Chapter 43

"Ow…" Maureen winced, as Joanne rolled over in bed, slamming an arm across her ribcage.

"What is it, babe?" Joanne groggily asked, her eyes still closed, happy it was the weekend, so she could finally sleep in.

Maureen moved Joanne's arm so it was lying across her stomach, "Nothing."

"No you said ow, what is it?" Joanne persisted, kissing Maureen's neck.

"I had a cramp in my leg…" Maureen lied, running her hand up Joanne's back, as the lawyer tenderly pampered her neck, "But I'm feeling much better now…" She smirked, turning her head to face Joanne so their lips could meet.

"I love Saturday's." Joanne smiled into the kiss, shivering when Maureen's cold hand slid down the back of her pants, impulsively grabbing her ass. "Maureen!" She squeaked rolling on top of Maureen.

"Ow!" Maureen shouted, quickly rolling Joanne off of herself.

"What is wrong?" Joanne asked sitting up, concerned.

"Nothing." Maureen said sitting up as well, "I must have slept wrong last night or something…I'm all achy."

"Well babe, go take a shower, maybe the hot water will help." Joanne said, kissing the side of her face. "I'm going to go start cleaning."

Maureen sighed, "It's cleaning day today?"

"Yup!" Joanne smiled, climbing out of bed, "And everyone is helping." She walked over to the window, smiling when she seen it was a beautiful sunny, June day. She walked around the bed where Maureen was still sitting, grabbing the diva's face in her hands, "I'm sending you outside to do yard work."

Maureen pouted, "Pookie, why? You should do that stuff. You're more butch than I am."

"But it turns me on when you do that stuff." Joanne whispered, kissing her on the lips, "Especially when you wear your bikini and cut off jean short, shorts…" She closed her eyes, kissing Maureen much longer this time, "Mmm, you get all sweaty, and you're just so sexy…"

A giant grin over took Maureen's face, "Okay…I'll do yard work for you." She agreed, "It'll be like I'm your slave, no, I'm your sex slave, and in order to get sex I have to work for you…"

"Okay, honeybear, you're having too much fun with this…" Joanne giggled, kissing her on the lips one last time before pulling away, "Go jump in the shower."

"Yes ma'am." Maureen smirked, slapping Joanne's ass as she walked by.

Down in the kitchen Joanne rounded up the family, assigning each of them a household chore.

"Okay, Tessa and Kylie, clean your rooms, and put all the toys away downstairs. Brooke and Leah you are in charge of cleaning downstairs, like vacuuming, dusting…all that fun stuff. Haley, you'll be upstairs doing the bathrooms and vacuuming and whatever else and I'll do this level with the kitchen and living room. And Tyler, you'll be outside with Maureen…I love when she works outside, for person reason's…but let's face it, sometimes she isn't that handy, and I want her to open the pool today and she will needhelp."

"But Brooke and I wanted to go shopping today." Leah whined.

"You still can." Joanne said, "After you're done cleaning."

"Come on…" Brooke said grabbing Leah's arm.

"But it's Saturday, Mama." Tessa pouted, "It's play day."

"It's clean first, play later day." Joanne said, "Now get moving."

Tessa crossed her arms, and rolled her eyes, "Fine. Come on Kylie."

"I'll be outside." Tyler said, retreating into the garage.

Haley gave him a kiss before heading upstairs, passing the master bedroom just as Maureen cracked the door open.

"Haley?" Maureen whispered, sticking her head out of the bedroom, making sure Joanne wasn't around, "Are you alone?"

Haley corked an eyebrow, crossing her arms with confusion, "Yeah…"

Maureen reached out, dragging the eighteen-year-old in her bedroom, "Come here, I need you!"

"What is it?" Haley asked.

"Don't scream or say nothing…" Maureen said, "But look!" She said with fret pulling her shirt halfway up so she could show Haley her ribcage, where in black ink was a tattoo of a Chinese symbol.

"Mom?" Haley gasped, but then her face fell, "It's all red."

"And hurts like hell!" Maureen said, "What do I do?"

"You're asking me?" Haley smirked.

"Haley, don't play dumb. You know you and Mama are the two smartest in this household, and I can't go to Mama! I'm not ready for her to freak out on me about this just yet…"

"Why'd you get it then?" Haley asked, "And what does the symbol mean?"

Maureen shrugged, "I'm not getting any younger…I wanted to do something wild again, just like old times. So I went and got it the night of Tyler's bachelor party."

Haley's eyes bugged out, but before she could even ask, Maureen quickly answered what was on her mind.

"And no, he didn't get one. I went with just Collins." Maureen said.

Haley visibly relaxed, her eyes falling back onto the tattoo, "Well you know it's infected, right?"

