"Aaron, I'm not leaving New York today." He finishes getting the suitcases together, "Jill, you're being silly, nobody at the airport is gonna cause any problems." I grab the blanket and pull it over my head, "Aaron, you don't get it. They aren't calling you those things and threatening you." "Jill, there were only 6 tweets like that, would you stop it. You're being ridiculous." He sits down next to me pulling the blanket off of my head, "I love you so much, stop acting this way. You're beautiful and not annoying, and not hideous. Look at me," I look away from my hands and look at him, "you are the most incredible woman on the planet, and nothing is gonna make me believe otherwise." He puts a hand on one side of me, opposite from the side closest to him. "I love you Aaron, but I just don't know." He slides his hand under my shirt, "we have a little while until our plane takes off, how about I convince you to go with me?"
We get off the plane and wait for our luggage, "I'm glad you came with me babe." Aaron grabs my hand, "no problem Aar." When our suitcases come out Aaron grabs both of them after handing me his backpack, "you sure you don't want me to carry my own suitcase? It's not a problem." "It's fine, really." We head out to the cab that's waiting for us and are met with some of Aaron's fans. I put the luggage in the trunk as he's taking pictures with them, "Jill, they want to talk to you too." I take a deep breath and walk over to them, leaving Aaron to finish putting luggage away. "Hi. How are you girls?" "Is it true that you and Aaron hooked up when you were with your ex boyfriend Charles?" I turn around and see that Aaron didn't hear any of that, "umm, no actually that's not true. Where did you hear that?" Aaron comes up behind me, "so, you girls are fans of Jill?" They nod and I smile reluctantly, "that's so sweet, do you want me to take a picture of the two of you with Jill?" I turn around and take a picture with the girls, and then Aaron and I head out.
"Those girls were sweet weren't they?" I put my head on Aaron's chest, "yeah, I guess so." He places a kiss on the top of my head, "you alright?" I sit up moving my head to his shoulder, "I don't know, it's just that those girls asked me a weird question, they asked me if we hooked up when I was with my ex." "What the heck? Where would they have heard that from?" I shrug my shoulders and gently press my lips to his shoulder, for my own insurance that he's there. "Don't worry about it, it was only two people." He has no idea the stuff some people have said to me today, I'm trying to keep it from him as long as I can but something happens and I just blurt it out, "except there's hundreds more like them." "What are you talking about? I thought there were only a couple online, did something else happen?" "It's just collectively on Twitter and Instagram, do you never look at comments on your Instagram?" He pulls out his phone to check the comments, "why are they saying that? Just a few days ago, literally everyone was talking about how beautiful and great you are." I get up from the couch and go into the kitchen, I open up the fridge to make some food for us for lunch, "Jill, please explain why you care so much about what they're saying." I shrug and start putting the food out on the counter, "it's just that your fans are very important, and if they're not happy, you're career could be in trouble." "Love, don't worry about that, if they're my real fans they'll stick with me. Now, let me help you with lunch. I'll turn on some music." He goes over to the dock with our shared iPod on it and turns on some music he can sing to. He decides on West Side Story and sings his little heart out to every song. He goes to the bathroom and is in there for a while, I don't think anything of it until I hear a shoe squeak, he peeks his head around a corner, "something's coming don't know when, but it is gonna be great." Is he seriously doing this? He continues his rendition of Something's Coming, dancing in circles around me, "Aaron, I'm trying to make lunch, I am your housewife for another year until I go back to work." He stops singing and comes up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist with his head on my shoulder, "don't say that, you can go back to work whenever you want. I don't want you to be cooped up in the house all the time, you're more than a housewife." I finish cooking and stand up straight as Aaron pulls off of me, "I know, it's just that I'm not ready to go back yet, not after what happened." About a year ago, I got into a car accident with Aaron, while he was driving me home from work and it was because of someone I worked with. "Jill, that person doesn't work there anymore, do you know where they work? Prison. They tried to kill us, but they didn't, they're not a problem anymore." I lean into him, "I know, it's just scary. Do you wanna go visit with me tomorrow?" "I've got Grease rehearsal, are you meeting me at Jordan's place?" I pull off of him and nod, "can we eat? I'm hungry." He grabs the plates down from the cabinet and sets the sandwiches and some chips on them and we go to watch a movie and eat.
