Chapter Three

The guys met for breakfast down in the restaurant but Jon and Mary were not with them. As they ordered Dave said, “Well I see were missing the boss man.”

“Yeah what time is it?” Richie asked.

 Tico looked at his watch. “Quarter to ten which is surprising because you’re up Rich.” He said chuckling.

“Funny T I’d still be sleeping if Joker didn’t come banging on my door this morning.” Richie said not amused.

“Yeah I wanted to know if Jon came to you last night. If anything it would have been you but apparently he hadn’t. So one of two things happened. One: they either killed each other or two: were never going to get them out of that room for a while if you know what I mean.” Dave told them chuckling. They all looked at Dave and shook their heads.

“We all know what you mean Dave. Let’s just leave the love birds alone for a while they’ve been thru a lot and need some time together.” Richie said harshly. Their food came but what they didn’t notice was the figure a couple of tables over watching them and again taking notes. She wasn’t a happy camper that Jon wasn’t with them.

Jon was the first one to wake up as he was cradling Mary in his arms. Her head was just under his as her face was turned upward enough that the bridge of her nose was just under his jaw. He couldn’t have been more happier in that moment if he had won all the music awards that year. He tilted his head so he could kiss the bridge of her nose and then she scrunched it up and wiggled it. She slowly opened her eyes and looked into a pair of royal blue ones. She felt his strong arms wrapped around her and she felt not only safe but so warm and loved. “Hey Baby are you ok?” he asked her smiling.

“I’m fine just fine. If I could fly I would.” She told him cuddling as close to him as she could.

 “Hey I’m the one that does the flying remember?” he said squeezing her.

“Yeah how can I forget? You scare the hell out of me when you’re up there flying around like that.” She told him wiggling into him.

“I know but I’m secured up there so you really don’t have anything to worry about Baby ok” he told her kissing her temple.

“Just remind me of that when we’re sitting in the hospital and I say I Told You So. And you get mad at me for getting hurt on the job.” She told him again snuggling more into him.

It was a good thing she couldn’t see him roll his eyes at her. “We’re not going to start this again are we?” he asked her in his monotone voice.  

Crap she said to herself. “No we are not. I was just stating it that’s all Jon. You know you can let one go from time to time. I didn’t mean anything by it. I’m sorry ok?” she said to him already annoyed with him.

Letting out a breath knowing he put his foot in his mouth, “No I’m sorry I didn’t mean to start anything. It’s just when you said about me falling and the I told you so then me getting mad at you well…” he was trying very hard to explain it to her without insulting her again when she jumped in.

“No I’m sorry I shouldn’t have said that either Sweetie. I guess we still had some unfinished business from last night. Well I guess now we need to make up all over again don’t we?” she told him as she started to nuzzle his neck.

Smiling he said, “Well if you insist that we need to make up again who am I to say otherwise.” He said as moved his body so it was half on her now.

“Hey ha ha get off me you big goof.” She told him as he pinned her underneath him.

“Shhh I can’t concentrate with you blabbering at me.” He told her as he started to kiss her neck and make his way down. Mary was giggling as Jon was doing this and way into it when she thought she heard the door in living room open then close.

“Jon. Jon. JON!” she loudly whisper and smacked him on the shoulder.

 “WHAT?!” But before he could ask her anything else she put her hand across his mouth.

“Hon shhh I think someone just came into the hotel room. I heard the door open and close.” She told him nervously.

Slowly taking her hand away from his mouth he answered, “It’s probably one of the guys who I’ll probably kick their ass.” He told her pissed.

“But they know I’m here and if they wanted to hassle us they would have been here sooner. No I don’t like what my gut is telling me something is wrong.” She told him nervously.

“Would you like me to go out there and see if everything is all right? Would that make you feel better?” he asked her making his sexy face at her.

