Chapter 31

Jon couldn’t get the smile off his face during the whole trip back to his house.  Just thinking about Colleen, made him happy.  As he was thinking about tonight he almost missed his turn.  Laughing to himself, ‘She’s got me acting like a Horny teenager.’

Turning into the drive he used the gate opener to get in, this reminded him to send her the gate code.  As he pulled up to the house and saw his family all out in the back, and he quickly fired off a text to Colleen.

Jon: gate code for tonight is 5253. Can’t wait to see you again.

Colleen: if I get these pies done.  Rolls are in the fridge. If I make it what do you want me to bring for dessert?

Jon:  Apple?

Colleen: Ok Apple it is.

Jon: now you have to come.

Colleen: I just sighed and rolled my eyes mister negotiator.

Jon:  You like that about me you know it.

Colleen: Among other things.

Jon jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

“Damn it!  For fuck-sake Tone, are you trying to give me a heart attack?”  Jon turned around to see his smirking little brother.

“Are you sexing big brother?”  Tony said reaching for Jon’s phone.  

Jon moved his phone out of Tony’s reach.

“Good thing we didn’t let Rocco come and check on you.” Tony laughed and leaned on the fender.  “Matty would have your moneymaker for that sex educating of his son.”

“It wasn’t x rated, she wanted to know what to bring for dessert.”
 Jon said getting out of the car.

“And you said just your sexy body?”  Tony laughed.

Jon rolled his eyes at Tony. They headed around to where the family sat in the backyard.

As soon as the two brothers got within earshot of their family, Isabella, and Allie came running to wrap their arms around Jon’s waist.

“Uncle Jonny,” the little girl’s squealed.

Jon staggered from the girls latched on to be hugged. He missed when his kids were like this.

“Hey, kidlets.”  He knelt down and hugged them both.

Getting up he made it over to the patio and was about to sit down when the questions started.

“Like the new threads.”  Matt said.

“Hey those are only for football players,” Jesse said, “Miss O know someone who played?”

“These are her Brother Jamie’s sweats, so he must’ve played,”  Jon informed him, he noticed the rest of the kids were hanging out in the trailer. “Girls why don’t you get the others so we can decide what to do for lunch.”  He watched them run off to get the other kids.

“Okay, what happened yesterday?” Matt asked as he watched the girls disappear in the trailer.

“Grandma, was really bad,”  Jesse said with Stephanie agreeing.

“Mom played the diva card, was hardly talking to Maggie or Cullen, left dad to answer the questions,”  Jon told his brothers. “Then I got a call from dad, while I was out with Colleen, about mom acting crazy. She demanded that I come home.”

Matt looked at Tony, they knew how their mother acted when Colleen was at dinner at their parents’ house.

“I told her she had better be nice, and she tried to say the O’Sullivans were below us.  Suggesting that Colleen was after my money.”  Jon was not only giving a stink eye, but he was verbalizing it too.

“Cullen O’Sullivan was a senator,”  Matt added.

That caused Jon to look at his brother.

“How did you know that, Matt?  You didn’t do a background check on Colleen.”  Jon wanted answers and he wanted them, now.

“Mom called me, said you were dating and she wanted me to check out the girl,”  Matt told him, knowing that it was one little thing, he should’ve kept to himself.

“I should’ve known she would get, my head of security, to look into whoever dated me.  I swear am I’m over fifty-five and she still treats me like a kid?”  Jon was really getting mad.  “I fucking swear I will tell mom, once and for all, to butt out of my life.”

He didn’t acknowledge Stephanie and Jesse when they got up to stop the younger Bongiovi’s, before they could get up to where their parents were talking.

“Your mother didn’t want Matt and I to get married, or Nina and Tony for that matter,”  Desiree said. “If she could have, she would have her three boys tied to her apron strings for life.”

Nina just nodded her head in agreement.

“Wait a fucking minute, I said date, and I didn’t say married.”  Jon ran his hands through his hair.  “We’ve only known each other, for five months.”

“We know Jonny, Desiree was just saying, mom isn’t just trying to ruin your life, she’s tried to run all of our lives.”  Matt pulled his wife close and kissed her cheek. 

“Hey Jonny, you never told us, how was your night with Colleen?” Nina pinched her husband on his side.

“Hey that hurt.”  Tony gasped and rubbed his side, where his wife just pinched him.  “They were sexting when Jonny got here.  He’d just left her and he’s already texting her.”

Four pairs of eyes went from Tony to Jon in various shades of blue and brown.

Jon was saved when all the under eighteen year old Bongiovi’s clamored up claiming starvation. Calls for pizza or burgers, along with the names of fast food joints to get those burgers poured in from all directions.  Kids were divided into cars and the Bongiovi caravan hit the road in search of food.

