Chapter Six

The concert was in full swing and going great. The guys were on fire and the two and half hours flew by. They did their final bows and ran off the stage while giving each other high fives while whooping and hollering. They ran back into the reception area where Kristen and some other reporters and fan club members and such were waiting for them. Jon told them that they would be back in a few as they had to run to the showers and their dressing rooms and they’ll be back shortly. In the meantime Mary pulls up to the venue and runs up to get in but one of the security guards stop her. 

“And just where do you think you’re going Missy?”

“I’m going in there.” She told him as she tried to get by.

“I don’t think so. Where’s your badge?” he asked her.

“What? My badge? Oh for crying out loud. He didn’t give me one for this venue. Damn it! Look Buddy I know every girl here tells you that she’s Jon’s girlfriend but I am. My name should be at least on the damn list. Mary Simon.” She told him annoyed now.

Giving her a cocky look he took the list and looked down at the list of approved names. “Sorry Honey you’re not on it.” He told her.

“You’ve got to be fucking me! What the hell is wrong with his fucking staff! Fine can you call Obie O’Brien then because this is really important and I need to talk to Jon right away.” She told him really annoyed but mostly scared to death.

 “I don’t think unless…” he said trying to suggest something.

“Unless what?” she said pissy.

 “Well seeing that nobody’s around we can go over by that dumpster and you can give me a blow job and then I’ll get Obie on the WT for you. If you really know him that is.” He said lecherous. She stood there with her mouth open because she couldn’t believe he just suggested that to her.

 “Do I look like I do that kind of shit pal!” She yelled at him.

 “If you want to get in to see Jon you better.” He told her smirking.

 Just then she just saw one of the bands security walk by the entrance of the open door. So she started to yell his name and hoped she would get his attention. “Paul! Paul!” but the other security guard was trying to shut her up so she started to back up and she fell on her backside as Paul finally heard his name being called. He looked around but didn’t see anyone in the hall but thought he would check outside seeing the door was open and when he did he thought he saw someone the ground struggling to get up. He did notice this other security guard there but the person on the ground looked like they were hitting him. So he decided to go other there to investigate. When he got closer he realized that the person on the ground was Mary and she was fighting off this guy.

“Hey what the hell do you think you’re doing pal! Let go of her!” Paul yelled. He turned around shocked that Paul was yelling at him. “Mary what the hell are you doing on the ground Honey?” he asked her surprised.

“This Jackass well…Paul look I’ll explain everything to you while we go find Jon but just take his name and we’ll deal with him later if Jon doesn’t kill him.” She told him.

“Yeah sure.”

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They had finish showering and getting dressed so they started to go back to the reception area when there was a knock on Jon’s dressing room door. “Yeah?” he asked.

 “Can I come in?” she asked.

“Sure Kristen come on in.” he told her.

“That was an awesome show Jon. You guys were great!” she told him as she went over to him and gave him a hug.”

“Oh uh thanks we thought so too.” He said nervously for the first time in a long time. He never usually got nervous when a pretty girl gave him a hug or a kiss but for some reason with this one he did. They slightly parted and looked at each other and Jon smiled as to say something else but Kristen knew she had to make her move now and see where it would lead her. So she went in for the kill seeing that they were in his dressing room alone she planted a kiss on his lips. He was taken by surprise to say the least. But he didn’t even have time to react and it was like slow motion when the door opened again and standing there was Mary and Paul. Mary thought she was seeing things at first but blinked her eyes to make sure. Standing before her was the man that she loved and he was kissing some Bitch.

He quickly parted from her. “Baby it’s really not what you think it is. Really.” he rambled.

 She just stood there and didn’t know what to think. But Kristen did. “Oh Jon you should just tell her.” Kristen said.

Jon looked at her strangely. “What the hell are you talking about?” he said angrily.

“I’m talking about us silly. You and me. If she came in about five minutes later well no telling what she would walked in on.” Kristen insinuated. Jon couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“What the Fuck Kristen!” Jon yelled.

She started to rub her hand up and down Jon’s chest but he just slapped it away. “Knock it off Kristen! You’re the one who kissed me I didn’t kiss you. What the hell is going on?” Jon demanded to know. Mary just stood there this whole time watching this crazy scene going on before her not knowing if Jon was putting on an act or not. He already had done this once to her and this time he could be trying to throw her off the track by feigning his ignorance. Michael had done this to her several times before so she wasn’t sure if she should fall for it with him. Her head was spinning with the flowers coming to the room and now this. Her nerves were shot and she could feel the room starting to spin. As Jon was still yelling he really wasn’t paying that much attention to her and she didn’t see Richie come running in as he heard all the yelling. He sped past her as he wanted to tell Jon all about Kristen and what Doc had set up but the next thing they all heard was a thud. As they turned around Mary was laying on the floor out cold. Jon nearly had a heart attack when he saw her lying there unresponsive. “MARY! Oh Dear God!” he yelled as he ran over to her and lifted her head on his lap. “Look what you did Bitch!” he yelled to Kristen.

