11 Years cont…

"I.... I....what do you mean?" Marlene had never had anyone Maria’s age stand up to her.

"You know what she means mom." Jordan walked over to Maria. "If you can’t accept her, and get to know her." he paused. "You don’t have to like her, but I do demand that you accept her." He looked at Maria lovingly. "Then to hell with you and the family." Jordan looked back at Marlene and she was in shock, Jordan had never stood up to her like that. "I love you but if you can’t love me enough to accept Maria then I never want to see you again."

Marlene just stood there not saying a word. She looked from Jordan to Maria and back to Dante who was holding Maria’s hand. She turned around and walked into the yard. She glanced back expecting Jordan to chase after her. She was testing him and his commitment to this girl. She got into her car and turned on the engine. She glanced back at the house and saw Jordan holding Maria. Maria’s eyes shifted and looked directly into Marline’s saying "how dare you do this to your son." Marlene sat in her car for a few minutes and said a quick prayer to do the right thing. "I can’t let him go like that." she said to herself she turned the car off and walked onto the porch where Jordan meet her with open arms.

Marlene came into the house and sat on the couch. She was a bit uncomfortable. Dante crawled onto her lap. Maria was nowhere in site. "Where did she go?" his mom asked.

"Upstairs, she has a test tomorrow." he answered getting his mom a tea. "I love you mama but I love her too." He sat down in his recliner.

"She is still in high school?" his mom asked. He shook his head yes. "Why does she live here now?"

"How did you know that mom."

"Some one that goes to school with Matthew told him that she moved in with her boyfriend." She smiled at him and looked at the table. There were prenatal vitamins laying on it. "You really shouldn’t leave pill bottles laying around with the little one." She picked it up before Jordan could grab it. "What? She’s pregnant?" she asked confused.

"Yes mom she is having my baby." He looked at her daring her to say something about it.

"Oh, well, congratulations I think." she stuttered. They talked for a while, and Marlene began to feel comfortable again. Maria came down the steps wearing a bathrobe, Jordan smiled at her, he thought she was so sexy.

"Oh, sorry, I didn’t know anyone was here." She started to turn up the steps and then changed her mind. "I’m sorry Ms. Putnam, if I got out of line I am sorry." she apologized. She didn’t want Marlene thinking she was one of those rude teenagers.

Marlene stood up. "No Maria, I am sorry. I should’ve been more open-minded about your age." She smiled, she finally realized what a kind girl Maria was. "Well, Jordan I have to go now. I’ll see you later."

Jordan stood up and looked at Maria. He walked to her and leaned down to kiss her. She could feel how hard he was. They were kissing and he felt a tug at his arm "oh, My Gawd, I forgot he was here." Jordan blushed. She had never seen him blush. "Let me put him to bed and we will finish what I started." He tucked Dante into bed and made sure the baby monitor was on.

He came into the bedroom and checked the baby monitor in there to make sure it was on too. Maria was sitting at the dressing table he bought her brushing her hair. He walked up to her and took the brush out of her hand. He started to brush her hair for her. Maria smiled and watched him in the mirror. He enjoyed brushing her hair for some odd reason. It felt good and was beginning to turn her on.

He continued to brush her hair. She slid the robe off of her shoulders and began to fondle her own breasts. He liked to watch her do that. He smiled at her. He moved a little closer to her, she could feel him harden on her back. He began to massage her back, still watching her in the mirror. Her nipples were erect now and she was pinching them. She noticed his smile and moved her hands down to her lap, tickling herself all the way down. She untied the belt to her robe and opened her legs. He had the perfect view through the mirror.

She inserted her fingers into her own wetness and tickled her clit. "You should be doing this." she teased. "But I’m not going to let you." She looked at him watching her in the mirror. She moaned in pleasure doing it just the way she liked it. She could feel him press his cock into her back. It turned her on and she continued. It was driving him insane. She looked up at him and put her finger into his mouth so that he could taste her. He smiled and nibbled on her finger.