Maureen ran a hand through her hair, "This didn't happen with my star tattoo."

"You just have to put some cream on it." Haley instructed. "And if the red doesn't go away, and if it still hurts then you should go see a doctor." She leaned in closer, "It just looks really dry and red…I think it just needs cream."

"Okay." Maureen nodded, turning to head back to the bathroom, but looked over her shoulder, "How do you know so much about tattoos?"

"Leah has one." Haley said with out thinking and then quickly covered her mouth, "I mean, what?"

Maureen smiled, "Lower back?"

Haley nodded.

"I can't believe my daughter has a tramp stamp…" Maureen smiled shaking her head.

"Just wait, you know Tessa is going to get one when she's older." Haley smirked, "She already is a little rebel."

"I can't wait for her teenage years…" Maureen sarcastically replied, rolling her eyes. "Okay, you better get back to cleaning before Mama comes looking for you."

Haley nodded, but stopped to add, "Oh and Mom, good luck hiding that today. I'm pretty sure Mama wants to see you work with out a shirt on…"

Maureen's smile faded. She looked up towards the ceiling, "Damn me and my hotness."

"Okay, my cue to go." Haley laughed.

After getting ready, Maureen finally made her way down stairs, with her cut off jeans and a tank top, with her bathing suit on underneath.

"Finally." Joanne said, "Tyler's out there doing all the work on his own."

"Good boy." Maureen smirked, "Okay, I'll be outside." Maureen said quickly leaving.

Later that day, Maureen came in to get a drink, Joanne sneaking up behind her.

"Honeybear, you still have your shirt on…" She said, running her hands up her shirt and across her stomach.

Maureen smiled, leaning back into the embrace, "I know…its a little cold today."

"Not it's not…" Joanne said, playing with the hem of Maureen's shirt, "It's boiling out." She said pulling Maureen's shirt up, but Maureen pulled it down, which caused Joanne to pull away, "Okay, tell me what's going on?"

Maureen spun on her heels, appalled, "Excuse me?"

"You won't let me take your shirt off, something has to be wrong." Joanne insisted, crossing her arms over her chest, "What'd you do?"

"I'm so sure you automatically think I've done something." Maureen said with a frown.

"Oh just tell her, she's going to find out sooner or later." Leah said, entering the kitchen with Brooke and Haley behind her.

"Leah!" Maureen whined, then looked towards Haley, "Haley you told her!?"

"And me." Brooke smiled raising her hand.

"Told them what?" Joanne asked.

"Leah has a tramp stamp!" Maureen blurted.

"Hey!" Leah pouted, slapping Brooke's shoulder.

"I didn't tell her!" Brooke whined, rubbing her shoulder.

Haley stepped away from Leah," It slipped."

"Leah!" Joanne scolded, lifting the back of Leah's shirt, where a small tattoo of her zodiac sign was tattooed on her skin.

"It was a spur of the moment thing." Leah shrugged, "And it's not big…"

Joanne shook her head, turning her attention back to Maureen, "Okay, stop trying to put the subject on someone else, what did you do?"

Maureen sighed and lifted her shirt, showing a white bandage covering the spot on her ribs. "I got a tattoo…"

"Maureen." Joanne huffed.

"I'm a grown woman; I can do what I want." Maureen said.

"Let me see." Joanne ordered.

Maureen carefully pulled back the gauze, revealing the Chinese symbol.

Joanne looked it over, not showing any type of emotion, "What does it mean?" She blankly asked.

"Family." Maureen quietly replied. "I wanted something to represent all of us. And we are a family…and it works for the boho's too."

Joanne's face softened, her heart melting, "Maureen…that is actually really sweet." She leaned in kissing her cheek.

"And hot." Brooke added, "That's a hot place for a tattoo."

"Thanks." Maureen smiled, "I thought so."

"I want one!" Tessa all of a sudden chimed in,

"Told you." Haley smiled in Maureen's direction.

"Not until you're thirty-five." Maureen said.

"But mooooooom." Tessa whined. "Please!"

"Me too!" Kylie said.

Haley rolled her eyes, nudging Maureen, "You're such a role model." She picked Kylie up, "I thought you wanted to be a princess? Princesses don't have tattoos."

"Oh…" Kylie said, her eyes big and wide, "Then Mommy, I don't want one ever…"

"Good girl." Haley smiled.

"Alright!" Joanne said, "Enough chit-chat, let's get back to work."

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I'm thinking about two more chapters...

And to my anonymous reviewer 'Sid' thanks for suggesting that picture for Tessa! I was actually thinking about using her, but I was struggling with making a decision, but since you seem to have the same thought, I decided to go with it. So my kind reviewing friends, if you head over to my profile once again, you will see that I now have a picture of Tessa up! :)

I'm just looking for Kylie now...