Chapter 11

A.J. quickly asked “What is it sweetie?”

“Oh my God. I just realized something Michael said.”

“What?” The guys said in unison.

 “How the hell did he know that I was seeing Jon and that Jon was a singer in a rock band?” she asked.

“What do you mean sweetie? When did he say that?’ Town asked.

“When he came to the door. He said something about if I was going to let That Rock Star do all the talking for me and then on the answering machine he said it a few more times. How the hell did he know I was seeing someone? We’ve only been seeing each other what less than a month. And we met while doing a job. How did he know?!”

 “Okay, okay calm down. Apparently he’s been keeping tabs on you for a while. Then he saw Jon arrive today and realized it was over between the two of you. So he stepped things up. Made himself known.” A.J. said.

Rick asked Jon “How much longer are you here?”

“Hum, after today another two days, why?”

“Because he may call again so we’ll put a tap on the phone. Hopefully we can get a location as to where he is. But then again he might anticipate that too, but we’ll do it anyway. Here and at the office just in case.” A.J. suggested.

“You know he just might know when Jon is leaving so he might not do anything til then.” Town said.

“But he can’t stand Jon so he might not wait.” Rick added. A.J. was watching his sister as everyone was adding their two cents and could see she was just about to bust at the seams.

“Hey Jon why don’t you take Mary upstairs and see if you can get her to try and relax a bit, okay. Rick and I are going to stay here for a while and secure the house and wait for the tap.” A.J. suggested hoping to calm his sister.

“Sure sounds good. I’ll call you guys if I hear anything.” Town said as he left.

As Jon brought their sister upstairs Rick asked “Okay what was all that about?”

“Mary was getting jumpy so I thought it was a good idea that she go upstairs and try and relax. Try and get her mind off some of this. Maybe with us down here she might be able to do it.” A.J. said.

Back upstairs Jon led Mary to her room. As she got settle Jon asked her “Hey Baby is there anything you need?” She just shook her head no. “Are you okay? You seem upset.” Jon asked.

“No not really. Just tired and everything’s getting to me a little I guess. I’ll be okay. I just need to take a nap.”

 “Sure, want some company?” he asked wiggly his eyes. “That would be nice Baby.” They spent the rest of the afternoon sleeping as her brothers secured the house and set up the tap. As she was sleeping, Jon woke and wandered downstairs to talk to her brothers about the progress that they were making.

“Hey what’s up?” A.J. asked.

“Nothing, Mary’s asleep.” Jon said. 

”That’s good. She needs it. She was getting a bit upset a little while ago.” A.J. said.

“You think. Where’s Rick?” Jon asked.

“He went to office so we could put the tap on the phones there too.”

“Oh good.”

“Okay Jon what’s the matter?” A.J. asked him concerned.

“Why do you think something is the matter? My girlfriends’ life is in danger, again! And there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. And what pisses me off the most is I have to leave in two days and she won’t leave with me while her manic ex-boyfriend stalks her. Anything else?” he said sarcastically.

 “Nope.”   

“Thanks” Jon said sarcastically again.

“Jon look, I know you don’t think we have this covered but we do. So calm down. We have done this before you know.” A.J. told him.

 “I know but A.J. look what happened when Potter was after me. She got hurt when it should have been me.” Jon said as he ran his hands thru his hair.

 “I know and she knew what the chances of that were. It’s the business were in. And she knows what the chances are still Jon and you have to know that. Just as she has to know your business and what goes on in yours. You have talked to her about it haven’t you?” A.J. asked.

“About what” Jon asked innocently.

“You know what Jon. What goes on backstage? She’s not stupid, she knows what goes on backstage Jon. Why do you think she got all upset about that phone call.” A.J. told him.

“Oh you know about that?” Jon asked uncomfortably.

 “Yeah we kind of figured it out when she wouldn’t answer your calls.” A.J. said trying not to be all big brotherly like Rick would be.

“Well I explained that to her and also told her if she answered my phone calls she wouldn’t of got upset.” Jon told A.J. miffed.

 “Well welcome to the world of women.” A.J. chuckled.

 “Gee thanks, but been there done that.” They both laughed.

“Well hate to tell you kid but it doesn’t get any easier when you get older.” A.J. told him while shaking his head.

 “Thanks, but I don’t intend to look any further than Mary. I love her A.J.”

 “Yeah I kind of got that.” A.J. said smiling.

“So you’re okay with that? Because I kind of got the idea you and Rick weren’t too crazy with the idea.” Jon asked in amazement.

