The week went by fast as they went back and forth to her parents’ house
and the hotel. But one thing was for sure it didn’t take long for the word to
get out that Jon was in town and he had to call for security to come to the
house so they wouldn’t be bothered not only by the paparazzi but by the fans
also. Paul was trying to keep the neighbors calm as the cops were directing
traffic and telling people to leave because there wasn’t any place to park on
the street. Ellie was getting all upset because she didn’t know that this was
going to be this bad. All she wanted to do was see her family and get her son.
When the week came to an end Jon had said goodbye to Jimmy but he didn’t really
understand why he had to leave again. Ellie told Jon she would explain to him
later. Jon drove him and her back to the hotel to get their stuff and bring
everything back to her house. They mainly said their goodbye’s at the hotel but
seeing him drive off on his way to the airport made heart drop.
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Europe: yes somewhere in Europe they would have to look on the schedule
to see where they were this week. They were touring with the Scorpions for the
first two months of this tour. To be honest they were tired because Doc had
them booked almost every night with just a few nights off in-between. But they
knew and only admitted this to themselves that they were having the time of
their lives. Europe loved them. And it killed them that they only had less than
thirty minutes on stage. But they knew this wasn’t going to last too long
because after they released their third album they would be the headliners and
things would be different. After their set they showered and changed then went
to watch the rest of the show. When the Scorp’s got off they all ended up at
the after party.
The guys were walking around, mingling and having a great time. They
were all drinking (maybe a little too much) as Jon was missing his family but
still enjoying himself to flirt with all the pretty little girls. He and Richie
were laughing and talking and they lost count on how many drinks they had. Alex
had already disappeared with some blonde that he was talking too so God only
knows where he went off too. Tico and Dave were over on the couch each with
some groupie they had picked up and were making out with them.
The Scorp’s were doing interviews and talking to the record company
rep’s after they had talked to Jon and Richie that is and once that was all
done with everyone was enjoying themselves with the food and booze that was
available. Also the girls that were walking around entertaining everyone that
Doc had supplied. It was hard to know which was which after you had quite the
amount the guys were drinking to know which were the groupies and which were
the paid help. But Doc didn’t care he just wanted his boys distracted
especially his lead singer enough to forget what he had back home and stop
moping about it. He just wanted his care free lead singer back again. He was
like that even when he was dating that Jersey girl. He didn’t let her get in
the way of anything so why is he letting this one? Jon and Richie were in the
corner laughing about something stupid apparently when these two girls walked
over to them.
“Well Hello there what are two handsome guys doing holed up in this
corner all by themselves?” the blonde bombshell asked first.
Well Richie’s eyes nearly fell out of his head. “Waiting for you
Darling what else.” Jon nearly chocked up his drink on that one and chuckled
uncontrollably. Looking over at him, “What are you laughing at Kidd?” Richie
asked pissed.
“You who else.” Jon told him still chuckling.
“Fuck You!” Richie told him back.
“Hey, hey don’t fight guys there’s two of us so there’s plenty to go
around.” the blonde said.
“Well that’s just fine with me Darling because I just love blondes.”
Richie told her.
“Well what about you Sweetheart? You like brunette’s I hope so because
you just got the cutest chest I have ever seen.” The brunette told Jon as she was
caressing his chest. Jon was swallowing hard and couldn’t think straight as it
was. He just nodded at the question and the brunette was blowing in his ear and
was whispering somethings that were driving him a little nuts. He was trying
very hard to keep things under wraps but it was getting very hard to keep his
dick from getting hard. It was bad enough that his head was fuzzy as it was.
“So can we go someplace where it’s a little more private?” the blonde
asked them.
Richie looked at Jon and excused themselves for a moment. Moving to a
quieter place in the room Richie asked him, “So Jon we have a car on standby
don’t we? We can take the girls back to the hotel right?” Right asked him
hoping.
Jon just looked at Richie then back at the girls. His head was spinning
and his loin area was aching something fierce. Plus he was about to pop out of
his spandex. This one time right? It shouldn’t hurt anything because she’s
thousands of miles away and would never find out right? Richie was jumping from
one foot to the other and very antsy. “Jon are we going or what?” he asked his
brother or what.
Jon looked at him seriously again and answered, “Yeah we are let’s go.”
They took the girls and went to their hotel
and went up to their rooms. Richie to his and Jon to his. Morning came fast and Jon woke up to find a
body in his bed. He smiled to himself as he put his arms around her and pulling
her into him and kissing her shoulder.
