Chapter Nineteen

“Well are you going to tell me who the hell this Cheri person is?” she asked them as they stood there looking like deer in the headlights.  

Richie just looked at Jon an vice versa. Neither of them knew what to say to her. So Richie just winged it. “Cheri? Just one of the women I picked up so now she is stalking me. I of course I’m asking Jon’s opinion on what the hell I should do on how to get rid of her. You know before she boils my bunny or something worse you know.” Richie told her being a smart ass. 

Looking at them as they both were making faces at her she told them, “You don’t have a bunny. So what’s the real deal here?” she asked again. 

“What I have a stalker Darling and she’s nuts. In fact you shouldn’t be here with her running around right Jon?” he turned to him and asked trying to give him an out. 

“Yes Jon why shouldn’t I be here? If she’s after Richie why would she want to hurt me?” she wanted to know. 

Jon stood there as Richie was trying to give him facial cues and Jon just wanted to punch him. “Well huh like Richie said she’s crazy and to get to him she would get us to hurt him and now that your well, we can tell Richie he won’t tell anyone, that your pregnant who knows what she’ll do right?” he was saying anything to take her mind off of Cheri as Richie’s mouth dropped. 

“Your what? You guys are what? Having a baby? Holy Shit!” he screamed and ran up to Ellie and picked her up and twirled her around as Jon’s mouth dropped as well seeing that she wasn’t wearing any panties.  

Ellie was yelling, “Richie you nut put me down! Jon!”  

“Richie please put my wife down.” he yelled. 

“Oh shit right the Mommy to be sorry about that. I didn’t hurt you Darling did I?” he asked her. 

“No just embarrassed that’s all.” she told him. Richie looked at the two of them confused. 

“King put two and two together and think what we were doing before you got here um.” Jon said to him smirking. 

Well it finally hit him and Richie turned red. “Oh God I’m sorry I wasn’t thinking. But this is great news. Does anyone else know?” he asked them. 

“No we’re going to keep it quiet till the first trimester is over.” she told him smiling and hugging Jon. 

“Yeah so if you could keep your mouth shut even to your folks we’d appreciate it only because we don’t want our folks to know yet seeing that I didn’t get to go thru this the first time.” Jon told him as he had his arms wrapped around Ellie’s waist also.  

“Got you. Well I’ll try to figure out my problem then and leave you two alone and when you get some time give me a call ok? Great. Ellie congrats and let’s make plans later.” he told them and gave Ellie a kiss on the cheek. Walking to Jon and hugged him and whispered. ‘Congrats Kidd but we do need to talk.” Jon just said ‘Will do.’ 

Once Richie left Ellie nearly died, “Oh my God Jon! I thought I was going to die when Richie picked me up.” she told him as she turned red all over again. 

Laughing, “Why? I got the best look he didn’t.” he smiled from ear to ear.  

“You are terrible. I was bare assed Jon!” she yelled at him a little mortified. 

“Well you’re the one that came out in my t-shirt not wearing any panties what did you expect?” he laughed. 

“That’s not funny Kidd.” she shot back at him. 

“Kidd? You never call me that. Well just for that little Miss Bareass...” he starts sauntering over to her. 

“Oh no you don’t!” she yelled and tried to get away from him but he was faster. He snatched her up and carried her to their bedroom to finish what they had started before they were rudely interrupted. 

Jon woke before Ellie did and was feeling like he could concur the world. He looked at his wife and was over the moon. He took the blankets and pulled them up over her chest so she wouldn’t get cold as he always knew she was. But he soon was going to find out how the hormones would be acting soon. He couldn’t believe he was going to be a Father again. He was just so happy about that he did want to shout it from atop a mountain. But he would wait until he got the go ahead from her. Also he couldn’t wait to see her with her belly. He only saw pictures when she was pregnant with Jimmy and to finally get to see it upfront, well there were no words. He got up and bent down and kissed her on the lips and because he needed to call Richie. 

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Richie had left them excited to know he was going to be an Uncle again. So now he was more motivated to get this situation cleared up for Jon as soon as possible. So the first place he started was that bar he found Cheri in. He got there and luckily it was open. Walking in he looked around and had spotted the same bartender the night that Cheri was there. So he would give it a try and see if he had any information on her. Walking over to the bar and sitting the bartender came over to him and asked him if he wanted anything to drink. 

