Chapter 2

A few days later when Danielle woke up she went about her normal morning routine, she and Jon had a doctors appointment today but right now Danielle was enjoying a relaxing moment alone in Jon’s Soul jersey out on the deck with a glass of pineapple juice. Not something she’d normally drink but it sounded good when she woke up so be it.

Jon woke to a cold bed and was not happy. “That wife is gonna get a spanking” he mumbled finding some lounge pants and walked out of the room. He grabbed his morning coffee which was more necessary than air and looked around. His beautiful wife was out on the deck her legs curled up under her and he could tell she had on one of his shirts. “Damn life is good.” He smiled as he walked out onto the deck; he has lived such a charmed life that he silently said a soft thank you to the man above before quietly touching Dani’s arm as he sat down.

“Morning baby.”

“Morning sexy.” Dani smiled. Even fresh out of bed, unshaven and in dire need of coffee, her husband could melt her to the core.

Jon reached over touching his lips to hers and softly rubbing his hand over the baby. “So we have an appointment today right?”

“Yes we do.” Shocked that he remembered on his own Dani moved over to him and kissed him. He wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her down to him, taking the time to sit her down on his lap and smile.

“So are you noticing anything you want the doctor to explain? Tell me so I can guard against your pregnancy brain.”
She smacked him playfully on the arm, “That’s not nice.”

“Someone has to remember things around here.” Jon laughed and kissed Dani at the same time.

“Jon”

“Yes baby.” He smiles kissing her again.

“After the baby is born can I get my boobs fixed again.”
Reaching up to cup one with his hand he smiled, “I don’t see anything wrong with them.”

“You wouldn’t you man.”

“OH now baby that’s a mean cut down – calling me a man how dare you.” The grin that lights up stadiums is well plastered on his face and Dani can only laugh with him. He’s in such good spirits.

“Seriously Jon I want them small after.”

“Baby if you want to go through the surgery again afterwards that’s fine by me.” He smiled and moved her breast up closer to this mouth. “Damn I want you.”

“I can tell.” She laughed and kissed him softly while rubbing her lower half over him. Deciding that her feistiness can match his today she quickly changes positions and straddles his hips. Her lips claim his as her body teases the quickly growing manhood under his lounge pants.

“Tease” He murmurs into a kiss.

“That’s Mrs. Tease to you.” She smirks as she nibbles on his bottom lip.

“Daddy are you ok?” Jesse asked from the doorway shocked at the position he found his dad in.

“Sure buddy Dani’s just teasing me we’re having fun. Good-morning Jess.” Jon answers his son looking up into eyes that were cold and full of displeasure. That surely is a look he's never seen from his son.

Jesse turned and walked back into the house quickly.

"What was that about?" Dani asked.

"NO clue baby, must just be one of those adolescent things." Jon answered quietly while still pondering internally why his son looked so unhappy.

While Jon and Danielle showered to get ready for the Dr’s appointment Jon felt a bit uneasy, kissing Dani’s shoulder he stepped out of the shower. “I’ve got to figure out what’s wrong with Jesse. See you in a bit baby.”

Jon dressed quickly in what he planned to wear out in town today and walked to his son’s room. Knocking on the door and allowing Jesse to give entrance he opened to door then quickly closed it, walking over towards the bed and sitting on the end of it.

“So it looked to me like you had a problem seeing me kissing Danielle today. Was I reading you wrong?” He figured honesty was best with his almost 14 yr old son.

“No, I like Danielle dad but..”

“But what Jesse, we talk that’s what you and I do – tell me what’s going on in your head.” Jon truly was at a loss here, he couldn’t figure this attitude shift out from Jesse. He was normally his even keel son, it's Jake that’s all over the place emotionally.

“You aren’t supposed to. Mom and you were supposed to be forever, and it looks wrong.”

