A Rock & Roll Romance

Seventy Eight

A few days later, Hilda approached Johnny who was sat at his desk reviewing a script. "Mail is here..." she said placing a pile of correspondence down alongside a large mug of Coffee. "Thank you, you're an Angel." He smiled looking up before grabbing the various envelopes and scanning through them. Nothing caught his eye in particular apart from the last envelope, it was luxurious and was beautifully handwritten with a wax seal on the back with the letters A & L. What really shocked him was it being addressed to his girlfriend.

Ms Meghan Goddard
C/O Johnny Depp
Sweetzer Avenue
Burbank
Los Angeles County
California

How bizarre that somebody had thought to address it like that, not many people knew that Johnny and Meg resided almost together on the same street. It hadn't been made public knowledge. He buzzed the security team and was soon joined by Sean, Travis and Malcolm.

"What should I do?" Johnny asked leaning back in his chair rubbing his chin. "It could be a security threat?" Travis said concerned. "It's illegal but I say we open it, and if it's personal she can have it." Sean nodded "I tend to agree Sir, surely everyone she's close to has her address, she's lived here nearly a year, the fact it was just mailed to your generic Sweetzer address and not her specific number makes me concerned." Johnny nodded at the men in front of him before taking his quirky letter opener and unsealing the envelope. What he found shocked him.

Together alongside their families,
Alexander Baker and Leah Graham Jones
cordially invite
Meghan Goddard
to witness their marriage and celebrations
At
The Graham Jones Estate, Connecticut
On
20th July
Please confirm your attendance to our rehearsal dinner, wedding ceremony and reception at the earliest convenience.

"I don't believe it!" Johnny exclaimed after reading out the invitation. "Who does that punk think he is? Who invites their ex to their wedding? Especially when he treated her the way he did??!" Johnny stood before shoving the invitation back in the envelope. "I wonder if she knows?" Sean asked. "Knows what?" Johnny responded. "That he's getting married. Don't girls freak about this sort of thing? Like they wanna be the one who's doing better after the break up not the other way round?" Travis said. Malcolm shrugged. "Only one way to find out." "No.." Johnny said trailing off. "We can just say it got lost in the post." "What?? Now you're playing dangerously sir." Sean said, "Look, she's already freaked out enough as it is with the press, this will just send her over the edge. I'm in favour of not telling her. I mean come on how often is it, that I actually go through the mail?!" Travis shrugged. "And not a word to Poppy..." Johnny added looking at his deputy. "On my life." Travis replied. "I don't like it sir." "You don't have to like it Sean, just keep it secret. I'll tell her when the moment's right. Besides she dumped him, for all she cares he can rot in hell." The men nodded before being interrupted by Isaac rushing in. "John, you're gonna wanna see this!" He said grabbing the remote and tuning into a news channel with an entertainment section running. "That's right, after this commercial break we have an exclusive on Hollywood's latest scandalous couple. The beauty seen with Johnny Depp in recent months is none other than his bandmate's niece! All coming up on today's show." The reporter said before it cut to a break. "Jesus fucking Christ... how do they find this shit?!!" Johnny said quickly shoving the envelope in his desk drawer. "I don't know but the management team have been in and dated with calls, the story is breaking everywhere." Johnny nodded "and Meg?" "Nobody has been able to get hold of her since she left this morning. She went to a meeting downtown with Spanky Taylor and Colleen to run through the PR for the movie." "Ok.. leave it with me. Shut down what you can and get Alice on the phone, he will be beside himself."

Meg finished at her meeting and headed out the office building, throwing her dark sunglasses on her face when she spotted three people stood by her car. "Can I help you?" She asked as a sleazy looking young man stood up straight. "Ms Goddard, we were just hoping to get a comment from you in regards to your romantic links to Johnny Depp. Do you have anything to say?" "Nothing." Meg replied sternly before jumping in her car. "Meghan, any word on whether you and Johnny are official?" "How do you feel about the recent revelations about how you both met?" She joined the LA traffic and sped off without looking back. It was insane, the public interest in her had to die off soon didn't it? She blared some music as she drove back to her home praying nobody was waiting at the gates.

How wrong Meg was, the drive up to Sweetzer was a nightmare, carnage in fact. There were journalists and paparazzi everywhere, she finally pulled in after muttering a curse word or two and found her way to her drive. Putting the car in park, she jumped out grabbing her bag and headed into her home. Gently placing her bag on the console table, she first headed to the kitchen, she had decided to have some late lunch before going to find Johnny. The man in question was already on his way to her home as she began making the grilled cheese. Johnny approached the house and saw the car in the drive, attempting to open the front door he found it unlocked which annoyed him, anyone could just walk in, he rolled his eyes and called out "Meg??" "I'm in the kitchen!" She yelled back happily. He soon joined her but the smile on her face soon disappeared after seeing the distressed look in his eye.