“Yeah just a beer thanks.” he told him. Looking around the bartender came back with his drink.  

“Here you go. (looking at him) Hey aren’t you Richie Sambora?” he asked him excitedly. 

Smiling now and hoping that he might get some answers, “Yeah I am Hi.”  

“Well I’ll be damn. I thought that was you a couple of nights ago. I didn’t get a chance to say Hi then. So what brings you back in this early?” he asked.  

“Well I was hoping I could talk to you.” Richie asked him.  

“Sure anything. Oh by the way my name is Seth. Sorry.” he told Richie apologetically. 

“No problem Seth. I was wondering if you saw that woman I was talking to. She was a red head and about medium tall. She went by the name of Cheri when I met her.” he told Seth.  

“Yeah I know her. The whole bar knows her. She makes pretty good money in a night from what I’m told. Stay away from her Richie she plays rough. She also hangs with a rough crowd. You don’t want to get involved with her.” he told Richie. 

“Well I have no choice. She’s hurting a friend of mine and I need to know who is pulling her strings. Do you know who sets up her dates so to speak?” he asked him hoping to get a lead on anything. 

”You really don’t want anything to do with her Richie. Plus she doesn’t come cheap. From what I understand she gives her marks a price and when they finish she tacks on an elaborate amount and if they don’t pay, well God help them.” he told him.  

“Well once she sees me she’ll know who and what I'm doing, so that’s going to be a problem. But I’ll handle that. I just need how to get in touch with her and set something up. Don’t worry everything we’ll be all right.” he reassured Seth. 

“Ok it’s your funeral. But I didn't think anyone in Bon Jovi needed to get dates this way.” he said reaching behind the bar and retrieving a box.  

“We don’t like I said I’m helping a friend.” Richie said again. 

Opening the box there were what looked like a box full of her business cards. Handing one to Richie he told Seth, “Now no one is to know that you gave me this or this conversation Right?” he hoped Seth would agree with him. 

“No problem. I can’t stand these people anyway. Just be careful and make sure they don’t know where you got that card from or I’m screwed. “he told Richie. 

“Hey I don’t want you to get into trouble.” Richie said concerned. 

“Don’t worry you could have gotten that in the trash or the bathroom floor for all I know. Just don’t use my name that’s all.” he told him. 

Richie thanked him again and left feeling a little better knowing that he was a little closer to get to Cheri. Now all he hopes is that this will work. He decided that he would go home and wait it out for the love birds to celebrate their new little life coming into this world. He was so happy for them. But it just made him think that he was going nowhere in his life and his feelings for Ellie where growing stronger. He knew this wasn’t good and had to let this go. So he stopped at the liquor store on his way home and picked a few things up but promised himself that he would try and use some control.  

When he got home he put the booze in his bar and tried to forget that it was there. Yeah right. But he needed to concentrate on the larger picture and figure out what his next step was going to be. He looked at the clock and it was nearing one o’clock now so he thought he would give Jon a call and hoped he was off his wife. He needed Jon to come over so they could get a game plan together. He just hoped that he could lie good enough so Ellie wouldn’t realize what they were up to.  

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Jon had gotten out of bed and called down to room service. He didn’t know what to order seeing it was noon time now so he just asked for his standard, coffee, tea, bagels, cream cheese, fruit, oatmeal, and a few other things that he thought Ellie might like. He wasn't sure thou seeing that she hadn’t told him what changes in her appetite were. He remembered what she told him that she had aversions to certain foods so he would have to ask if she was having any already this early in her pregnancy.  

Sitting thinking about the whole thing just made him smile. Getting to be here from the beginning. Being there when it’s time to take her to the hospital and watching his baby be born. Seeing him or her coming out...that’s when reality set in for him. Seeing his child being born. Actually coming out of her. Now he was getting nausea again. Having this little being coming out of her where he well let’s face it, where he liked to enjoy himself. A baby was going to come out of there. Jon started to turn white as a ghost. He sat there staring into space when Ellie opened the bedroom door and saw her husband just sitting there staring at nothing.  