“But it feels so right.” Jon’s mouth had a way of running without his permission sometimes and this was one of them. “Jess look son, I’m sorry your mom and I didn’t make it. I know it's gotta be odd, all your life you’ve seen us kissing and touching one another and now we’re doing with that with other people. Jess, know that finding someone else wasn’t easy for me to do; it hurt when your mom and I went our separate ways. But I survived, I fell in love again, I got married again and now we’re having a child together. Sometimes the best marriages don’t work, no matter how much you want them to. It doesn’t mean your mom and I love you or your siblings any less, we just couldn’t be married anymore. Now that I’m married to Danielle, kissing her is one of those things I like to do.”

“Dad it feels like you’re cheating on mom.” Jesse laid it on the line for his dad.

“I can’t cheat on someone who isn’t mine son. She and I are over as hard as that is to say and believe it's true. It's ok Jess, mom is ok with it, she’s starting to move on with Mark right?”

“Yes but its odd when she kisses him to.” He looked to his dad for understanding, “Is kissing necessary in relationships dad?”

“Only in the best kind son, only in the best kind, the kind where you marry the woman you love and thank the heavens every day for her love.”

“Ok I’ll try not to get upset then.” Jon and Jesse spend the better part of the next hour talking football and music, finally Jon gets up to take Danielle to her appointment.

Less than 2 hours later Jon and Dani leave the doctors office both in shock. “Triplets” They say in unison while looking at each other. They had been doing that about every five minutes for the better part of an hour. Neither of them believed what the doctor had told them until she showed them the three separate shapes on the ultrasound. “Baby when we said we wanted a baby, we meant business.” Jon’s voice finally broke the stunned silence they had fallen into. Thankfully they took a chauffeured car today out of luck so they were in the back together both in a daze.

“How are we going to come up with three boy and three girl names, we can’t even agree on dinner?”

Jon took his wife into his arms smiling. “Honey it’ll be fine. We made them out of love, that’s the best start anyone can ask for.”

She rested her head on his shoulder running her hand into his fur and smiled. “You know, I get it now. What you were saying about making our children intentionally. What you just said has such a nice sound to it. Knowing that they are starting from love, it just sounds wonderful.”

“Baby whatever we need to do from here on out to make sure you’re happy and healthy and our children come into this world safely we’ll do it. Now we just have to figure out how to tell the rest of the family.”

“Can we just absorb this for a day or so first?”

Jon took his finger and gently raised her chin, kissing her softly on the lips he looked down at her, “What’s got you scared baby?”

“Hello, did you hear we are having triplets?”

“I realize that Del and I also realize that we already have 4 children in our lives, it's going to be a more difficult transition but so worth it. Honey we wanted to share our lives with children this is the best way, we’ll have a great family all at once.”

“Jon there are 3 of them in there? How am I going to keep them safe?” Danielle’s fear finally comes to the surface.

Jon quickly pulled her into his arms, “Baby please relax. You’re body is meant to do this, seriously you doubted you could get pregnant and we proved that wrong right? Trust in the fact you got pregnant for a reason and now you have our children in your womb. Baby trust that our love is growing inside you, you’ll keep them safe your body was meant to do this.”

“Jon”

“Shhh sweetheart, trust me please, you’re body has all the parts it needs to bring our children to life. Relax beautiful, we’ll just take it easy, well follow the doctor’s orders and it’ll be fine. Honey I’ve been told every woman feels this right after the initial thrill of "yay I’m pregnant". It’s in a woman’s nature to go straight to all the complications that may or may not occur instead of letting things take care of themselves. Also, the pregnancy hormones don’t help.”

“How do you know so much?”

“Honey I’ve been around a pregnant woman a few times in my life. I’ve learned and read.” Jon answered her with a tender kiss. “Baby you’re going to be a great mom. You’re so good with my kids, and when I saw you with Helen’s little boy, baby you’re a natural.”

“Jon I can give all those back.”

“Baby you don’t give my kids back when they get upset. Like when Romeo ran away from the bee the other day and you protected him and let him cuddle up to you. Or when Jake crawled in bed with us you didn’t shoo him away you cuddled up to him like he was part of me.”

“He is part of you Jon.”

“And these children are part of each of us, baby you’ll love them and protect them with everything in you have as soon as you start to feel them move you’re going to get this flip flow of emotions and then they’ll be ours to love and protect and you’ll protect them while they are inside you until you give birth to them and I can help.”