Chapter 5

"Brace yourself Joanne. They are going to question the shit out of you." Maureen said, squeezing the lawyer's hand for comfort.

"I'm ready." Joanne whispered, squeezing Maureen's hand back.

"Maureen." Aunt Monica smiled, giving her niece a hug, her attention soon focusing on Joanne. "You must be the lawyer Nancy was telling us about?"

Joanne kindly smiled, reaching her hand out to shake both of the older ladies, "Yes, nice to meet you both."

"I seen you met our husbands." Aunt Monica smiled.

"Yes I did." Joanne smirked, "Very nice gentlemen."

"So Joanne," Aunt Betty said, stepping into the conversation. "What do your parents do, where did you grow up? Do you have any siblings?"

"Whoa, one question at a time Aunt Betty." Maureen frowned.

"My mom is a judge, my dad owns his own law firm, I have one sister, I am an aunt myself, and I grew up just outside of the city." Joanne answered with ease, "And being an aunt myself I can see why you are asking all of these questions. You want to make sure I'm right for Maureen."

"Yes," Aunt Betty began, "But…how will you provide Maureen with kids? You're both girls."

Aunt Monica hit Betty in the side, finding the question slightly rude. Aunt Monica herself was not a Johnson by blood; she was simply married into the name. Her husband Eddie's brother, who was also known as Uncle Randy, they had the twin Corey and Drew.

"There are other ways of having kids." Joanne stated,

"Too bad you weren't a doctor." Aunt Betty smirked. "You could probably find a way to get Maureen pregnant medically. My daughter is engaged to one you know."

"Yes we know." Maureen rolled her eyes.

"Well maybe I can just pay him to medically get Maureen pregnant." Joanne replied,

"Hey, I'm not getting pregnant." Maureen whined, "No kids for a long time."

"I don't know it costs a lot of money." Aunt Betty said, crossing her arms, ignoring Maureen.

"Lawyer's make good money," Aunt Monica spoke up, and then focused on Joanne, "Right Joanne?"

"Well I was just promoted." Joanne smirked, bragging a little, "And we can afford to live in the Upper East Village, with money to spare."

Aunt Betty simply shrugged, her face lighting up when she seen her daughter and soon to be son-in-law walking her way.

"Here's Amy and Greg now." Aunt Betty smiled,

"And the competition starts." Maureen mumbled rolling her eyes even more when she watched as her mother walked over.

"Hi Maureen." Amy brightly said her arm wrapped around some tall and handsome fellow. "This is my fiancé Greg."

"Nice to meet you." Maureen said, "This is my girlfriend Joanne."

"Hi, nice to meet you." Joanne said, shaking hands with Amy and Greg.

"So is this going to be your date for the wedding?" Amy asked, "You never know with you, you and Nikki go through people like there's no tomorrow."

Aunt Betty bit back a laugh, while Maureen scowled.

"Uh yes I am." Maureen said matter of factly. "Joanne and I have been going strong for three years."

"Almost four." Mrs. Johnson piped in.

"I think my husband is calling my name." Aunt Monica said, sighing, knowing very well Betty and Nancy tried to outdo each other all the time, using their kids as pawns in their silly game. "Nice meeting you Joanne."

Joanne sent her a friendly smile, wishing she could go with her, but she stuck by Maureen and her mom, listening as the two bickered.

Greg shared a smile with Joanne and playfully rolled his eyes, Joanne smirking back.

"Joanne graduated top of her class." Nancy said, a surprise smile jumping to Joanne's lips, that was probably the first nice thing Nancy had said about Joanne since the moment she arrived at the Johnson house. Maureen was even smiling a bit.

"Have you seen the ring Greg bought me Aunt Nancy?" Amy jumped in, gladly showing Greg off, and holding out her left hand.

"It's nothing." Greg blushed and shrugged.

"Very nice sweetie." Nancy said, holding her hand. "I'm sure Maureen will get a nice one too."

"Not as big a diamond like Amy's though." Aunt Betty said, "Greg is a doctor."

"Okay, I'm going to go show Joanne around some more." Maureen said, grabbing the lawyer's hand, and pulling her away.

"Your mom said something nice about me." Joanne grinned.