"You driving me nuts" he said to her in a super sexy voice. He turned her around on the little bench. She smiled at him and reached to pull his shorts off. "No." he said to her. He pulled them off himself, and he began to stroke his ever-hardening manhood. She smiled at him, she brushed his had away. The bench was the perfect height and she wrapped her warm mouth around it. He moaned in pleasure while she pleased him. He played with her breasts while she sucked on him.

He pulled her up off of the bench. He began kissing her as her robe slipped to the floor. She pulled his T-shirt off and started to kiss his chest. "I love you," she said to him. He started to reach for the condoms "um, we don’t need those tonight, remember?" she teased.

"Oh," he replied. She led him to the bed and pushed him down. She sat facing him and stared to kiss him. He was very intense and was rubbing her back. He was kissing her neck and driving her insane. She pushed him back so that he was lying down. She smiled at him and looked dead in his eyes as she climbed onto him. She slid his dick into her and quickly pulled off. "Noooooo!!!" he screamed. She just laughed. He smiled at her. She had never been so brave in bed before and he was enjoying it. She leaned down and kissed him and slowly slid onto his cock again, leaving it there only a few moments. He groaned when she pulled out again. "Baby, no." She slid back on, now sitting all the way up and moved her hips in two small circles. Very slowly, and it was driving him nuts. She pulled off again and he was looking very horny. She loved to have this kind of control, but she was trying to get him to do one thing. She thought to herself for a minute and leaned down kissing him on the mouth very slowly, letting her pussy slightly touch his heard cock.

He had enough and flipped her over. He plunged into her hard over and over, faster and faster. She was laughing in ecstasy. She smiled at him as he released himself into her. He smiled at her when they were done. "You tease." he said out of breathe. They laughed. He held her. "Mom will like you once she gets to know you." He looked into her brown eyes. "I love you."

He leaned over and opened the drawer to his nightstand and pulled out a small pink velvet box. She looked at him confused. "I know it is kind of soon." He followed her gaze to the box. "I have never been happier in all my life." He got down on the floor and got to his knees. "I already asked your dad, he said I could ask you." He looked at her, she was just blinking at him. "Will you marry me?"

Maria just looked at him. She couldn’t believe he was asking this. She always imagined him with a tall, thin supermodel type. "What?" she asked to make sure she heard him right.

"Will you marry me?" he asked again expectantly. He looked at her. He wanted to spend the rest of his life with her and hoped she felt the same way.

"Jordan, I, I, are you sure?" she asked. She never imagined herself married. Let alone to a great guy like this. "What about your fans, and the media, and well, Dante and Evy?" she asked hesitantly.

"Fuck them all, if they don’t like it." he said sure of himself. "Don’t worry about the fans, they like you. Of course they don’t know your 18, but who cares if they do." He smiled at her when she held out her hand for him to slide the ring on. It was a gorgeous ring. It was the very one that she was lusting over when her and Kim went shopping. It was a simple diamond with a platinum band with small rubies embedded in it.

"Kim showed you this?" she asked. He nodded his head. "What did dad say?" she asked.

"He said ‘sure, I like you and you can have her’ he was laughing, I think he thought I was kidding." Jordan laughed and crawled onto the bed with her. He began kissing her and they made love again.

The next morning Dante woke Maria up for some milk. "Mama Maria?" he said tugging at her T-shirt.

"Hmmm, what honey?" She rolled over and looked at him.

"Milk?" he said softly. "Peeeees?"

She smiled at the cute little boy. She ruffled his curly dark hair and got out of bed. She picked him up and carried him down stairs. She got out his pooh sippy cup and poured some milk into it. "Anything else Dante?"

"Tele tubmes?" He said.

"What?" She looked at him confused. She wasn’t use to children and couldn’t decipher what he was saying.

"Telie tubbies." Jordan said from behind her. Dante ran to him and Jordan picked him up. "He likes to watch them on the big screen downstairs." he smiled at Maria and kissed her softly. "They are his size on that TV." Jordan laughed. Maria had never seen him so happy.

Jordan got Dante settled in downstairs and turned the monitors on. "If he comes to stay permanently, I will get them installed in every room." he smiled at Maria. "I feel like a real family today." He kissed her and gently touched her belly.

The phone rang and Maria instinctively picked it up "hello?" she said.

