayer."

Justin's mom rolled her eyes.

"Oh stop it, Jay," She muttered out as she flipped her curls over her shoulder and looked over to Storm for a second time and plastered a fake smile on her lips and interlaced her fingers together in front of her stomach. "And who is this?"

"Mom...this is Storm Blackwood."

"I'm Justin's fiancée."

As soon as the words slipped from Storm's lips, Justin's mother felt like everything was starting to move in slow motion as she found herself pausing for a moment to try and take in the new information as if she didn't hear her the first time.

"Fiancée you say?"

"Uh, yeah, I asked her to marry me a few days ago."

"Really?"

"Wow, mom, not really the reaction you give people when they get engaged." Willow spoke out as she laughed lowly and crossed her arms over her chest which made everyone in the room fall silent for a moment.

"I just..."

"Just...what, mom?"

"I didn't expect her to be..."

"Black?" Storm and Justin spoke out at the same time which made her jump and hold her chest for a moment and blink a couple of times as the room fell silent once again and Storm found herself scoffing and shaking her head.

"Oh, boy..."

"Well, should I make some lemonade?"

"Willow--"

"Wait, you're not okay with my fiancée being black...are you?" Justin asked as the room fell silent again which made him and Storm share a look as Willow smacked her lips against her teeth and rubbed her hands before speaking up once again.

"I...think I will make that lemonade..."

"Jay, honey...don't you think we shouldn't be fighting? You just got here...I think you and Star--"

"--It's Storm."

"Storm. Should get to your room that I had the workers clean up and join us for dinner in an hour."

Justin clenched his jaw.

"You mean the dinner with your new BFF?" Justin questioned as his mother rose an eyebrow and Justin found himself chuckling and crossing his arms over his chest as he watched his mother try to play coy with him. "Yeah, I ran into Isabelle at the airport."

"Oh...I see..."

"You know what, I think we will freshen up. We'll see you all at dinner."

Storm suddenly tugged Justin by his strong arms and guided him with her up the staircase as the workers followed close behind with their luggage as they both headed up the staircase hand in hand and silent until Justin guided them to a bedroom on the far end of the long and wide hallway -- but just before opening the door, he heard chatter which made him stop and see someone coming down the hallway.

"Bruno?"

Upon hearing his name, Bruno looked up to Justin and kept the same blank look on his face as he continued to voice type into his phone about some type of software as he headed into his bedroom across from Justin's which made Storm scoff.

"That's Bruno?"

"Yep...he's always been...antisocial."

Storm hummed in response as Justin opened the door to the bedroom and she found herself gawking over the huge bedroom that was neatly made for them while the workers walked around them both and sat down their luggage before leaving which made Justin thank them and shut the door behind them and walk over to Storm with his hands in his pockets.

"You like it?"

"Love..."

Justin hummed in response and found himself wrapping his arms around Storm's waist and bringing her close to him as he let his head rest in the nape of her sweet scented neck which made her giggle softly and place one hand on top of his arm and use the other to run her fingers through his soft hair.

"You okay?"

"It's going to take more than some remark about my skin color and a name mixup to get me down, Bieber."

Justin chuckled against Storm's neck.

"That's why I love you."

Storm paused for a moment and smiled to herself as she felt the butterflies in her stomach that she always felt when Justin told her those three little words, she sharply inhaled a breath and turned around to face Justin and place her hands on his chest.

"I love you too, Jay."

"Hey...can we talk about what my grandma said? You know, about the kids?"

"Nope."

And with that, Storm unwrapped herself from Justin's embrace and started to get ready to unpack while Justin stood there for a moment and chuckled to himself before unpacking his things as well and joining Storm.

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heyooo! so this was a long ass chapter and idk why lol, but i hope y'all enjoyed it cause i enjoyed typing it lololol

but how do you guys feel about justin's family? who do you like the most? who do you not like the most? how about isabelle? thoughts? how do you guys think the dinner will go? lemme know your thoughts!

also, just for some visuals, this is justin's family's manor and his bedroom in the manor!

as usual, thank for reading! don't forget to vote and comment! see ya in the next chapter! 🦋✨