Chapter 7

The next morning Maureen woke up, taking in her surroundings, confused at first, until it finally hit her of where she was. Just as she was getting out of bed, Joanne came into the room.

"Honeybear you up?" Joanne asked as she popped her head in.

Maureen wiped the sleep out of her eyes, and nodded. "What time is it?"

"Nine." Joanne answered as she came into the room.

Maureen eyed her girlfriend, and was shocked to see she was already dressed for the day. "You're already ready?"

Joanne smirked. "Yeah. Come out and eat breakfast, and then you can take a shower. My dad wants to take us out on the boat."

Maureen nodded with a yawn, as she walked closer to Joanne. "First I want a good morning kiss."

Joanne smirked as she wrapped her arms around Maureen. "With your good morning breath?"

"It's not that bad is it?" Maureen asked as she tried to smell her own breath.

Joanne just giggled and pulled Maureen into a kiss, lingering it for a couple minutes.

"Nope not that bad." Joanne answered, while leaning in for more.

"Okay." Joanne said once she pulled apart from Maureen. "Breakfast is waiting for you."

"Did you already eat?" Maureen asked.

Joanne nodded. "Yeah, I'm going to help my dad put the boat in the water."

"I have to eat breakfast alone with your mom?" Maureen asked shocked.

"So you had a conversation with her about her bathtub." Joanne said.

"Yeah but only for a few seconds! You came in right after." Maureen explained. "How am I going to handle twenty minutes with her?"

Joanne shrugged. "You're an actress improvise."

Maureen shook her head while laughing. "You suck!"

"You lick." Joanne added with a wink, before heading out the bedroom. "Now hurry up, my dad wants to get us on the boat."

Maureen quickly put on one of Joanne's sweatshirts, and headed out the door and into the kitchen, where Mrs. Jefferson was cooking over the stove.

"Morning." Maureen chirped.

Mrs. Jefferson smiled and turned her head to face Maureen. "Morning, did you sleep good?"

Maureen nodded. "Yup, it was very comfortable."

"That's good." Mrs. Jefferson smiled. "Well grab a plate, I'm cooking you some eggs. Joanne told me what you liked."

Maureen smiled at the thoughtfulness of Joanne. She then grabbed a plate and went to stand next to Mrs. Jefferson. Awkwardly Maureen stood next to her, trying to think of anything the two could talk about. But the only thing she could think of was naked Joanne, which happened a lot when she was nervous…actually it happened a lot through out the day.

"So…" Maureen began. "Um…how did you sleep?"

"Good thanks." Mrs. Jefferson answered, as she picked up the pan and carefully put the cooked eggs on Maureen's plate. "After I'm done eating I get to use the Jacuzzi tub." She added playfully, knowing Maureen was in love with it.

"Lucky!" Maureen whined. "I'm jealous of you. Don't be surprised if you find me bathing in it one night."

Mrs. Jefferson laughed as she cracked two eggs into the frying pan. "Just let me know when you want to use it, I'll let you."

"Sounds good." Maureen said as she went into the dinning room to begin eating

It wasn't long until Mrs. Jefferson joined her, which began another round of awkward silence, until Mrs. Jefferson spoke up.

"Are you excited about going on the boat?" She asked.

Maureen shrugged as she swallowed her food. "Yeah sounds like fun. I've never been on one when it was moving."

"Really? You just sat on the boat while it was docked?" Mrs. Jefferson asked.

"Yeah. It was with Joanne, but we just had se…sea sickness." Maureen quickly changed the reason, before the word sex could slip her lips.

"Joanne got sea sick?" Mrs. Jefferson asked confused. "That's weird Joanne never gets sea sick. She actually has a pretty tolerable stomach."

"I meant to say I did." Maureen lied. "My poor stomach can't handle anything…"

"Oh." Mrs. Jefferson said, as she began eating the food in front of her. "Well hopefully you'll be alright today, Harold really wants to take you out."

Maureen nodded. "I'm sure I'll be just fine. If not I can just lean my head over the side of the boat."

They both laughed at the comment, and soon Maureen's plate was clear of food, so she brought it over to the sink, and then put it in the dishwasher by Mrs. Jefferson's request.

"I'm going to go take a shower." Maureen declared.

"Okay sweetie." Mrs. Jefferson said as she put her dish in the dishwasher. "I'm going to go take a bath, I'll see you later."

"Okay." Maureen said as she headed for her room and got her things to take a shower

After a long shower, she quickly got ready and emerged from the bedroom, where a force almost knocked her to the ground.

"What the hell?" Maureen said as she felt two little arms around her waist.

"What the hell!" A little boy repeated.

"Maureen, Cole is hear, language." Joanne said as she walked out of the living room.

"Oh shit!" Maureen said. "Sorry."

Joanne smirked and shook her head.

"Oh shit sorry." Cole repeated.

"You my friend." Joanne began as she picked up her nephew. "Are not allowed to say that."

"Sorry aunt Joanne." He pouted as he wrapped his arms around her neck. He then turned his attention towards Maureen with a smile. "Hi!"

"Hey." Maureen smiled. "So you're not going to say those words around your mommy are you?"

Cole shook his head with his mouth closed.

"It's too late." A voice from behind her said. "I already heard you corrupting my kid."

Maureen turned around, her smile getting bigger. "Tara how are you?"

The other girl, also known as Joanne's younger sister, smiled and quickly wrapped Maureen in a hug. "I'm good, how are you?"

"I'm good." Maureen answered as they pulled away from the hug.

Just then a tall guy walked out from the kitchen, waving to Maureen. "Hi Maureen, nice to see you again."

"Hi James." Maureen waved.

"Okay kids!" Mr. Jefferson shouted as he walked into the house. "The boat is ready, who's coming?"

"I am grandpa!" Cole yelled as he ran for the older mans embrace.

"Not right now Cole." Tara said. "We just got here, I want to unpack first."

"Aw but mom." Cole whined.

"It's okay buddy." Mr. Jefferson said. "I'm taking it out again before dinner."

"Okay!" Cole said with bright eyes.

"Joanne, Maureen you two coming?" Mr. Jefferson asked.

"Yes." Joanne answered as she took Maureen's hand. "Well catch up later." Joanne told her sister, before leading Maureen out the door, and down by the lake to where the boat was.

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Question of the day: Would it be Aunt Joanne with a Capital "A" or a lower case "a"? for the word "aunt"

OH! and for Joanne's sister, I for some reason picture her as "Tyra Banks" I have no idea why, but she loves Rent! I seen her singing Take Me or Leave Me with Traci Thoms on her talk show...Rosario Dawson was there too! For that movie they were in together...Grindhouse? But yeah Tyra did Maureen's part, and clearly Traci did Joanne's...it was pretty fun!

Anyways shout out to my friendly neighbors the Americans "Happy Independence day!"