Chapter Seventeen

Jon thought he was hearing things. A baby? He just sat there and didn't know what to say. Ellie was getting a little nervous now as Jon was turning white as a sheet.  

Looking at his wife finally, he asked her, "Um are you sure? I only ask because there is a big age difference between the baby and Jimmy right?" At this point Jon was running on booze and being terrified of what was going on with Cheri and even being a father again.                      

Ellie looked at him a little confused. "Honey what does the age difference have to do with it. You're a lot older than Matty. And I believe your about the same age difference and so is my Mom and her brother Uncle Chick. So what's the big deal here?” she wanted to know.  

Looking at her he knew there wasn't. It was just overwhelming him. "Oh yeah that's right. I'm going to be a Daddy again from the start." he said out loud. He thought that would help. But he was just as nervous as if this was his first one.  

"Jonnn? Are you ok Sweetheart? You look a little green." she told him as she wanted to laugh. 

Looking at her and trying to keep in the booze, "No I'm fine. We're going to have a baby. We're going to have a Baby. Does anyone else know?"  

"No just you, me oh and the doctor but I wanted to tell you first before I told anyone else." she told him smiling.  

Walking over to her and placing his hand on her stomach, "You mean you haven't told your folks yet?" he wanted to know. 

"Of course not. We didn't get to do this right the first time Jon and I wanted to this time. That means telling the Father of my baby first and I get to this time." she told him as she looked lovingly into his blue eyes that were getting darker by the minute. 

Jon then took her face in between his hands and kissed her sweetly as she wrapped her arms around his waist. Finally parting he looked at her so lovingly. "Can you, you do stuff still?" he asked her as he blushed. 

"Why Mr. Bongiovi I do believe you're blushing." she told him as she giggled and wanted to keep this moment in time frozen as it was so precious to her. 

"I am not." he told her as he shook his head. "I just don't want to hurt you or the baby that's all. Oh God the baby. He or she can't you know see or feel anything right?" he asked her as he really wasn't sure. 

Ellie wanted to laugh out loud now only because he and the guys were always telling her that she was so naive but this was just down right adorable and she was going to take advantage of it. "Oh you mean your penis? Well the baby is small right now so it won't have any effect on it right now but...when he or she gets bigger and you bop it with your penis on it's head well..." she said with a straight face.  

Well Jon's eyes went to saucers as a horrified look came across his face when Ellie couldn't keep a straight face anymore and broke out laughing. Jon stood there looking at her and realized that he just had been pranked. "You little minx. I was really upset thinking I was going to hurt the baby." he told her as he slapped her ass. 

"Oh no you don't Bongiovi you stay right there." she told him slowly backing up. 

But before she could dart away from him he quickly shot out and grabbed her around her waist and pulled her into him. "Hey!" she let out but he shut her up fast by kissing her and kissing her hard this time. He slowly moved them toward the bed and he gently laid her on it. Looking at her lovingly into her eyes he said to her,
 "Have you told Jimmy at least?" he wanted to know.                                                                                            

"No I told you I wanted to tell you first." she said smiling. 

"I can't believe it. I thought after not having any this long that Jimmy was going to be an only child. Now we get to have a second chance at this. I get to have a second chance at this. I love you Baby." he told her as he was caressing her. 

"I love you too. This is so the way I dreamt of how it was supposed to go. Telling you that you were going to be a father and how we were going to start a life. Or you were going to run like hell." she smiled at him. 

Jon smiled too. "Well baby I have no idea how I would have acted at sixteen to be truthful. I do know one thing and that is I would have known it was mine." he told her as he was playing with her t-shirt. 

"Really? Now how would you know that?" she asked him giggling as she put her hand inside his shirt to play with his chest. 

"Oh it didn't take a brain surgeon to figure out who Jimmy looked like when I first saw him. That right there was a sure sign he was mine." Jon told her pointing towards his mole. 

"Well my side is full of blondes too you know, well except Joey he was the odd man out. The only thing that marked Jimmy is his mole, do you think all of our kids will have it?" she asked him smiling. 

"I don't know. We'll have to see. I'm so glad you came Baby. I told you that you were glowing.  Hey you look tired so why don’t we just get some sleep and in the morning we make it about just the two or is it the three of us? Anyway it will just be us ok?” he told her as they got ready for bed. 

As she refixed the blankets and Jon changed into his shorts they were just about to climb into bed when Jon walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. And nuzzled her neck.  Giggling, “Jon you silly boy. I thought you said we could sleep first.” she asked him. 

“No we can I just wanted to hold you again. I’m just so happy baby. When can we tell everyone the good news?” he asked her as he turned her around. 