“You really are an ass you know that? I can go out there and check myself. I don’t need some man to it for me you know.” She told him as she tried really hard to look like she was hurt but it was hard as he was nibbling on her shoulder. “Will you cut that out! I’m trying to act like I’m mortified by your comment that I need some man to protect me. That I’m some kind of weak little girl that needs to be looked after.” She told him trying really hard now not to giggle as he started to move further down her chest. She was starting to get into it but this time Jon had heard a bang himself and when he looked up they both could see the door knob being turned.

Jon was going to kill whomever was going to walk thru that door because well he was just a horny little horn dog and he was finally getting back with his girl. He was so going to make them pay for this. He was just about to yell out to them when they walked into their bedroom. “Hey! What the hell are you guys…” but Jon stopped there when he saw a blonde hair girl dressed in a maids outfit standing in the doorway.

“Oh I’m sorry I thought you were with the rest of the band down at the restaurant.” She said to them.

They just looked at her from the bed and Jon making sure that Mary was covered up. “Sweetheart didn’t you see the Do Not Disturb card on the door knob of the outside front door?” Jon asked a little pissed off.

“Oh yes I did but I thought you forgot to take it down.” She told him.

 Mary just looked at Jon biting her tongue. “Do you mind but we’re kind of in a compromising position so could you just get the fuck out of here?” Jon told her as it wasn’t like he could get up at the moment.

“Well that’s just it I was wondering well I thought you two were over.” She asked them. The two of them just looked at each other in amazement.

They were actually in shock. “Ok look girly you need to get the fuck out of here now or I’m calling security.” Jon told her in a rather heated voice now.

“No, no please it’s just I was in the bar last night and you two were fighting and well I thought now I had a chance with you Jon. So I grab this uniform from downstairs and well here I am. And I’ll never fight with you I promise and if you need to have something on the side well that’s fine by me really.”

She was telling them when Mary had about enough. “That’s it! Look Hon I own a gun and I’m not afraid to use it so if you don’t turn your ass around now…” she was telling her.

“Baby it’s ok I got this.” Jon told her. Picking up the phone Jon had called security and told them that an intruder had entered his room and needs them to come up there and remove her immediately or there would be consequences. The desk clerk apologized and said he would send them up immediately and take care of this. The blonde kept telling Jon how much she loved him and that they were meant for each other. Mary had had about enough and wanted to take care of her herself but Jon wouldn’t let her. It didn’t take long once he had called which was a good thing. He had to yell for them to come in since he couldn’t get up.

“Mr. Bongiovi?” the head of security yelled back.

“In here! The bedroom!” Jon yelled. They headed in there and saw three people. Two in the bed basically only covered in blankets and not much else and a woman sitting in a chair in the corner of the room dressed in a maid’s outfit.

“Mr. Bongiovi I’m Carl Stevenson head of security. Sorry to meet you like this and also sorry for this breach in security but I thought your men were taking care of your security for your floor?” Stevenson asked him.

“Yes but can we talk about this later and just get her the hell out please because as you see we can’t even get out of bed with all of you here.” Jon said thru gritted teeth at this point.

“Yes sir no problem. Miss if you could come with me.” Stevenson said as he went over to assist her up and to take her down stairs.

 “I don’t think so but you probably can take her because she’s the one intruding on my time with my fiancé.” She told him.

 Everyone just stared at her with Jon and Mary who had opened mouths. “Mr. Bongiovi do you want the police involved?” Stevenson asked him.

 “Well she didn’t take anything or hurt anyone so I don’t think I can file charges.” He said.

 “No unfortunately you can’t unless she does so we’ll just walk her out and read her the riot act as we do.” Stevenson told them. It took some coaching but they were finally able to get her to leave and Jon thanked them.

“Baby I’m so sorry about that.” He told her as she just sat there with the blankets pulled up around her.

“I don’t know whether to laugh or scream.” She said staring into space. Jon sat there staring at her afraid of what she was going to say next.

 “Jon has this been going on since I left?” she asked as she turned now to look at him in his blue eyes.

 Jon just looked around the room and then finally answered her. “Yeah it started about the day after you left.” He told her a little embarrassed that he never told her.