“I’m okay with it, but Rick is a little more over protective than I am. But he’ll come around he always does. Especially if he wants Mary to be happy.” A.J. explained.

 “Good I’m glad. And I’ll talk to her I promise. Are you going to stay the night?” Jon asked and was kind of hoping.

 “Yeah, Rick’s gone to check a few things and will check back with me and I’ll let you guys know. Go get some rest and I’ll see you in the morning.”

The rest of the night was quiet and morning came quickly. “Hey beautiful wake up it’s morning.” Jon said trying to wake Mary up. But all she did was turn over and grumbled at him. “Oh no you don’t. If I can’t get sex because your brothers are here then you’re getting up with me and coming downstairs to face the day with me and them. So up and adam young lady.” He said as he slapped her on the ass.

“Hey, that hurt!” she said as she rubbed her butt. Sitting up she gave Jon her pouty face look. “Can’t you just give me like another hour baby? Huh?”

 Jon just looked back at her with a sly smile on his face. “Ah no. Get up now before I pull you out of there.” He said wriggling his eyebrows.

 “Party pooper.” She said as she stuck out her tongue at him. As they reached downstairs the guys already had the coffee made and reading the newspaper. “Morning guys.” Mary said.

“Morning sweetie.” A.J. replied. As they got their coffee and tea they sat at the kitchen table and Mary tried to start a conversation.

“So are you guys going to hang around the house all day or what. Because you know you don’t have to you know we’ll be perfectly fine here.”

“Yeah we know, we’re going to head out to the office as soon as we’re done here so don’t worry you’ll have the house to your selves soon.” Rick said. They both looked at each other relieved.

“Well it’s not that I’m kicking you guys out but I already have a baby sitter in Jon and I don’t need two more you know.” Jon playfully hit her on the arm. “Hey stop hitting me or I’m going to belt you.” Her brothers just smiled at her remark knowing full well she would. “I just mean I feel couped up here and maybe we can go out and do something.”

The boy’s heads popped up and looked at each other then at Jon then at their sister then back at each other. Then A.J. spoke. “Um I don’t think that would be a good idea honey. Laying low and staying indoors while we’re not with you is the best thing possible right now. Okay.”

 As he said this he was trying to give Jon the eye to give them some support in this which Jon caught on very fast because he really didn’t want to leave seeing that he was leaving the day after tomorrow and wanted time alone with her. Before she could say anything Jon interjected. “Baby they’re right, we really should stay here probably until I leave the day after tomorrow just to be on the safe side, don’t you agree?” he asked her trying not to be too obvious and hoping she got he meaning.

She sat there at first fuming thinking that these three men in her life were thinking how weak she was, then as Jon was talking and the look on his face she put two and two together. “Well if you insist but I don’t like it. I can take care of myself you know.” She said through gritted teeth and really tried hard not to giggle at the same time.

“We know you can take care of yourself Sweetie but we’ll just feel better knowing where you are, okay. Alright Rick let’s get going the sooner we start researching where we can find this asshole the faster we can put him behind bars.” A.J. said.

As soon as her brothers left Jon scooped up Mary, “What the hell are you doing?” she giggled.

“Well if I have to tell you then I’m doing it wrong.” He said as he carried her upstairs to her bedroom. As they reached the top of the stairs, “I was hoping you would get my drift when your brother asked me about you staying here in the house. I was so afraid you would fight me on it.” He said as he kick the door shut and walked over to the bed and laid her in the middle of the bed. “Okay Baby now that were alone what shall we do. Tell me what you want, can you do that for me Baby?” he said as he nuzzled her neck and slowly worked one hand behind her neck and the other down her back. By this time Mary’s head was so frazzled she couldn’t think straight. Jon’s kisses were driving her insane.

 “Um I’m sorry what did you say?” she said fuzzily.

 Jon just laughed. “Okay Baby you just hang on I’m going to take you higher than you’ve ever been.” The morning went by quickly and quietly. They had fallen asleep in each other’s arms. Jon was awakened when he heard the doorbell ring. He got up carefully as to not wake Mary up, put his jeans on and went down stairs to see who was at the door.

