Chapter Four

Looking at Jon, “Do girls just walk into your room like this all the time?” Kristen asks him.

But before Jon has a chance to answer Mary does. “They do when their his girlfriend. Jon what the hell is going on?” Mary demanded to know.

“Hey where have you’ve been?” he asked her smiling.

“Out. Who’s this?” she asked him never taking her eyes off of him as she said even toned.

“Oh I sorry this is Kristen Spencer she’s a reporter from the Storm and Doc hooked her up with us. She’s going to be tagging along with us as we do our thing so she’ll see what we do between shows and get a feel for it.” He told her as Kristen sat there smiling up at Mary.

 “I bet she will.” Mary said as she wrinkled her nose at the same time. “Well you two just continue what your doing don’t let me interrupt you. I’ll just be in the bedroom I need to make a few phone calls.” She told them as she headed inside.

Jon got up and told Kristen that he would be just a few minutes. As Mary was taking off her coat Jon entered the bedroom and shut the door. “Baby are you all right?” he asked her.

Turning around and pretending that everything was fine. “Yeah why?” she asked him grinning.

“Because you’re smiling at me and I know for a fact that you’re mashing your teeth behind your lips.” Jon told her as he walked up to her wrapping his arms around her waist.

“Let go of me please. I told you I have things I need to do and apparently so do you.” She told him snarky.  

“You’re jealous.” He said as he started to plant small kisses to her neck.

“Am not and stop that you jerk.” She said as she tried to push him away.

“Are too.” He said as he mumbled into her neck still planting kisses. Getting madder by the second she put her hands on either side of his upper arms and got a good stance with her legs. He just thought with her tilting her head now so he could access her neck better that she was finally giving in to him but she was just steading herself for what was coming next. Mary was reading herself as she moved her leg just so over his left leg to get it behind his. He wasn’t paying any attention to this because all he felt was that she was getting closer to him. But as she did this it only took about three seconds after that and he was lying on the floor not realizing what had hit him as he was looking up at her and she was smiling down at him.

Finally getting his wits about him, “What the hell!” he asked a little pissed.

“Ah what’s the matter Baby did we fall down?” she asked him in a condescending voice.  “What do you think you could just come in here and kiss me and what happened before you left and now that was going to make everything better?” she asked him.

Jon looking up at her started to get up. Once up “Ok I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. What do you mean this morning and just now what the hell did I do?” he asked her confused.

“Really Jon? You don’t remember acting strange this morning? You didn’t even kiss me goodbye. In fact you couldn’t get out of here fast enough it seemed.” She told him standing at attention with her hands on her hips tapping her foot vigorously. Jon knew she was angry but wasn’t sure why. Well at least he knew the why on the second part when she got home but the morning he was clueless.

“Hon are you mad about Kristen? Because all we were doing was going over some pictures of the band and me explaining what we do and what I do and what my position in the band is that’s all.” He told her.

She let out a sigh. “It just looked like a lot more ok. I had a long day a very long day and then I come back to this so when I do you try to over compensate by grabbing me and try to seduce me? I don’t think so buddy.” She said upset.

“Hey Baby wait a minute what happened?” he asked stepping closer but she backed away.

“Look I’m going to go take a shower just go do what you have to.” She told him as she headed to the bathroom. Confused as hell he left to go back to the living room.

Kristen looked up from the photo book, “Is everything alright Jon?” she asked him.

“Yeah everything is fine she’s a little tired that’s all. Look Kristen would it be ok if we call it a day?” he asked her.

“Oh sure that would be fine. What time tomorrow should I check in with you then?” she asked him. Jon chuckled. “Why are you laughing?” she asked.

“Well that depends on if you want all of us together or not. We all don’t get up at the same time unless it’s mandatory.” Jon said chuckling.

“Well I guess that’s the Rockstar life. Well right now it will be just you. I’ll let you know when I’ll need the other guys separate or not.” She told him.

 “Fine then um say noonish.”  He said.

Laughing herself now. “Ok then noonish it is. I’ll call first to make sure you’re up.” She told him.

“Oh I’ll be up.” Jon said as he gave one of his wicked grins.