 “Why didn’t you tell me Jon? You know what happened the last time you were being stalked remember? I got beat up! Or have you’ve forgot?” she asked him.

Annoyed now, “How the hell can I forget something like that? It was my fault that you got beat up and I’ll never forgive myself for that and we weren’t even dating then. I also fell in love with you on that case so how could I forget that huh?” he explained to her closing in on her and taking her close and kissing her hard and passionately.

Just as he was about to close the deal there was banging on the door. “Kidd open up! Kidd open up will ya it’s Rich.” Richie yelled from the other side of the door. He needed to know what was going on.

 Breaking from the kiss, “He has lousy timing.” Jon said as he groaned into her shoulder as she giggled.

“No shit Babe. How are you going to answer the door with Mr. Happy there at attention?” she wanted to know.

“It’s not like he hasn’t seen it before.” Jon told her.

 “I really don’t want to know do I?” she asked.

“No.” he replied.

Getting out of bed and putting on his shorts while he tried to push down Mr. Happy as she so called his hard on, Jon went to answer the door. Opening it and not looking to happy, “What the hell do you want?” he asked Rich annoyed.

“Well hello to you too. You going to let me in or are you going to let the whole hotel see your micro phone from here?” Richie asked chuckling.

“Aren’t you a laugh a riot?” Jon said as he let him in.

“So I take it I’m interrupting something?” he asked smiling.

“Oh no why?” Jon said sarcastically.

Sitting down on the couch Richie asked him, “Well good because I want to know why security was up here in your suite?” Taking a deep breath Jon explained to him what had happen and that he just thinks that it’s just a random stalker groupie thing. Mary thinks that it may be something more but it could be her detective instincts kicking in. Richie told him not to count out her instincts only because sometimes you never know they may be right. Jon thought that now Richie was over reacting. He told him that ever since the incident with Danny Potter he’s gotten security and that no one is allowed to go out without it. But Richie explained to him how did the girl get into his room today?

 Jon thought this over and the only thing he could think of was she had to have bribed one of the security guards and that he would have to look into it. He would have to call the head of security to find out who was on call this morning and have them deal with it. Richie also reminded him that they have sound check this afternoon and not to be late. Jon didn’t think that was funny and told him to get out. He went back in to the bedroom but was surprised to see Mary sound asleep. He smiled as he ditched his shorts and climbed in next to her. He didn’t want to wake her seeing that they didn’t get much sleep last night so he wrapped his arm around her waist and it didn’t take long for him to drift off also. They slept for a couple of hours when the phone rang. Jon opened his eyes and wanted to throw the phone thru the window. But instead he rolled over and answered it. “This better be good.” He said into the phone.

“I see we got up on the wrong side of the bed. Why don’t you tell her to switch sides?” Doc told him.

“Why don’t you just shut the fuck up?” he shot back. “What the hell do you want Doc?” He asked annoyed.

 “I’m calling to remind you that there will be a reporter from The Storm it’s a new magazine out and I want you to play nice with them can you do that?” he ask him.

“Yes I can do that if I have to why?” Jon asked him.

 “Well it’s in our contract for one and two it will look good another. Besides we need all the good publicity we can get for the new record. So you and the guys can start to hype it up now. She’s going to shadow you guys for a week to get a feel for what gets a band going for a show.” Doc told him.

Jon sat up now because this was the first time he has heard anything about this. “Doc you know I don’t like outsiders in my circle. How could you do this without discussing this with me!” Jon demanded to know.

 “Because I’m the manager and I know what’s right for this band. You don’t like it then fire me. But remember if I go so do my contacts pal. Now be on time for sound check and I’ll see you there. Oh and by the way don’t say anything about having a girlfriend because your fans want you single.” And with that Doc hung up. Jon wasn’t a happy camper as he hung up the phone.

 Mary could tell that there was something wrong. “Jon is there something wrong?” she asked him.

“Yeah did I wake you Babe?” he asked her.

