Chapter 10

 Jon went back to the bedroom where Mary was dressed in her lounge clothes.

“Hey what’s this?” Jon asked.

“What?” she asked innocently.

 “You’re dressed?” he asked confused.

  “Well I take it the guys were at the door right?” she asked him.

 “Yeah?” he said confused again.

 “Well I take it they want you and I for something?” she asked.

He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her. “How did I get such a smart girlfriend? Yeah they want us to go to dinner with them.” He told her not to happy.

“You don’t look too happy about it?” she said to him.

“Well no, I want to stay here with you just the two of us.” He said nuzzling her neck.

“Hey ‘giggling’ what time do they want us there?” she asked him.

 “Um… seven.” He said continuing.

“And where?” she asked again.

“Urgh…The Kingsback Restaurant.” He said getting annoyed that he was being interrupted.

“Well we are going aren’t we?” she asked trying to unwrangle herself from him.

 He let her go with a huff. “I guess if that’s what you want.” Now he was in a mood.

“It’s not what I want but it seems that if we don’t go we’re going to hurt your friend’s feelings and make us look stand offish.” She stated.

“So what, what the hell do I care?” He told her.

“Jon Francis you do so care and so do I. Besides if we want any peace I can’t see a problem doing this to get them off our backs do you?” she asked.

“You know I hate it when you’re right. Okay but they are so going to pay for this.” he told her.

 They got ready for dinner and met the guy’s right at seven. After they all ate Richie convince everyone to go out to a nightclub that was recommended to him. Sabrina’s wasn’t far from the restaurant and Jon thought they would stay a little while and then take off.

They got a table close to the back for all of them and then started a tab. The music was loud and lots of pretty girls. The only one that wasn’t looking was Jon, he was only too happy with the one he came with. As the others were either at the bar or on the dance floor Jon and Mary were at the table ogling each other when Jon asked her to dance when a slow song came on. They got up and went to the dance floor. Richie escorted his pick up back to the bar when the girl sitting next to him turned around. She couldn’t contain herself when she saw Richie.

 “Oh my God! You’re Richie Sambora!” Richie just looked at her and cringed. He usually didn’t mind getting recognized but he was with someone and there was just something about this one.

“Yes I am darling what can I do for you?” he asked.

“Well now if you’re here I’m wondering if your friend is here; Jonny boy.” She asked.

“Now why would you be wanting to know that?” he asked back.

“Well Jonny and I are good friends, didn’t he tell you?” she asked.

“Well Jonny doesn’t tell me everything, so why don’t you. Who are you?” Richie wanted to know.

 “Baby I’m Katie from Chicago.” Richie’s eyes went as big as saucers.

 “Oh Katie from Chicago right. Yes he did tell me about you.” Richie nearly died right there.

 “Well is he here with you? I would love to see him again.” She told him looking around to see if she could find him.

 “Here? Tonight?” Richie stumbled.

“Yeah here, tonight is there a problem?” she asked.

“Nooooo. But let me tell him you’re here okay. That way he’ll come and find you alright?” he told her.

 “Sure I’ll be right here Sweetie.”  Katie told him waiting anxiously.  

Richie excused himself and ran to find Jon. When he got to the table they weren’t there. He looked around and saw them on the dance floor. He was trying to get Jon’s attention but to no avail.

So he made his way to the dance floor and casually whispered to Jon “Hey Jon we need to talk now!” Richie said through gritted teeth.

 “What the hell Rich, can’t it wait?” Jon asked annoyed.

 “No it can’t!” Richie said sternly.

Jon was really getting annoyed at his best friend now, first at the hotel and now here. They just wouldn’t leave him and Mary alone.

Jon turned to Mary and said “Baby Richie needs to talk to me okay?”

“Sure no problem, I’ll go back to the table.” And she made her way back as Jon and Richie made their way over towards the men’s room.

“Alright what the hell is so important that you have to drag me over here?” Jon asked.

“You remember that girl Katie you bonked a few weeks ago in your drunken stupor?” Richie asked.

“I thought we weren’t ever going to bring that up again Rich!” Jon said through gritted teeth.

“Well I wouldn’t have but guess who’s sitting at the bar.” Richie said to him all excitedly.

Jon’s mouth nearly hit the floor and his face turned an awful pale grey. He looked as if he was going to faint.

 “Jon, JON!” Richie shook him to bring him back to reality.

“What?” Jon said sickly.

 “Come on man get a grip will ya? She wants to see you, she knows you’re here. What are we going to do?” Richie asked concerned.

“Shit, shit, shit! Okay look I’ll get Mary out of here if you can stall her for me, can you do that for me Rich?” Jon pleaded.

