As we walk into the house I’m shocked to hear “old time rock n roll” blaring in the house and see Jon’s 20 yr old son slide by in a buttoned down shirt and his underwear and socks.
“What is this? Halloween?” I ask.
“No, he’s just nuts.” Jon laughed. “Jess!” He called to him and he stopped dancing. “OH hey dad, hi Serena nice to meet you.”
I meet his daughter in the same awkward fashion. We walk upstairs to put our stuff in his room and Steph is leaning against the wall making out with Dylan.
“Hey hey this is not a rent a room by the hour building. Let her come up for air Dylan.” Jon smiled.
“OH daddy, hi Serena nice to finally meet you.” She smiled.
Neither of the kids have any issue with me, it’s odd really for them to be this cool about it and Jon smiled, “Babe they are amazing kids, its why I wanted you to meet them to know they are ok with us dating.”
“Ok and what about the rest of your family?”
“Well lets go meet them and get this all over with then you can hide in any room you want and kiss me to bring you back to normal.”
“Oh kissing you is my normal?”
“Hell yeah you love it and you know it.” He smiled and my cell rang. “Hold on babe its my boss.” I take the phone and walk out onto his patio off his bedroom.
“Hello Kal how are you?”
“I’m good Serena. I hate to call you on a vacation day but I just saw that you took tomorrow off too and I need you on a call tomorrow is there anyway you can do it. Its the Remember Forever team I want you to hear how we partnered with them to see if it will help you with your music pitches.”
I look at Jon trying to get his attention. “Sure Kal what time is the call?” I then walk into the room and mute my call, “What time is your parents thing tomorrow?”
“We’re officially starting it at 12noon.”
I then walk back out to the patio. “The call is at 930 our time here in Chicago - where are you anyway?”
“I’m in Jersey that’ll work, thats 1030 here. That’ll work just send me the invite and I’ll find a quiet room and join.”
“Its his family reunion huh? Getting serious?”
“I hope so we’ve been together now 5 months exclusive. Its also his parents wedding anniversary party so its a rather big deal for the family.”
“Well I don’t expect the call to last longer than 40 minutes or so. I won’t even introduce you if you don’t want.”
“Either way you want to play it. I actually used a groupon for Remember Forever in my past life. It was a blast, highly recommend their photo safari of Vegas.”
He laughed, “Good to know they have a fan. Alright I just sent you the invite with the t-con line and dial in there’s no web-ex so we’ll talk tomorrow have a great day.”
“Thanks Kal you too.”
After hanging up with him I walk into Jon’s room and there is a tall lanky blond hugging him. I don’t say anything and just close his patio doors. “OH hey baby what did the boss man want?”
A bit annoyed that he didn’t tell me who this girl is that he was hugging I try desperately to keep that out of my voice. “I have a work call tomorrow at 1030 this time that I have to be on.”
“Ok you can either use my office or come up here that won’t be a problem.” He took my hand then and pulled me closer. “Honey this is Tiger Lilly, David’s daughter.”
“Oh hi, its nice to meet you.”
“Its nice to meet you too Serena. I see my uncle is very happy so I can go call off the Jovi Brigade they were going to storm the 3rd floor if I don’t report back soon.”
“He’s fine but we can all go down and they can see for themselves.” I lace fingers with him as we start walking out. When she gets in front of us I see that she’s wearing like 4 inch heels so I understand why she looked so tall. I stop him before we get to the stairs. “Before I flip out do me a favor and introduce the people right away. I had a minor heart attack back there.”
He smiled and kissed me. “I love you and only you. Everyone thats going to be here is family or who I consider family so you have nothing to worry about. No ex girlfriends.”
He forgot to say no ex wives though because Dorothea showed up about 2 hours into the night. I pull on his hand the second I see her. “Liar.” I tell him softly.
“What?” He asked he hadn’t even seen Dot yet.
“NO ex girlfriends huh Jon, ex wives fall into that category I believe.”
“Shit she’s here, where is she? I’ll get rid of her.”
“No worries, I need to go check my email take your time, I’ll be in your office.” I say and walk away having no desire to be part of that drama at all.
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