 When he opened the door no one was there but when he looked down he noticed a long packaged that a florist would have delivered. Bringing it inside and placing it on the dining room table he carefully opened the card which read: To my Darling I will give you one last chance seeing that Rocker star is leaving tomorrow and I am willing to forgive your whoring ways. Yours Forever Michael. Jon was furious and wanted to rip up the note but knew he couldn’t. He had to call Rick and A.J. and let them know that flowers had arrived. He called them and explained what had happened and that Mary didn’t know anything about the flowers or the note. A.J. told Jon to put them out in the garage and that they would swing by later and pick them up. After he did that he quietly walked back upstairs and as he entered the bedroom he was extremely happy to see that she was still asleep. He carefully took off his jeans and gently crawled backed into bed and curled up to her. He gently took a stray hair out of her eye and brushed it out of her way. He propped himself up on his side and just stared at her and wondered how this cute, bright, outspoken, vulnerable, and loving girl could have gotten under his skin so fast. He didn’t like the idea that he was leaving the day after tomorrow so that psycho could think he could get to her more easily when he was gone.

He decided that she had slept long enough and that he would wake her the only way he knew how. So he burrowed under the blankets and before she knew it she let out a Yelp! It was getting into early evening when they decided that they needed to eat something and headed downstairs. “I don’t feel like cooking so do you think it would be okay if we order out?” she asked.

 “Sure Baby anything you want.” he said as he walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. “How about pizza?” He asked.

 “Is that all you ever eat?” she teased him.

“Basically yes.” He said as he grinned.

 “Fine I’ll call it in.” She said shaking her head. As she went for the phone Jon slapped her ass.

Turning around, “Hey what did I tell you about that.” She said laughing.

 “Hush You!” Jon said laughing.

 Just as he was going to go in for a second slap the phone rang and Mary grabbed it. “Hello? Oh hi Rick. No things have been pretty quiet here. Yeah he’s right here, Jon?” and she handed the phone to Jon with a very confused look on her face.

“Thanks babe, Hey Rick. Huh uh, Huh uh Thanks” and Jon hung up the phone. As he turned around he saw a very confused and bewilder woman standing behind him. “Yes?”

“What the hell was that all about?” she asked impatiently.

“What was what all about?” he asked giving her his best dumb as can be look.

“Don’t do that. Don’t give me that sweet and innocent look. It may work for those stupid groupies that hang around you but it won’t work with me.” She said as she stood her ground. He slowly started to walk towards her with this simmering look in his eye. She started to back up and hit the frig. “Jon cut it out! I thought you were hungry!”

“I am!” he said with a certain look of hunger in his eyes.

“Crap!” she exclaimed and slid out and ran out of the room giggling. He loved a chase and took off after her.

“I’ll get you my pretty!” he yelled after her.

“Well you’re lucky my dog isn’t here pal!” she yelled back laughing. All of a sudden things got real quiet. She tipped toed around the living room and down the hall back to the kitchen to peak in to see if he was there. She didn’t see him so she turned around and retraced her steps and peaked backed into the living room and still didn’t see him. ‘Crap’ she said to herself. ‘Where the hell could he be?’ she thought. So she peaked up the stairs and still nothing and quietly back into the kitchen when he quietly looked around the couch. He stealthily got up and before she made it to the kitchen grabbed her from behind as she let out a screech as they fell to the floor.

 “Damn it Jon!” she screamed! But before she could wiggle out of his grip, he had her pinned to the floor. She was breathing hard by now and trying hard to catch her breathe. He was looking down at her grinning

“You had enough?” he asked her smiling evilly.  

Again breathing hard “Maybe.”

“Give up.” He said sternly.

 “I said maybe.”

 “Not good enough.”

 “And if I say yes?”

“Then you get a surprise.”

 “I don’t think that’s a surprise” she said giggling.

“Oh you’re funny. But I haven’t showed you everything you know.” He said smirking.

“Oh really, then it’s a yes baby.” She told him wanting to know what that could be.

 He lent down and kissed her. He slowly decided he was going to make love to her right there. And that’s what they did. He covered them up with the afghan that was on the back of the couch. He looked lovingly at her and asked “Are you okay? I didn’t hurt you did I baby?”

 “No why?” she asked him.

 “You look uncomfortable that’s all.” he asked squeezing her tight.

“We just made love on a hardwood floor silly. I’m just a little achy and I might be bruised in the morning on my knees. What about you? Or are you used to doing it in weird places? Huh?” she said with a smirk on her face. He kissed the top of her head.

“Are you trying to be a smartass?”

“Depends am I going to get an answer?” she asked.

 He rolled over to his side and propped his head up on his hand. “What do you want to know? How many girlfriends I’ve had or how many girls I’ve fucked.” He asked annoyed.

