Chapter 20: Couldn't Be Not You

The night that passed seems like a century to all of them. Jesse couldn't sleep because he'll go to his house after a long time. The girls were looking forword to see Pauline after a year. Pauline on the other hand she has no idea what is waiting her when she'll go to the hospital. She has no idea that her birtday are tommorow.

The morning of the 13th of August passed a little fast. Dorothea went and left some clean clothes for Jesse to wear. She couldn't hide how exited she was about his son. After a long time battle he finnaly won!

Pauline left in the morning for her work. Her parents and sister wished her happy birthday but this time Zeta didn't suprised her like the previous year. The time in work passed really quick that Pauline didn't know that it was the time to leave. She was waiting that moment for a month.

She arrived at home and had a shower. She choose some nice clothes to wear and left again her house. This is the last time she'll go to the hospital. She hit the gase a little more that she used to and arrived in the hospital more early.

She parked and went to Jesse's room. Opening the door for her big suprise she found Jesse alone sitting in a chair. He was dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt. Pauline froze at this view. "W-Where is everybody?" she asked. Jesse got from the chair and went to her. "My dad has meeting for the next leg of the tour. My mum is with Romeo and Jacob because they're feeling a little sick and sit with them!" he lied. "Stephanie?" Pauline asked. "She's with Mark, her boyfriend!" Jesse lied again. All these were in the Bongiovi house waiting for them. Pauline raised an eyebrow. Something is not right here! Something's going on! she told to herself. "Can we leave now Paul?" Jesse asked and then he kissed her sweet. "Sure, let's go!" she answered and left the room walking hand in hand. Arriving at Pauline's car Jesse said "You got a nice car here girl! When you bought it?" "My parents gave it to me the day we broke up!" Pauline said and climed into the car. Jesse did the same a few seconds later. Once both put their seatbelts Pauline put the machine forword and left the hospital's parking lot.

With Jesse's instuctions they pulled to the Bongiovi's driveway. Jesse taped the code in the gate and slowly opened. Pauline parked the car next to one of Jon's. Jesse looked around his house. "You really miss it huh?" Pauline asked him. Jesse looked at her and took her hand in his "Sure, but i missed that more!" he said kissed her with all the passion he had. When they broke apart for the kiss Jesse said "Come on Paul let's go inside!" they walked hand in hand again to the doorstep. Jesse pulled they key from his pocket and opened the door. "After you madam!" he said and let Pauline walk in first. He closed the door behind him. Everything was so quite like nobidy was in the house. "Where is everyone?" Pauline asked. "I don't know let's to the living room!" Jesse said and walked along with Pauline to the living room.

Lights went on. People were going out from almost everywhere. A very large label was in the air saying 'Sweet 16 Angel!' "HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULINE!!!" they all said with one voise. Pauline's hands went to her mouth of suprise. She've lost her words. From the people Romeo tried to walk away and went to hug Pauline. She kneed down when she saw him coming. "Happy birthday!" he said and hug her close and tight. Pauline got up with Romeo in her arms "Thank you big man!" she answered and kissed his cheek. "Hey Angel put him down it's our turn now!" David yelled. Pauline laughed and put Romeo on the floor.

For the next minuts Pauline was hugging and kissing everyone in the room. When there is only one left, Jesse. He pulled her in his arms and put her in the air. "Jesse put me down!" she said more that three maybe four times. Jesse put her down and kissed her lightly "Happy birthday Paul!" "You did all this?" she asked when they broke apart. "Yeah!" "B-But how?" "You think because i was in a hospital i couldn't arrange a party for my girl? Or you think that i could ever forget your birthday?" "Oh Jesse...." she said and this time she kissed with a little more power and passion that it have too. "Hey lovebirds why don't you come here? It's the gift time!" Ava yelled at them.

Both Pauline and Jesse walked where all the others were. It was a corner in the living room with Pauline's presents. Pauline was so amazed by that. It was kind of swwet of them and this is only the begining. Tico took his present and went to Pauline "Angel as the older here i wish you happy birthday! Here is a little thing to remember that day!" Tico said and passed it to Pauline. "Oh Tico that was no necesery!" she said and hug him. "Don't waist more time open it!" he said again. Pauline couldn't say no to Tico. This size was a little weird for a present. It was the size of one meter and about 50 cm tall. Pauline tore the wrapper and a beautiful portrate of her came out. She was playing volleyball. It was the time she was doing a jump serve. It was stanning and it was autographed by Tico. "Oh my God!" was the only thing she could say right now. She hugged Tico one more time. "Thank you very much Tico! I love it!" she said and gave him her best smile.

David's turn. "Angel i'm sure that if you like Tico's present you're gonna love mine!" David said and gave her a box. The size of the presents it was getting really weird. She opened the box and found a FIVB official game ball. As she turned it around.... "Oh my God! Is signed by Matt Anderson! Oh my God!" Pauline yelled. "B-But wait Joker a minute how did you know who is my favourite volleyball player?" she asked because she couldn't remember if she said that. "It wasn't very dificult with just a phone call i've learnt it!" David answered. "You called my sister?" she asked in suprised "Yeah, i did! At least she helped me with that!" "Oh Joker come here......." she said and her arms opened and closed with David in them.

