The next morning Jon woke up and watched Kim lovingly. She was still asleep. Her blond hair covered the pillow and she’d pulled the cover up to her nose. He still couldn’t believe she was here. From now on he would see her every time in his bed when he would walk into his bedroom.
Jon slipped off the bed and put on his favorite faded jeans. Yawning he left the bedroom for the kitchen to prepare a little breakfast for them. Rounding the corner he saw Richie standing behind the counter completely dressed and with a cup of coffee in his hands.
“What the hell are you doing up so early?” Jon wondered and rubbed his eyes.
“Morning!” Rich said cheerfully and confused Jon completely with it.
“I will meet with Fran and Jason later…or better in less than one hour. We will have breakfast and then do something with Jason.”
Jon nodded and got himself some coffee. “So, we take this day off then, right?”
“Why not? We have the songs ready. We only need to go to the studio and record them. I don’t see the point why we should go through them AGAIN today.” Richie said lightly annoyed. Jon had driven him crazy with his perfectionism the last days.
“Ok, ok….I got it.” His friend replied chuckling and started to look for eggs and bacon in the fridge.
“What are you up to?” Richie wondered when Jon put a pan on the burner.
“I wanna make breakfast for Kimi and me….she’s still asleep.” Jon explained and started to scramble some eggs.
“She’s here? ….With you? ….In your bedroom?”
“Yeah.”
“So, you got lucky last night?” Richie grinned. Jon shot him a warning look.
“Yeah, but not the way you are thinking.” He replied and added some tomatoes to the eggs.
“Cherry still intact, huh?” Richie asked and took a sip of his coffee. Jon set the pan down heavily and turned to him with anger in his eyes.
“Rich, would you please stop talking like that! She’s already nervous enough about it. She doesn’t need to hear that shit!” His band mate looked at him surprised.
“Look, man…you know I’m only joking…I...” Richie started, but Jon interrupted him.
“Yeah, I know that, but she doesn’t know you that good! So stop it! Ok?” his eyes dared him.
“Ok, ok…I sure don’t wanna hurt her…she’s a nice girl.” Richie rejected.
Jon only nodded. He should have never told Richie about her virginity, but he couldn’t change it now.
Richie watched Jon closely. His best friend was pissed he could see that. He was pushing the eggs angry around in the pan and his jaw was clenched together.
In the last year after his split from Dot he never saw him getting angry like today about his joking and teasing about a girl by his side. Rich already knew that Jon was serious about Kimberly, but this special behaviour…this defending…well, the last time Rich saw that from Jon was over 25 years ago in the first years with Dorothea.
“So…what are you two up to today? Does she have to work?” Rich asked after several minutes of uncomfortable silence between them. Something that rarely happened.
Jon watched him for a second. “No, she doesn’t. Maybe we will walk around a bit. The dogs probably need to go out. I don’t know yet.” Richie nodded and helped Jon put the two plates with scrambled eggs, bacon and toast on the tray.
“Well, I better get going…” Richie said and turned to leave.
“Yeah…”Jon replied. “….Thanks man.” He added and slapped his friend’s shoulder in this typical male way. Rich grinned and left the apartment, knowing that everything was fine between them again.
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Kim stirred in her sleep when she smelled coffee and scrambled eggs with bacon. Her stomach grumbled loudly.
Jon chuckled and set the tray on the chest at the end of his bed.
“Good morning, honey.” Kim turned around still disorientated. He smiled and sat down on the bed next to her before bending down to kiss her softly.
“Morning.” She mumbled and let her hand ran over his naked upper body. She smiled lightly remembering last night. Jon took her hand and placed a kiss on it.
“I made breakfast.”
“You?” Kim sat up confused and looked at the tray. “Wow, that looks good.”
“Well, thanks honey.” Jon said pouting playfully. Kim laughed.
“Oh, come on. You said yourself that you can’t cook.” She said laughing.
“Breakfast is not really cooking…and Richie didn’t help, I promise.”
Kim stopped midway in her motion. “Richie is here?” she asked shocked.
“He was…he’s on his way to Fran and Jason now.” Jon answered and looked at Kim confused.
“He slept here? He was here LAST NIGHT?” Kim nearly screamed.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa…Kimi calm down.” Jon rushed back to her side and pulled her into his arms, rubbing her back soothingly.
“God…he probably heard us…I can never look at him again…. I….” Kim stuttered.
“Kimi, …Kimi…” she wouldn’t calm down. Jon leaned down and kissed her lips, stopping her babbling. He could feel her relax after several seconds and when he was sure she would listen to him he broke the kiss.
“He was surprised to hear from me this morning that you are here. So I’m sure he didn’t hear us last night. The walls ain’t that thin and we weren’t that loud.” Jon talked slowly as if calming one of his kids. He never expected her to freak out like this.
“You sure?” her blue eyes watched him still sceptical.
“Yes, honey…and he would never say anything to you…me, he would probably tease like hell,…” God knows he would. “… but not you. That’s something none of us ever did. You don’t tease the lady.”
Kim nodded and put her head against his shoulders. He smiled softly and let his fingers run through her hair. When she looked up he placed another kiss on her lips.
“How about we have breakfast now and then go over to your place to take care of the dogs?” Jon asked. Kim nodded.
“Ok. They’ll probably pissed, because I wasn’t home last night.”
“Then we better hurry, to make the kids happy again.” Jon said with twinkling eyes. Kim shook her head laughing.