“No and you haven’t answered my question.” She asked again.

Shaking his head, “No it was just Doc reminding me that we have an early meeting before sound check that’s all.” He told her staring off into space.

They had gotten up which she thought was a little strange because he usually would try and wrestle her in the mornings until he got his way. This morning he didn’t. He just got up and went straight to the bathroom to do his business and went straight into the shower without her. Using her detective instincts she knew that phone call bothered him more than he was saying. She called down to room service and ordered the foods she knew that he liked and plenty of coffee. By the time he got out of the bathroom which she knew he was taking his time room service had already been delivered. She was drinking her tea when he came out. “I order your coffee for you.” She told him.

“Um? Oh thanks Babe.” He said as he grabbed his coffee and then went into the bedroom to get dressed. She sat there a little upset because he hasn’t told her a thing about what was going on today.  

She got up and followed him into the bedroom. “Are you going to tell me what’s going on?” she asked him.

He turned around as he was putting on his shirt. “Nothing I said. I just need to get to the arena so I can do an interview and then do a sound check so that way I can get back as soon as possible so we can spend some quality time together, how does that sound?” he asked her.

“So you want me to stay here while you’re doing all that?” she asked him.

“Yeah if you don’t mind?”

 “Sure why not I’ve got nothing better to do.” She said sarcastically.

“You’re mad aren’t you?” he asked.

Rolling her eyes, “No I ‘m not mad I’m just really confused as to why you want me to stay here where you were so hep up on me being with you everywhere you went.” She said with a confused look on her face.

“Baby it’s just that I’m going to be running around here and there and I don’t want you to feel like you’re getting lost in the shuffle that’s all.” He explained to her.

“Really? Well thank you.” She said suspiciously.

“Baby do you want to come because if you do then you’re more than welcome. I just thought that you would be more comfortable here that’s all.” He told her trying to sound as sincere as possible.

Looking at him she realized that he meant what he was saying. “I’m sorry Jon I really am. Go do what you have to. I’ll be fine.” She told him.

“You’re sure?” he asked her again.

“Yes I’ll be fine. I’ll find something to do.” She said getting up and walking over to him to give him a kiss.

“Ok I’ll try and not let it take to long after sound check ok?” he said as he kissed her back. “Do what you have too.” He grabbed his things and winked at her as he was leaving. Mary thought that there was a little more to this than he was telling her but it could be that Doc was putting pressure on him too. She would have to look in to this.

Jon got to the arena and found Doc and the reporter. He nearly stopped short. The reporter was this beauty of a woman in her mid-twenties. About five feet four with sandy blonde hair that landed to about her shoulders and a figure to die for. She had a cute short black leather skirt on with a Beatles t-shirt and high heels black boots. He walked up to them as Doc was smiling ear to ear. “Jonny! Glad you could make it.” He said to him snarky.

“Well you told me to be here at eleven so I’m here at eleven Doc. So who do we have here?” he said smiling at the reporter but thinking of his one and only.

“Jon I would like you to meet Kristen Spencer. Kristen this is Jon Bon Jovi.” Doc told each of them.

 Smiling Kristen reached out her hand so she could shake Jon’s. “Hi Jon nice to meet you. Doc has told me so much about you.” She told him.

 Smiling back at her, “Well I hope not everything.” He said using his flirting technique to his ability. The two of them seemed to hit it off right away. Doc explained to Jon that Kristen was to document the band and how they go about with they’re every day to day activities leading up to a concert. If everything went well she was to stay with them for a month to document them for several more on how it takes its toll on them. At first Jon wasn’t too keen on the idea but when Kristen explain to him what she had in mind he thought that maybe it could work out only if he had a hand in it also.