“Hey I didn’t do that. It’s not my fault the little Princess can’t take bad news.” She smugly said. Jon wanted to jump up and rip her heart out. But before he could do that Richie jumped in.

“Jon what the hell is going on?” he asked his brother. Looking up at him,

“That bitch told Mary that were having an affair. Mary caught her kissing me when she walked in.” Jon told Richie in a disgusted tone.

Richie couldn’t believe his ears. “Well I got a few things to tell you, Doc hired her and he told her to break the two of you up. I didn’t have time to tell you earlier I’m sorry bro.” Richie told him.

Jon again couldn’t believe his ears. “Oh that’s just great! Look could you go and get the medical kit. It should have the smelling salts in there.” He asked Richie. Richie ran out of the room to go see if he could find it. He just gave Kristen the stink eye. He was rubbing Mary’s cheeks to see if that would help. It didn’t take long for Richie to get back with the medical kit. Jon opened it and took out the smelling salts from the kit. He cracked it open and wiggled it under her nose. It only took a few seconds for it to take effect as she started to move her head. He then for a second or two kept it a little longer for her to get a good whiff she then started to bat it away. “Baby that’s it wake up. Wake up sweetie.” Jon said to her as he was rubbing her forehead gently. She slowly opened her eyes as she remembered the flowers coming to the room and that Michael could have sent them. She shot up scared to death breathing hard like she saw a ghost. Jon grabbed her and wrapped his arms around her to try and calm her down. He hadn’t seen her this scared since Michael had been around or with one of her bad dreams.

 Richie looked on just as nervous as Jon. Jon looked over to Richie and asked, “Rich could you please escort her out of here. I don’t want to upset Mary any more than she already is with her.” Jon said.

“Yeah sure no problem Kidd. Ok let’s go trouble.” Richie said as he escorted a very upset Kristen out of Jon’s dressing room.

 Looking down on Mary “Baby are you ok?” he asked her.

“No I’m not.” She told him.

“Believe me I can explain everything. Richie just told me Doc hired her to come on to me so she would try and break us up. But you have to believe me she kissed me I didn’t kiss her.” Jon said pleading his case.

 Looking up at him, “Jon that’s not what I’m upset at.” She told him. Looking at her he didn’t understand, so why then did she get all upset and fainted like that.

“Baby then why did you faint like that? I thought you were angry with me because she was kissing me?” he asked her.

 “Well I didn’t like it. I told you she was a whore. But that’s not why I came here. Oh and by the way you really need to check out your security guards better.” She told him.

“Why? Are they doing their job a little too well?” he asked with a wry smile.

Looking at him with a disgusted look on her face, “Are you kidding me?” she asked him.

“What?” he asked her not knowing what she was talking about.

 “Just help me up will you?” she asked.

 Helping her up and getting her to one of the chairs he asked her, “Baby I know you’re mad at me but please you need to know it wasn’t me that came on to her.” He told her sincerely.

“Jon you didn’t even see her coming on to you. You see every other girl do it but her? I know you’re not that stupid. Plus I’ve seen you flirt back with her. Maybe I shouldn’t have come here that way you could have found out one way or the other if you had feelings for her or if you just want to end this.” she told him.

Jon couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “What the hell are you saying?” he was afraid of her answer.

“I think you know Jon. I need some time, some time to clear my head.” She told him knowing that if he knew about the note with the flowers he wouldn’t leave her side. She needed to get back to the hotel before he did so she could get rid of the flowers before he saw them.

 “Look can we talk about this after the After party? I can’t do it right now but we need to talk about this Baby we really do.” He asked her holding his breathe.

 She thought about it, “Yeah sure, ok. Oh by the way that security guard he calls himself Dex.”

“Yeah I know him we used him just last night when we had that radio interview. Luckily for us he was able to fend off some of the fans that were a bit rough. One of them grabbed Kristen pretty hard and he was able to pull them off of her before any damage was done to her.” Jon said with a little pride.

Mary just rolled her eyes. “Oh come on if anyone gets hurt it’s on me Babe you know that.” He reminded her.

“Yeah I know and you should remind him also. Because as I was trying to get in I wasn’t given any badge for this venue Jon and why I wasn’t on the approved list of guests?” she said angrily.