“Yeah, yeah sure no problem. Just go and I’ll see if I can sweet talk her somehow.” He said unsure of himself.

Jon went back to their table while Richie went to find Katie. Richie found Katie still at the bar but she was talking to some guy. She seemed she was really into him so he thought they were off the hook. He would just hang around to observe her just to make sure she didn’t leave her spot. Meanwhile Jon was telling Mary that it was time to leave.

 “Hey Baby why don’t we go back to the hotel? The guys are off doing their own thing and I’m so ready to get the hell out of here.” Jon said while kissing her hand.

 “Really, well so am I the noise is kind of getting to me and I really could go for cuddling up to you.” She told him smiling.

 “Just cuddling?” he said with a pouty face.

 “Well if you’re a good boy well see.” She said with a wicked grin.

He returned the wicked grin and took her hand and started for the door. Meanwhile Katie had stepped out to the dance floor with that guy she was talking to at the bar and as she was dancing she could see the door perfectly. Unfortunately Richie couldn’t see it from where he was standing and couldn’t see that Jon and Mary were about reaching the door when Katie saw them. Before Richie could do anything Katie had yell out loud enough to get Mary’s attention.

“Oh Jonny! Jonny! Over here!” she yelled.

They turned around and Jon’s stomach sank. He grabbed Mary’s arm and tried to push her through the door when the screaming got louder.

Richie went running over as did Katie yelling Jon’s name. But Jon kept trying to push Mary out the door.

 “Jon, Jon what the hell?! And someone is screaming for you.” Mary yelled over the noise.

“It’s okay Baby they’re always yelling my name, ignore it we need to get out of here. They know we’re here.” He said.

“Who?”  she wanted to know.

“The fans, you’ll get used to it.” He told her as he still was trying to get her out of the bar.

 But before they could make it out Katie was able to grab Mary by her arm.

“Excuse me?” Mary said staring at Katie who was still holding her arm. Right about then Richie joined them as Jon gave him the stink eye but all Richie could do was shrug his shoulders and mouth sorry.

“I’m so glad I was able to catch up with you.” Katie said.

“And who are you?” Mary asked.

“Oh I’m Katie a friend of Jonny’s.” she said.

Jon was about to pass out when Richie piped up.

 “That’s right she’s a friend of the band right Katie?” Richie said hoping that would keep her quite.

 “Well I guess you can say that. I’ve only met Jonny and Richie.” She had agreed.

 Mary just shook her head. “Well I think she guessed that Katie and we’ll get going you two have fun now see you guys later.” Richie said slinging his arm her shoulders.

“Well I wanted to see how Jonny was and if he found that friend of his what was her name…oh yeah Mary right?” she asked them.

“I’m Mary why?” she asked Katie but Jon jumped in.

 “Baby we really have to get going now and Katie and Richie need to go too so…”

“Because he was so worried when we slept together that you were going to flip out. I mean he was so drunk he didn’t even realize that he even slept with me; he thought he had slept with you. I mean how drunk do you have to be to not know who you’re sleeping with right?” Katie asked.

Jon and Richie just looked at each other first then at Mary who looked shell shocked. She just stood there not moving and not saying anything.

“Well it was good seeing you again Jonny and I’m glad you found her. Richie are we still doing something?” she asked him.

“Sorry darling but my dance card is full I’ll have to catch you later.” He said solemnly.

Katie shrugged her shoulders then walked away knowing exactly the damage she just did.

“Well I guess I’ll leave the two of you alone to sort this out.” Richie said and left feeling for Jon. Jon didn’t know what to do. He looked over at Mary who still just stood there and was staring into space.

 “Baby I know we need to talk but…” Jon went to put his hand around her shoulders to try and move her around so he could move her outside to the car but she shrugged him off.

“Don’t just don’t.” she said quietly.

 “Don’t what Baby?” he asked nervously.

“Don’t touch me.” She said staring straight ahead.

 “Okay but we need to go back to the hotel.” He said worried.

“Fine.” She said without emotion.

They got into the car each one on either side. Both of them just stared out of their side of the car. She just couldn’t think. The words that girl said to her were going through her head over and over again and wouldn’t stop. Jon couldn’t get the look of hurt out of his head. The way her eyes watered and her mouth trembled but wouldn’t fully come to a full cry in front of him or anyone else to show that she was vulnerable. And now he could tell her body was shaking and it was all his fault. He hurt the one person he loved the most. He wanted to say something to her but what. What could he say that would make this right? They finally reached the hotel and the driver opened Mary’s door for her as Jon got out himself. He tried to escort her into the hotel by taking her arm but again she shoved it away. Jon let out a sigh and followed her to the elevator. As they got in so did a few other people to Mary’s relief. They were the last two in the elevator when they reached the penthouse. They walked to Jon’s room in silence and he open the door and they walked in. Mary went straight to the bedroom and shut the door.

