Chapter 13

“The boy toy – the slacker that was supposed to come to Jersey with me on my birthday.”

“yeah”

“Well he couldn’t remember what he promised people.”

“But I know that now. I know, for example, if I promise to be home in a hour I know to be there or call you and explain why.”

“exactly”

“see easy to fix – but I knew with Dot she’d ignore it if I didn’t get home on time- I’d eventually pay for it.”

“how?”

“Eventually I’d get scolded and sex was not an option for about a week then I wasn’t in trouble anymore.” Jon stated matter of fact.

“Denied sex and you didn’t have a problem with it?” Danielle asked.

“No, that was her game. It was easy for me to understand when all of a sudden she had a headache 2 nights in a row. ‘I get it your unhappy’ and then I just had to figure out what I had done, apologize and we were good.”

“How is that fair?” Danielle asked. “You shouldn’t have to do penance in your marriage like you would for confession.”

“It's really not it's just how we operated.”

“Seems like you had rules that were screwy.”

“Be with someone for 30 yrs–you come up with reasons for things and ways of letting people know you’re pissed without saying it. Silent gestures of oh I have a headache for a week is easier than nagging at me.”

“it was ok with you for her to w/hold sex?” Danielle asked again.

“No I didn’t like it but it was a pattern my actions had consequences and I knew that but I still did things my way, it's inconsiderate and rude to not call if you’re going to be late. I didn’t call – my bad, I deserved a consequence. Ok it's your turn for a question.” Jon knew without them stating so they were pretty much playing Truth.

“Have you ever hit a woman?” Dani asked him.

“Hell no, and I never will. I taught my sons they same way my father taught me. If I ever touched a woman in anything other than in a way to pleasure or comfort her he’d knock me out. I told my boys the same thing.”

“Have you ever gotten close.”

“Once. One time Dot and I got into such a fight I could have done it if I didn’t have more respect for her than that.”

“What the heck happened that pushed you that far over the edge?”

“Well I had been gone for some reason or other, and when I walked into the house the first thing out of Dot’s mouth was ‘you’re fucking cheating on me’. Well I have a problem with that. Not that she accused me of it because we all know I’m not perfect but that it was the first thing she said when I walked in the door and at the volume she was at. I asked where the kids were, found out they were with our parents and then looked at her and told her. ‘Don’t you ever attack me when I walk in the door again. If you want to fight with me, give me the time to take my coat off first.’ Well she continued to scream and I was so close to losing my cool I had to turn and basically run down to our gym and lock myself inside for a 2 hr workout. When I came out I was calm enough to tell her that she will not ever treat me like that again. It was also the only time in our relationship I threatened her with divorce.”

“Being married to you isn’t easy is it?”

“No from what I understand it sucks, everyone wants a piece of me. Reporters, women, it's never perfect.”

“how do you survive it?” Danielle asked.

“Whole lot of communication with those I love. You get through nothing in this world without it.”

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Chapter 12

~ later on the way to Winnipeg ~

Jon gets tired on the plane and moved to lay with his head on Danielle’s lap.
Danielle ran her hand through Jon’s hair which caused Ava to start to laugh.

“What’s so funny Ava?”

“Uncle Jonny is going to fall in love with you.”

“Why do you say that?”

“cos he loves that, and if he falls asleep he’ll moan from that.”

Jon tells Ava she doesn’t know anything and she calls him a big fibber.

Finally the captain comes on and reminds everyone to fasten their seat belts.
“Hate captains.” Jon muttered as he sits up.

They spend the day together, mostly running errands he has to. Going to radio stations for interviews, sound check, standing around so people can take pictures of him. Danielle finds everything interesting and Jon can tell she’s not just putting on a happy face she actually cares about his life.

Danielle is ecstatic that she gets to see another Jovi show. This time from the front row too. After the show she’s on a high and kisses Jon the second she sees him.

“You’d be the horny wife wouldn’t you?” He’d smile.

“If I was touring with you – oh yeah. Watching you shake your ass around on stage every night would get to me.”

“Watching you get hot for me would so work.” Jon smirked.

“Jon.” Danielle says and look down.