“What do you mean you weren’t on the list? You’re always on the approved list.” He told her shocked.

 “Well I wasn’t he this Dex said if I would go with him and take CARE of him then he would let me in. And he also crudely said some other things to me that I don’t really want to repeat.” She told him.

 Jon stood there in shock. When he finally snapped out of it he was pissed off to say the least. “He what?” Jon asked excitedly.

But before she could answer him David stuck his head in, “Hey Jon it’s time to head on down.”

Turning around to face him, “Tell them I’ll be right there.” He told him.

“Ok you’re coming with me.” He told her matter of fact.

“No Jon I’m going back to the hotel.” She told him.

“Baby you came here to tell me something didn’t you? I mean you didn’t just come down here to spy on me did you? And I think I know who didn’t put you on the approved list but that I’ll have to handle later. At least in the morning.” He told her outright.

“Jon just go to the party I trust you ok but right now I have a headache and all I want to is sleep.” She told him.

“Fine but I’m getting Rich B. to take you back I’m not taking any chances ok?” he told her.

 “Fine.” She agreed to go back with Rich and she had him just drop her off at the hotel entrance telling him that she could make it from there. When she got back to the room those damn flowers that she dumped in the basket were staring her in the face. She couldn’t believe what went down tonight at the arena. That bitch had made a move on Jon and by the look of things he wasn’t putting up much of a fight in her eyes. He couldn’t fool her. She heard something by the door and saw a piece of paper sliding from under the door. She went over to the door and picked it up and opened the door to see if she could see the person who slipped it under. But no one was around. She went back in and opened the note and it read: If you want to know who I am meet me downstairs in the bar in fifteen minutes.

She knew better than to go down to the bar alone. Yes she did know better and not feeling all that well she thought it over intensely. Jon would kill her if she went and something happened to her. She really had to take his feelings into consideration. Her instincts on this were telling her that this wasn’t good. So she made sure that the locks on the door were locked properly and took her medications and went to bed. She wasn’t going to take any chances getting Jon pissed at her even if it was something simple as a fan trying just to get to him.

Back at the party Jon wasn’t in the greatest of moods. Some important people were there trying to get to the guys so they could introduce their daughters to them. Doctors, lawyers, Asst. Governors, Councils members the list went on and on Jon just wasn’t in the mood. Learning of what Kristen was doing the entire time that she was here; trying to seduce him and break him and Mary up was really pissing him off. He loved Mary very much but he also knew that he did flirt with other women but it didn’t usually mean anything to him. He never thought what it meant to the other women or to Mary for that matter. But he did his job and put on his fake smile and worked the room. Kristen was sitting in the corner with her note pad and looking none too happy but didn’t want to approach him at least not yet. She wanted him to calm down a bit. Richie walked up to Jon to see if he was ok before anyone else did. He could see it in Jon’s eyes that he wanted to get the hell out of here and soon.

“Hey Kidd how are you doing?” Richie asked Jon.

Turning around to face him, “Just fine.” He said to him agitated.

 “Well you don’t look it Kidd you look like you’ve been put thru the ringer.” He told him.

 Rolling his eyes, “You’re very observant aren’t you. Of course I’m not doing good what gave it away?” he said sarcastically.

 But before Richie could give back one of his classic lines Paul walked over to them. “Hey Rich, Jon. Where did Mary go?” he asked Jon.  

“She went back to the hotel, she said she wasn’t feeling good.” He told Paul.

Paul made a face and said, “Really? It seemed she was on a mission when she got here.” Paul told them.

Jon’s eyes went wide. “She did didn’t she. When I asked her she said that it could wait and that she would talk to me later. I wonder what the hell she wanted to tell me?” he pondered.

“Well it seemed pretty important when I saw her outside.” Paul told them. “Outside? You saw her outside?” Jon asked him.

“Yeah I heard my name being called and when I looked over that security guard Dex was all over her. It looked like she was trying to hold her own but the guy had at least hundred pounds more on her and he was trying to drag her over by the dumpster. If I hadn’t got there I don’t know what would have happened. I thought she told you this she said she was going to.” Paul said to him.

Jon and Richie were stunned to hear this but also had to pick up their mouths off the floor. Once they got their senses back Jon asked Paul, “You mean this actually happened?”

Paul just looked at him. Shaking his head, “You mean you didn’t believe her when she told you about Dex?” he asked Jon. Jon just kind of stood there not knowing how to answer that.

Richie jumped in. “Jon please tell me you didn’t tell her you didn’t believe her?”

