Chapter 46

Its pretty cute, on the way back to Red Bank they are looking at her tablet at decorating styles trying to find things that they both like and he feels the need to apologize again about his stupidity before we came up to JC.  “Jon you just have to remember I’m not her, no matter what happens I’m with you for my own reasons and with my own sense of commitment I’m not going to walk away easily.”

“I’m so sorry babe, I promise to remember you’re not her.” He put his arm around me and kissed my temple.

“Well if you’re sure that I’m not her, you’ll be fine with taring down her house and building one for me?” I ask wondering how much he really means his words.

He wants to blow up, but realizes we are on a train in public so his voice drops, “Hell no. why would I tare the house down?”

“Because you just said I’m not her, and you told me in Chicago the house is decorated in her style. I don’t want to live in her house Jon. I want to live in our house.”

“Baby it was $14mil almost 15 yrs ago to build that house, now I bet it would be over $100 mil” He explained still keeping his voice low.

“Its ok, we have the money, baby every room in that house makes me cringe.  Did they kiss here, did the make love here?”

He takes my hand, “Honey I bet my kids have had sex in more rooms of that house than I have.  Bedroom, kitchen and family room, thats it for me.”

“Thanks, but I still don’t want to live in her shadow.” I finally admit to him.

He takes a deep breath “How about we redecorate it.”

“I’ll end up spending more that way.”

“Its not the money, its about the house. I love driving up to it.”

“So I can change the layout?”

“How much?” What was this woman trying to do to his house he thought.

“The first floor. I’m sorry but I think all the just for show stuff in the house should be in one section and we should be able to call our house a home, that should be the majority not sections of it.”

After some discussion and lots of kisses, over the next few days he gets his contractor and architect involved.   The architect gets kind of bitchy since I drew it out.

“Hey its not to scale or code, I just know what room I want where, and what things I want changed.” I tell him.

Jon’s contractor reminds him that they ran water to every room in the house because of the sprinkler system in case of fire so moving rooms per my request isn’t going to be that major because no real plumbing changes will need to be made.

What he calls nothing major though sets Jon on edge.  He is told he has to be out of the house for 4 months while they have supports in place to hold up the upper level while they change the layout of the first floor.  So we only lived in his big mansion in Red Bank from January on, we got married in March and by July we have to move out of that house while they remodel it. The team says they’ll have it complete by the end of October so the holidays can be spent in that house again.  Jon hates it, he thinks we should live in the Jersey City condo while everything’s being taken care of because he doesn’t want to live in one of the outer buildings on the proper they aren’t really good enough. I call him a house snob and of course that earns me a spanking.

I finally convince him after some good loving that we can live in both, Jersey City when we are needed to be in NYC metro area for anything and then the outer building on the Red Bank house property otherwise so he’ll still have his boat all summer and his studio.