Chapter 4

That night the guys were playing and they extent to Sarah a backstage ticket and if she wanted to sit either front row or side stage to watch them play. She thought why not and she told them side stage would be nice. She never ever sat side stage before. She has only saw their videos on MTV or heard their songs on the radio but when they got on stage she was mesmerized by these five guys singing and playing their hearts out to a crowd of diehard fans who would probably kill to be where she was right now. What she didn’t know was that someone was watching her grinning and turned around and went to seek out the paparazzi to carry out their plan.

There was a room were the reporters were waiting for the young rockers to come after their performance. Some were out watching the show and some were walking around getting drinks and talking with Doc McGhee as he was building up his boys. This person saw the perfect opportunity to set their plan into action when they saw a group of young girls waiting for them to come off stage as they were part of well what they call the ‘groupie factor’ and only if the guys felt like taking any of them back with them to their hotel rooms. Doc always made sure to have plenty of them around for all his acts.

He found his buddy and went by the group of girls and struck up a conversation with each other and made sure that they were heard by them. Using alias’ they started talking.

“Wow can you believe he actually got married? I wonder if they had too?” the tall dark hair one said to his strawberry blonde pal.

“Well you know these rock stars unless these girls can prove it then she must be otherwise he would have paid her off right? I mean otherwise why would he have? I mean look at all this candy around why would he give this up.” He told his friend chuckling.

Well this caught two of the girls that were closest to them. They looked at each other and gave each other the eye and moved a little closer to see if they could hear who they were talking about.

“What do you think McGhee is going to do about it?” the dark hair one asked.

“Does McGhee even know that he eloped? That’s the question.” His friend asked.

”Well if he doesn’t there’s going to be hell to pay.” He started to laugh.

Well one of the girls got the courage to walk over to them as the other shooked her head no and tried to stop her. But the girl blew her off; she had to know who they were talking about.

“Excuse me I sorry to but in but we overheard you guys talking and well I’d really like to know who you were talking about. So is there any way you could tell me?” she asked them giving them the biggest puppy dog eyes she could.

Looking at the girls and knowing that his plan was now going to start to grow before he got off the stage he was more than thrilled to tell her.

“Well it’s not nice to listen in on other people’s conversations little girl.” The dark one told her.

“Oh well we didn’t do it on purpose believe me we just well accidentally heard you. So who were you talking about? Who eloped?” she asked them hoping it wasn’t their long fair hair idol.

“Well ok but you girls can keep a secret right?” his friend asked them winking.

“Oh yes it won’t go any farer we promise.” As she had to step on her friends foot before she blew it.

“Ok it’s the lead singer of Bon Jovi. He eloped with some girl he picked up at a bar. Can you believe that? Doesn’t even know her. Some one night stand. My sister was with her best friend and she was going to be maid of Honor and they come rushing in at the Graceland Wedding Chapel and bump them so they can get married so they let them. They were all drunk out of their minds so that explains it I guess. Anyway they decided to go somewhere else but yeah they did the deed. That’s her sitting by the stage. I don’t even think their manager even knows.” They tell them everything and the girls just stand there shock that their idol is now a married man.

They thank the guys for telling them and they run off devastated that Jon is married. The guys are smiling widely now and get out of there seeing that the damage is done now and don’t want to be around just in case they can be identify. Meanwhile the girls tell their girlfriends who are mixed about what they are hearing. But that doesn’t matter now because the rumor is spreading like wildfire throughout the complex as the guys are still on stage. So finally when it gets to the paps they are grabbing it like crazy and are making phone calls to The Graceland Wedding Chapel before anyone says anything for not wanting to make any mistakes and gets a law suit against them.

By the last encore the guys come off the stage and Sarah is there to congratulate them on a great show. She has seen other rockers perform and this again was the first time she saw them and they did not disappoint her.

“Wow you guys were so good. I can’t even express how wonderful you all were.” She told them.

“Well if you want a few minutes we’ll wait.” David told her has Jon elbowed him in his side.

“Owe!” he grunted.

“Just ignore him Sarah. We just need to go out back and clean up so we should be about twenty to thirty minutes. So why don’t you go with Rich and he’ll take you out back before everyone gets there ok? Plus we do need to talk with Doc you know just in case someone says something to him.” Jon said as they started towards the bathrooms.

Once they got there Doc was waiting for them and didn’t look to happy. The guys looked at each other and had a strange feeling about this. “Yeah Doc what’s up?” David said as he chuckled.

“Still not funny Bryan. Bongiovi you got something you want to tell me?” he asked in a very gruff tone.

“Who me um well kinda why?” Jon said as he was shuffling back and forth.

