Chapter Sixteen

Jon went to find Doc at his room. He never had him on the same floor as him and the guys only because he felt like he was their dorm father. “So I heard you and your girl disappeared for a couple of days.

“Well I hope you got enough of each other because I need you for the rest of the damn tour Bon Jovi. We only have four more months left and then I need you back in writing mode because the record company is screaming for the next record. So you and Sambora better get going on the next hits.” He more or less ordered Jon.

Jon wasn’t too thrilled with the ultimatum. “Listen Doc Richie and I already have a few songs in the can. We just need to tune them up. But whether they’re hits that’s up to the kids and you know that.” Jon told him annoyed.

 “Yeah, yeah that’s why I need you guys in the studio as soon as possible. So I booked you guys in the studio up in Vancouver, Canada at the Little Mountain Sound Studios and you’ll be working with Desmond Child and Bruce Fairbairn. So as soon as this tour is over you guys are headed up there.” Doc told him.

 Jon sat there speechless. It took him a minute or two too compose himself before he killed him. “Doc look we’re just getting off this tour and we need some time to relax and time to take off.” Jon tried to tell him calmly.

“You will, you guys have two weeks off before you have to be there what’s the problem?” he asked him as he took out a cigarette.

Jon’s eyes were saucers now. “What the hell do you mean what’s the problem! We need more than two weeks Doc. I’m talking about two month’s at least and if you don’t give this to us you can find another band got it! Oh and by the way I eloped with Mary while I had those days off so you better get on the horn and figure out what you want to say about me being off the market.” Jon said snarky.

“YOU DID WHAT BON JOVI!!!!” Doc yelled.

“You heard me Doc I got married. Live with it.” Jon yelled back and left him to think about what he said. Doc was livid and was thinking about the ramifications of what his lead singer just did. He called his lawyer to see if Jon could get this marriage annulled seeing that they eloped. Jon got back to his room and found Mary up and reading. “Hey Babe whatcha doing?” he asked.

“What does it look like?” She said to him not looking at him when she answered him. Standing there knowing that she was still pissed at him; he walked over to her and sat beside her on the couch. Still not acknowledging him he sat there for a few minutes wondering what he was going to say to her without her getting even more angrier with him. She on the other hand was wondering what the hell he wanted because she knew he knew that she was pissed at him. Not being able to take it any longer she just broke the silence. “Ok Jon what the hell do you want?” she barked at him.

Turning to her with a I’m sorry smile on his face, “So you are talking to me well that’s a start.” He said trying to make light of the situation.

Not wanting to play games, “Jon! You know fine, if this is the way you’re going to be I’m going to call room service and order myself something to eat. You can do whatever you want.” She told him as she started to get up.

But Jon grabbed her and sat her back down so he could talk to her. “Baby I’m so sorry I acted like that.” He told her. She just sat there and stared at him. He looked at her and her features. She wasn’t the most beautiful woman in the world but she was to him. He just loved the way everything fell on her face. Yeah he was in love alright. “Okay you’re just going to stare at me. I get that. Look I realize I was an ass and again I’m sorry I didn’t mean to suggest that it was your fault that it was your idea that we ran off and got married. Or that our folks thought that maybe you were pregnant and that’s why we got married. Or that I’m an ass.” He said as she started to smile at the last comment he made.

“I got you on the last comment huh?” he asked as he started to touch her arm. She didn’t pull away so he knew that was good.

“Yeah you got me on the last comment jerk.” She said to him.

“We okay?” he asked her.

“I guess but Hon you turned awfully fast. Plus you didn’t let me explain myself. What was that about?” she asked him confused about his temper.

“I don’t know, it something I do when I talk to my Mom I guess. Plus I’m used to being in charge and not having my authority in questioned. And when it is I just get defensive. I guess that’s why Doc and I knock heads all the time. Oh speaking of Doc he blew a gasket when I told him we eloped. He even wanted me to get it annulled.” He told her.

Mary just sat there with her mouth opened. “Get it annulled! You’ve got to be kidding me? I’m surprised he didn’t ask you if you made me sign a prenup.” She said to him sarcastically.

 “Don’t say it too loud or him or my Mom will make us sign one. In fact I’ll bet you ten to one they still will. What if they do will you be okay with that? I mean they might just pester us enough not to let it go until we do I mean.” She looked at the man that she loved more than anything but he had to know that even if things didn’t work out that she wouldn’t take him for everything that he was worth. But she could understand how things could change years from now and how feeling could be hurt.

“Honey if it would shut them up I will do anything for you as long as it’s fair. Okay? But they are not making it up that’s for sure!” she told him out right.