"Hello?" asked the male voice on the line. "Is Jordan there?" Jon wasn’t sure who that was, it certainly wasn’t Evy. "Evy?" he asked.

"No, this is Maria. Who is this?" she asked.

"Jon, his brother." he said to her still wondering why this woman was answering Jordan’s phone at nine in the morning. "Is he available."

"Yeah, hold on." Maria looked at Jordan "it’s Jonathan." she handed him the phone.

"Yo!" Jordan said taking the phone from Maria. "What’s up?"

"Hey, how’ya been?" Jon asked. "Mom told me about the girl and the baby. What are you going to do?" he asked.

"Get married." Jordan said. Jon and Jordan worked out their problems that afternoon. After a few hours on the phone Jordan hung up. He walked downstairs into the den and found Maria and Dante asleep side by side on the futon. They had fallen asleep watching The Little Mermaid. He turned the TV off and covered them up. "I love you guys." He went upstairs and began to cook dinner.

Nurse Cromwell woke up the next morning and decided to call his brother. "Hey Dave, its Steve." he said. "I got some juice for your little story your doing about that ex-new kid."

Dave sat up in bed "what?" he couldn’t believe it, maybe this was the break he needed to get his story on the front page of every major tabloid.

"Well, so this kid girlfriend of his skipped school the other day and came to the clinic complaining of nausea." Steve knew his brother would be so happy about this. "Anyway, I didn’t have any idea who she was until Jordan, or whatever his name is." He could hear his kid brother grin. "Anyhow, she is having his baby."

"Yes!!!!" Steve yelled. "This is just what I needed. "This will get me the covers!!!!!" he thought a minute. He would need proof. "What kind of proof could I get?" he asked himself. "Thanks bro. I have to get working now." He jumped into the shower and was on his way out. If he had the right hunch, she would have an Obstetrician appointment any day now. If he could get pictures of that. Or even see if he can get a snitch in Lamaze class. He started phoning his contacts with pregnant wives.

About the same time, Maria was on the phone with her Ob/gyn setting up an appointment with Kim’s doctor that delivered Xavier. Dante was running in circles around her. Jordan was over at Joe’s in the studio. They set up her appointment and confirmed a spot in a Lamaze class. Maria had long since quit her job at the record store. She had homework to do. After she put Dante down for his nap she hit the books. The phone rang the minute she sat down at Jordan’s desk. She picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hi? Who are you?" said a snooty female.

"Who are you?" she asked. After telling Jon who she was Jordan scolded her about telling people her name. It could really put both of them in danger.

"Evelyn. Now who are you?" Evy wondered who this woman was. Jordan never had girls over. Any time he had to go somewhere he always left Dante with a sister, his mom, one of the guys, or Kim.

"Maria. What do you need Evy?" she had heard stories about Evy and was still being as nice as possible to her. She would, after all, have to learn to get along with her. It wasn’t about Jordan or the press, it was about Dante, and successful joint parenting.

"Where is Jordan?" she demanded. "And Dante?"

"Jordan is at Joe’s. His cell phone is off, they are recording." Maria replied sweetly. "Dante is taking his nap."

"Who are you Maria, and why are you alone with my son?" Evy was really going to give it to Jordan. He knew he wasn’t supposed to leave Dante with someone that she didn’t know.

"I am Jordan’s fiancée." Maria said with a na-na-na-na-boo-boo attitude.

"What? Jordan’s getting married?" Evy said sounding a little hurt.

"Yes, Jordan is getting married to me." she said getting the same snotty attitude Evy had. "Now, what do you want? I can give Jordan a message." She really didn’t believe the rumors about her attitude until now.

"I need to talk to him personally. Have him call me when he gets home." She gave Maria the phone numbers. "It’s about Paris."

Maria smiled to herself. She had the feeling that Evy wasn’t coming back to the states. Jordan would be excited.

When Jordan called to check if Maria needed anything, she told him that Evy needed to talk to him about something. He called Evy on his way home.