"Aaron, I don't want to leave. It's too early." He pulls my arm so I'm sitting up, "it's my last day of rehearsal before the show tomorrow, come on." He pulls the blankets off of me and picks me up off the bed. "What are you doing?" "You can brush your teeth at the studio, I've got a toothbrush and stuff there." He carries me downstairs to the car and puts me in the passenger seat, driving us to his rehearsal at Fox studio. When we pull in, Aaron is basically dragged out of the car by the producer leaving me to figure out where to go. Jordan comes up to me, noticing I look lost, so he shows me where Aaron's trailer is. "So, he just pulled you out of bed without letting you get ready?" "That's exactly what he did, but he said I could brush my teeth here, I'll use his hairbrush and everything too. Does he have clothes I can put on?" Jordan opens the door and Aaron is already in his chair getting his hair fixed, "hey darlin', what are you doing in here?" I cross my arms over my chest, "really? You left me alone back by the car, so Jordan brought me here to chill out." He reaches his arms out for me, "come sit with me while I get my hair done." I go over to him and sit in his lap, he wraps his arms around my waist and stares in the mirror, "you're so beautiful." I smile at him through the mirror, "how much longer for your hair?" His stylist speaks up, "just one more second, then he's all yours, just not his hair." Aaron laughs and then takes my hand, "so, wanna go lay on the couch? You look tired." The stylist leaves the trailer and I get off Aaron's lap, he takes my hand guiding me to the couch, "come lay with me, I want you in my arms." He lays on the couch, careful of his hair and I join him, laying in between his legs, "we should get married soon." He wraps his arms around my stomach, "so that way we can have a baby." I grab his hands, "you really want a baby don't you? If it's that important to you, I'll talk to our planner to set a date in the next month or so. I'll go dress shopping this week with your mom when we fly back to New York." He shifts a bit, "actually, I have to fly to Australia on Monday, so you'll have to fly to New York alone." I turn my head to look up at him, he strokes my hair gently giving me a sad smile. "Are you serious? When did that become a thing?" He rests his head on the top of mine, "a couple weeks ago. I'm gonna be performing in a show out there." "Oh. Well, make sure you call everyday and FaceTime every night."
The Next Day
Aaron and I woke up around 5 this morning to make sure he was up and ready for the show tonight, "ready to go workout? You need to keep your cardio in check before tonight." He grabs my bag and we head out to the gym. "So what songs do you need to work on?" "Greased Lightnin' and Summer Nights, oh and You're the One that I Want. Will you help?" "By doing what?" "I'll lift you instead of weights and sing You're the One that I Want. You're about the same weight as Julianne." I roll my eyes, laughing and Aaron turns up the radio. "Okay, so treadmill first, then elliptical, then legs," I say as I'm stretching. "Or, we could do treadmill, then legs, then the bed for another type of workout." Aaron wraps an arm around my stomach, causing butterflies to erupt, "fine, but only because you have a show tonight and I want you to be worked out really well."
After our "workout" at home, we head out to get breakfast. Aaron orders a kale salad and pancakes, and I got an omelet. "So, are your parents going to be watching tonight?" He nods as he takes a sip of his mimosa, "yeah, you coming to watch it at the studio?" "Yeah, I'll go with you when you go for hair and makeup in a bit." He takes my hand from across the table, "before we head out there, can we do something?" "Anything, why? What is it?" He kisses my hand and then gets up, grabbing his jacket and helping me put mine on, "I'm feeling kind anxious, I wanna go home and just hold you." We get to the house and lay down in bed together, no talking and no phones or anything, until Aaron's phone rings. I guess I had fallen asleep because the next thing I know Aaron is hanging up the phone, tears in his eyes, "what is it baby?" He smiles at me, wrapping an arm around me as I slide closer to him, my head on his chest, "Vanessa's dad died this morning, she's still gonna do the show though, I don't know how." "Jesus Christ, that's awful. Should we do something?" He traces lines on my arm, staring blankly at the ceiling, "I asked if she needed anything, she said no. I'm gonna go take a shower, come with me?"
