Both Natasha and Dom were thinking the same thing at the moment. For one neither of them were aware that Jennifer and Nine were so close that they were actually friends.
Well if they thought about it well enough, it did make a lot of sense, for one Nine always volunteered to pick up Joy from school since he loved doing that, and Jennifer was Joy's teacher, so it made sense that they saw each other severally.
But for Nine to have the courage to ask her to accompany him here, it meant that they had a really close relationship, like really good friends.
Nine rarely had any female friends except for Lia and after the whole ordeal they doubted that he had been in contact with her, so for him to make a new friend so quickly, they were very surprised to say the least.
"I really love your dress Joy, it's so beautiful and it's even your favourite colour." said Jennifer as she smiled.
"Thank you Miss Honey, my mommy and daddy bought it for me, I love this dress so much, it is now my favourite dress ever." said Joy happily as they all laughed.
"I also love your dress Miss Honey, why are you wearing black?" asked Joy out of curiosity, she had never seen Jennifer wearing dark colours before, she always wore bright colourful colours, so it was really weird for Joy to to see her wearing such a dark colour.
"Well I wanted to match with your uncle since I had no idea what to wear, do you like it?" asked Jennifer as she smiled and winked at Joy as Joy giggled.
"I like it very much." said Joy as she giggled.
"Mommy, daddy, next time we have a party, why don't we all match and dress the same?" asked Joy as she turned to look at her parents who laughed.
"Sure darling, I don't see why not." said Natasha as she laughed and smiled.
"Yayyyyy!!" said Joy as she smiled and jumped a little bit.
"Oh my goodness somebody pinch me... I can't believe what I am seeing." came Charlie's loud dramatic voice as he walked towards them.
"There is Nine... the awkward cold Nine with an actual woman... I must be dreaming." said Charlie dramatically as Nine frowned and Dom shook his head.
"Charlie can you stop being overdramatic, we're in public, don't embarrass us and yourself." said Dom as Charlie did not pay him any attention at all.
"Uncle Charlie!" called Joy as she gave him a hug.
"Hello princess, you look as lovely as ever." he said as he poked her nose and she giggled.
"Ahh Natasha, look we're matching." said Charlie as he laughed since he and Natasha were both wearing red.
"That we are." she replied as she laughed.
"You look really nice, and Dom, you look dashing if I do say so myself." said Charlie smugly as Nine scoffed, of course he thought that when it was his suit that Dom was literally wearing.
"And you must be Miss Honey." said Charlie as he looked at Jennifer and smiled, he had caught her name from overhearing Joy talking to her while he was busy rubbing his eyes doubting if he had just seen Nine arrive hand in hand with a woman, and not just any woman but a really beautiful woman that he was sure he had seen before but just did not know where he had.
"And you must be Charlie, it's really nice to meet you." said Jennifer as she stretched out her hand for a handshake.
"Likewise, now please tell me, there's no need to keep secrets here, we are all friends, how much did Nine pay you to show up with him?" asked Charlie as Nine balled his fist and Natasha shook her head and sighed while Dom was about to give Charlie a knock on the head.
Jennifer on the other hand did not seem offended at all, if anything she looked as if she had expected the question. She just have a light chuckled and said:
"He didn't pay me anything, it's an honour to be invited to such an event by your brother." she replied with a smile as she held Nine's hand catching him by surprise.
Charlie's eyes on the other hand opened wide like saucers when he saw that she willingly held Nine's hand and the most surprising part was that Nine allowed it, and this was Nine they were talking about, he liked his personal space very much and wouldn't just let anyone in.
"Alright now I'm sure that he bribed you to come here with him!" declared Charlie loudly.
"Can you please shut up Charlie." said Michael as he scoffed and gave Charlie a knock on the head, he had overheard everything and as usual, Charlie was being the loud mouth, insensitive jerk he was, especially when they were with strangers.
"Ouch!" cried Charlie as he rubbed his head.
"Finally, thank you for that Michael, he really deserved it." said Nine as he shook his head.
"No I didn't!" cried Charlie.
"Oh but you did, you certainly had that coming." said Dom as Joy giggled watching the adults around her interact, they were all so silly, especially Charlie.
"You hit me too hard." cried Charlie with a frown as Michael glared at him.
"Miss Honey, I am really sorry about Charlie's behaviour, don't mind him, he has a very loose mouth." said Michael as he apologized.
"It's fine, I don't mind at all, Xavier already gave me a heads up before we arrived." said Jennifer as she laughed.
"Xavier??!!" called Charlie in shock as the others had the same shocked look on their faces. Nine did not allow anyone call him Xavier, it was rare that he even acknowledged that name, he disliked his name so much that his nickname was sort of like his real name, even grandfather called him Nine, so for Jennifer to so casually call him Xavier, it meant that something big was really going on around here.
"Yes, Xavier, isn't that his name?" asked Jennifer confused as to why they all looked like that.
"Yes it is but you ca—" said Charlie as he was cut off by Lulu.
"Finally you guys are all here, we have less than five minutes before we—" said Lulu as she cut herself off when she caught sight of Jennifer.
"Oh hello, I don't think that we've met before, my name is Louise White, but everyone just calls me Lulu." said Lulu as she smiled and stretched out her hand for a handshake.
"I've heard so much about you Lulu, it's nice to finally meet you, my name is Jennifer Honey, but you can just call me Jenny." said Jennifer as she smiled and they shook hands.
"Oh that's such a pretty name Jenny, it's so lovely to meet you, I really love your dress." said Lulu as she smiled.
"And I really love yours as well, it's so colourful, it goes with the theme perfectly." said Jennifer.
"I know right, I love it so much." said Lulu as she giggled certainly liking Jennifer already, she wondered who invited her.
"Excuse me for asking, but who are you here with?" asked Lulu with a smile.
"It's no problem at all, Xavier invited me." said Jenny with a smile.
"Oh, so you're his date, wow, he wasn't joking when he said that you would be really pretty." said Lulu as Jennifer looked at Nine.
"Really he said that?" asked Jennifer as Nine looked away and refused to make eye contact with her causing her to giggle.
"Yes he did, I know he looks quiet but he can really talk." said Lulu as they all laughed.
"Can we please stop talking about me, don't we have to go see grandfather or something?" asked Nine as he cleared his throat.
"Umm no we don't, only you have to since you were late." replied Charlie as both Michael and Dom glared at him, warning him with their eyes not to say anything stupid.
"I see, I'll go and see him now." said Nine as he was looking for any excuse to get out of this situation where everyone was talking about him, he did not like it at all.
"Hold that thought, there's no time for that right now, we have to be on the stage for the first formal address right now." said Lulu as her phone beeped.
"What?? Right now?? But I wanted to speak to Jenny some more and know more details about her relationship with Nine." said Charlie as this time Lulu gave him a well deserved knock on the head.
"Shut your big mouth and let's go, come on, you obviously can't stay here, why do you like gossip so much?" asked Lulu in annoyance as she dragged him along with her.
"Please don't mind Charlie Miss Honey, sometimes we think he got dropped on the head as a baby." said Michael as Jennifer laughed.
"I'm afraid that I'm not joking." said Michael seriously as Jennifer stopped laughing.
"Oh, well I don't really mind, it's all in good fun." she replied with a smile.