She told him that he could approve all that she would shoot and edit. But that would mean that she would have to work closely with him. He told her he wouldn’t have a problem with that if she didn’t. Doc seemed very happy of the rapport that they were having. Once the initial interview was over they headed to the main area where they met the rest of the guys.  As the introductions were made Richie’s interest was piqued. Jon could see it on Richie’s face. He wasn’t sure if he felt jealous or not about how he was feeling. He felt he couldn’t be feeling jealous because he loved his girlfriend and only her. How could he be feeling like this for a girl he only just met? But then again he fell for Mary the same way. At this point Jon felt very confused but it did seem that Kristen only had eyes for Jon and the other guys did notice that.

While Jon had gone off with Doc Mary had the uneasy feeling that Doc was stressing out Jon. But also what had happen last night still had bothered her also. Maybe that was bothering Jon too. She had gotten dressed and decided that she was going to go out and go ask some questions in the bar and in the kitchen. She thought that was a good starting point. Maybe someone there had seen something unusual. As she was making her rounds she didn’t notice that someone was watching her. She followed her everywhere she went when finally Mary caught a glimpse of someone in a window of someone she thought was watching her. So she headed down the street to another store where she look into and sure enough there was that same person a few feet over behind a car this time trying very hard to go unnoticed but definitely watching her. Damn she should have brought her gun with her. She had gotten some info from the bartender and some of the kitchen staff but nothing that would give her anything that the police could use. And the person behind her didn’t look anything like the girl that barged into their room last night. Ok so now the only way she would know what was going on was to confront this broad. So she walked a little further down the block and turned into the alley way and made it look like she made a wrong turn. She saw a pipe and picked it up and hid it behind her back when this woman turned into the alley way where she was waiting for her.

As Mary made her stance, “Ok why the hell are you following me?” Mary asked her.

“Damn you saw me. And here I thought I was being sneaky.” She said to her snarky.

“Sorry not so much. So like I said why?” she asked again.

 “I saw you with my boyfriend and I want to know why and to tell you to stay the hell away from him.” She demanded.

 “Excuse me? I’m sorry I think you have me confused with someone else. I have one boyfriend and I’m lucky I can handle him. I couldn’t handle any more than that.” She told her.

“Well I saw you and him the other night and I’m here to tell you to back the hell off.” She said it again.

Mary just sighed and rolled her eyes. She was tired of playing this game. “Ok look why don’t you just tell me who your boyfriend is and I’ll let you know if I know him. How’s that?” she told her.

“Fine! You might have heard of him. His name is Jon Bon Jovi.” She said with an attitude.

Mary just stood there with her mouth open. This was becoming a theme now. “Really? Jon Bon Jovi? You’re the second one now claiming to be his girlfriend did you know that?” she asked her.

She looked at Mary and shook her head no.  “Yep a girl last night came to him and said that also. He thought that was funny just as he’ll think this is funny seeing that I’m his girlfriend Bitch. Now who are you really?” she asked her.

“None of your business.” She said.

“Well none of your business I suggest that you stop following us around or we’ll have you arrested for stalking you got that?” Mary explained to her.

“You can’t do that I’ve done nothing wrong.” She said.

“Yeah you have and we can get you for stalking a celeb. He’s being harassed so right now anyone stalking him can be arrested. Now get the hell out here before I scream for help and I get you up on false arrest charges got that.” Mary told her and with that the girl ran out of there faster than lightning.

Mary took a big breath of relief and threw the pipe back on the ground. She left the alley and made her way back to the hotel. She went over to the reception desk and asked the clerk if she could look at the sign in book. They said they couldn’t do that so she asked if she could talk to the manager. After explaining what had happened last night which he was informed from the night manager he let her take a look. She did get the name of the girl who did storm in but she wasn’t registered in the hotel at all. Discouraged that everything turned out the way they did, empty handed she headed back to their room. When she opened the door to the room there was Jon and Kristen sitting on the couch next to each other as close as they could get with Jon’s arm up over above her as they were looking at a photo book of the band and laughing as their faces were very close. Mary just stood frozen in her tracks as they looked up as Jon froze also looking kind of guilty as Kristen just sat there smiling. Shutting the door Mary spoke first. “Hi so…how did sound check go?” she ask him looking confused.