 “I don’t believe I said to her I didn’t believe her I just told her that Dex had a good rep in the security hum business. But that’s all about to change when I fire his ASS!” Jon stated angrily. “Can you get on that as soon as possible Paul?” He asked.

“Yeah I can, in fact it will be a pleasure, since that happen I pulled his file and he has a bunch of complaints against him that nobody told us about. I need to look into that in the morning and do some more firing it seems.” He told both of them.

Jon was at least happy that Paul was going to take care of that and he didn’t have to worry about that at all. He also wanted to know if he would come to his hotel room by late morning so he could be with him when he called Doc and ball him out about what happened about the approved list and Kristen. Paul told him that he would love to do anything to help him out with that. He didn’t like Doc and how he tried to control Jon and the guys like he did. Jon told Richie and Paul that he was going to slip out and go back to the hotel so Paul told him that his car was ready to take him anytime he wanted. So he quickly slipped out and told the driver to take him back to the hotel. Luckily there were no fans about because they were still at the venue where they thought he was so he was able to slip in the hotel quietly and up to his room. When he entered all the lights were off so he tried to quietly shut the door and make it to the bedroom when a strong smell of Lilacs hit him like a ton of bricks. He looked around for a lamp and when he found it he turned it on. He didn’t see anything on the table or the duvet but when he looked down he saw a bunch of them in the basket next to them still in the vase. He reached for them and pulled them out but couldn’t find any note to go with them. Saying to himself, ‘So this is what she wanted to tell me. Shit! Why am I never here when this crap goes down?’ He chastised himself. He put back the vase and the flowers back in the basket where he found them and went into the bedroom. He went over to his side of the bed and turned on the light.

There she laid on her side and her back was facing him. He had taken his shower at the venue so all he did had to do was strip out of his clothes and climb into bed. He turned off the light and scoot up to her so he could wrap his arms around her. But when he did she had a pair of sweats and a t-shirt on which was weird because even if she had her period she would only wear her panties to bed. No she was angry with him very angry with. They had this deal even if they were mad at each other they still would go to bed always saying goodnight and without clothes. That was Jon’s rule only because it would be hard to still be angry with the other that way and especially by morning. So this was so unacceptable to him. Especially where he felt he didn’t do anything wrong. So he just rolled back over to his side hurt as he fell asleep. During the middle of the night Mary was having these crazy dreams. The bump on her head didn’t help her any. She had gotten up once during the night to throw up, maybe not eating dinner didn’t help any either with her headaches. But when she fell back to sleep the rest of the night all she dreamt about was Lilacs, delivery men, Kristen and Jon laughing at her at some point when Bon Jovi was on stage but the real kicker came was she walked into this giant stadium and the guys were playing as she was looking at the stage. Jon was sing her favorite song to her, yes an Elvis song “Can’t Help Falling In Love” but then came Kristen out on stage as he grabbed her and started kissing her. Mary was yelling trying to get his attention when these arms wrapped around her waist. Surprised she turned around and to her horror Michael was standing there grinning like he just swallowed the canary. She tried to scream but nothing came out of her mouth. It was like someone had removed her voice box. Michael started to laugh now and as he finally let go of her, he stepped back and there was blood all over him. She couldn’t understand why until she put her hands up to her throat and felt the slit in it and the warm blood oozing out.

She was thrashing in the bed but she couldn’t even scream in real life either which made it even worse. Jon could feel the bed shaking and it was either an earth quake or Mary was having another bad dream. He turned over and almost got a fist in the face as she was mumbling something. Actually it sounded like she was gargling or something like that and trying to catch her breath. Shit she was having one of her bad dreams again and this one seemed like a really bad one. He sat up so he could try and wrap his arms around her but first he had to calm her down. He grabbed her by the arms so she would stop flailing about. “Baby, sweetie come on now wake up. You’re safe now, nobody’s gonna hurt you.” He told her over and over as she kept trying to escape his grip. He finally got her under control enough so he could slap her hard enough on her cheek to try and wake her up. It took him several times but she finally started to come around. “That’s it Baby wake up. Breathe.” He said as her eyes started to blink open. As she focused she saw the most handsome site staring down at her. “Hey there beautiful. You’re ok now you’re safe nobody’s going to hurt you I promised.” He told her as he picked her up and cradled her in his arms. “Are you okay now Baby? You want to talk about it?” he asked her smiling calming at it. She just shook her head no and started to cry into his chest. His heart dropped into his stomach. He hated to see her like this. It killed him to see her like this. So he just held her as tight as he could and rubbed her back to try and calm her. Before he knew it they both had fallen back to sleep in each other’s arms till morning.