There was a soft purr coming from her as he lightly was taking little nibbles
from her shoulder and as he was slipping his hand to her front and massaging
her breast. When finally she let out and
Oh God Jon he stop cold in his tracks realizing that the person in his bed
wasn’t his girl. That wasn’t her voice saying his name in ecstasy.
“Oh Jonny don’t stop. Please God don’t stop.” The voice told him.
He not only stopped but he jumped out of bed nearly falling out of it.
“Who the Fuck are you!” Jon exclaimed.
Turning around in the bed and looking at him dead in the eye she
replied, “Well Sweetie aren’t we all excited. I’m Mindy, you and you’re friend
brought my friend back here last night don’t you remember Love?” she asked him.
Jon had to think a minute. Oh crap that’s right he was really drunk and
Richie if he remembered correctly wanted the blonde and well he was in need of
relief himself. He did remember dreaming of Ellie thou last night so when he
woke up he really thought the body next to him was her.
“Oh Crap. Sorry I guess I was a little bit out of it last night.” He
told her as he sat back down on the side of the bed running his hands thru his
hair.
“Well I guess so but not that out of it that you didn’t know what you
were doing. You really know how to make love to a woman don’t you?” Mindy told
him.
Looking at her Jon sarcastically said to her, “Well don’t flatter
yourself because I thought you were my girl so…” he trailed off as he got up to
look for his pants.
Mindy just looked at him a little hurt and pissed at the same time.
“You know what I hear about you is true you’re a son-of –a-bitch. “she told him
matter of fact.
“Never said I wasn’t.” he said coldly as he found his pants and put
them on. “I would appreciate if you
would get dressed and leave now I really don’t like my conquest to stay the
night so your actually lucky so I’ll be out in the other room while you get
dressed.” He told her and left.
Mindy was extremely angry at this point so she got out of bed and
dressed as fast as she could. She couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there.
In the other room Jon found his cigarettes and lit one. He wasn’t about to tell
Ellie he started smoking again. He was
pacing the room when she came out.
“Well Mr. Bigshot if you ever want another one night stand I left you
my card on your night stand. So as long as you’re here give me a call.” She
told him as she made kiss lips at him. He just turned from her to look out the
window as she giggled and left. He stood there thinking that it was a lot more
fun when he didn’t give a shit who he fucked or who he hurt. But this time it
was so much different. The last couple of times that he did this he had this
gut wrenching guilt in his stomach that he never had before. Putting out his
cigarette he came to the conclusion that he really was head over in love with
this girl. Not just in like or puppy love but deep heart wrenching in love to
get these kind of feelings out of him. He knew he did love her he gave her a
ring and everything. I mean that’s what guys do when they have a kid with the
women they had a kid with you marry them. Right? No he was hooked and he didn’t seem to care.
If it took something like this then so be it but he sure wasn’t about to tell
her how he got here.
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It was around ten a.m. when everyone was gathering down at the hotel
restaurant for breakfast. Slowly they came in dragging their asses in. Alec was
the first one there and he had order his and had gone thru the buffet and was
eating heartily when Tico and Dave came crawling in.
Sitting they looked at Alec and asked him, “Alec how the hell are you
eating all that after what we saw you drink last night?” Dave asked him in
shock.
“What? Oh come on now you guys are light weights. What’s the matter
your tummies are hurting?” he asked them laughing.
“Bite me!” Tico told him.
“I will but I’ll bite this instead.” He said laughing and took a bite
of his jelly donut. The guys just winced as Jon finally came down next looking
at his motley crew.
“What the hell are you guys doing?” Jon wanted to know as they were
making faces at Alec and moaning everytime Alec would put a piece of food into
his mouth and enjoyed it.
“They’re just jealous because I can eat and they can’t.” Alec told him
still laughing.
“Well just keep that crap away from me too.” He told him.
“God you guys are a bunch of Pussies man.” Alec said laughing his head
off as Jon gave him the Jersey salute.
The waiter came over and all Jon wanted was some toast and coffee. Actually
that’s all he could get down. They talked for a bit before Richie slithered
down finally.
“Well, well look who finally decided to join us The Thing from the
Black Lagoon.” Dave told them laughing his head off.
“Oh very funny Joker.” Richie told him as he threw a muffin at him.
