Chapter 34

The next day Maureen and Joanne headed down the stairs to get some breakfast, which consisted of chicken noodle soup.

"Maureen, soup for breakfast?" Joanne asked,

Maureen nodded, "Uh yeah, you're still sick. You're not ready for the good stuff." She took a seat across from Joanne, a bowl of soup in front of her as well, "I'm having it too."

Joanne simply smiled. She was used to taking care of Maureen and the kids, not having it the other way around. but she had to admit she liked having Maureen wait on her every second. And dare she think it; it was kind of nice having the kids gone for two nights in a row.

They settled into breakfast, enjoying the quiet of it all, but the peacefulness was soon shattered when the front door swung open and the kids plus the boho's all piled into the house.

"Mrs. J!" Brooke shouted, running to Joanne, wrapping her arms around her from behind.

"Nice to see you too." Joanne smirked, patting her arms.

"I'm so happy you're okay." Brooke whispered.

"Us too, but thanks for leaving us out of the loop." Leah sarcastically said her hand resting on her hip.

Maureen and Joanne looked up to see their friends and kids staring at them, waiting for answers.

Maureen sighed, glancing towards Mark, "You told them?"

"I just told Cora…" Mark shrugged, "She's my wife. I had to tell her."

Cora slightly hid behind Mark, "I told Angel…"

Angel proudly stood out; her arms wrapped around Collins, "Girl, you're damn right I told Collins and Mimi."

Mimi nodded, standing next to Angel, "This was pretty big. Why didn't you say anything?"

Joanne sighed, turning her head to face them, "I didn't want-" she pulled Brooke's arms off of her, and finally stood up, interlacing her fingers with Maureen's, "I didn't want to make it a big deal."

"It is a big deal!" Haley said,

"Well you don't have to worry. I'm fine." Joanne stated, "I went to the doctors yesterday and everything is all right. I'm healthy. Besides this flu, which is almost gone, so no more worrying all right?"

"Next time can you tell us what's going on?" Leah asked,

Maureen and Joanne shared a look and turned back to everyone, nodding.

"Yes." Joanne said, "Sorry, it wasn't fair to keep something like that from you, we just didn't want to worry you guys until we knew exactly what we were dealing with."

Leah ran forward, pulling Joanne into a bone crushing hug, getting emotional over just the thought of something scary like that happening to her Mama. Soon Haley and Brooke joined, and little Kylie. Maureen was about to join the family hug, but Tessa jumped into her arms, stealing her own hug from Maureen.

"So no more secrets?" Mimi asked.

"No more secrets." Joanne muffled.

"Hey, wait a second…why didn't anyone tell me!?" Roger finally complained, "What was wrong with Joanne? Does nobody think to tell me? I care about you guys as much as everyone else."

"It's okay, she's fine now." Mimi smiled wrapping her arms around his waist, kissing his cheek.

"Well, since everyone is already here, want to stay and have lunch?" Maureen suggested, "Collins can put some burgers on the barbecue."

Collins face scrunched up, "Me?"

Maureen nodded, "Joanne's sick she can't possibly cook. And well…I know you love me, so you'll do it." She winked, patting his shoulder.

"Fine I will…with your help." Collins smiled, "And I know you'll do it."

"Because I love you?" Maureen smirked, batting her eyelashes.

"No, because I'll make you help me." Collins grinned, batting his eyelashes. "And I love you."

"Thanks best friend." Maureen smiled, kissing his cheek.

A few days later, Joanne was up and out of bed, feeling much better than she did a few days ago. She was feeling so good she was doing laundry, and right now was putting her and Maureen's clothes away.

As she put Maureen's panties away in her underwear drawer she noticed something at the bottom. She pushed the clothes aside, and reached in pulling out two magazines. Joanne shook her head, looking them over.

"Hey, pookie." Maureen smiled, walking in the master bedroom.

Joanne jumped; startled when Maureen walked in the room, but glad she did so she could confront her about, "Porn?" She blurted, holding the magazines up to show Maureen what she had found, "You hide porn in your underwear drawer?"

Maureen slowly turned around, biting her bottom lip, "Yeah, about that…you weren't supposed to find them…"

"Seriously, Maureen?" Joanne asked a bit disappointed, swatting Maureen with the magazines. "Am I not good enough or something!?"

"Baby, you're wonderful!" Maureen said, ducking from the blows, "I hardly ever look at them! I only use them when you're sick or gone on business trips and when I can't have you. Come on you know me, I have a high sex drive. I need to let it out somehow. And when you can't help me…I use those for encouragement."

Joanne sighed, still not liking the fact that her wife had a secret porn stash, but it was Maureen after all. She shouldn't have been surprised, and at least she wasn't cheating as a way to take care of her high sex drive.

"I ought to kick you out of the house for this…" Joanne smirked a hint of playfulness hidden in her voice.

"Don't even joke about that." Maureen warned, not finding the statement all that funny. It only brought back bad memories of when she was kicked out of the house. She took a step forward wrapping her arms around Joanne's waist, "I'll throw them away."

Joanne smiled, draping her arms over Maureen's shoulders, "I'll let you keep one." She insisted.

"Really?" Maureen grinned, swaying their bodies together, quickly pecking her on the lips, "You know I picture you and me in some of those positions?"

"Oh yeah?" Joanne asked, handing Maureen one of the magazines, "Show me one." She said detaching from Maureen to go shut and lock their bedroom door.

Maureen flipped through until she found one of her favorites handing it back to the lawyer, "That one."

Joanne looked, raising an eyebrow with interest. "Who am I?"

"Her." Maureen pointed out,

Joanne smiled, "You want me on top of you like that?" she asked, throwing the book aside, wrapping her arms around Maureen once again.

"I want you on top of me all the time." Maureen responded.

Joanne smiled wider pressing their lips together, pulling her into a deep kiss, while walking them backwards towards the bed, until they fell onto it, Joanne landing on top.

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The whole Joanne finding Maureen's porn thing is going to tie into the story a bit later. ;) Not the porn itself, but the small little tiff they had before Joanne got all turned on.

Thanks again for R&Ring!