 Jon kissed her on the lips. “You got it. We’ll both do it with our lawyer when the time comes if the time comes how’s that?” he asked her. She shook her head yes and asked him if he was hungry so she could call down for something to eat.

Later that night they all were in the Bongiovi’s suite when there was a knock at the door. David got up to answer it and at the door was Richie B. “Hey Rich what’s up?” David asked him.

 Walking in he said, “Channel ten that’s what. It’s all over the news Jon.”

“What is?” Jon asked.

“You’re kidding right? Doc’s been on the phone for the past twenty minutes with the press and cursing you out. Your elopement. Turn on the t.v.” he told him.

As Jon did he couldn’t believe his eyes when he did because now almost every channel had picked it up. There in big black letters were Jon Bon Jovi Married. Jon Bon Jovi broke millions of hearts. And so forth. They all just stood or sat there staring and couldn’t believe their eyes at what they were seeing and hearing. This one reporter was saying only that they were getting that he eloped with some unknown girl and one said that he eloped with his high school sweetheart which Mary nearly popped a gasket herself.

 “What the Fuck!” she exclaimed on that one. Richie just put his arm around her to try and comfort her on that one and Jon did take notice much to his dislike.

 “Don’t worry Baby I’ll make sure they get the right info on this. Rich go to Doc and make sure he’s giving out the right information on our marriage and tell him I said so or they’ll be hell to pay if he doesn’t get it right.” Jon told Richie B.

“Sure Jon no problem.” He said and left.

Jon walked over to Mary and stepped in between Richie and her and wrapped his arms around her. “Hey it’s going to be okay I promise. Besides we got married for us and nobody else.” He told her as he nipped her nose.

 Smiling she laid her head on his chest and said, “I know.”

The press was being ruthless trying to get anything from the inner circle on Jon’s marriage. They were trying to bribe anyone they thought who knew anything. But anyone in the organization knew if they squealed there would be hell to pay. Jon made sure that Mary wasn’t going to go anywhere without someone by her side and this time she was okay with that. Before she could go unseen but now being Mrs. Bongiovi all eyes were on her. What did she do she kept saying to herself. But luckily she shook that thought out of her head fast because she knew one thing and one thing only; she loved him more than anything in this world. This would have to blow over sometime right? Jon had talked to Doc about doing a press conference just before the next concert which was schedule tomorrow. He just wanted to put this to bed so he, his new bride and the band could carry on with their lives. So Doc called the local news station and told them to send over their local reporters if they wanted to get the scoop.  Later that night when everyone had left, Jon was trying to unwind about tomorrow and was pacing the living and was driving Mary crazy. “Sweetie I have other ways for you to burn off that extra energy you know.” She told him winking at him.

 Stopping in his tracks and turning to her, “Don’t start anything you can’t stop little girl.” He said to her waggling his eyes at her.

“I never stop anything I start Sweetie.” She shot back at him confidently.

“Oh really so prove it.” He told her in his deep whiskey gravelly voice. All she did was give him a look as she puckered her lips in an upward slant to show him how cocky she was. Well that was all he needed as he sauntered over to her to show her what for. As he bent down to pick her up she was about to yelp as there was a knock on the door.

Jon dropped his head on her stomach and mumbled, “Oh you’ve got to be fucking me!”

Giggling, “Do you want me to get that seeing that you um have a um wardrobe malefaction of sorts.” And more giggling.

Screaming “I’LL BE RIGHT THERE! HANG THE FUCK ON! No just get your little ass in that bed and make sure it’s naked when I get in there got it.” He told her through gritted teeth.

“Yes dear.” She was able to giggle out.

“This isn’t funny and I’m so going to smack that ass of yours when I get in there.” He told her walking to the door.

“Oh I’m so scared.” She told him but ran to the bedroom when he jumped at her.

“Yeah you better run you wench!” He yelled as he smiled. There was that damn knock again Crap! Yelling again, “COMING! God this better be damn important.” He said thru his gritted teeth again as he was really really annoyed and the person who was on the other side of this door had better watch out.

 It was Richie B. with a message from Doc. “Hey Jon I have a message from Doc.” He told him.

 Jon just looked at him frustrated. “This couldn’t have waited till morning Rich or say called.” Jon asked as his voice crackled.

 Rich felt for Jon he really did but he had his orders from Doc. “Sorry Jon but Doc told me to deliver the message to you personally. He was afraid you wouldn’t have answered the phone.” He told the jumpy rock star.

Breathing deeply, “He was right I wouldn’t have and you’re lucky I even answered the damn door. Now what is it the Son of a Bitch wanted to let me know?” he asked more annoyed than ever.