Jon just looked at Richie and he knew exactly why. The waiter came back
over and took Richie’s order and then Richie just looked back at Jon
nonchalantly as the rest just chatted. He knew Jon didn’t want the other guys
to know what went down last night. He would have to ask him about it later on when
their alone. They all finished their breakfast and headed back up to their
rooms to shower and get dressed for interviews and then get ready to leave for
their next destination.
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Jon had just finished with his shower when he heard knocking on his
door. Walking to it he yelled, “Yeah just a minute!” Finding his sweats he
threw them on and went to answer the door.
Opening it there was Richie already dressed. “Hey Kidd can I come in?”
he asked Jon.
“Yeah sure come on in.” Jon told him standing aside of the door. “So
what’s up?” he asked Richie.
“I just wanted to know how you did last night. Did she stay the night
or did you throw her out after the deed?” Richie asked him carefully.
Running his hands over his face he answered, “Oh man Rich I woke up
thinking it was Ellie with me this morning so I drew her towards me and well
you know.” He told him as he went to sit down.
“Oh man really? So I took it she responded back like you meant it? Huh.”
Richie cringed.
Shaking his head yes, “Yeah. She did. And it didn’t go well. When I
realized it wasn’t Ellie I jumped out of bed nearly killing myself in the
process. How drunk was I last night?” he asked his best friend.
“About as drunk as I was. So she left this morning I take it?” he asked
Jon who was still sitting rubbing his temples.
“Yeah I kicked her out this morning but she left me her card which I
threw away right after she left.” He said still nausea.
“She had a card?” Richie asked surprised.
“Yeah it said something about a party planner I mean really.” He told
Richie shaking his head. “So what about your’s when did she leave?” he wanted
to know.
“Oh she left this morning to. I swear to God I thought I was good but I
thought she was going to kill me. You know my gut tells me that we were set up
last night Jon.” He was explaining to him.
“What the hell do you mean?” Jon asked him.
“Well the card she gave you and the experience that I damn well know
mine had and apparently you were to out of it to remember, I think they were
professionals Jon.” he told him as he
saw Jon’s face drop.
“Are you kidding me! Why would hookers come to an after party just to
hook up with a couple of rock stars if they aren’t going to get paid? You tell
me.” Jon asked him.
“What tells you that they weren’t paid?” he asked Jon.
“What the hell does that mean Rich?” Jon asked a little shocked.
“Look we were the only two who weren’t engaging with anyone last night
right? Which is odd especially with me. But I was keeping you company when
these two walked up to us. They came on to us really strong and being loaded as
we were it was a little hard to resist. But now talking with you all signs
point to them being hookers in my book and the only one to set this up is Doc.
And why would Doc want to set you up like this Jon come up put two and two
together will you?” Richie explained to him.
Jon listened and couldn’t believe what he was hearing. How could he be
so stupid to fall for something like that. “Ah Rich you don’t think that they
could have taken pictures do you?” Jon asked him pissed.
“Man I don’t know. I mean it wouldn’t do me any harm but you, well
he’ll have you right where he wants you Jon. We’re going to have to come up
with something and something fast just in case.” Richie told him concerned.
“Yeah that’s just going to go over great with Ellie. Excuse me Honey I
was caught with this hooker because Doc thought he could catch me with someone
so I just went along with it to catch Doc in the black mail scheme. Yeah that’s
going to go over big with her. She’s going to kick my ass from here to the moon
Richie. And I’ll never see Jimmy again until he’s a man and only if he wants
too.” Jon said having a panic attack now.
“Well we can confront Doc and see what he says.” Richie suggested.
“No what if he didn’t send them I sure as hell don’t want to give him
any ideas. URGH! This really sucks Rich.
What the hell am I going to do? I don’t want to lose her or my son. I
discovered something this morning and it was that I really, really love her
Rich. I mean I know I gave her the ring and all but after this episode
everything just came to a head. It’s
like the first time when I saw her back in Sayreville when she moved in with
her Aunt and Uncle. I fell head over
heels for her but when she left and all that crap happen I swore I would never
let that happen to me again. Then she walked back into my life and I still kind
of held her at arm’s length. She did too. But when she said yes when I proposed
to her that’s when I knew she truly loved me again. It just took me a little
longer I guess.” Jon told Rich.
“Hey there’s nothing wrong with that Jon it takes us guys a little
longer that’s all. And you don’t have to tell her. She loves you that’s all you
have to know and that goes for her too. Look don’t fuck this up Jon because
this is the best thing that’s ever happen to you. And if anyone deserves this
it’s you. You just need to let yourself be happy so do it will you?” Richie
told him.