Walking over to him, “Jon, Jon Honey are you all right?” she asked him. 

All he did was shake his head yes. “Are you sure Hon, you don’t look so good.” she told him. 

But at that minute there was a knock at the door. Looking at Ellie just wearing his t-shirt again he said to her slowly, “I’ll...I’ll get it. It’s just room service.” he said as he got up and walked over to the door. Ellie sat down and watched him answer it and they brought in the food as Jon signed off for it. Ellie couldn’t figure out what the hell happened to him from the bedroom to the living room. She got up and told him to sit down.  

Taking his hand she asked him, “Ok what got you all wound up? You were fine a little whole ago. In fact you were great. So what’s up? Talk to me.” she asked him still holding his hand. 

Looking at her he knew he could be honest with her. “Ok fine. I was sitting thinking that I wasn’t with you for Jimmy's birth and how nice it would be to be with you for this one. Then all of a sudden I...I couldn’t help image what everything was going to look like and what I just did to you in the bedroom.” he told her as he was turning green. 

Well Ellie started to laugh. “That just accrued to you now?”  

Jon just looked at her and said, “Well yeah. It never accrued to me when we’re making love that well you know! Because if it did I’d never be able to do it. Thinking that my son came from you down there.” he told her obviously very upset. 

Trying not to laugh anymore at him knowing how upset he was she asked him, “Jon Sweetie didn’t you take sex ed in school?” 

“Well of course I did! What does that mean!” he snapped. 

“Hey don’t snap at me buster. You know where babies come from seeing that you did get me pregnant. Twice! Jonny come on it’s ok really your scared because this is kinda your first time going thru this. It’s natural. But I’m not going to lose out on your tongue skills because you are freaking out over this. I like foreplay. And if you cheat on me because I am pregnant and don’t want to do anything to me because I’m the mother of your children I’ll cut it off so fast it will make your head spin. Got it?” she smiled at him. 

He looked at her not knowing whether she was kidding or not. “Got it. I think you snapped me back into reality.” he chuckled. 

“Good. Now pour me some tea please.” she asked while placing a kiss on his nose.  

“Hey can you have caffeine?” he asked her. 

“I can have my tea and no I don’t like decaffeinated. Unless they make it a lot better. And yes I can have my Prozac also. I asked the doctor they researched my meds. So I’m good to go.” she told him while taking her cup. 

“Oh God I never thought of that.” he said wondering if her meds would hurt the baby. 

“No I went thru everything before I came here knowing you would probably ask me. I wanted to be armed with the info. I really don’t think you want me off them and have my hormones out of whack at the same time.” she laughed. 

“I’ll take the fifth on that Baby.” he laughed as she tried to slap him on his arm. So he pulled her down on his lap. 

“Jon I’m going to spill my tea all over.” she yelled at him. 

“Well if you do we’ll just have to get all naked again that’s all.” he told her as he went in for a kiss when the phone rang. “I swear someone just knows when I’m horny.” he complained as Ellie giggled. 

Jon let Ellie get off and he went to answer the phone. “Hello!” he answered agitated. 

“Well Hello to you too. I thought I gave the two of you enough time to finish what you were doing ha ha.” Richie told him laughing.  

“Well you thought wrong. Plus we just sat down to eat. What’s up?” he asked him annoyed. 

“You mean more than you? Ha ha.” Richie really thought that he was funny. 

“You’re an idiot you know that right?” Jon said to him now getting more annoyed with him. 

“Yeah yeah well you won’t think so when I tell you that I got a way of getting in touch with our friend so we can make an appointment with her and nail her ass, oh wait well you know what I mean. Anyway when can we meet up so we can talk about this and get a game plan going?” Richie asked him. 

Jon was jumping thru his skin now that he knew Richie had info on this bitch. “Are you kidding me? I don’t know. Damn. Look let me call you back ok? I’ll figure out something to tell Ellie.” he told Richie.  

“Well it better be good because if she catches wind of what we are doing you better have a good lawyer Kidd. Because she’ll take you for everything you have.” Richie told him and now his wasn’t kidding with him. 

“Yeah I know and to tell you the truth I wouldn’t blame her. I’ll talk to you later.” he said and hung up. Now he had to think of something good so he could leave without Ellie thinking anything of it.  