Jordan busted through the door with a dozen pink roses and a giant dump truck. "Babies I’m home!!!" he was excited. "Guess, what honey?" he ran up to Maria and kissed her. Before she could answer him he began to tell her. "Evy got the job in Paris. She is coming next week to sign the papers for me to have full custody of Dante!" He was practically jumping up and down. Dante felt the energy and he was jumping around in circles. I ordered pizza it should be here any minute. "A real family, we will be a real family."

Maria just smiled at him. She knew this is what Jordan wanted more than anything. Evy out of the picture a wife, and his son, and a baby on the way. He was really happy now. "Good." She smiled nervously at him.

He stopped dead in his tracks. "Honey, what’s wrong?" he asked walking up to her to hug her.

"Nothing. I’m just tired. This little guy wore me out." She smiled and sat down.

"I’ll get a nanny if we need too." He smiled at her and started to rub her shoulders. "Are we still having some of your friends from Ohio for Thanksgiving?" he smiled. He couldn’t wait until he met her friends. He wasn’t even worried about their maturity levels anymore.

"Yeah, they will be here this weekend." she smiled. "I have to go study." She went upstairs. She opened her books and started to read. She could hear Jordan on the phone with Jon downstairs.

"Evy is moving to Paris, that means we get Dante full time." He sounded so excited. "Maria wants to get married before the baby comes. Probably sometime over Christmas break." He was telling Jon how excited he was to get to be a father again. He was going on and on about how happy he was to have a real family now and that he would be the dad he never had. Maria put her head on her desk and started to cry. "Honey are you ok?" Jordan asked a few minutes later.

"I’m so scared." She said looking up at him. "I’m not going to be a good mom. How can I. I never had a mom. What am I going to do?" she stared at him with tears running down her face.

"I had the same fears when we were having Dante," he said to her. "I never really had a dad, but I made a promise to myself and my son to be the best dad I could. I have been and it is always a learning experience. I’ve messed up and I always will make mistakes." He kissed her forehead. "You’re so young. Of course you are scared." he smiled "we will do the best we can. I love you and I love this baby growing inside of you." He smiled. "The pizza is here, you hungry?" She looked up at him and smiled "that’s my girl." They went down the steps and into the kitchen.

Maria went to school the next day. She parked and was meet by Matthew. "What do you want?" she said startled that he was even looking at her kindly.

"I’m sorry I have been so mean to you." he smiled. "Welcome to the family." He took her book bag and walked her into the school. "I really am sorry, I just don’t know you and a lot of girls just want him for his money. I hope we can be friends." He stuck his hand out and she shook it.

"I need all the friends I can get." She smiled at him "apology accepted. She went through school that day and at 2 o’clock she left for her doctors appointment. The appointment went well with a little surprise. She decided not to go back to school that afternoon and went home to Jordan’s. When she pulled in she noticed a cab pulling up too. A Hispanic woman got out and she realized that was Evy. She also noticed Donnie’s car there and another car that she didn’t recognize. She stopped in front of the gate and got out of the car to talk to some of the fans outside. They asked her what was going on and she told them that Jordan was getting full custody, and that her and Jordan were to be married. Jordan told her that it was ok to tell the fans that now. The family knew and now it was time for the other people that loved him to know.

She killed as much time as she could with the fans, but her bladder was beginning to fill up and she excused herself, got into her car and pulled into the driveway. She walked in just as they were signing the papers. Dante was sitting in Evy’s lap and when he saw Maria he jumped down and ran to her. "Hey buddy." Evy gave her a look that could kill. Donnie just smiled at Maria, he loved to see Evy’s feathers ruffled. When the process was over Donnie, the lawyers and Evelyn left. "Jordan, we really need to talk."

"What is it Maria?" he asked worried "was the appointment ok?"

"Yes the appointment went well, but I have something to tell you." She sat next to him and Dante. "I think I will need to get a tutor and start studying at home."

"Why, I thought school was going better now?" He smiled and put an arm around her.

"It is, but. See," she didn’t know how to tell him "the stress is going to hurt me. and it will get hard for me to move around."

He looked at her confused. "Why, your healthy aren’t you?" he knew her weight might be a problem, but not that much of one.

"Yes, but with three babies my body will be under to much stress." she smiled.

"What?" he asked. "Triplets?"

"Yes, three babies." she said.