 “Oh I’ll bet you will. Oh and you never introduce me to your so called friend in there.” She stated.

 “Sorry Doc doesn’t want any of this published. That’s my girlfriend Mary Simon.” He told her with a wide grin.

“I thought Rockstar only had groupies as hangers-on.” Kristen asked him.

“She not or ever will be one of those. She’s my girl and I wasn’t very happy that Doc doesn’t want anyone to know about her but I’ll do want he wants. He also doesn’t want anyone to know that a couple of the guys are married.” Jon said a little peeved.

“Yeah he already told me that. I wanted to see how long it was going to take you to tell me that you had a girlfriend.” She said with a wry grin.

“Really now.” Jon said curious.

 “Well I’ll let you go and I’ll see you tomorrow.” She said and as she was leaving walked over to him and kissed him on the cheek and left. Jon stood there and for the first time in a long time didn’t know what to think. Jon was careful tiptoeing around Mary for the rest of the night. He knew something was bothering her and looking back he realized that he was vacant this morning and it could have been because of the meeting with Kristen. But he had no idea that the reporter he was going to meet was going to look like her. Ok so she threw him off his game a little. And yes if he wasn’t already attached he figured that he would have had her wrapped around him by now. But he was attached and his girl was angry with him. But what did she also say? She had a long day? Why did she have a long day? What was there for her to have a long day? He couldn’t wait any longer he had to know so he went back into the bedroom to ask her. She was reading a book when he entered. Waving a white paper towel, she looked over and started to giggle.

“What the hell are you doing?” she asked smiling.

“What do you think I’m doing? Waving the white flag Baby!” he said as he came in with both arms in the air.

“Very funny.”

He walked over to her and sat on the edge on the bed and took one of her hands in his. “So are you still angry at me?” he asked her while massaging her palm.

Looking at him, “Hey look at me will you?” she asked him.

Looking up so their eyes could meet, “I never was really angry with you I was just miffed at you that’s all.” She told him.

 “Miffed?” he said back to her with a scrunched up face.

“Yes miffed. You left here this morning I don’t know like you didn’t care one way or the other if I came with you or not. I mean I could have gone home for all you have cared.” She didn’t have time to finish as he jumped in.

“No I would have cared and you know that.” He told her.

 “Again really because when I came in tonight you two looked pretty cozy on the couch there.” She said now that she remembered the scene between them. Jon looked at her with loving eyes.

“You know that’s not true. She knew that you’re my girlfriend and you also know that I wouldn’t do anything that would jeopardize our relationship. But I have a question for you?” he asked her.

 “What’s that?”

 “What did you mean by that you had a very long day today? Why did you say that?” he asked.

Crap she didn’t realize that he picked up the meaning to that. “Oh that, well I just meant that I went shopping and stuff and I couldn’t find the things that I wanted that’s all.” She said hoping that would suffice.

 Jon was having none of it thou. “Nope not going to work. You hate shopping. Try again Darling.” He told her.

“What I did. I went shopping and couldn’t find what I was looking for. This two bit town apparently doesn’t carry what I need. Rick’s birthday is coming up soon and I wanted to see if I could get this certain gun but apparently I’ll have to wait until we get to a bigger city to buy it that’s all.” She told him hoping that he would buy it.

Looking into her eyes he knew that there was something else but what. “Ok I’ll let it go for now but just for now. But if I find out that your holding out on me, well you know what your punishment will be.” He said with a smirk.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m real scared Bongiovi real scared.” She said smiling.

“You should be because your bottom is so going to hurt.” He said with his wicked grin.

 “Promise?”

 “Oh, oh you little…” but she didn’t give him a chance to finish as she grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him towards her and planted one right on him.

