Chapter 10
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”I’d have your head examined.”
”Seriously.” Jon deadpans.
“Seriously, what the hell are you thinking?”
”I’m thinking I hate being single and you don’t like being single anymore than I do. I’m 45 you’re 36 we’re supposed to be with someone by now. It sounds like your life is kind of lonely. You understand my lifestyle, you love my music. You haven’t put any pressure on me at all this weekend. You treat me like a normal man, you haven’t done the OMG you’re JBJ thing. I think you’re incredibly attractive, I’d have no problem waking up in bed with you every morning.” He rambled an explanation.
”Jon you don’t know me – you don’t know anything about me?”
”What do I have to know? Are you married already?” The interview began.
”NO.”
“Have you ever been married?”
“No.” Danielle answers again.
“Do you want to be married?”
”Yes.”
”Ok still on the same page, what do I have to know about you?”
”I hold marriage sacred, divorce is not an option. I don’t do it.”
”How do you know you don’t if you’ve never been married?” The quick fire conversation entertained him, finally someone would speak to him without thinking everything through a million times first.
“Jon the thought of marriage is sacred to me, I want to do it for all the right reasons, for love, safety, security, and”
”And what?”
”A future Jon. The man I want to marry I want to have kids with I think. I don’t know if I can but it’d be fun to try.”
”Ok, why are you saying you don’t know if you can?” Jon is listening to her 100%.
“I have something called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.”
”OK and what the fuck is that?”
“It's a problem where my ovaries produce cysts instead of eggs and it messes up all my hormone levels I don’t always get my period, it basically just screws with my hormones and emotions. The problem is I ignored it for years because the symptom of it is not getting a period. I was like good ridden and left it at that. Because I didn’t take care of it years ago I may be infertile now.”
“Trust me kids aren’t an issue with me, if you can’t have any it's not going to make me walk away I have 4 of them.”
“I still don’t get why you’re thinking this?”
“Me either but the more I roll it around in my head the more sense it makes.”
Jon and Danielle would have been lying on the bed when he asked that question so
“I can’t guarantee it’ll work, but also can’t guarantee it won’t work.. There are absolutely no guarantees in this world expect some day we’ll die. I’ve always been
very much a planner and organizer but I’m willing to take a chance.”
“Why?”
“Cos I don’t want to be alone anymore. I want someone that wants to love, not wants me per-say but wants to love and be in love. You care about the persona but you’re not in bed with the persona now – your in bed with Jon.” He’d smile and kiss her nose.
“We’re talking marriage and have never even kissed one another.” Danielle would say.
Jon would feel it’s his duty to cure that problem. “How horrible of me. I’m sorry Dani, please forgive me.” He smirks and leans in to kiss her. His lips tenderly take command of hers. Showing her without words what it's like to connect to someone fully. After he pulls back she’d inhale deeply and open her eyes.
“Chemistry?” Jon asks.
“OH hell yeah.” She’d then smirk and pull him to her for another kiss. Jon laughs inside she’s going to be fun.
They kissed for a while and finally fall asleep both thinking of the idea of marrying the other without all the traditional dating being done.
Danielle suffered that night with some wacky dreams. First she dreams they are 65 the first time they say I love you to one another. Then she dreams they can not have good sex, no matter which position they are in it always feels horrible. She would wake up with a start and Jon mumbles, “It's ok Del, go back to sleep I’m right here.”
Danielle smirked at his silly sleepy nickname for her and she rested her head on his shoulder. This time good dreams come. They kiss at their wedding and they both feel electricity. She sees the smile in his eyes, this time in the dream the sex is so amazing she constantly wants more. She even dreams of them sitting on the couch his hand on her very pregnant belly.
~ next morning ~
Jon woke up and can feel after a few minutes that Danielle is awake. “Del are you willing to take a risk with me?”
“Yeah Jon.”
He squeezes her arms in a odd sort of hug. He then looks at the clock. He see’s that it's almost 11am local time. “Is it time to call your boss?”
Danielle got up and made coffee. “I have to sound awake like I’m at the
airport. Coffee?”
”Yes please, black.”
Danielle sat and had her coffee then call Bryan.
“Hello?”
”Hey Bryan it's Danielle what’s up?”
”Not a lot, why are you calling me on a Sunday? Thought you’d still be in Jovi land?” Danielle laughs and looks at Jon to be quiet cos she has Bryan on speaker.
“Well I sort of am. I’m stuck in Canada.”
”What? Why?”
”Well I’m not sure when I gave them my passport to go home they told me to stay here. So far I don’t know anything so it's not looking like I’ll get home today so tomorrow isn’t looking good for work.”
”Well call Bengi in the morning if you can’t get in. I thought you were going to tell me you got arrested or something. So how was the concert?”
Jon laughed that she has this casual of a relationship with her boss.
“Fucking amazing. Toronto is awesome – worth every single second. Not a bad place to get stuck.”
“Well get your butt home we miss you.”
“Yeah sure you do? NO one to pick on or is no one else selling?”
”No one’s selling get home.” Byran laughed and they hang up.
“You know you can go back to WI but we need to figure out a timeframe to get married?” Jon told her after the call.
“What?”
“Well we have to get married in states – we are after all US citizens.”
“I don’t see a ring yet.” She called him on it thinking he’s joking about this marriage thing.
“ok women lets go!” Jon said and he’d head to the shower and then she would.
After shower – they’d kiss and walk out the door.