“Why are you shy about me wanting you?” Jon asked. “You seem very confident in other areas.”

”Because I know my body isn’t all the great.”

”What are you comparing yourself to? A model that’s to thin to exist? Or airbrushed until it hurts?”

”Jon you’re being nice.”

“Ok let me explain what I see when I look at your body and how I guarantee it differs from when women look at their bodies. Now no yelling at me for this I’m being honest with you ok?”

”Ok.”

”I see legs, to wrap around me. Breasts, beautiful and real and I want my hands on them. I see your small butt but it's perfect to rub against my cock and drive me nuts. I see your arms, they’d wrap around me make me feel not so lonely. Your long curly hair it's natural, so I could play with it and not get in trouble. Your neck – can I nibble on it? See Dani your body is functional, what can I touch or play with to entice.” Jon then leaned in for a kiss. “What do you see when you look at my body?”

“As if you don’t know what women drool over?”

”I didn’t ask what women drool over I asked what you see.”

“Strength, your stomach is rock hard. Your arms are so defined and your thighs are too you can protect me.”

“What am I protecting you from sweetie?” Jon wanted to know, he’s glad they are having this conversation, this is the kind of stuff he’ll need to know about her should she accept his marriage proposal. They are in comfy bed clothes and lying in bed Jon didn't get an immediate answer from her so he asked again softly. “So what am I protecting you from Del?”

“From being alone the rest of my life.”

”Why would you think you would be?”

”Because I was told by my ex that I’m alone because I don’t need a guy in my life”

”What was he smoking?” Jon asked. “I think it's sexy that you don’t NEED me but WANT me anyway.”

“You get that? I thought I was the only person that understood the difference.”

”Yes. It's just like me, I don’t need a woman in my life, I can survive, pay people to do shit around my house, find a warm body to fill my bed if I need to. The problem is I want one there. I want the same woman in my arms every night. I want the same woman to get on my case about picking up my laundry off the floor. I want the same woman to be how I find fulfillment of those urges. You have the box set right?” Jon asked.

“yes of course.”

”Why did I ask?” He smiles knowing the answer was going to be yes the second he asked it.

“Anyway the song – you can’t live without me why aren’t you dead – that’s kind of what I’m talking about. I don’t want someone to be all – I can’t live without you Jon. To me that’s a little desperate and also a lie. I know that they can LIVE without me maybe not enjoy life as much but they’ll LIVE.. I’d much rather have a woman who’s honest in my life who tells me – you know what Jon if you fuck me over, I’ll survive so keep that in mind you aren’t my world I just like you in it.”

“IS that how you feel now about marriage?”

“I don’t know I’ve lived a charmed life. I’m not sure if I’m gonna get it again. I didn’t appreciate it when I had it so I might be destined to be alone now.”

“Do you feel your marriage ended because of you?”

“No way to make it succeed or fail with one person.” Jon told her, happy they are talking like this. It shows him that she wants more than the surface.

“I’m glad to hear that.”

“Why?”

“It's just a pet peeve of mine that people think themselves so important that they can make or break a relationship.”

“I could put strain on my marriage but it took two to cure it or fuck it up completely.”

“so what finally ended your marriage?”

“Honestly, me not taking to heart what she told me when she said she needed me home more and her not understanding that I was doing the best that I could. We stopped truly communicating.”

“How do we stand a chance then, if you and Dot didn’t last.”

“I know now what I don’t want to lose, what being alone is like and I don’t like it.
Remember I’m also 45 now incredibly comfortable in my own skin – Just Older is about the truest songs we ever wrote.”

Dani decided to lay it on the line. If this was a real relationship then this stuff needed to be discussed.

“I’m not as forgiving as Dot was.”

“The cheating?” Jon asks already knowing this topic would come up.

“Yep.”

“Well I know that up front, the beauty of going at things this way. We are walking into a relationship upfront and honest. We know now what we will and won’t accept.
I’m not dumb enough to walk into this without a prenup or knowing you will walk out if I cheat. I’m glad we’re talking about this. If I cheated would you go to the press?”