Not to let her take the lead he then pushed her to the side as he straddled her and passionately kissing her so she knew how much she meant to him. Things started to get heated and it didn’t take long before they were making love to one another and that nothing else mattered. They fell asleep in each other’s arms and it was morning before Jon woke like he did usually every morning. He usually woke earlier than the others maybe because he was a little bit more hyper than them and just couldn’t sit still. He turned over as she was scrunched up to his back on her side. He gently ran his finger over her cheek and then down her nose when she scrunched that up. He smiled as she made that face and moved some hair off of it. He loved looking at her in the morning because she looked so peaceful. He could always tell when she was dreaming is when her eyes would flicker just the tiniest bit and her lips would be moving just slightly. At least she wasn’t screaming and having one of her bad dreams that he would have to calm her because Michael would seep into. He hated those because sometimes it would take him hours to try and calm her down depending on the dream. But right now she looked beautiful to him. He still couldn’t understand how he got so lucky to have gotten her.

Mary’s eyes started to flutter open and she saw these two incredible blue ones staring back at her. “Hey.” She said.

 “Hey back. Did I ever tell you how beautiful you look when you’re sleeping?” he told her.

“I think once or twice.” She said smiling.

 He leaned down to kiss her. He started to roam her body with his hands and she shivered knowing what he was about to do. Just as he was about to reach the spot he loved the phone rang. “Ignore it Babe.” He said.

“But what if it’s Doc he’ll be pissed.” She asked him.

“Don’t care right now.” He said anxiously.

Giggling “But Jon it really could be important.” She said squirming.

 “Babe I’m kinda in the middle of something here and hard as a rock and you want me to answer the damn phone?” he asked frustrated.

“Are you mad at me?” she asked him now a little hurt.

 Knowing what he just did, “No, no I just don’t want to lose my momentum plus it’s kind of hurting if we don’t take care of it soon. I’ve been this way for a while waiting for you to wake up.” He said trying not to upset her.

 “Oh Honey then why didn’t you wake me earlier. Come here.” She said and showed him just what he was missing when he didn’t wake her up. Jon’s eyes popped out of his head when she tried something a little different and surprised the hell out of him. He didn’t know she knew how to do something like that but he wasn’t complaining.

That’s again what he loved about her because she wasn’t afraid to try new things. Not like his ex. She was always telling him what to do and what not to do. But not his Mary. She trusted him and she was the first one who trusted him fully body and soul. Just as things were heating up and they were melding as one there was a banging on the door and it wasn’t letting up. “FUCK! Who the hell is that!” he yelled.

Trying to breathe, “I don’t know or care Babe just keep going PLEASE!” she pleaded back. He went back to what he was doing when the banging started again but Jon just ignored it. He figured he would kill the idiot behind the door later.

Luckily Jon came just as the door open and he heard a very loud and rough voice bellowing thru the living room. “BON JOVI! Get your Ass out here NOW!” Doc screamed.

Looking down at Mary who was still having contractions wanted to make sure she was alright. “Baby are you ok?” he asked her while caressing her.

“Yeah I’ll be fine. Just make sure he doesn’t come in here ok?” she asked nervously.

 “Don’t worry he’s mine. I’ll take care of him. He won’t come in here and bother you I promise Baby.” He told her as he got up and threw on his sweats. “I’ll be right back.” And he left to ball out Doc.

When he went out to the living room he was all set to scream at him but he stopped dead in his tracks as Doc wasn’t alone. He had Kristen with him. “Jon what the hell man you told Kristen eleven a.m. and it’s eleven thirty what the hell?” Doc asked him.

 “It’s what time?” he asked confused. “I said it’s eleven thirty your usually better than this.” he told him.

“Look it’s ok no harm done. So you don’t mind that I just stand back and start to observe you guys right?” she asked him as she looked him up and down as he was just wearing his sweats and nothing more. He stood there before them without a shirt and he was very well defined with his abs and covered in his chest hair all the way down to his pubic region and those sweats of his well she could tell what they were doing just now as he was still swollen. She thought that he was a very good looking male with long sandy blonde hair and the most gorgeous blue eyes she has ever seen. Yes trying to flirt and making passes at him wouldn’t be a problem as Doc asked her to do. Now she understood why he really hired her he wanted her to break him and his girlfriend up and to write one of the best stories out there on them. Yes she’ll definitely have to renegotiate her fee with McGhee. But she can see that the side benefits are going to be great. He has to be a stallion in bed. Taking notes the other night and watching them was a good thing and now she knows their weak points. Especially Jon’s and that’s of his girlfriend. In fact women are all their weak points.

