A Second Chance at love

Chapter 19 A memorable homecoming

"So, tell me something" Danny asked his friend as they sat on their flight from L.A. to Boston "You planning anything special for Chrissy this weekend?- after all its been a year since you guys started dating again."

"I might have something up my sleeve-Mr. Nosy." Jon laughed right now I just want to get home and see Chrissy and Emma.

Once they touched down in Boston and collected their bags, Danny offered to let Jon stay at his folk's house "its probably better than going home and scaring the beejezus outta Chris this time of night."

"Thanks man" Jon said "I appreciate it"

Before heading home the next morning Betty insisted he stay for breakfast. "can't have you leaving here on an empty stomach- what would your mom think?" she laughed setting a steaming plate of pancakes and scrambled eggs in front of him.

Once he finished eating Jon thanked them again and headed on his merry way. Stopping to do a couple errands and check on a couple of things.

"Emmie?" He called out a couple hours later when he walked in the door .

"Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she squealed and took off for the door as fast as her chubby little legs could carry her. "Daddy missed you" he told her scooping her up and kissing her.

I was smiling from hear to ear when I saw the two of them standing at the door. He sat Emma down and told her to go play "K daddy" she said and toddled off to play with her toys.

"Come here you" Jon said grabbing me and pulling me in for a hug and a long kiss "I missed you too" he said softly. The three of us spent a fun-filled day together and had a nice dinner that evening.

As we sat down to eat, the phone rang and Jon went to answer it- "no way!"- he groaned.. "Are you kidding me?" he said "but, I already have plans for this weekend". "alright, see you tomorrow sometime" he said glumly "bye."

He came back to the table and said "That was Jordan- evidentially Maurice decided to book us for a couple appearances in New York this weekend. "I'll have to fly out in the morning"

"I thought this was supposed to be our special, romantic anniversary weekend together..." I said sadly "your mom will be here to get Emma after dinner."

"I Know, I Know" he said "I just need to think." The rest of the meal passed in silence and then he cleared the table and loaded the dishwasher while I got Emma cleaned up and her things together.

I heard Jon making a couple calls , so Emma and I played in her room until he was done. We had just come out when the doorbell rang and he let Marlene in.

" I can't believe Maurice did that to you guys- you just got off a 3 week tour!" she said hugging him. "Tell me about it" he muttered- "Chrissy and I had plans for this weekend."

"She could go to New York with you" She said "that way at least you'd still get to spend some time together." "That's true" Jon said his face brightening.

After Marlene left with Emma, Jon said, "So, what do you think? You want to come to New York with me?"

Jon was all smiles when I finally agreed to go to New York with him. We packed our bags and got turned in early, since we had an early flight the next morning.

"Did you have to book the flight this early?" I grumbled as the plane took off "the sun isn't even up yet!" Jon just yawned and chuckled "sooner we get there the sooner we can go site seeing without have to deal with Maurice."

Biscuit met us at the airport and got us to the hotel "You're the first 'kid' to arrive" he laughed. "the others won't be here till mid morning or very early this afternoon."

After a quick breakfast, we took in some of the sites until we were paged by Biscuit to come back to the hotel as the others were starting to arrive.

Jon was silent all the way back to the hotel, and he had been acting odd all morning. Joey and I stood in his room for a few minutes talking about his schoolwork and how he would soon be done.

"Keep the second week of June free on your calendar, I would love to have you at my graduation." he said. "

"We'll see Joe." I told him. Then they all left for a photo shoot and interviews. When they returned a few hours later I asked Jordan if Jon was still acting funny.

"He did seem kind of distracted." Jordan admitted and Danny chimed in "that and he was mad at Maurice for scheduling a dinner meeting with us tonight, because he had planned on having dinner with you."

Donnie walked over and gave me a hug. "GQ is probably just tired and upset he can't be spending more free time with his pretty girlfriend."

Jon and I tried to have a talk before he left for dinner but, we kept getting interrupted by the guys.

Around 7pm Jon came back to the hotel, saying he left the meeting early "I told them I had a pounding headache." he chuckled.

We grabbed our jackets and went for a walk, and then he surprised me with a carriage ride in Central park- at one point we stopped and got out and watched the sunset. It was an amazing evening--the only puzzling thing was every time he tried to say something we were interrupted by loud noise.

We walked back to the hotel and headed for our rooms some fans spotted him but we made it to the elevator before they did and quickly closed the door- as it closed I heard one of them mutter "just who the hell does that groupie slut think she is??"

We found a note under our door from Donnie saying there was going to be movies and popcorn in his room if we were interested. Jon tossed the note on the bed and stepped out onto the balcony.

I followed him a minute or two later.

"What's wrong?" I asked him

"nothing" he said. "just seems like every time I want to talk to you today or spend time with you, we've been interrupted every time."

"We don't have to go to Donnie's room if you don't want to." I said. "We can just spend the rest of the evening together in our room talking."

I excused myself for a minute and went into the bathroom and when I returned I could hear him talking quietly to himself, he said something to the effect of "there is no doubt that its something you want, quit being such a dork!"

I covered my mouth to prevent myself from giggling too loud, but, he heard me anyway. "just giving myself a little pep talk." he chuckled nervously.

"So, tell me" I said walking over by him on the balcony and resting my head against his chest "what is it exactly that you want?"

"I know what you are thinking" he said blushing horribly "but, nothing could be further from my mind! THAT was not what I was talking about."

"Chrissy, I have loved you ever since we were in high school, and when you came back into my life over a year ago, I felt the same familiar spark that I did in school." Jon said and then proceeded to ramble on for what seemed like an eternity.

I was puzzled as I asked quietly "Jonathan?" what exactly are you trying to say?....Just tell me what it is you want."

"What I want...is.. uh.. I...um...uh..." Jon stammered and sputtered.

He took a deep breath and started again " What I want is... I want you to be my wife."

I stood there totally stunned,I turned to face him, and said, "Jonathan.... I ...I .. I can't"

His face fell as what i had said registered with him.

"Why?" he asked me.

"You haven't asked me yet." i said then i gave him a little smile. .