“Go take you’re fucking shower and then get your ass back here got it!” he told him forcibly.

  Jon knew deep down what Doc wanted to talk about. He knew he should have called him right when it happened. He knew he fucked up bad. The guys were quiet as they took their showers. Once they were done and just finished dressing Jon asked them to entertain Sarah and tell her what was going on and to tell her he would get there as soon as he could. They wished him luck and they left but Richie stayed behind.

“Richie I told you to go I’ll be right there.” Jon said as he was starting to leave.

“Yeah you did but not without me. I was there with you when this whole thing happen. I’m not going to let you take all the blame. I was there too. “Richie told him smiling.

Smiling back at him, “Thanks I appreciate that but I can handle him really and it’s my head he wants not yours. Look I’ll meet you with the guys ok?” Jon told him.

“No. Look Jon you’re my best friend and my ass is on the line just like yours. Besides I think you’re going to need a witness. So come let’s get this over with.” Rich told him.

They left together and found Doc pacing the room waiting for them. “Hey Doc were here what did you want to talk about because we have people that want talk to us to.” Jon told him agitated.

Looking at both of them, “Are you kidding me Bongiovi? Your giving me attitude after what I just learned?” he spit out at them.

“What the hell are you talking about Doc?” Jon asked him confused.

“You have no idea do you? Well let me tell you then. When you guys were on stage grinding for your fans someone let a rumor fly and the paps did a little digging and found out it was true. So who the fuck is this little whore you eloped with? Huh? And why the hell did you never told me about it because I at least could have put a different spin on this and not like this. Oh yeah and when is the baby due? Your parents must be so proud.” Doc was shouting at him as he and Richie were just standing there with their mouths open.  “Well are one of you going to say something or stand there like two idiots!” he screamed.

At first Jon and Richie just looked at each other but nothing could come out. When finally Jon was able to ask, “When…when did this all happen?”

“While you guys where on stage. Actually someone said it spread like fire backstage they thought. Someone saw your wife sitting side stage and recognized her from the chapel the night you three went there and did the deed.  Next thing it’s all over backstage.” He told them. But before Jon or anyone else could get another word in and knock came and then David walked in.

“Ah guys we have a problem out here.” He told them all excited.

“Yeah we know Doc just told us. David you and Tico do me a favor and get Sarah the hell out of there now and back to the hotel as fast as you can ok? Oh and tell her I’m sorry for everything tonight.” Jon told him.

“Yeah sure no problem.” Dave told him as he hurried out to tell her and Tico what Jon said.

“Jon I’m going to ring your fool neck!” McGhee told him.

“Doc listen Rich and I really don’t remember what the hell happened that night and neither does Sarah. Someone is black lighting us. We’ve hired a PI to help us figure this out plus our lawyer is looking into it if it’s really legal if the two parties were that drunk you know? So look we have all the bases covered. And we think it might have something to do with Sarah’s ex because she’s seems really you know out there I mean why would he set her up at a chapel and then why would me and Richie end up at a chapel right? I mean something isn’t right here…” Jon was going on and on until Doc shut him up.

“Jon shut the hell up! You’re rambling now. Ok tell you what I’ll call the PI to come up with what he can find. I’ll set up a press release for you about this elopement thing and see who we can draw out with it. I’ll call Peter to what he has come up with also.” He told them.

Jon blurted out, “We have the marriage certificate.”  He said as he cringed.

“What? How the hell did you get that already? I mean they have to file it. Then they have to send it to you so when you filled out the paperwork you give them your address. You won’t get that probably for a few weeks.” Doc told them.

“Really well Doc Tico has a copy of it.” Jon told him.

“That’s interesting. Do me a favor and send me a copy ok? And we’ll see what we can do. We can get it annulled. I should have stayed with the homely bands they were a lot easier. It was just in and out and I could pay people off but this shit I can do without.” He said as he went to do damage control.

Jon turned to Richie and said, “Well that went better than I thought. But what the hell did he say about it’s all over the place now Rich everyone knows about this? I’m going to have to call my parents. How the hell am I going to explain this to them. My Mother! She’s going to freak.” He told him as he just sat down and put his head in his hands.

Richie felt really bad for him and really wanted to be able to say or do something that could help him. But he had nothing. “I’m sorry Kidd I wish I could do something that would make this better but I don’t. But I do know that there is someone out there that is doing this to the both of you which means somehow the two of you are linked somehow. Come on let’s get back to the hotel and kick back and maybe with a good night’s sleep we can recoup in the morning how’s that?” Richie asked him.

Jon thought that would be a good idea so they went out the back where there was another car waiting for them. 