Walking back to her he sat down next to her as she tried to get a bagel down. “Baby are you having trouble eating?” he asked her worried. 

Looking at him lovingly, “No not really. I think I can eat this. It’s bland and I like the cream cheese too so I really don’t think I’ll have a problem. Bread seems fine. Why?” she asked him. 

“Well I know you had a hard time with Jimmy I was just wondering how you were doing with this one?” he asked. 

She looked at him smiling and put down her bagel. “Well to be honest I just threw up before I came out here.” she told him squinting her face. “And I’m hoping that I don’t throw this up. I’ve been vomiting pretty regular that’s how I figured that I was pregnant.” she told him. 

Looking sympathetic at her, “Oh Baby I’m so sorry. I guess I’m going to learn a lot aren’t I?” he said to her. 

“Oh Honey you really don’t know what you’re in for do you?” Ellie laughed. 

“Ok now you’re scaring me. What do you mean by that?” he asked her looking a little frighten.  

“No I didn’t mean it like that it’s just with the mood swings that will be heighten you’ll just have to understand where I’m coming from. So whatever you do no PMS jokes. You know you shouldn’t do those anyway. They’re not funny.” she told him seriously. 

“Gotcha.” was all he said. 

“No Jon I mean it. You didn't have sisters growing up so you don’t know what it’s like. But I’m telling you now. All those jokes you guys do with your male friends well it’s not right Babe. Unless you really want me to answer all those questions to my female friends on how big you really are?” she told him. 

Jon just realized that now it was a little bit of a mood swing coming out. So don’t antagonize her. “Ok Baby I don’t want you to tell anyone. That’s must stay between you and me. Unless you do want to brag then go right ahead. All I want is you to be happy. So no jokes no nothing and if you need anything I’ll get you whatever it is. You want the moon I’ll do my damndest to get for you." He told her smiling. 

”What are you smiling at?” she wanted to know. 

“You know I would love to take you back to bed but that phone call Baby was the studio and they need me there for a little bit to go over a few things. I hope that’s ok with you? I mean I know we were going to spend the rest of the day together but I’ll try to make it fast ok?” he told her. 

“No that's fine Jon I can get some rest for when you get back.” she winked at him 

“Oh Baby you are going to kill me. Just do me a favor if it becomes too much let me know so nothing happens to you or the baby promise?” he told her concerned.  

“You know I will sweetheart.” she told him as she gave him a deep lingering kiss as her t-shirt rose up above her butt. 

Taking his hands and caressing them he was having a hard time letting her go. Finally letting her go knowing that he had to solve this one problem to be with her, “God you make it hard but I really have to go Baby otherwise I won’t get paid and lose this gig you know?” he told her with a sad puppy dog face.  

“I know but I’m just glad of one thing.” she told him with an evil smirk. 

“Yeah what’s that?” he wanted to know making a curious face. 

“That you still find me attractive after all these years.” she told him smiling. 

Jon just looked at her with surprise knowing that she still felt insecure about herself especially because he hung around beautiful women. But the only one he loved was her. “Why wouldn’t I? All I see is still this beautiful sixteen-year-old I met all those years ago who still thinks I’m the man for her so stop. I love you so much Babe and now we are going to have another baby. How great is this. Ok I’ll try not to be long. You get some rest because I’m going to keep you up for as long as you can’t stand it.” he told her. Well they went back into the bedroom and he quickly washed up and got dressed. Kissed and left. Ellie was beaming because she wanted the first pregnancy to have gone this way. It would have gone this way. She decided that she would try and get some sleep and hope that she would dream on how it would have been with Jon in the picture. She was just so happy that she hoped nothing would ruin this for them. 

It took Jon about half an hour to get to Richie’s place. He paid the taxi and jogged up to the front door. He was jumping out of his skin wanting to know what the hell Richie had on Cheri. Ringing the doorbell he waited about a minute or two bouncing on his feet when the door open and a smiling guitar player answer his door. 

“Well you took your time Kidd Does it really take you that long to get off your wife?” Richie laughed. 

“Shut the fuck up Richie! Just tell me what the hell you got on Cheri before I bust!” He said to him as he shoved him walking into his house.