At the show, Aaron is completely relaxed, he's in his element. About 30 minutes before the opening, he runs over to where I am with a couple friends of the cast, grabs my face and just kisses me, "I need you." He grabs my hand pulling me to his trailer, "Aaron, you only have 10 minutes before you need to be back." He raises my shirt up, "that's plenty of time." He picks me up, dropping me on the futon. He starts sucking on my neck before undoing his belt. He slides my shorts off and slowly grinds on me, "Aaron, don't leave anything on my neck." "We have makeup in here to cover it up, don't worry." He thrusts into me, quickly and carefully. He lets out a few moans, and a sound of pain and pleasure escape my lips.
"Aaron! You were so good!" I ran into Aaron's arms after the show finished, "I'm so proud of you babe!" "Oh my god, that was insane!" He picks me up and swings me around, "how are you feeling?" "I don't know, I'm not really feeling anything right now, there's so much adrenaline going through my body." He picks me up again, this time carrying me to the cast party instead of swinging me around.
The next morning was peaceful considering Aaron was on a plane to Australia. So I decided to call the wedding planner before I had to leave to catch my flight to New York. Being in the airport without Aaron is weird, this almost never happens. It's been almost 2 years since I was on a flight without him, I don't know how I feel about it. Luckily, his mom calls right before I board my plane to check on me and talk to pass the time. When I touchdown in New York, I look for Posie where she said she'd be waiting. "Jill! Oh my goodness, how are you feeling?" I'm a bit confused considering I was only sick for one day when I was last here, "what do you mean?" "Well, since you told the fans you and Aaron are engaged, I didn't know how you were doing with it. Aaron said some people were being just nasty." Oh, well I don't know whether to tell her the truth or not, "I mean, I guess I'm doing okay with it, it's really hard sometimes on social media and everything but I'll be fine." She hugs me and we walk on out to the car to head to lunch and then dress shopping.
"So, what type of dress are you thinking?" We walk into a small bridal shop in Greenwich, "I love the 50's and 60's so maybe something like that." She nods and talks to the worker who leads me to some dresses that might work. I tried on a couple of short dresses and then one long dress catches my eye, "what about that one?" She looks over, "oh, I completely forgot about that one. One moment and I will grab it for you after we take this one off." She goes to pick it up and I put it on, completely speechless, before I even show Posie I know, "this is it. This is my dress." I walk out and Posie immediately nods her head, "it's perfect. I can't even explain how beautiful you look in it." I can tell she's getting choked up so we decide on buying it, I take it off and Posie is waiting by the door, "wait, we have to buy it." "Don't worry about it, I already took care of that. I'll pick it up in a few days after you and Aaron have gotten your apartment so he won't see it." "Posie, I can't let you buy my dress for me." She envelopes me in a hug, "trust me, the look on my son's face when he sees you in this dress will be worth it. Let me do this for you, you're basically my daughter." I agree and we head out to get the invitations made since we confirmed the location and date with our planner this morning.
"When is Aaron supposed to call you?" I check my phone to see what time it is, "well the flight to Australia was about 18 hours, so probably won't be until around 6:00 a.m." We head out of the car and into the house, I love his parent's house so much, very simple and cozy. "What shall we do for dinner?" I set my shopping bags down and take my luggage from Posie, "actually, I'm gonna go take a nap if that's okay." "Alright, you're probably exhausted, let me know if you get hungry. I'll go pick up some Chinese in about an hour." I let her know what I usually want and tell her that if I'm not up in about 4 hours just to eat it or put it in the fridge. I go upstairs and fall onto the bed, falling asleep as soon as I lay down.
I wake up to my phone ringing, I check the time and it's about 4:30 in the morning, Aaron must have landed. He explains that he'll be in New York in about 2 days after the show and we can go wedding shopping and check out the venue more.