Doc and Jon were talking when Doc turned to her, “Kristen are you with us?” he asked her.

“Oh yes I’m here. So where do we stand?” she asked them.

“Fine you can shadow us but just us. Our girlfriends and wives are off limits understood?” Jon told her firmly.

 “Fine but if they’re with you guys then too bad. It they’re backstage playing groupie then I get pictures if I want and I get to publish anything I want. They don’t want to talk to me that’s up to them. Deal?” she more or less told them. Jon didn’t want to agree to any of that but it’s what Doc already had. Jon then excused himself so he could get dressed and meet them downstairs with the rest of the guys for brunch and go over things for today’s schedule. He explained to Mary what was going on and she didn’t like the deal Doc had made with Kristen.

So she knew she had to make sure she had to be more careful in her investigation. “It’s ok Jon I’ll just try to stay out of her way. That’s what she wants anyway.” She said making a face.

 Jon noticed as he was putting on his boots. “What do you mean by that?” he asked curious.

“Oh come now I know you’re not that oblivious to when women flirt with you. She was practically sitting in your lap yesterday when I got back, and you were totally enjoying it. That could have accounted for last night’s round of sexcapades that we had.” She explained to him.

He wasn’t too happy with her description of the events of yesterday but he tried to keep his temper in check. “She wasn’t sitting in my lap and she wasn’t flirting with me. We were working for crying out loud. Can’t two people of the opposite sex work together without having any sexual feelings for each other?” he asked her rather sternly.

“Yes and no. Depends but if one of them is you no.” she told him rather bluntly.

 “Look Mary I don’t want to fight with you right now I need to meet everyone downstairs and go over what we are going to do today and how the guys are going to take Kristen following us around and who she’s going to start with.” he told her.

 Mary noticed how he used her given name and not a pet name like usual. Oh yeah he was angry with her she thought. But that didn’t stop her from shooting back what she thought. “I bet I know.” She said smart assy

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Jon just rolled his eyes and got up from the bed and headed for the door. “I don’t know what time I’ll be back tonight because we have the concert too and the after party. Are you coming to that?” he asked her.

 “I’ll try but I know Doc doesn’t want me there so we’ll see.” she said upset.

“Don’t be like that. You knew what you were getting into when you started dating me.” He said to her. She couldn’t believe he just said that to her. Trying really hard not to cry but tears welling up in her eyes where Jon could see them. He felt like a heel for saying that when he realized what he said to her. He started to walk over to her but she backed off holding up her hand.

 “You better just go. No Jon just go.” She demanded.

Taking her cue only because he didn’t want to make matters worse and because he was running late he shook his head and left. She stood their shaking a bit with anger. She still knew she had to figure out why she was being followed yesterday and how did that girl get in their room like that. She didn’t like the fact that nobody saw anything the night that girl barge in on them. No one was talking and the security cameras didn’t show anything which was odd. But the time stamps were fine. She sat on the bed and tried to think what she should do next.

Meanwhile Jon met everyone down in the restaurant. They had the corner all to themselves and they discussed what they were going to do today and tonight. Kristen decided that she would follow Jon around first, Mary had nailed it on the head but Jon wasn’t going to say anything to her about it. But how did she know that Kristen was going to do that, great it was one of those women things now he’ll never hear the end of it. Anyway Jon just sat there trying very hard to look innocent and Kristen then added that since Richie was his writing partner that he should just come and go freely like she’s not there. Basically they all should do that but when they’re together writing she’ll be intimate taking pictures and recording them to get a feel for what they’re doing. Richie didn’t seem to mind that but Jon was very uncomfortable with it but he knew he had to suck it up. Her cameraman was taking video of their brunch as she was taking notes and still photos.

They finished up and headed over the arena where they had interviews to do before sound check then more interviews and then a meet and greet with some contest winners before they get ready to go on stage. All Jon could think of was that he hoped Mary would be here before he went on stage so he could apologize to her. He felt awful at the way he left things with her when he left. At the hotel she got dressed and she called down to security to get the girls name. When she hung up she had her name and address. She grabbed her coat and this time her gun which she strapped on her.

