Thanks for the views and reviews! Enjoy the new chapter, I'm still trying to find the way to continue this story, having troubles to put the ideas on 'paper'.
They all sat around the dining room table to eat. Margot had done a typical Thanksgiving meal with a Cajun touch. They gave grace and started to eat.
"Ok, now it's official." Zoe, Andrew's wife said. "I know you from somewhere." She pointed to JJ.
"From where?" JJ asked.
"I don't know. But you are familiar to me."
"Jennifer was raised in New York, too Zoe. Maybe you went to the same school or something like that." Will said.
Zoe laughed. "Come on, Will. Jennifer probably has your age or Andrew's. What makes me at least 10 years older than her. When she was in kindergarten I was already in the high school!"
"Maybe it's from the TV. I mean, most of time I'm doing press conferences for the FBI, I'm the media liaison."
"No, it's not from the TV. Where did you grow up?"
"Upper East."
"So you know the Barkley's Café? It's being the point to teenagers for the last 30 years I think."
"Of course I know! Me and my friends we were there all time."
"It belongs to my father, actually! Maybe I saw you over there a couple of times."
"Zoe Barkley, right?"
"Yes!"
"You graduated on the Constance Academy in 1986, lived in an apartment on the corner of Lexington with 69th with your parents and your 2 younger sisters. That time I think you had your hair a little longer."
Zoe laughed. "Did you pull up my file on the FBI system?"
"Nope. You were just one of the best friends of one of my sisters."
"Really? Who?"
"Julianne Jareau. You were like inseparable since kindergarten."
"You must to be kidding me? You are Jennifer? Little Jenny?" Will laughed.
"Not that little, but!"
"I can't believe in that! The last time I saw you or even Julienne was what? 5 years ago?"
"Almost 7, actually."
"Last time I saw your family I think it was in your dad's funeral."
"Yes, I think it was." JJ replied, sadly.
Zoe looked at Julia. "Last time I saw you, you were just a baby."
"Not a baby!" Julia said. "7 years ago I was 3 so I was a kid."
"Because now you are not a kid anymore?" Jennifer asked. Everyone laughed.
"Almost a teenager." Everyone laughed again.
"So you two really know each other?" Margot asked.
"Yes, actually I have pretty good stories of Jennifer if you want to hear!" Zoe said.
"Don't even start because I have stories about you too!" JJ replied.
"But your stories are better because you were always daddy's little princess, so everyone got terrified when you did something wrong." After that, everyone could notice that Julia had got unconformable at the table. She was starring at her lap.
"Did you finish eat?" JJ asked, caressing her hair.
"Yes." She simply answered.
"Could we go play, méme? I already finished too!" Sam said.
"Yes, you can. I will call you when dessert gets served." Margot answered.
"Can I go, mom?" Julia asked.
"Of course." The girls went upstairs followed by the other kids.
"I'm so sorry, Jennifer. I must have imagined that she doesn't like to talk about them." Zoe apologized.
"Don't worry. She has her days. Mostly she gets uncomfortable because we all have memories and stories about then and she doesn't." JJ explained.
"We don't need to talk about that if you don't want to."
"I don't mind at all."
"Do you mind if I ask you how they died?" Margot asked.
"My mom had lung cancer and my dad died in a car accident."
"I'm sorry." Margot said and JJ smiled to her.
"So, Will." Zoe said. "Do you wanna know about Jennifer's past boyfriends?" Zoe asked. Will laughed.
"Spill out, Zoe!" He replied.
"Maybe Andrew wants to know some things too, hm?" JJ asked.
"I won't tell if you don't tell." Zoe
"Deal." They shook hands across the table and everyone laugh.
"Now, I wanna know!" Will said.
"Only thing I can tell you about it's when Jennifer burst her credit card with only 14 and she got grounded for two months!" Zoe said.
"In my defense, my dad said that I could use in emergencies!"
"Even your mother that used to spend millions of dollars in clothes, shoes and bags thought that 700 dollars in a pair of pumps was an emergency." Everyone laughed.
"700 dollars in a pair of shoes? Remember me to never leave my credit card near you!" Will said.
"I had a party and my mother refused to buy me a new dress so I rebelled myself and bought 2 new dresses, 3 pairs of pumps, makeup and even a day at the spa." JJ explained.
"Worries me what she will do when you piss her off." Tyler mentioned.
"Or what Julia is going to do when she became a teenager." Carter finished.
"Don't tell me that she likes to shop." Will said to JJ.
"She doesn't like." He seemed calmer. "She loves it!" JJ finished. Everyone laughed.
"You are lost, William!" Sylvia said.
"What was her father's reaction?" Vanessa asked Zoe.
"Well, he started to swear around the apartment in French. Then her mother asked what happened and when he shown her the bill, the two of them started to swear together"
"You make this sounds worst that it was." JJ
"Worst than it was? I remember that they talked to you for like a whole hour."
"Yeah, it was really bad and I really wasted their money because they got me grounded and I didn't go to the part, so I didn't use the clothes." Everyone laughed.
"Speaking about it how's Julienne?" Zoe asked JJ.
"She's fine. I mean, she has a law firm in New York with John. She married 2 years ago and now it's thinking about babies."
"Julienne married and thinking about babies? What happened with her? I mean the whole speech about independence and career..."
"Sank after she felt in love with Frederic. He's a lawyer too and made her change her mind about almost everything."
"What he didn't?"
"Plastic surgeries."
"She really did?"
"Well, last time you saw her I think she already had her nose surgery and the breasts implants. After that she went through 2 liposuctions, Botox on her face and implants on her butt."
"Sounds totally like her!" Zoe replied.
"Don't worry." JJ turned to Will. "The others are physically normal. She's the only one that can't move her face." Everyone laughed.
"I think her jokes are worst. She's still like that?" Zoe asked.
"The sexual jokes? Yes, she continues the same. Wonders me when she have kids."
"Sexual jokes?" Sylvia asked.
"She turns every sentence you say in something with sexual connotations. It's terrible." JJ
"I so need to meet her!" Sylvia said. Everyone laughed.
"What about the others?" Zoe asked. "Everyone is fine?"
"Yeah, everything is fine. Joseph, Jack, Jake and Janet are running the company. Like I said John and Julienne are with the law firm and Jane and Juliette are living in D.C. because of their spouses' jobs."
"Pentagon?"
"Yes."
"The company that you mentioned, it's a family company?" Margot asked.
"Yes. It belonged to my father and after he died some of my siblings assumed."
"Which kind of company is?" Andrew asked.
"Investments. Stock exchange and this stuff."
"You must have heard already, Jareau Global." Zoe
"Wasn't that company that was listed as the sixth more profitable company in Wall Street?" Scott asked.
"Fifth, actually. But who's counting?" JJ said. They all laughed.
The rest of the night was spent like that. They talked about all the topics, laughed and had real fun. Will was happy that his family had liked JJ and that she and Julia were felling comfortable around then. JJ was impressed of how warm and natural Will's family was and she was felling really good around them, especially of how they had accepted her and Julia. Julia felt asleep while the drive back Will's apartment but Margot only left they leave after Will promised her that they would be back on the next day to have lunch with her.
Hope you liked it! If you have ideas, I'm open! :)