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The next morning Jon’s phone was ringing off the hook. He crawled over to it on his bed side table to answer it thinking that it might be one of the guys and when he picked it up and all he could hear was screaming over it. He wouldn’t be able to get a word in edge wise if he wanted to anyway as his mother was yelling into it. He tried to wait for a pause but there wasn’t so he started hemming and hawing into the phone hoping she would let him explain what happened. This went on for some time before she tired herself out and let him have the floor. He tried to tell her what happen but all she did was abolished him not only for his drinking but for his running around. She also lectured him that he had someone that he could have trusted but no he threw that anyway. He reminded her that she was the one that didn’t like her either but she told him at least they knew her family and her and that they could have molded her to what they wanted. Jon just rolled his eyes to that and told her how could he be with someone that he couldn’t trust or love. The conversation went on for a good hour and a half when he told her that he had enough and he would get back to her when things were settled. He hung up the phone and just lied there as his head was throbbing like Tico’s drums.  

When he could he got up and took his shower and let the hot water run over his tight body as he was so stressed over this whole situation it wasn’t funny. He just wanted this whole thing to be over. It wasn’t that Sarah wasn’t beautiful but he wanted to be the one to initiate things. If only he could remember that night and what went down. Once he finished and got out he got dressed and he called Richie to see what he was doing. Richie was busy with a doll of his own but would call him later he told him. Jon told him fine and hung up the phone aggravated. Jon picked up his guitar then and thought he would try and see what he could come up with. He was making headway he thought when there was a banging on his door and a woman’s voice’s yelling for him.

Getting up and putting his guitar on the couch he started for the door. “Yeah I’m coming hang on!” he yelled as he opened the door.  There standing before him was Sarah and she was not only standing in wet clothes they were ripped.

“Oh my God Sarah what the hell happened!” he yelled as he grabbed her and pulled her into his room.

“I was attacked down at the pool area.” She said not only pissed but still crying a bit.

“WHAT! How? Didn’t they have security down there?” he wanted to know.

“They did but they were called away I don’t know why all I know was I was having breakfast then I was going to change like I did yesterday and go for a swim and before I knew these girls attacked me and then threw me in the pool.” She told him as she stood there shivering.

“Well look you can’t just stand here and freeze to death do you have your key on you?” he asked her.

“Yeah.”

“Ok let me grab mine and we’ll go to your room and get you out of those clothes and I’ll call management when we get there ok?” He told her as he tried to keep his composure.  

When they reached her room Jon opened the door and let them in. “Look Sarah why don’t you take a nice hot shower and if you need anything just yell out to me ok?” he told her.

“Thanks Jon. Oh you may want to turn on the television they had it on downstairs.” She told him as to what she saw on the news.

“Why?” he asked her curious.

“Trust me that’s how I knew why they threw me in the pool.” She told him.

She walked into the bathroom as Jon sat and turned on the tv and changed the channels when he came across one of the news channels. And there it was. A picture of him and them saying how he had eloped to Vegas two nights ago to a woman named Sarah Mathers at the Graceland Wedding Chapel. Oh no wonder his mother called him this morning. He had forgotten to ask her how she found out about his wedding. He was just too upset when she called. Not only did he have a headache now but he was nausea too. He listened to what the broadcast said and now he knew why Sarah was attacked. He picked up the phone and blasted the hotel security for not doing their job in keeping out the non-clientele especially when they knew they had asked to provide extra security for them so no one would get hurt while they stayed there. Jon also told them that he was going to send his security manager down to have a talk with them about this as his wife was attacked by the pool. When Sarah came out all she had on was a towel around her.

“Sorry I forgot my clothes.” She told him as she went thru her bag.

Jon swallowed hard as he had to ask her, “Sarah I hate to ask you this but I did tell you that when you went out of the room you really did need to have someone with you. Why didn’t you ask for someone?” he wanted to know.

“Jon I told you I didn’t think I had to just going to the pool I thought you had agreed with me remember?” she told him confused.

“I did? Oh sorry I guess we got things mixed up. Well from now on when you leave this room here dial this number and request for Rich and he’ll go with you anywhere you want to ok? After today you can’t leave without someone sorry.” He told her.

“Well great just great. Now I’m a prisoner?” she asked him annoyed.

“Sarah please it’s just hopefully for a little while ok? You think I like this too? Look I’ve got to get out of here so if you want me you know where to find me. Just do me a favor and don’t wear that damn towel!” he said as he got out of there before he embarrassed himself.

Sarah stood there smiling as she didn’t know she could actually do that to him. She knew she could talk to Richie but Jon was another story all together. No my life can’t get any more complicated could it she said to herself.