“He just wanted to remind you of the press conference at ten a.m. that he set up and that he wants Mary there also.” He told Jon.

 “Fine we’ll be there now tell Doc I don’t want to be disturbed the rest of the night got it?” Jon said matter of fact.

“Sure Jon I’ll tell him.” Rich said chuckling.

Jon slammed the door shut. Was it too much to ask for a quiet night with his bride he just wanted to know. He walked into the bedroom still all tense until he turned and saw her sitting on the bed with just the sheet over her. A smile crept across his face as she did what he asked her to.

“Hey Baby what took you so long?” she asked him with a sly smile on her lips.

Smiling back and licking his lips, “Believe me if I knew you were sitting here like this I would have slammed the door in Richie B’s face.” He said as he crawled on the bed towards her.

 Laughing even harder now, “Jon!” she squealed as he grabbed the sheet with his teeth and pulled it off of her.

“Don’t want to talk want to fuck!” he told her as he grabbed her and pulled her down flat on the bed and started to kiss her hard and passionately. She wasn’t about to complain because he took her to places where no other man has. They enjoyed each other immensely over and over again. They only stopped long enough to catch their breaths so they could start again. There wasn’t a part of each other’s body that they didn’t know by look or touch. It was finally early morning before they fell asleep in each other’s arms and finally sated. Jon woke up first and feeling extremely randy. He slept like a log and when he woke not only was he feeling happier than he had the right too so was his body but for the first time he never felt like this. He knew he had been in love before or at least he thought he had but these feeling were knew to him. Especially the ones that his body were giving off. That he didn’t get.        

He never felt this before, for any girl. He just looked at Mary as she laid there curled up on her side as she faced him. He pushed some hair that had fallen in her face to the side and smiled at his bride. She started to move and slowly started to open her eyes. “Hey beautiful morning.” He said to her smiling at her lovingly.

“Hey handsome how long have you’ve been staring at me?” she asked him.

“Not long. How did I get so lucky?” he asked her now in a serious tone.

“What? Where did this come from?” she asked him as she turned over on her back.

Shaking his head and sitting up, “Nowhere I just wanted to know how I got so lucky to have found you that’s all.” He told her.

“Well I’m the lucky one you saved me.” She said back to him smiling. Just as they were about to kiss the phone rang.

“Let it ring.” Jon told her.

“Hon it could be one of the guys or Doc. Remember the press conference?” she reminded him.

“Shit!” he mumbled as he sat up to answer the phone. Smiling at him she got up to go to the bathroom. While in there she could hear him talking very loudly as he wasn’t very happy to ever he was talking to. As she came out he slammed down the phone.

“Hon is everything ok?” she asked him concerned.

“No! I forgot that the press conference is set for ten a.m. that only gives us an hour to get ready and I have to get rid of this in a hurry.” He told her pointing to his hard on. Smiling she suggested that they take a quick shower and have a quickie in there and kill two birds to say. He smiled and kissed her saying how much he loved her. They had gotten ready quickly and headed down stairs to the awaiting car that took them to the television station. There they met up with Doc and one of the reporters who were going to do the interview. The station had everything set up and Jeremy had gone over some of the questions with Jon so there wouldn’t be any surprises.

It was the basic questions and Jon answered most of them which Mary was very happy about. They had asked Jon why he had in his last interview he had stated that ‘Marriage is an institution and I’m too young to go to an institution.’ He just looked at Mary then Jeremy the reporter. “Well to be honest it wasn’t anyone’s business that I was thinking about marrying Mary at that time and that was the first thing that came to my mind.” He told him frankly.

“Ok honest answer. But you do know that you broke millions of hearts when you two eloped.” He asked them.

 “Well I’m sorry about that but we couldn’t help that. But WE did what was best for us not anyone else. Look I’m not trying to be a jerk about this but it really isn’t anyone’s business that we got married. I’m just a singer in a rock band end of story. I just want to make music good music. The guys and I we love our fans and I can’t see what the hell me being married has to do with that. I’m not going to stop loving our fans. If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be where we are today. And nothing is going to change with them or any future fans. We’ll still be there for them. They just need to be happy for us.” He told their audience. The interview went on for about half an hour and Jon had had it with the questions. He thought they were asinine. The interviewer Jeremy thanked Jon and Mary for their time as Jon finally walked over to Doc as he was talking to the station manager.

“Hey Tim this is my boy Jonny Bongiovi. Jon this is Tim Schaal.” Doc introduced Jon to Tim.

 “Hey Tim do you mind if have a minute with Doc?” Jon asked shaking hands with Tim.

