Chapter Sixteen

Six months later...

"So, your telling me that you met a girl six months ago, made up a different life, fell in love with her, didn't tell her that your in love with her, didn't even ask her out on an official date yet?" Richie said, he couldn't get over it. Sure this kind of things happened on TV, but in reality?... Jon nodded "Yes, and for the past six months I've been wanting to tell her I love her" Richie raised an eyebrow "what about coming clean about your made up life?" "That too" Jon sighed. "Just tell her.. everything" Richie suggested.

Serafina cuddled up on the sofa, she was flicking through channels. Every programme with a lawyer in it made her think of Frank, every one with someone smiling, someone with great hair, someone with the same hair color.. anything! She had been in love with the man for the last six months but had been too afraid to tell him. She had practised in front of a mirror but she still couldn't do it. He hadn't even asked her out on an official date yet, she hadn't even seen his apartment! She sighed, "Oh frank..." she closed her eyes and imagined him there with her. Lying on the sofa, his muscular arms wrapped around her.

Jon had bought an apartment down town, just to add to his 'Frank' role. But she hadn't seen it yet. He didn't want to come clean, Frank was great. She liked Frank, he was sure she would be highly upset if he told her then she wouldn't like Jon. He had to see her today and tell her how he felt, maybe take her up to his apartment down town and tell her the truth then. He had never been more nervous in his life, he stood up and looked for his phone.

She stopped flicking through the channels when she saw Oprah was on. It had just started, "Our first guest today is, Jon Bon Jovi!" she said, the crowd went crazy. Serafina hadn't heard of Jon Bon Jovi before. It was an old episode. A blond man walked on screen, he was beautiful. He had perfect hair.. perfect teeth... an angelic face. "FRANK?!" Serafina shouted realising who she was seeing on TV. She watched the interview, it was definitely Frank or should she say Jon Bon Jovi. So had Frank been lying to her for the past six months about who he really was? She quickly opened her laptop and typed in 'Jon Bon Jovi' into Google. She read all about his life on Wikipedia, everything he had told her was there well a part from being a Lawyer. So he had just changed his name and profession, the rest was really him.

Her phone rang, it was Fran.. Jon. She wanted to hear it from him. "Hello?" she answered, "Hey, Serafina. I was wondering if you would like to go for a coffee or something? I need to tell you something, important." Serafina was relieved, he was going to tell her about the Frank thing. "I'd love to, I'll meet you at Starbucks in half an hour" Serafina said hanging up. She couldn't be angry with him, she loved him too much to be angry with him.

"So?" Richie prompted Jon, "I'm meeting her at Starbucks in half an hour.." Jon told him. "Could you mind the kids for me tonight?" Jon asked, a smirk grew across Richie's face. "Feeling lucky, huh?" he asked. Jon didn't answer.

Jon sat at their usual table in Starbucks, waiting for Serafina to arrive. He decided to go order because he knew what she would get. "One hot chocolate and two cookies and one regular coffee, please" Jon said. While waiting for the coffees and cookies he looked around to see if Serafina had arrived in the mean time, she had and she had never looked more beautiful. Though, Jon had to admit, she looked more and more beautiful every day to him. He gave her a smile and a wave, she returned the smile and wave. "Hi!" she mouthed. "Here you go, that will be $8.75 please" Jon took out his wallet and handed him $2o, he hadn't anything smaller. "Keep the change" Jon said taking the coffees and cookies and walking down to Serafina. You can do this, you can do this! Come on! If you can play in front of 92,000 people, you can surely tell this one person that you love her!

"Hey, this is for you" Jon said handing her the hot chocolate and cookie. A smile grew across her face, "Thanks, so what was this.. important.. thing you need to tell me?" she asked, already guessing. Jon took a couple of deep breaths. He tried many times before but always ended up saying something like "I love.. this view" or "I love... what you've done with the place" He was going to tell her that he loved her, if it was the last thing he would do. "I love you" Jon said out straight. Serafina couldn't stop smiling, Jon looked nervous. "I love you too" she said, a beautiful smile grew across his face. "I just realised this morning that you haven't seen my apartment, would you like to see it?" he asked, neither had touched their drinks or cookies. "I'd love that" she said standing up.

"This place is amazing!" Serafina said looking around, they were sitting on the sofa, side by side. Jon turned to her, it's now or never! and kissed her passionately. Serafina automatically kissed him back, her arms wrapped around his neck, his arms wrapped around her waist, her fingers in his hair. He quickly lay on top of her on the sofa. Still kissing passionately, rubbing their hands all over each other's bodies.