She wasn’t pleased. “That’s a good question Jon; let’s start with the second one shall we! What am I number two hundred fifty eight!” she said angrily and started to get up but he grabbed her arm and gently pulled her back down into his lap.

“Okay, okay stop will you. I’m sorry I didn’t mean that.” He said stoking her back. “Is that what’s bothering you? How many girls I’ve been with?” he asked. She couldn’t look him in the eye. All she could do was look at the floor. He gently took her chin with his hand and pulled it up so they could see eye to eye. “Baby look at me. Is that it? Because if it is that’s all in the past; I swear.” He slowly bent down and kissed her on the lips.

As they parted “I know it’s ridiculous but you could have any beautiful woman you want, so why me. I’m no raving beauty Jon so…”

He stopped her right there. “Just stop right there. You’re beautiful, smart, fun, kind, but most of all real. Everything about you is real and you don’t want anything from me, but me. That’s more than I can ask for. So let’s not waste any more time arguing okay. I have plans for you. So let’s go upstairs so I can show you properly.”

They made love through most of the night. But Mary woke up before Jon did. It was early morning and she was still feeling uneasy about their conversation earlier about how many women or groupies Jon has gone through. Would that change, she was very confused right now and needed to clear her head but couldn’t do it with Jon around. She knew he was leaving tomorrow but didn’t know if she could keep a calm demeanor between them before he left. She got out of bed as quietly as she could but it would take a bomb to wake Jon up. She quickly got dressed and headed down stairs. She quickly wrote him a note and left it on the coffee table and grabbed her keys and left. She really hoped he would understand why she had to leave. She just needed time to sort things out. She headed over to A.J.’s and prayed he wouldn’t give her the third degree.

It was about six-thirty when she arrived at A.J’s and she quietly entered the house. Marlowe was curled up in his corner and only looked up at her and didn’t bother to move seeing it was only her. She just chuckled to herself and headed to the stairs to head up to her room. When she got to the top of the stairs she was about to open her bedroom door when A.J. open his bedroom door. “Hey what are you doing here sweetie? I thought Jon was leaving tomorrow?” A.J. asked confused.

 “Hi, he is but I um decided I um needed to um ah hell A.J. I just needed to get off, okay? I have a lot to think about A.J. so I ran. I just can’t deal with it right now with everything else that’s going on too. Okay. So just tell Jon I’m not here, please A.J.” she begged.

 A.J. thought for a second, “You know that’s not going to help matters. Putting things off.” He said.

She just looked at him. “Yeah I know but with Michael and this shit I just can’t handle this. Please A.J. I just need some time to think, okay.” She asked him with pleading eyes.

“Okay go get some sleep. Rick and I will handle it.” He said and kissed her on the forehead.

It was about nine fifteen am in the morning and Jon rolled over in the bed when he realized he was the only one in it. He patted the empty side beside him and looked around the bedroom to see if Mary was up. He slowly got up rubbing his sleep ridden eyes and put on his sweats. He left the bedroom and went to the bathroom to do his morning routine when he realized she wasn’t in there either. After he headed down stairs to see if she started the coffee or breakfast he hoped. Not smelling anything he had a bad feeling in his stomach and went quickly to the kitchen still not finding her. A sick feeling went through his body and ran into the living room and quickly looking around for anything that would tell him something. Finally he eyed a note on the coffee table and grabbed it; feeling a little wobbly so he sat down on the couch clutching the note. Hoping it wasn’t from that scum bucket Michael he slowly opened it praying as he read it:

Dear Jon:

I’m sorry I wasn’t here when you woke up. I was thinking about what happened last night and I just think I need some time to think. Things happened between us very quickly Baby and I’m very very confused right now. The one thing I do know is I do Love You very much but I don’t think that’s going to be enough for you. For your life style. Can you really just have one woman? Do you Love me for me or for what happened between us. You need to sort out your feelings as well. I don’t doubt you but you need to be sure. When you get back from your next leg of the tour then we will know better from the time off. And things here should be cleared up. Then we’ll both be sure.

Until Then My Love,

Mary

He put down the letter in disbelief. He muttered to himself ‘She gave me a fucking Dear Jon Letter!’ Shit. ‘I don’t fucking believe this!’ He was bullshit. He couldn’t believe she would do this to him. Not after what they have been through. How they or what he thought they felt for each other. He ran upstairs and got dressed and called a cab. He was going to drag her back if he had to do it with her kicking and screaming.