“No I wouldn’t forgive you though. I can’t tell you I’d forgive you for that I think Dot did a disservice to anyone you’re ever going to date.”

“Meaning?” Jon doesn’t understand this statement.

“She forgave shit most women wouldn’t.”

“Again Dot got me in a way that many women never will. Not a bad way not that she’s the only one for me, nothing like that at all but she had a way of looking at our relationship with a grain of salt.”

“Meaning?” This time it's Dani that needs clarification. Jon smiled, if she’s always going to be this easy to talk to life with Dani is going to rock.

“If I called her and told her I’d be home in a hour, she’d tell me ok. If I came home 3hrs later – she’d ignore it she knew that was just me – I get sidetracked I forgot I made a promise to her to be home.”

“Oh god I don’t want to be involved in that.” Dani said very bluntly.

“Wow who screwed you over?”

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Chapter 11

Jon and Danielle 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 laughed 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 suffers 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 woke 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 rest 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 wanted more. She even dreams of them sitting on the couch his hand on her very pregnant belly.

~ next morning ~

Jon wake 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 make coffee. “I have to sound awake like I’m at the airport. Coffee?”

”Yes please, black.” Danielle sit and have 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.” Bryan laugh and they’d 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.


“We have to fly to Winnipeg today – do you want your ring from there or here?”

“Toronto”

“How’d I know you’d say that?” Jon smiled grabbing Danielle’s hand in the lobby and walking out the front door of the hotel. “Ok where’s that big mall you showed us yesterday?”

Danielle laughed and lead him to the Eaton Center.

Jon and Danielle walked into the Eaton Center and he’d instantly find a jewelry store.

“Hi there, we’d like to look at your engagement rings.” He’d tell the lady behind the counter.

“Do you know what size you’re looking for?” She’d ask knowing exactly who he is.

“3 maybe 4 caret.” He’d tell her.

“NO. Have you seen my small hand that would kill me. One caret tops.” Danielle tells him.

Jon looks at the lady and smiles with a glint in his eye like larger she’ll never know.

The sales lady quickly grabbed some rings and begin showing them rings. Danielle constantly looked at the smallest ring.

Jon looked at the sales lady, “Tasha can you give us a moment.”

”Sure Mr. Bon Jovi.” She then walked away to give them time to talk.

“Del, I love that you’re modest but work with me here ok. The ring has to look like it's intentional. The ring has to look like it belongs there, like I bought it. Del, if the ring is super small it's going to look like a joke considering my estimated net worth. I won’t go for something ostentatious but can you allow me a little control in this area?”

“Ok.” She would answer understanding his reasoning and also respecting how he communicated with her.

Jon motioned Tasha back over and in no time he’s picked out a Emerald cut center stone in a platinum setting with 2 emerald cut side stones. The ring is a total weight of 2ct. But it is very tasteful and doesn’t look overwhelming. The emerald cuts show the brilliance of the stones without making them look like costume jewelry.

”Tasha do you have one in her size you could engrave today?”

“Sure we have one in stock, what would you like engraved?”

Jon grabbed a store business card and write down. “WTWYR, Forever yours Jon.”

He didn't show Danielle the engraving, “We’ll be back in what 30 min?” He asked her.

“That will be perfect.”

Jon took Danielle by the hand and walk out of the jewelry store. “So what do you want to for 30 min?”

“This.” Danielle smiled then kiss him deeply.

“OH I love that.” He smiled. “Why did I earn it?”

”Because when you wanted something other than what I did, you didn’t throw a tantrum you explained it I appreciate that immensely.”

“Hey we get no where if we don’t communicate. I’ve learned that.”

“Awesome. So want to hit a record store.”

“Ahh someone from my generation.”

”What?”

“A record store. Kids now a days don’t know what a friggin record is.”

“I know my cousin’s kid looks at me like I have 3 heads when I say record.”
Jon smiled and kiss Danielle casually as they walk into the store.

About 40 minutes later, after a few purchases of some new artists Jon and Danielle go retrieve her ring and leave making it back to the hotel just in time to get into the limo to head to the airport.

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Chapter 10

10)
”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.