Jon just shook his head and grabbed a beer out of the mini frig and sat down on the couch. ‘Great now what the fuck do I do? Do I go in there and grovel or do I deny everything. Or I could just jump out that fucking window. Jumping out of the window sounds better.’ He took a big gulp of his beer and wondered what the hell Mary was doing in the bedroom.

He couldn’t hear any crying so that was a good sign wasn’t it? And there wasn’t any smashing of any kind so that was another good sign. So he took a deep breath and decided that he would go in there and see what was going on. When he opened the door he couldn’t say that he wasn’t exactly surprised to see what he was seeing, she was packing her things.

He just let out a sigh and said “Ah Baby please can we talk?” but she just pretended that he wasn’t there and continued to pack her things. He just rolled his eyes annoyed and said “Don’t be like this please, can we just talk about this?” he asked her. But again she just ignored him. He had just about enough of this. He wanted to talk to her so he lost his patience with her. “Will you just talk to me damn it!”

 She turned to him and calmly said “We have nothing to talk about.”

“Yes we do! If we don’t why the hell are you packing then?”

Trying to stay calm she looked up at him and said “You know damn well why so why should I talk about it. That bitch spelled it out for me, and all you’re going to do is spin it in your favor somehow. And like a fool you want me to fall for it. Well it’s not going to work.” She told him calmly.

 “Well we’re talking so it’s a start. You know you can ask me anything. I won’t lie to you.” He told her as his heart was beating like a racing car.

 “You want to know something funny?” she said to him.

 “What?” he asked curiously.

 “Girls really don’t want to know about their boyfriends infidelities. I know you’re a Rockstar and I know they throw themselves at you Jon but I don’t want to know if you fuck them. I just don’t.  I don’t need it thrown in my face. And tonight it was thrown in my face. You asked me straight out if I had an affair with Mick. And I told you the truth. I expect that you tell me the truth when I ask you but I never asked you that question. But okay it’s out there now so here goes. Did you sleep with that girl?” she was pissed that he accused her of cheating when he did the exacted same thing. Hypocrite. But she knew this was going to come up sooner or later she had just hoped later.

Jon paused for a few minutes looking down at the floor, hands in his pockets. Taking a deep breath and walking over to her he extended his hands to hers but then thought about how she shoved him aside before and then retracted them.

 “I’m not going lie to you yes I did, and I know you’re not going to believe me but I don’t remember sleeping with her.” He told her with tears in his eyes.

 She just shook her head and laughed. “Oh really, how the hell could you sleep with someone Jon and not remember it?”

“Easy drink a lot of Jack and tequila to the point where you can’t even walk or think straight.” He explained.

 “Why?” she asked him not understanding the reason.

 “Because I missed the hell out of you, I was lonely and it took the edge off. I know it’s no excuse but God Baby I really don’t remember picking her up. She said that I kept calling her you and said that I thought that she was you. Actually she thought I was playing a game with her. But I set her straight in the morning when everything was clearer. I really did think she was you when I woke up until I got a good look at her, then I freaked! I kicked her out but before she left she explained everything to me.” He told her.

Mary just stood there and listened to everything he said. She wanted to believe him she really did. She has seen what booze could do because she had seen her brothers drunk to the gills and the stupid things they have done under the influence.

She finally spoke up “You really don’t remember?”

 “No baby I really don’t.” he said wrapping his arms around her as she let him.

“You know I hate you right?” she said with a wry grin.

“I know.” He said still feeling awful about everything.

“Just remember what an excellent shot I am, got it?” she reminded him.

 With his borrows gathered “What, why? OH! Right gotcha.” He said with a grimace and crossed his legs.

As she was chuckling now he looked over to her and said “Oh you think that’s funny now do you?”

“After what you did yes I do.” She said as sternly as she could.

“So you believe me?” he asked hoping with all of his heart.

“Unfortunately I don’t think you’re a good enough actor or Richie for that matter to look that shocked to have seen that girl show up at the bar the way she did and with that story. Besides she didn’t really get anything out of it now did she? It’s a lame story that you don’t remember her and used me as an excuse. Both your stories are exact but it was your facial expressions that told me everything Jon and that you can’t hide. So yes I believe you.” She told him but still hurting.

 “So you’ll stay?” he asked her hopefully.

 “Do you love me?” she asked biting her lower lip.

“The question should be do you love me?”  he asked her caressing her arms and looking at her lovingly.

