Chapter 68

Hi everyone,


I know, I know...it's been way longer than four weeks. I can only tell you I was ready to kill the technician from the telephone company when he finally showed up here. Somehow they always messed up my dates.


Anyway, it took me some time to find my way back into my own story, but now I can proudly say...finally I do have a clue about what's going on and why I wrote it! lol


Here is the next chapter. Enjoy it!




~ Kris ~

“Ok, everybody ready?” Jon asked and rubbed his cold hands. The Band was at the ‘Today Show’ today and would perform a couple songs before Thanksgiving tomorrow.

They all had to be there early in the morning for sound check and first short talks with the ‘Today Show’ crew. Kim didn’t mind being up that early, but she was surprised that Jake and Romeo would join them.

The two boys were bouncing with excitement when Jon and Kim picked them up earlier this morning. They didn’t have school today and Dorothea was quite relieved to get them out of the way while doing the preparations for the next day.

“Ok, I want you two to stay with Kim or one of the crew members, got it?” Jon made sure he had the undivided attention of his boys. They nodded.

“Good. Don’t take your jackets or hoods off and wrap yourself into one of the blankets Mom gave you if it’s getting too cold and windy. I don’t want you to get sick and spend Thanksgiving in bed.”

This time not only his boys nodded, but Kim as well. She had been surprised when Dorothea handed her the blankets, but right now she wanted to crawl under one herself. The temperature was only around 35° F; the wind was ice cold and gained force between the tall buildings. Besides she had the weird feeling that someone was watching her…already had it for a couple days.

She was actually a bit worried about Jon and the rest of the guys. They all were wearing jackets or coats, even Tico who normally hated it to wear something else than a shirt while he had to play his drums, but the clothes didn’t look thick and warm. Jon only laughed when she told him and raised the hem of his black shirt a bit and revealed a layer of thermal ski underwear.

“We ain’t doing this for the first, hon. We learned after our first performance years ago.” Jon chuckled. He couldn’t look like a puffy snowman, he still needed to be the sexy Rockstar and shake his ass for the ladies after all.

Jon was in a good mood this morning and constantly joking with Rich, David, Tico or one of the crew members, who didn’t seem to know about the thermal trick, because they were freezing their asses of on the side of the small stage.

Kim smiled when Romeo walked over to her and wanted to be wrapped into the blanket. The excitement about being with his dad was gone. Now he was freezing and starting to feel tired again. She pulled him a little closer and made sure he was cosy and warm.

Jake on the other hand watched every move his father made while they performed the first of four songs and was over the moon when Jon told him to come up on stage during one of the commercial breaks. His fans didn’t disappoint him and waved and shouted at his son, who seemed at bit surprised by so much affection.

When they continued with ‘Superman Tonight’ after a short interview Kim’s mind started to wander off. The last week had gone by in wild wind. Jon and the guys were running from one interview to the next one, having short radio interviews in between and still finding time for their charity work and family like Richie yesterday, who went to his hometown with his mother and helped Kelly, a girl from his old highschool, to come home from hospital and spend Thanksgiving with her family.

And this was just one week. It would go on like this until Christmas. She had no idea how they could do all this. Jon barely had time to catch a breath in between some meeting and interviews and was still running on high pace.

“Kim? Kim?” Romeo’s voice brought her back to reality.

“Huh? Oh, sorry. I wasn’t listening. Could you repeat what you said, please?” She leaned down so she could hear his voice over the loud music.

“I said Uncle David looks funny. Look at his hair swinging around in the wind while he is playing.” He pointed at David, who tried to move around at his keys during the songs as much as possible to stay warm which caused his blond curls to fly uncontrollable around in the wind. She chuckled.

“You are right. It looks pretty funny.” Romeo nodded and waved at David, grinning widely when it made the curls fly even more.

Jon didn’t miss the interaction between his youngest son and Kim. He was happy that Romeo was getting more comfortable with Kim being around. Right after he was back from the hospital, he was very shy and distant when Kim showed up. She told him it was normal, because she had to slip into the ‘doctor role’ and was no longer just ‘Daddy’s new girlfriend’. She assured him that his son would come around in a little while. Well, it seemed she was right.

“Hey you…” Jon stepped off the stage and walked over to them during the next break. “What’s so damn funny.”

“Uncle David.” His son giggled when another gust of wind made the curls swing. Jon turned around and chuckled.

“Wanna go over to him, buddy.” Romeo nodded eager. “Ok, but you gotta hurry. We have to play more songs.” His son rushed off with Jake right behind him.

“And you, why so worried?” He pulled her into short hug and rubbed his hands over her back. She was freezing, he could see that.

“Worried? Me? Not really…maybe thoughtful.”

“About what?” She sighed.

“You got so much to do. I have no idea how you keep up with everything over such a long period of time. I mean today New York, tomorrow family time, than Rich is off to LA to go to this premiere with Ava, we are off to DC to this Character Unite thing, then back to New Jersey and interviews and performances all in between. How do you do it?” she wondered.

“Be organized and stay calm. Sleep when you have the option and don’t worry about my babies, I know they are taken care of.” He simply answered and tried to shake off the nervousness about the meeting in DC.

“You’ll do just fine. And I’ll be with you. Don’t be nervous.” Kim said. She knew he wasn’t really feeling comfortable about going to DC and kissed his cheek softly, which earned her whistles and catcalls from the crowd. Jon chuckled.

“Yeah, I know, hon. But the same goes for you.” He pointed out already returning to the stage and telling his sons to go down to her again. She looked at him irritated.

“I’ll be with you tomorrow when you’ll meet the Bongiovi clan.” He grinned when she paled visibly. She would meet his parents and brothers tomorrow for the first time. So far Jon had only told them about her on the phone, because they didn’t had the time to meet in person. But tomorrow would be the day.