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Chapter 9

The streets in Toronto are lined with buildings that provide evidence of Canada’s architectural heritage that Jon was completely impressed by. Between Union Station and the Eaton Centre are treasured landmarks, innovative skyscrapers, and fine examples of modern architecture. All of this impresses Jon and Richie alike. Ava is even interested because she loves to people watch. Danielle no longer has Jon’s hand she is taking pictures and so is he. However, every time they stop for a bit he has his arm around her or he takes her hand again. Danielle tryed to show them things that actually interested them. She had them head to Old City Hall, the fact that it no longer fit the area around it made it an interesting enough building. She even told them what she learned about the building. “This center of municipal government was opened in 1899 in a ceremony, after taking ten years to build and going more than ten times over the original budget. It was built in textured two-toned sandstone. The interior now serves as law courts. It almost got demolished when they built Eaton Center but public protests saved it.”

She pointed out Nathan Phillips Square, the plaza fronting City Hall, and even walked up onto the overpass walk to get out of the way of other tourists. Ava is watching them fill the square for the ice rink that will soon be there.

“Jon this is probably a good place to do the interview you’re kind of away from people so the cell phone won’t bother them.” Danielle pointed out. Jon had completely forgot he was supposed to do a call in.

”OH good call I’ll try to make it quick.”

After Jon completed his interview he walked back to the rest of his party, “Ok work is over.”

”Good because we have more to see.” Danielle held her hand out to Jon and he smiled taking it. They all started walking, she would show them the Rogers Center, the Canadian Walk of Fame and finally end at the CN Tower.

“Hey I’ve seen lots of pictures of this thing.” Richie tells her.

“And it's even more amazing to go into. NO one is scared of heights are they.” Danielle asks.

“No.” Ava answers excitedly.

“Great lets go. The CN Tower is Canada's most recognizable landmarks and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. It's only been here since 76 and it was built to symbolize the strength of Canadian industry and is the tallest tower in the world.” Danielle told them reading from a brochure, after Jon bought her ticket again refusing to let her pay for herself. “Although the tower inspires a sense of pride and inspiration for Canadians, its origins are rooted in practicality, as people living in the Toronto area now enjoy the clearest reception in North America from its microwave receptors. The view from each of the 4 lookout levels gets more amazing the higher you go.”

After their visit to the CN tower, they get back on the subway and head back to the hotel. Stopping at one of the restaurants inside for dinner. Finally after dinner they head to their rooms. Richie and Ava thank Danielle for the tour and Jon accompanies Danielle to her room.

“I like you.”

“I like you too Jon.”

“No seriously. I like you. I don’t wanna…Oh damn this is going to come out really really bizarre, please don’t laugh
at me.”

She noticed that Jon for the first time ever that she's seen, didn't look 100% confident. “Ok.”

”This isn’t the actual question I just wanna feel you out on something?”

“Feel me out or feel me up?” Danielle smiled trying to lessen his stress.

“Feel you up later.” He’d take a deep breath. “What would you do if I asked you to the marry me?”

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Chapter 8

They would get off the subway and walk up to street level and Danielle would instantly start walking in the direction of Casa Loma.

“How do you remember this?” Jon would ask her.

“Because this was one of my favorite things I saw here. Besides you can’t really miss it.” She pointed to a huge Castle.

“Daddy can we live in a Castle like that?” Ava smiled.

“Sure baby, on the 2nd Tuesday of next week.”

”Cool.” She smiled not getting it.
Danielle led them to the entrance and Jon paid for her to get in.

“Thank you.”

”No thank you for bringing us here, this looks amazing.”

“Well Casa Loma is amazing. It was the residence of Sir Henry Mill Pellatt in the early 1900's. Pellatt was a military officer knighted by King Edward VII and who made it to the Queens Own Rifles. He was also an industrialist and financier. There is a audio tour which we should get one of it’ll tell us more about each room.”

Richie walked over and got the audio equipment and they started to walk around. Jon never let go of Danielle’s hand. “This castle sits on 5 acres of land and there are amazing gardens outside, that unfortunately are closed now. But there are stables on the grounds that are connected by underground tunnels and a tower that has a amazing view of the skyline.”