She was waiting that moment since Tico started with the presents. Richie and Ava with their present walked to Pauline's side. Ava hugged her tight and said "Happy birthday!" she was hugging her so tight "Ava let her breath!" Richie yelled from behind her. "Oh i'm sorry...." she said and let her free. Richie step forword and looked in her eyes. She never saw his eyes from this short destance it was defently the most chocolate brown eyes she've ever seen. Richie has in his hands Pauline's present. It was about the height of Pauline's waist. "This is something small we found and we thought that you'll like it!" Richie said and passed it to her. A small present can fit here? she thought. She opened the box and she pulled out a black acoustic guitar. It looks like the one she already had but this one has one more detail. On the body of the soundboard of it Pauline recognize Richie's handwriting and she read it. Dear Angel, you had me from hello... You'll live in my heart always and forever..... Much love RS. This is written in gold letters by Richie. Pauline felt an emotion hard to explain. Richie's words touched very bad her heart. She didn't know what to do. She knew that to thank him wasn't enough. The atmoshere was full of emotions.

Jon clear his thoat and said "Angel if you're going to spend all the time with Swingman's present you got it bad!" Pauline laughed. Jon got closer to her and pulled from his pocket a small red box. Pauline put the guitar on the ground. Jon looked her in the eyes. "Pauline i don't know how much time will take me to thank you for that you did, it might took me years! You gave to my son his life back and he's here with us because of you.... Is really hard to describe what are my feeling about you. It's been just a year when i met you..." "Oh come on Kidd end your speech i'm hungry!" David yelled to Jon. Everybody in the room laughed. "Alright! Alright! This is from you Angel!" Jon finally finished and gave to Pauline the little red box. Pauline opened it and saw a necklece with platinum wing of an angel. "Oh Jon is so beautiful!" she said as she run her fingers on it. "It was Jesse's idea! I just found it...." Jon explained. Pauline looked at Jesse was was standing there oppisite to her. She hugged him tight and almost caught his breath. "You'll always be my guardian angel!" he whispered to her ear. Jesse took the necklece and wore it on Pauline's neck. It was matching perfectly with her. Pauline took the angel's wing and turned it to the other side. She read what it was engraved on it You'll always be my guardian angel. J Pauline close it into her hand so tight. Pauline turned and gave Jesse a kiss to his cheek. She wanted to go a little lower than his ckeek but she couldn't do it in front of his parents. "Ok enough with that let's ate the cake!" David yelled one more time.

They all sung to Pauline the birthday song and wished her happy birthday again. Thurther more they had and their personal photographer, Jacob. "Hey Pauline can you help me with the cake in the kitchen?" Stephanie said when they ate the cake. "Sure, let's go!" Pauline answered. Stephanie had talked with Jesse when Pauline was taking pictures with Romeo. Stephanie with Pauline left the living room and head to the kitchen. Stephanie left and Pauline didn't notised it.

Arriving in the kitchen she opened the door and......

Her screams were heard all over the living room. Melina, Amalia and Stefania were there sitting in the kitchen table and they are trying not to laugh from Pauline's reaction. They got up all and hugged Pauline for a long time. Pauline couldn't hide how happy she was. When they broke apart Melina said "You know you were right about one thing!" she said and shaked her head. Pauline really didn't wait to hear that. "Oh you mean about the house? Yeah i was like that too when i passed that doorstep!" "I'm not talking about that...." Pauline raised an eyebrow "She talking about Jon's ass......" Amalia said annoying. "All the time we're here she's talking about that! She's worse than you...." Stefania added. "Well, can we leave for a little Jon's anatomy and tell me how the fuck you came here?" Pauline asked. "Jesse!" said all thre together. "Jesse did this too?" she asked and the suprise was on her face. "I love the necklece!" Melina said and looked at it in Pauline's neck. "I love the ball!" Amalia added "I love the guitar! This guy really got it with the emototions...." Stefania said last. "Y-You mean the you had already meet them?" Pauline asked suprised again. It was her day to be suprised. "Oh yeah! We met Tico a few hours ago....." Melina explained. "Lucky you Pauline!" Stefania said. "You say lucky me and i say lucky Tori!" "Who's Tori?" Amalia asked as they all sut in the chairs. "Richie's girlfriend!" Pauline said with a little devil voise. "Pauline no! It's not a good idea to kill her!" Melina said terified. "I'm not gonna kill her! I'm just jelous! That's all...." she explained and sut back in the chair. "We're jelous of you! Jesse is........ Is...... Is....." Amalia start to explain but she couldn't find the right words. "I think what Amalia is trying to say is that Jesse is the.... The...... The...." Stefania tryied too but it was harder than she thought it would be. Melina had already found the perfect words to describe him and said "The girls are trying to say that Jesse is perfect for you! Is the best boyfriend you could ever ask for! He's so sweet and funny and all that! And he loves you with all his heart!" Melina finaly put into words the feeling which are hard to say. "Yeah, i know that...." Pauline said and shaked her head thinking of that. "Now enough with the talking! I'm gonna dance with Colton......" Stefania said and got up first. "No! I'm gonna dance with Colton!" Amalia said and got up too. "No! I'm gonna dance with Colton!" Melina said agressive and hit her hand on the table. "GIRLS! I'm gonna dance with Jesse! And Colton doesn't dance that good as Romeo! But i really want to see these guys shaking their money makers! This is going to be intersting!" Pauline said and all four best friends left the kitchen.

Thye next few hours they are all dancing. Pauline was right Romeo was the dancer of the night. While Jacob took more that 300 pictures of them dancing. It was a crazy day and a craziest night. This is how sweet 16 would be like. And when the ballads came over..... Jesse challenged his father to slow songs. It can be seen for a muiles away who win this. Jon with Dorothea did a very good job. No one can bit the young couple of Pauline and Jesse who slow dacing was their departement.