“Yeah ok. Look I better get dressed before the rest of the guys start
banging on the door.” Jon told him as he got up and headed off to the bedroom.
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It’s been a month and a half now that has gone by and Jon and Ellie
have only have talked several times which was driving Jon crazy. Between the
time differences and playing phone tag it was hard for them to get together.
Doc had them running around with their heads chopped off doing interviews, t.v.
appearances, record signings, photo shoots, and sometimes all in the same day.
They were so tired sometimes when it was time to go on stage and Jon’s voice
was so horse that the guys were filling in on the highs notes for him. Doc
noticed this so he hired a doctored to cover his ass and to make sure his money
maker could continue with the tour so he called Jon into his make shift office.
Jon knocked of the door that Doc was using for his office this week.
“Come on in” Doc yelled.
Jon stepped in, “You wanted to see Doc?”
“Yeah sit down Jon I wanted to talk to you about what’s happening on
stage.” He told him trying to act concerned.
Jon looked at him wondering what the hell he was talking about. “What
the hell are you talking about Doc?” Jon asked annoyed.
“It’s your voice it sucks. I know the guys are covering for you on
stage Jon and I know you can’t hit those high notes right now especially in
Runaway. So what are you going to do about it?” Doc wanted to know.
Jon just looked at him and then said, “Well I’m trying not to talk when
I don’t have to and drinking my tea and honey and being here with you isn’t
helping.” He said sarcastically.
“Look Bongiovi you’re the one that drives this band and the one that
brings the little girls in so don’t get pissy with me. Now the next two months
you’ll be touring with Judas Priest. I’m mixing you guys up with these bands so
you’ll get extra exposure with these different fans base. So I need you up
front and at your best. So I’m bringing in a doctor to help with your voice.
Plus you need to sing on your album when you guys hit Canada after the tour. So
I want you to do as you’re told you got that Jon.” Doc told him matter of fact.
Jon just looked him in the eye. “I don’t do pills or anything illegal
Doc.” Jon told him.
“You’ll do as you’re told. This tour is not going under and neither is
the record. Plus the songs on that better be gold that’s all I’m saying got
it?” he told him angrily.
Jon was getting pissed. He was going to call Tom when he got back to
the hotel to see if he found anything to get out of this damn contract. He had
to before he was going to kill him.
“Look I made you an appointment with Dr. Shaw tomorrow and he’ll be by
your room at eleven a.m. so let him in and no excuses.” Doc told him.
Jon left and wanted to scream but knew he couldn’t. He had to find
Richie and fast. He went back to the hotel and knocked on his door. Luckily
Richie was there and once Jon went in Richie poured him a good stiff drink.
“So Doc really wants you to see this this doctor. I mean I get it Jon
you do need to see one but can we trust this guy? You can’t see him by yourself
I’m going with you.” Richie told him.
“It’s ok Rich I can handle him really.” Jon told Richie.
Chuckling, “No fucking way Kidd. Look I’ll get the others in on this
and they’ll tell you the same thing you’re not going alone. Either I go with
you or you’re not going at all. I don’t trust this guy especially where Doc is
concerned.” Richie told him outright.
“Your worse than my mother you know that?” Jon told him giving him the
eye.
“Oh that hurts.” Richie said as he put his hand to his chest as he made
a face.
“Stop being so dramatic will ya.” Jon said as he threw a pillow at him.
Laughing, “Hey you haven’t told Ellie any of this have you?” Richie
wanted to know.
Looking down at the floor, “No I haven’t yet. (looking up at him now)
and neither will you. Look we’re thousands of miles away and she can’t do
anything so no we’re not saying anything to her and getting her all upset with
something that may be nothing. So Rich just keep your mouth shut.” He told him.
“Fine I won’t tell Ellie anything but I’m still going with you and
don’t argue with me it won’t help.” He told Jon.
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Doc had set up the appointment for Jon to see Dr. Shaw in his office in
London when they would arrive there at the end of their tour with the
Scorpions. In the meantime Jon just kept doing what he was doing with the
herbal tea and honey and gargling with warm water and salt. Plus the guys would
fill in when they needed to when it came to filling in on those high notes. They
were coming back from sound check when Jon entered his room and found that
there was a message waiting for him from Ellie.