As she was walking out of the hotel Obie saw her and yelled to her. “Yeah Mary wait up!” Obie yelled.

 She turned around and smiled, “Hi Obie what can I do for you?” she asked him.

“Where are you going Hon?” he asked her concerned.

“Um out why?” she told him.

“Well I hate to do this to you Hon but Jon said you’re not allowed to go out alone anymore. You have to have an escort you know that right? The last time you went out by yourself he almost had a heart attack remember?” Obie reminder her.

“Uh huh. I remember how the hell could I forget. He called out the damn troops on me. Look Obie I’m just going for a quick walk can’t we just keep this between you and me?” she asked him with a pleading look.

“You know I would love to Hon but he’d have my head. Could you please just go with Rich and make everyone happy, Please?” he asked her.

Not liking the idea of bringing one of his security with her but if she didn’t then she’d never hear the end of it. “Fine Obie I don’t want to get you into trouble. Call Rich over.” She told him. It didn’t take long for Rich to get there and once he did they took off. Mary gave him a half ass story as to why she wanted to see this Laura Davies and he believed her. Once they got to her apartment Mary rang her place. They waited about a minute and she rang again. On the third try she came to the conclusion that she wasn’t home. Luckily someone was leaving the building and she grabbed the door.

“Well come on Rich.” She said to him as she entered the building. Looking around Rich felt funny about going into the building this way.

 “Um Mary are you sure we should be doing this?” he asked a little worried.

“Yeah it’s fine now come on.” She said as she walked over to the elevator. She was really glad she wasn’t with Jon because one it was an old building and two he hated elevators and this one was old and creaky so he would probably have a fit in it. As they got to the floor they wanted they headed for the apartment.

 “Boy we would have been prying Jon out that elevator wouldn’t we?” Rich said chuckling. Mary just giggled. She knocked on the door several times with no answer. When she felt sure that there was no one home she turned to Rich and asked him,

 “Rich do me a favor and let me know when someone is coming ok?”

“Why?” Rich asked her.

“Just do it please.” She said.

She took out her lock picking kit and started to pick the lock.

Rich just stared at her in awe. “Where the hell did you learn how to do that?” he asked her.

 She laughed she kept forgetting that they really didn’t know that she was a Private Investigator back in San Diego with her brothers. “My brothers taught me.” She told him.

 “Oh that’s right I remember Jon saying something about you being a P.I. once.” He said. That hit home with her. A P.I. once. ONCE! She thought she was a P.I. Jon doesn’t think that she’s a P.I. anymore? That hit her hard. One more click and she had it. CLICK! And there it was the door open. HA! I’ll show him. “Oh my God you did it.” Rich exclaimed.

“Shhh to loud get in here.” She told him. They entered the apartment and she told him to just stay by the door and to let her know if anyone was coming. She started to look around and she thought she’d start with her bedroom. When she walked in she nearly had a heart attack when she saw all the pictures of Jon on the walls and in the picture frames. She even made some of her and him together. “Oh my God she’s a nut case. Rich get in here now.” She yelled to him.

When Rich ran in to see what was the matter he nearly fell over at what he saw. “Holy crap! I’ve seen some fans go a little over board but this is a little extensive.” Rich looked around some more but as he moved he kicked something that was under the bed. “Hey what’s this?” he asked as he bent down to pick it up. When he did he saw a few more items under the bed and pulled them out.

He put them on the bed so they both could look at them and couldn’t believe their eyes at what the pictures were. They were pictures of Jon and Mary together hand in hand or she was with the band or even alone waiting for the elevator. But they all had the same theme a big red X crossed out on her. “Oh she really doesn’t like you.” Rich told her.

“I don’t think she’d like whoever was Jon’s girlfriend I’m afraid. Here I brought this with me start taking pictures of these then pictures of the walls and then the ones in the frames of her and Jon ok?” she told Rich. He did what he was told as she went out into her living room. She started to look around to see if she could find anything else damaging on her.