“Oh they say after the first trimester. But when I was pregnant with Jimmy I didn’t get that far with him. Mom kinda figured it out when I kept throwing up when I got home for a month straight and that’s when she had the talk with me.” she told Jon as she squirmed out of his arms and got into bed. 

“Mom knew?” he asked her surprised. 

“Well yeah she did have five kids Jon. She knew the signs. So we had a little talk and she wasn’t happy about the fact that her virgin daughter was going to have a baby. And that she left her daughter in the care of her Niece and Nephew and that the neighbor got her pregnant. Oh yeah and something like she had more faith in me and crap like that blah, blah, blah. And how she was tempted but she had to help raise her family and her religion and Grandma would have killed her because Uncle Eddie had already did that and left them stranded. But we weren’t anything like that and I was in love with you. How the hell did I know your Mother was psycho and hid my letters.” she just shook her head. 

Jon started laughing. “Wait your Mother gave you the talk after you got pregnant? Oh that’s too funny.” he told her trying to catch his breath. 

She just gave him her stink eye. “That’s not funny Jon. Plus Mom and Dad weren’t too happy with you either and it just got worse you know that. They didn’t accept the pregnancy until they saw the ultrasound and saw him. That way it all became real to them even thou it was all so real to me as I was throwing up my guts three months prior to that. Now it looks like I’m going to do it all over again because I’m throwing up constantly again with this pregnancy. Fun.” she told her husband as she turned off the light on her side on the room.  

Laying on his side he reached over to her stomach and started to gently rub it. “I’m sorry Baby. I’m sorry that I wasn’t there the first time but I’m here now and I can’t wait to see you grow your belly. To be able to feel he or she move inside you and I will be there at the delivery which I can’t wait for. To see my child being born. I...I can’t express to you …" Jon started getting choked up. 

“Hey it’s ok. I promise that you will be there with me. But just remember I could go early like I did with Jimmy. So you’re going to have to clear your schedule a couple of weeks before my due date and after my due date. You ready for that Daddy?” she asked him smiling. 

Smiling back and wiping a few tears away, “You bet I’m ready for that.” he told her happier than a man should be.  

They drifted off to sleep and as Jon was drifting into a deep sleep for the first time since he arrived in California he was playing his guitar to no one in particular. He started to sing one of his songs that he has sung about a hundred times when nothing came out of his mouth. He tried again and again but still nothing. He clamped his hand on his throat and the only thing that came out was a grizzly sound. 

All of a sudden he heard clapping coming from the audience. He looked out into the darkness but he couldn’t see anyone out there. Just the sound of the clapping. He cleared his throat and asked, “Excuse me? Is there someone there?” as he strained his eyes. Finally he heard a woman’s laughter. “Ellie is that you?” he called out. 

Finally she made herself known. “Oh God no. There is no way I’m that goody goody prego. You think that maybe you can’t sing Hot Stuff because you feel guilty for what you did? Ever think of that?” Cheri laughed as she approached him walking up the side stairs.  

Jon watched her walking towards him but he seemed he couldn’t move. His feet were frozen to the floor. Finally getting the nerve to speak again, “What do you want from me?” he asked her staring into her green eyes. 

Walking around him and chuckling, Jon was trying very hard to keep an eye on her but Cheri didn’t care. She had her fingers dangling on him as she was taunting him. “Tsk, tsk, tsk Jonny Boy you haven’t got it yet have you? I want you, what you can do for me Blue Eyes.” as she was nose to nose with him now. He knew he couldn’t show any signs of fear or she would have the upper hand when they heard someone yell out. 

“WHAT THE HELL JON! WHO THE HELL IS SHE? YOU JUST CAN’T KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS CAN YOU?” he looked out into the blackness and this time even thou he knew who the voice was he was more afraid of her than Cheri. When she came into view Jon looked at her with a look that he was trying to tell her that he was in trouble. But as he tried to talk he couldn’t. 

Ellie walked up to him and looked him in the eye. “What’s the matter Baby cat got your tongue?” well she thought that was funny. She looked over at Cheri. “Has he been a BAD boy?” she laughed even harder. 

Jon didn’t understand what was going on. Why was his wife siding with this whore he thought and why the hell couldn’t he move or talk. Things were going to get a lot worse when Richie showed up. He tried to call out to him but again nothing. He walked up to the three of him and gave Jon a sly smile. Jon was trying to give him a look like ‘What the hell and Get me the Fuck out of here.’ but all he did was just stand there and stared at him.  