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After a short nap and shower, Colleen headed over to Jon’s house, the passenger seat was piled with totes filled with pie boxes.  She knew he said apple, but not knowing how many people would be there, she had several apples, and a few cherry with some odd mixed fruit she threw together out of leftover fruit.  This was only the third time she had driven to his place, but the bug seemed to be at home along this side of the island.

Pulling up to the gate, she rolled the window down and punched in the code.  Pulling forward her eyes went to the whitewashed house, with the porch that just called for a swing on a hot summer night. This was the first time she had seen it in the fading light, the other two times it was too dark to really see the house. Parking the bug by Jon’s Chevelle, she was just getting out of the car, when the front door opened and Jon came out to greet her.

“Hey,” he caught her before she could walk around the bug, wrapping her in a hug and a kiss that held promises of more to come.

“Hey yourself.”  She looked up into his blue eyes.  His kiss tasted of pizza and wine, very Italian.

Jon smiled down at her. She tasted and smelled like apples and cinnamon, the fall scents he loved. 

“Hey, uncle Jonny, daddy said there are little kids around,”  Allie yelled out the doorway.

Colleen laughed and put her head down to hide a giggle.  Jon kissed the crown of her head and moved his arms from around her waist.

“Help me take the pies in, will ya.”  She moved to the passenger side of the car, opening the door to show two large tote bags.  The smells of Apples and Cherry pie scented to air of the interior of the car.

Jon grabbed the bags and walked with her up the steps and into the living room of his Hampton house.  Of all his homes, this one was not decorated like it jumped off the pages of Architectural Digest, it was beach house chic, in blues and greens.

Jake met them at the door and took Colleen’s jacket and purse putting them on the coat rack beside the stairs that went up to the second floor.

“Hey Miss O,” Jake said when he turned back around.  “The uncles and aunts are out on the porch in the back.”  He pointed toward the door that Jon had taken the pies.

Following the direction he’d pointed to, she walked into a kitchen area and porch area that ran the length of the back of the house.  This was done in dark oaks and granite, with a kitchen table that could fit ten or more.  Her whole apartment over the bar would fit in this area of the house, with room for her little one-bedroom townhouse and still have room to sling a cat.

The smell of sauce and garlic tickled her nose, as she went over to where Jon stood taking pie boxes out of the bag and putting them on the counter.  Tony came in to check the sauce and spotted the pies.

“You make all of these today?”  Tony asked as he peeked into one of the boxes.

“Pies, rolls, cakes, and cookies.”  She told Tony.

“Cookies?” Both Tony and Jon said in unison.

“Peanut butter, sugar, chocolate chip, and oatmeal.” She rattled off the list of cookies she and her mom had made.  “We even have dough made up for the kids to make hand turkey cookies for tomorrow.” 

“You didn’t tell me you were making cookies.”  Jon pouted.

“Did I hear someone say cookies?”  Matt came in along with Nina and Desiree.

“These older kids are cookie monsters when it comes to cookies,”  Nina told Colleen. “Worse than the younger kids.”

“Good to know.” Colleen laughed.

Her laughter endeared her to the ladies of the family.  Soon they had her feeling like part of their family.  Matt poured her a glass of wine and they were all relaxing before dinner on the enclosed patio. Colleen and Jon shared one of the many oversized chairs scattered over the porch. They talked about everything from the weather, to work, to what it was like to teach kids these days.

Soon Tony called them all in for dinner.  It was being served family-style with the adults at the dinner table and the kids in the basement.

Desiree asked Colleen if they needed help tomorrow morning to finish cooking.

“If you ladies want to come help, my mom wouldn’t toss you out.  Jamie’s wife will be there, so we will start at about eight in the morning, mom will have breakfast ready before we start cooking.”  Colleen told them as she took a bite of spaghetti.  Closing her eyes she savored the taste of the sauce. “Oh Tony this sauce is so good, you’ll have to give me the recipe.”

“It’s our dad’s sauce, we bottle it and sell it, and you can pick it up at Shop Rite,”  Jon answered for Tony, who in turn gave his big brother the Jersey Salute.

Once dinner was finished and the dishwasher loaded, the adults joined the kids in the basement family room for movies.

“Hey dad, we got popcorn?”  Romeo asked Jon.

“You just ate spaghetti and had pie, you still can’t be hungry,”  Jon told his youngest and last child as he and Colleen got set up on the couch.

“Yeah but no popcorn and a movie seems whack.”  Jake joined the popcorn chant.

Tony threw up his hands and went back upstairs to pop some corn.

Jon held off starting the movie till Tony reappeared with bowls and bags of popcorn, dropping a bowl in Colleen’s lap.

“Thanks Tony.”  She sat the bowl between her hip and Jon’s.

The movie started, it was the latest Marvel movie, and of course, the ladies in the room sighed when Chris Hemsworth’s name showed on the screen.  It was all Jon could do not to roll his eyes, even Colleen had sighed.  ‘Damn what is it with women and a Hemsworth?’  Even his baby girl sat up and sighed along with her aunts and Colleen.