"Oh my, will they and you be ok?" he asked.

"Yes, as long as I take care of myself." she smiled.

"Talk about instant family." He stood up in shock. "Oh my. What will mom think? We will need a nanny after all." He sat back onto the couch. "Don’t we have class tonight?" he asked.

"Yeah, in two hours. I need a shower." She went upstairs. He called his mom, who, naturally flipped out.

They got ready and went to the child development class that she wanted to take. It was a lot of fun, Jordan had been through it before but he went along with Maria to keep her company, he was the only person in there, other than the teacher with any parental experience. One man was looking at them and watching them the whole time.

"Triplets." Steve heard as he answered the phone.

"What?" Steve asked. "Who is this?"

"This is Jamie, you know from high school?" Jamie said knowing it would take a second for Steve to realize who he was. "I talked to Dave and he told me you were looking for dirt on Jordan Knight."

"Oh, ok. They are having triplets? Are you sure it was him?" Steve had to get proof.

"Duh, dude, of course it was him. I was only his best friend for 10 years, till he got that big head about the band." Jamie shook his head. "I took a couple of pictures of them there. I have on of those small PI cameras"

"Great Kelly, when can we meet to make a deal." Steve knew that Jamie had hard feelings towards the guys and he would want to get even with them.

"How bout right now, I am pulling in your driveway." Jamie pulled in and got out of his car. Steve met him at the door. "I got audio too, just in case. They were talking about he babies and the kid he has with Evelyn." Jamie smiled at Steve.

"Don’t remind me. If it weren’t for him I would have her right now." Steve reminded Jamie of his thing against Jordan. "How did the girl seem. Did she look happy?"

"Yeah, I guess, happy but hesitant. Wouldn’t you be if you were having a baby with a famous guy with lots of money who was 11 years older than you?" Jamie pointed out.

"Good point." The two men talked awhile about the good times, bad times and set a price. They decided that Jamie would make sure him and his girl would get in the same Lamaze class. "Hey, why don’t you try to get Jordan to be your friend again. Maybe ‘apologize’ for things in the past. Get him to trust you and maybe he will open up and you can get the whole scoop." Steve loved himself right now. "I’ll split all the profits half and half with you if you do."

"Yeah, I’ll do that." Jamie smiled to himself. He couldn’t to get the long waited revenge he deserved.

The next week Maria’s friends came for Thanksgiving they had tons of fun and were very excited to get out of Ohio for a while. Christmas came and went smoothly and Jamie had become a friend again. They were very happy. New years was a blast. They went to Joe’s New year’s concert and had fun. When school started up again, Maria was not there. She had a tutor and by Valentines Day was ahead of schedule. She was planing to get finished before April when the doctor told her to stay away from stress as long as possible. Marlene and Maria were getting along great. Dante was taking to Maria and was calling her "mommy" now. The nurseries were finished and things were stable.

Maria was waiting in the living room for Sharon, Alison and Marlene. They were going shopping again. They showed up and took off towards downtown. They stopped into the grocery store to get some food and at the register were the Tabloids. On the cover of all of them was a picture of Maria and Jordan. The story was true, but cruel. It went through all the details of there relationship, from how they met, the N’Sync concert and her problems with his family. Marlene snatched them all up and went to the manager demanding they take them off of the shelves. Of course the manager laugh at her "hell no, they have been the best sellers ever."

"Fine." Marlene bought all of them and dumped them in the dumpster on the way out. Maria had seen them and ran to the car with tears pouring down her face. She was devastated. "Honey? You ok Maria?" Marlene took her home directly. They came into the house and she handed a copy to Jordan he read the names of the people responsible for the story.

"Jamie Kelly?" he said to his self when he read the credits. "That son of a Bitch." Jordan was devastated that his friend would do this to him. He called Donnie.

"I know man, I just saw them. That sick bastard. The other guy that wrote it is Evy’s ex-boyfriend." Donnie was mad and he knew what Jordan was going to do. "I’ll meet you at Danny’s in ten minutes."

Donnie bet Jordan to Danny’s. Jon and Joe were there too. "What are we going to do about this?" Joe asked.

"They usually aren’t personal." Jon said. "This one is."