Cheri walked up to him and told him to relax but all Jon could do was shake with disgust. “Now Blue Eyes calm down everything will be alright.” she told him as she put her hand into his shirt and started to pull his chest hair. And pull it she did as Jon was making a face because she was hurting him as she pulled out hairs.  

Ellie decided she was going to entertain herself so she went to Richie and wrapped her arms around him and he did the same. She looked up at him and taking her face into his hands he leaned down and started to kiss her. Jon was getting ill as Cheri was touching him and she started to nibble his neck and trying to get to his chin. He moved his head to the left when he saw the sight that did it. His temper went thru the roof. He tried to break free of the hold that was keeping him frozen and tried to scream and still nothing. When Richie’s eyes went up and met with his. He felt this blind rage come over him and then he let out this scream. “ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 

Well he shot up in an upright position as Ellie nearly had another heart attack and jumped up. “JON! Jon?” she turned to him to see if he was ok. “Sweetheart are you alright?” she wanted to know as she grabbed him and he was shaking like a leaf. 

Jon was quiet for a minute and a little disoriented. Then he heard Ellie’s voice and then her arms around him which felt really good especially knowing that it WAS her and that he wasn’t alone. 

Finally he spoke to her. “Yeah...yeah I’m ok. I...I guess I um just had a bad dream that’s all.” he told her still shaken. 

Rubbing his back she asked, “You want to tell me about it?” as she put her head on his shoulder. 

Thinking that it that was usually Ellie that has the nightmares, which thank goodness are hardly about Michael anymore but now about other insecurities being married to a rock star. He looped his arm around her and he laid them back down. “No it’s starting to get hazy now and I really just want to forget about it.” he told her. 

Snuggling up to him and gently caressing his chest and down his stomach she asked, “Are you sure? Sometimes talking about it helps. Remember you told me that.” she softly reminded him. 

Tilting his head slightly he looked down at her with a slight smile. “The only thing I remember was I was on stage playing the guitar and when it came time for me to sing nothing came out of my mouth. I stood there trying to sing there was no sound. Then I heard something in the audience and now that’s where everything gets hazy.” he lied to her. 

She hugged him tight. “I know you're afraid of that Jon. Ever since that whole thing with the steroids and you getting sick from them which by the way I’m still teed off at you guys for not telling me about how sick you were. Ok I’ll drop it I don't want you to have anymore nightmares tonight.” she told him still huddled up to him. 

Jon was thinking he couldn’t tell her any variation of the dream because she would read it differently than what he wanted. She usually did and that’s what usually got them into fighting. He just wasn’t up to it right now. “Babe I really don’t want to talk about it ok? It was just a dumb dream that I have every once in a while. I’m sure every singer gets them. I sure even Elvis did. So can we just try and get back to sleep please?” he asked her almost begging her. 

“Yeah sure anything you want Honey.” she told him as he rolled over on his side facing away from her. Well Ellie wasn’t too happy about that but she wasn’t going to push him on it right now. She knew when he got in this mood to just leave him alone. Which was really hard at the moment only because with her emotions going flippy she really didn’t know when she was going to explode.  

The next morning came bright as the sun shined and peaked out of the shade when Jon got up very quietly because he didn’t want to wake his wife. Ellie was sound asleep and to him she looked like an angel. He then went into the living room and stretched out. Putting his arms down and stretching them out that way, he finally felt a little bit better as he heard his body crack and in a good way. He looked at the clock and he was surprised at himself that he slept till nine a.m. He really must have been tired and having Ellie beside him he slept better after that bad dream of his. He really didn’t realize how much he missed her until they are separated from each other. I guess that’s why when he gets really melancholy and drunk, he really doesn't think too well with the right body part. But he knew damn well this time it wasn’t his fault. He knew deep down he didn’t cheat or instigate anything with that so-called woman.    

He thought he would wait till she woke up so he called down for some breakfast for the both of them. He knew that should get her up when she smelled the food and hoped she would be in the mood for something that he was dying for since she was too tired to do last night.  He so wanted to celebrate that he was going to be a Father again and show her how much he loved her for giving him this gift.  

It was a little over an hour and Jon was caught up in his guitar and a new song for the movie. He was into the music when some of the lyrics also hit him and he got really excited that this peculiar song was falling into place. So he was jotting in his notebook when the bedroom door opened and Ellie walked out rubbing her eyes and headed to the table so she could pour her tea and sit next to the father of her child.  

Sitting next to him sipping her tea she asked him, “So when did you get up?” 

Looking next to him and smiling, “Hey Babe. I got up oh about over an hour or so ago. So how’s my little Mama feeling?” he asked her as he leaned in and kissed her. 