A couple times Jon and Colleen touched hands, reaching to grab some popcorn, till Jon moved the bowl and took her hand in his.  He laced his fingers with hers and set them on his thigh.

Colleen love the way their hands felt together, the way they could sit here and watch a movie. They even laughed at the same things.  The room was dark, except for the light from the projection television.  Jon pulled her close and put his right arm around her shoulder. Where he wanted her was on his lap, but with the kids sitting around them on the floor and his brothers and sister-in-law’s sitting together in the over large chairs, this was all he could do.  Jon smiled when Colleen put her head on his shoulder, again he wished they were alone.

They sat like that through the whole movie, every once and a while he would catch her looking up at him. Colleen would smile when he caught her and lean down for a sweet kiss. 

Lights came on as the credits rolled, his brothers took their younger ones to bed, and Des and Nina were collecting bowls and cups. 

“Let me help,” Colleen said as she grabbed their bowl and glasses. 

Once up the stairs the ladies talked about the movie.

“I’m shocked Jon picked that movie, he knows how Nina and I love Chris.” Des said and Nina sighed and they both rolled their eyes.

“Yeah, it drives him and our husband’s nuts, because they hate not being the objects of our lust.”  Nina told her.

That broke them all into giggles.

Tony and Jon joined them, rolling their eyes.

“Oh Chris, those arms. That six-pack, I want to run my hands all over your chest.”  Tony mimicked a woman’s voice, which set the ladies off on another fit of giggles.  Jon just stood there and sighed really loud.

“Well this has been fun, but I better get back, so I can get up and cook tomorrow,” Colleen said as she tossed the now stale popcorn in the trash.

“I’ll get your jacket and purse,”  Jon said as he left and went to the living room.

The girls assured her they would be there at eight to help. Colleen said her goodbyes and thanked Tony for the dinner, he thanked her for the pies, and soon she was in the living room with Jon.

Jon put her jacket around her shoulders and handed her the purse.  They walked hand in hand out of the house and to her car.

“I had fun, and I love your family, it was better this time than the last.” Colleen stopped and leaned on the door.  She knew why it was better, but didn’t voice her reasoning.

Jon knew what she was hinting at, it was better without his mother being there.

“I think they love you too,” Jon said as he stood there toe to toe, with his arms around her waist, his hands resting at the top of her ass.

“Thanks for dinner and a movie,” Colleen tilted her head and smiled, then she did the perfect sigh.  “Oh and letting me see Chris up close and personal.” 

“Damn woman, am I going to have to remind you, who has his hands right now on your ass?” Jon gave her a mock stink eye as he rubbed his palms on her ass.

“Oh I know very well who has my ass in his hands, but is he going to do anything about that?”  Colleen rolled her eyes innocently up at him.

“Ooh little girl you’re gonna find out in about two seconds.”  Jon bent down and captured her lips.  Moving her hips closer to his, still making circles on her ass through the jeans.

Colleen was giving as good as she got. Her hands were rubbing his ass, through the tight jeans. If his zipper placket got any tighter it’d bust.  They were lucky that the Bug was keeping them standing, because if not they’d be withering on the grass.

Jon had two options, moving this to the trunk of his car, and in the process possibly ruining the paint or, switch and put her leaning on the bug and pulling her pants off and slamming into her.  He chose the second option.

Both of them were attacking the other jean buttons and zippers, thank God neither of them had on levis 501’s on or this would’ve been over before it began.

“This is going to be fast babe.” Jon panted in her ear, before he nipped at her earlobe.

“I. Just. Want. You. To. Fu” was all she got out before he lifted her hips and drove home.

Tony walked into their bedroom and caught his wife in the dark looking through a crack in the curtains.  He started to flip on the light when his wife turned around with eyes the size of saucers.

“What are you doing, playing peeping Jane?”  Noticing his wife blush. “You are, you dirty bird,”  Tony said as he crossed the room to peep out the window.

“Damn Jonny.”  Was all he got out before he started to pull his phone out.

“Don’t you dare take a picture of those two.”  Nina smacked his shoulder.

“Spoilsport.”  Tony said looking back at his wife.  He fired up his phone and texted his baby brother.

Tony: Matty, look out your window.

Matt: Why Tone?

Tony: Just look out your fucking window.  Keep the lights out.

Matt: ??? OH Damn.

“I know you didn’t just do that Anthony Michael.”  Nina smacked his shoulder, even though she was looking over said shoulder.

“Nina Marie Angelica Bongiovi, you smack me one more time.” Tony looked back at her.

“This is going to make tomorrow morning a little rough.” Nina rolled her eyes at her husband.

“I think she is getting it a little rough, don’t you think?”  Tony laughed at his own joke.

“Oh Tony, that was bad.”  Nina moaned.