“No go right ahead I have a few calls to make anyway. Doc I’ll catch you later.” He made his goodbyes as Jon turned to face Doc.

“So Jonny what’s up?” Doc asked.

 “First of all if you keep calling me Jonny you’ll find out so knock it off. Second this better be the end of all the damn questions about the elopement got it. We don’t want to hear it anymore. We are not getting an annulment or a divorce and stay away from Mary got that too?” he asked his over bearing manager.

“Yeah I got it Bon Jovi. But you remember one thing, you wouldn’t be where you are today without me!” he told Jon up close as he could smell the cigarettes and booze coming from his bad breath as he was poking Jon on his chest. Jon was getting more and more pissed by the minute. This was not unseen by Mary who was watching everything from a few feet away from them. Only because she knew Jon and his temper and knew by the way he was acting when they left the hotel that he wasn’t happy about this whole interview and how Doc had arranged it. She finally had to cut in between the two of them. After separating the two of them she was able to get Jon away from Doc and back into the car to take them back to the hotel. She had calmed him down in the car as he went off when they had got in there. Telling him that nobody else mattered but them. Making out the rest of the way didn’t hurt either. Later that evening they had gone to dinner with the rest of the guys and Jon explained what had gone down at the radio station. The guys couldn’t believe what Doc had said to Jon and were just as pissed as he was. After dinner the guys headed out to let off some steam as Jon and Mary went back to the hotel to let off some of their own kind of steam. The next morning as they were getting ready to head out to their next destination where they would play three more shows then their tour would be over. It was finally the last night as they wrapped up and they couldn’t wait till that last encore was over. Then they had to schmooze the uppied ups for a few more hours then head back to the hotel, get some sleep then head home for some well-deserved R and R before they had to head back to start their third album.

Jon had an apartment that wasn’t really how could you put this girl friendly in New Jersey. It was definitely a man’s apartment a single man’s apartment. So he called ahead to make an appointment to a realtor friend of his to show them some houses. Mary still wasn’t sure that she wanted to live in New Jersey but how was she going to tell Jon. That was the problem. Also she still wanted to work.

They got themselves packed up as they came for their luggage and Jon could tell that there was something bothering her. He walked over to her as she was looking around the room to make sure that they had gotten everything when he

wrapped his arms around her. “Hey Babe is everything alright?” he asked concerned.

Wrapping her arms on his she responded, “Yeah sure why?” she didn’t want to let on that there was only because they didn’t have time to really discuss this between the two of them alone as they were just about to board the plane to take them back to a home that she really wasn’t thrilled to go home to. How was she supposed to explain that to her new husband that she loved more than anything in this world.

“Well you seem to be really quite all of a sudden? You sure you’re all right?” he asked her again as he kissed her on the side of her temple.

Smiling, “Yeah I’m sure I was just checking to make sure that we got everything that’s all.” She told him trying to reassure him.

 Hugging her tight, “Okay then just checking. Well then I’ll call down to reception and see if the cars are here yet I want to get going I don’t want to be late to the airport.” He told her.  She brought the bags from the bedroom to the front room and put them by the door as Jon was getting off the phone. “Baby I was going to do that. The bellboy is on his way up now. The cars are out front waiting for us.” He told her with a frown on his face.

“It’s not a problem Jon I can do it don’t baby me I’m fine.” She scolded him.

“I know but I still could have done that. I wanted to do that.” He told her.

“Well Thank You but don’t be silly okay. Why don’t you go check on the guys and I’ll wait here until you get back and then we’ll all go downstairs together how does that sound?” she asked him.

“Sounds great I won’t be long.” He said as he gave her a quick peck on the lips and left to check on the others. She stood there in a daze trying to figure out how she was going to tell her Mom and brothers that she was on going to live in New Jersey. By the time Jon had gotten back to their room the bags were downstairs waiting for them and they were now waiting by the elevator waiting for the guys.

 It only took about thirty-five minutes to get to the airport from the hotel. By the time they all disembarked and got on the plane it took about another hour. Sitting side by side they were on their way home or at least Jon thought so. She looked over at him as he had fallen asleep. Her heart seemed to swell up when she looked at him and wanted to burst out of her chest.  They both were headed to a new life and that did scare the hell out of her. Why didn’t it scare him? Maybe because she really was never away from her family as he was from his. She always liked to seem like she was in control but she was scared to death especially not being with her brothers for the first time. And for some stupid reason she didn’t want to seem needy in front of Jon. They still had a few hours ahead of them so she thought that she would try and get some sleep herself. So she leaned on her new husband and prayed that their new life together would at least now be ex-stalker free. It had to only go up from here right?...   

The story will never end…..