“I missed that. I missed you Jonny.” she told him looking lovingly at him. 

Putting down everything and then turning to look her in the eye, “I’ve missed you to Baby. I’ve missed Jimmy too, but someone’s got to make the money.” he told her taking her hands. 

“Well I can get a job if we need the money you know. Plus I’m bored silly staying home. I really could use some adult company.” she told him as she was being serious but she also knew what his answer would be. 

“You’re kidding right? How many times do I have to tell you that you don’t need to work. I’ve got it covered and no we don’t need the money as long as I keep working you know that. Plus I’m the man I’m supposed to take care of my family. Especially now with another little mouth to feed so you really can’t work. So don’t give me any flack about this. If I want to spoil you I will.” he told her as he waggled his eyes. 

“You know I don’t know whether to call you a male chauvinist pig or my horny husband” she laughed. 

“I’ll take your lovable horny husband.” he told her as he took her tea and put it on the table then put his hands on each side of her face and kissed her deeply.  

Parting as it took her breath away, “Wow that was um great. Can I expect anymore of those?” she asked him as she played with his shirt. 

“I was hoping you’d ask me that. Why don't we take this into the bedroom. I don’t want this to be uncomfortable for you and I want to show you how happy I am that we are having another child, how much I love you.” Ellie just looked at him with tears in her eyes as Jon stood up.  Taking her hand she stood and they walked back into the bedroom.  

Jon was so loving and caring and very gentle with her. Ellie didn’t say anything because she didn’t want to ruin the mood but she hoped it was only because it was their first-time while she was pregnant. She would see how he was the next time they had sex. She loved her husband very much and they had a great sex life. He taught her that she could express herself with him and not be ashamed of anything they did. What a man and a woman did behind closed doors in the privacy of their own home was their business.  

When they were done Jon couldn't stop looking at her. “What??” she asked him giggling. 

Still looking at her lovingly, “Do you know how beautiful you are?” he asked her as he put his hand on her stomach and gently rubbed circles with his fingertips. 

“As long as you do I don’t care” she told him yawning. 

“You keep yawning like that and I won’t be able to stop either.” he told her chuckling.    

Laughing, “Why are you still up for a second round?” she asked putting her hand on his. 

“I didn't mean it like that silly. If your tired I want you to get your rest.” he told her taking her hand and kissing it. “You might want to be careful also what you say Baby.” winking at her. 

“I just need to get my energy back these hormones are killing me. That reminds me, I may go off on you every now and then and start crying too so just go with it ok? I’ve already started too and well as much as I’m trying to control them it’s hard. I mean they’re worse than PMS.” she explained to him. 

Jon just looked at her and chuckled. “Oh Baby it’s ok we’ll get thru it I promise. I have a tough skin. Plus now that you warned me when I see that your horns come out I’ll try and behave myself.” he told her trying to keep a straight face but she saw a slight smile coming out. So she grabbed her pillow and wacked him upside the head with it.  

“That’s what you get for trying to be mean and this isn’t hormone related! You Jackass.” she chuckled. 

Well Jon came back throwing the pillow at her and then grabbing her and pulling her down on the bed flat on her back as she yelped. “JON!” 

“You started this Baby and I’m going to end it.” he told her as he now moved his body over her and waggled his eyes. Moving his head down now to kiss her, he invaded her mouth as she accepted him when he heard a very loud knocking on the outside door. Jon choose to ignore it but the more he did the more it got louder so Ellie finally broke free of him sighing. 

“I think if you don’t answer that they won't go away.“ she told her very pissed off husband. 

“Don’t go anywhere or get dressed got that.” as he meant every word he just told her. She just smiled at him. 

Throwing on his sweats he very belligerently went to answer the door. He didn’t really care who was on the other side of the door because they were going to get his wrath. Reaching for the doorknob he threw open the door as Richie was standing there all smiles. 

“Hey Kid what’s with you? Didn’t sleep last night.” he asked Jon as he pushed his way into the room. Turning to face him he saw that Jon had a little surprise in his pants. Covering his eyes to be funny, “Oh excuse me but did I just wake you up? Because you didn’t finish taking care of business.” he laughed pointing to Jon’s sweats. 

Well Jon didn’t think he was funny at all. “You're an ass.  For your information I have someone in there taking care of it for me.” But before Jon could finish his sentence Richie blurted it out. 

“You have Cheri in there! I thought you were done with her you idiot!” Well Jon started to wave his arms and very loudly told him to shut the hell up when Ellie appeared at the door dress in one of Jon’s  t-shirts. 

Very calmly she asked the two of them, “Who the Hell is Cheri?” as they both just looked at her stunned.