"Because she was trying to make her family look better than Aunt Betty's." Maureen stated, "It's what they do. I'm happy Aunt Monica doesn't do that with Corey and Drew."

"Oh, hey guys, thank God I found you." Nikki said, coming out of nowhere. "I was stuck watching our second cousins."

"That sucks." Maureen sighed, "Thank God it wasn't me."

Nikki shrugged. "So how are you doing Joanne?"

"Pretty good." Joanne answered. "It's not that bad. Your Uncles are nice, Grandma Johnson likes me, Aunt Monica was nice, it's just your Aunt Betty…she well…she's not the nicest."

"She's probably threatened by you." Nikki said, "You're a lawyer. You probably have noticed she mentioned several times that Amy is engaged to a doctor. She thinks good careers mean everything. You also come from a good family; you went to a good school. You're a success story, which means there is a possibility that you are better than her family."

"Mom would love that!" Maureen said,

"Yeah, if only she can get over the fact that you're both women." Nikki said, before trotting along ahead of them.

"Maybe if we give her time she'll come around." Joanne said.

"Johnson family football game!" Corey and Drew shouted running towards Joanne and Maureen at full speed, "You two coming to watch?"

Joanne furrowed a brow, "Watch? Can we play?"

"You want to play?" Corey asked, stopping dead in his tracks, "Of course you can!"

"Follow us!" Drew said and the two began running again.

"Pookie!?" Maureen squealed with delight, "You want to play in the annual Johnson vs. Johnson football game?"

"Yeah, am I not allowed?" Joanne asked.

"No you are anyone can play. But I don't know I never played before, and Mark never played." Maureen said, "My family is going to be shocked that you're participating in an actual game."

"You will play too right?" Joanne asked.

Maureen slowly nodded her head, "Yeah. Let's go!"

Soon after a whole bunch of Johnson's were piled around the football field.

"We want to play." Maureen chimed in, holding Joanne's hand up in the air. Everyone eyed the two.

"That a girl Maureen." Grandma Johnson cheered,

"Me too." Nikki added, running to stand next to Maureen and Joanne.

"Nice to see you girls participating this year." Grandma Johnson smiled, causing Mrs. Johnson to grin, since her family was getting good mentioning.

"Why don't you two play?" Aunt Betty whispered in Amy's ear.

"I don't want to." Amy said, "I'm not a lesbian."

"I'll play." Greg shouted.

Soon after the two teams were picked, Eddie, his brother, brother-in-law, the twin boys, Nikki, Maureen, Joanne and Greg and some other family members vs. other Johnson family members.

The game lasted for almost two hours, everyone cheering and having fun. Even Maureen was having fun playing with her family.

"Good game everyone." Eddie announced.

"Good game Joanne." Maureen smirked, slapping Joanne's ass.

"Maureen!" Mrs. Johnson said, blushing, slightly embarrassed her daughter did that in front of everyone.

"Hey, it's what the football players do." Maureen shrugged,

"It's true Aunt Nancy." Corey jumped in.

"And Joanne played an excellent game." Drew piped in.

"Don't even think about it." Maureen said, hugging Joanne from behind, to cover her backside, knowing the two boys could be like her…perverts.

Nikki laughed, watching the two twins walk away, "They like you Joanne."

Joanne smiled to herself.

During lunch, everyone was scattered around the many picnic tables in the park, Maureen's family as in her Dad, Mom, sister, herself and Joanne talking up one table. While they were eating Uncle Stuart and Uncle Randy came by with a football in hand.

"We just wanted to announce that the game ball goes to Joanne." Uncle Stuart said.

"Not only is she a Jets fan, but she helped out our team a lot today, which in the end we became the winners." Uncle Randy added, handing Joanne the ball.

"Thanks." Joanne smiled.

"Rematch next year!" Someone called out in the distance.

"You better keep this one around Maureen, we'll need her." Uncle Stuart said, nudging Maureen in the shoulder.

Nancy watched the whole thing, feeling happy all of a sudden. She turned to look at Betty who looked as though she were jealous causing Nancy's smile to turn into a grin.

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Sorry if this chapter was a little choppy. I had writers block, making it hard to write this chapter.

Thanks for R&Ring everyone! ;)

More to come soon!