  Moving closer to him she stepped up to her ti

ppy toes as he bent down as she captured his lips with hers. They deepen the kiss when he suddenly pulled away.

“What’s the matter?” she asked.

 “Why do you believe me? Why do you love you me?” he asked.

“You’re such a dope you know that. I believe you because you’re not coming up with any excuses and plus your just as upset about this as I am. And the funny thing is so is Richie.” She explained to him.

“Yeah when all that went down I really freaked out and I needed someone to talk to and well Rich is my best friend so I ran to him to vent.” He told her.

“So he knew right off?” she asked him.

“Yeah, are you mad?” he asked her.

 “No I’m not mad I’m glad you can confide in with someone you trust.  Besides I like Richie. And as for loving you well that’s not that hard, unless you want to make it hard?” she said pursing her lips in a slight smile while her eye brows went up.

Jon just looked at her with a fiery look in his eyes “So you really do think you’re funny don’t you?”

 “I think I’m hilarious.” She said with a sly grin.

 “You do do you. Well I’m going to show you just how funny you think you are.” He said as he grabbed her roughly and pulled her to him and laid a rough but passionate kiss on her.

 As they were clinging together like there was no tomorrow, he led her backwards towards the bed and laid her down as he started to undress her tossing her closes on the floor.

When he was finished it took him no time to strip out of his closes. “Do you know how beautiful you are?” he said to her.

 “How much did you drink tonight?” she asked him.

 “Why do you do that?” he asked.

She looked at him a little confused. “What?” she asked.

“When I give you a compliment you always make a joke out of it. Why do you do that?” he asked her concerned.

“No I don’t.” she told him sighing.

“Yes you do.” He said to her as he was getting ticked.

 “No I don’t.” she shot back annoyed now.

 “Baby I don’t want to fight with you at a time like this but you do.” He again told her only because he loved her so.

 “Then don’t.” she said running her hands down his chest.

Grabbing her hands and kissing the back of one he tried again. “Baby answer me please.”

She just looked at him and said “I don’t know I guess it’s just a reflex that I use that’s all. Now can we get back to what we were doing?” she said as she again tried to seduce him.

“No and that’s not going to WORK! Now cut that out!” he yelped. She just laid there with a wicked grin on her face. “You are so going to be punished for that.” He said through gritted teeth.

“Try it and you may regret it pal.” Again saying it with a wicked grin on her face.

 “You are not going to change the subject young lady. Now answer me.” He said more forcefully.

 Trying desperately to change the subject and to be a little funny she said “Make me.”

Jon not seeing the humor in this got a little annoyed with her and what came out was a little stronger than what he meant it to be. “That’s not funny! I’m trying to be serious here and you’re not! Just answer me!”

Looking at him and trying not to cry “I’m sorry it’s just I don’t take compliments very well. Besides you have all those other beautiful girls throwing themselves at you I really don’t see why you have me around anyway.” She said softly.

 Now she couldn’t look him in the face, she didn’t mean to tell him that. Especially after finding out that he had sex with that groupie. She didn’t want him to feel sorry for her or guilty that he had hurt her so much. She knew what she was getting into with him. She wasn’t expecting a long term relationship with him anyway and now the reality was just sinking in. Jon just looked at her in surprised. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“You’re kidding right? Look at me Baby.” He said to her as he gently took her chin and lifted it up so she could look him in the eyes. “You’re beautiful Baby and I don’t want anyone else don’t you realize that? I thought we took care of all this back in San Diego?”

“Well we did I thought? Then this happened and I guess it just brought out my insecurities.” She said sadly.

 “Oh Baby I can’t tell you how sorry I am…” she put her finger up to his lips.

“It’s okay really, I know what that stuff can do, I do have two brothers remember? I’ve seen what booze can do and especially the stupid mistakes you can make under the influence.” She said.

“Yeah but that’s still no excuse.” He told her.

“Jon you said you didn’t remember even bringing her up here. So stop beating yourself up over it okay.” She said to him.

 “How did I even get so lucky with such a wonderful girl like you?” he asked her.

Mary was now totally blushing and digging her face into his chest.

“Oh Baby.” He kissed the top of her head and started to caress her back.

Things got very passionate from there and into most of the night. Morning came around and when Mary woke up she found the bed empty. She looked around and listened but didn’t hear the shower going either. She wondered where Jon could be. She was a little achy from last night’s calisthenics. She got out of bed and put on her sweats and a tee to look for Jon. She went to the main room and still no Jon. She wondered if he went to meet with the other guys. Just as she was going to ring Richie there was a knock at the door. She went to open it and was surprised at who was there.