”Lets go daddy.” Ava smirked and pulled Richie down a hallway.

Danielle smirked at Jon and told him there is a Harry Potter stairway in this castle.

“A what?”

“You can’t tell me with 4 kids you don’t know what Harry Potter is?”

”Oh I do but I don’t know what you mean by the stairway.”

”Well in Hogwarts they have stairs that change positions remember?”

”OH yeah, I thought they were cool. The stairs move here?”

“No but if you come this way.” Danielle walked up the stairs and looked left then right trying to find the area again. “Well I thought it was this way. There’s this area where like 4 or 5 stairways converge it's a riot.” Finally after roaming through the castle for 30 min they come across what she has deemed the Harry Potter Stairs and Jon takes a picture knowing his kids would approve. The 4 of them spent a good 2 hrs in the castle, everyone even heads up to the towers, down through the tunnels into the stables and finally back to the subway into downtown. They got off the subway and started walking.

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Chapter 7

“I look at my life now and wonder why? Is this where I’m supposed to be? Why did I go to school so long? Why did I pass up love to go to school and be successful. But that song made me realize I am exactly where I’m supposed to be. I’m supposed to be right here, right now.”

”Exactly.” Jon smiled at her. “I know just how you feel.”

"Yeah right you’re married.”

”No I’m not.”

”What?”

”I came home from writing Lost Highway – well you know how the story was that Whole Lot of Leaving was about Richie and David?”

”yes.”

”Well when I came home I had a dear Jon letter on the table. She basically told me she couldn’t be ‘not quite enough’ for me anymore. As much as I hate her for breaking my heart I can’t fault her because I did this to myself. You said why didn’t you bother I say why did I bother? I look at my life and here I am at 45 I’m broken and beaten and alone in so many ways. I surround myself with people but I'm still alone. I’m not capable of believing in anyone when they say I love you. How do I get in another relationship and believe a woman? The woman I thought would be my everything for the rest of my life broke my heart into a million pieces.”

“The reason you can believe is because you learned something?” Danielle offered.

“Learned what? Don’t take her for granted, make sure she understands how important she is?”
He asked remotely.

“How long ago was the divorce?”

“7mo.”

“Have you dated since then?” She questioned.

”Here and there, nothing serious. When she wanted to walk out I didn’t stop her. One thing I have to say is I refuse to fight for someone who doesn’t want to be with me. My kids know it has nothing to do with them, and we still get along pretty well.” His thoughts weren't exactly focused right now, something about this woman told him it was ok to talk. Danielle didn't say anything else she smiled and walked over to David making plans for tomorrow.


The following day, as David planned, Danielle lead Jon, Richie and Ava through a tour of Toronto. “OK what do you guys want to see? Architecture, landmarks, tourist traps?”

“Architecture interests me.” Jon told her actually shocked that she would ask him and not just assume to know what he likes.

“I love the skyline and landmarks.” Richie smirks and Ava just smiles. “Whatever, as long as I don’t freeze.”

Danielle directed them all to the entrance to the subway system and smile. “We’ll go to Casa Loma first, it's the farthest away then focus on downtown.” She’d then get her wallet out and Jon stopped her.

”I’ve got it.” He told her.

“Seriously Jon it's ok.”

“Will you just allow me to be chivalrous?” He asked half laughing and half serious.
Once everyone has a subway pass they walked down to the trains and Richie picks Ava up to protect her and Jon grabbed Danielle’s hand which of course she doesn’t mind.

“It's not scary guys. Really.”

”We’ve heard of subways.” Richie tells Danielle.

“Yes but I’ve ridden them here. It's great.” Danielle directed them to the right train after having checked her map again. When they walk on the train Jon pulled Danielle down next to him while Richie and Ava sit across from them.

“Jon can you silence your cell phone?” Danielle asked.

“Yes I can. I have to call a radio station at some point today for an interview though.”

”I understand that but what I want you to notice, is here they don’t talk on their cell phones
all the time, that’s a purely American thing to do.”

Jon and Richie looked around and sure enough just as Danielle said not one person is on their phone.

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