One Light Burning: A Bon Jovi Fanfic

Chapter 3

Richie dropped me off at work, promising he'd come and pick me up afterwords. The next couple hours seemed like an eternity. I felt more guilty about dancing than usual. It just didn't feel right to be in front of all these men.
I got off work, changed as quickly as possible, and raced outside to find Richie.
"Hey how was work?" He asked as we started down the street.
"Ugh disgusting. I can't wait till I can get another job."
"What the pay isn't good enough?" He said sarcastically.
"It's not that , the money is great. I just feel so gross about it sometimes. I feel like I should be somewhere else, not surrounded by a bunch of half naked addicts who can't get it together." I replied, running my hands through my hair.
"Well I don't think you're gross.You do what you gotta do. You'll find something else. This is just a temporary thing until you find your true calling. And if it helps I'm all for half naked anything."Richie laughed, patting me on the back.
"My hotels pretty close, wanna go hang there for a bit?" We leisurely strolled, making turns every now and then until we reached his hotel. It was so quiet going up to his room it felt like we were the only two in the whole building.
We traveled up a couple floors till we reached his hallway and he unlocked the door to reveal an ordinary hotel room.
We curled up on the couch not even bothering to turn on the lights and clicked on the TV, it's bright lights illuminating our faces.
We talked about anything and everything, exchanging secrets and thoughts I never thought I would share. An hour later I could barely keep my eyes open and we said goodnight, Richie giving me a tired smile before getting me a blanket and we turned in.
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I woke to a loud banging on the door. What ever the hell it was it needed to stop, so I stumbled off the couch in annoyance and flung open the door to find an extremely attractive guy with voluminous long hair and soft blue eyes standing in the hall. I hadn't expected someone so good looking or I else I would have freshened up a bit.
"Why hello there." He said, turning on the charm as he flashed a gorgeous smile. "Is Richie here?" He cooly leaned against the door frame, looking me up and down.
"I'm right here." a groggy voice behind me rasped and Richie walked up next to me. "What do you want Jon it's so freakin early."
So this was Jon, the lead singer of the band.
"I got bored, couldn't sleep. I know we got rehearsal in a couple hours so I thought we could hang."
"Go bug Tico or David I'm busy." Richie yawned, waving him off and started trudging back to his bed.
"Doing what?!" Jon raised his hands up exasperated.
"Sleeping now leave." It was cute how rude he was in the morning.
"Wait Rich aren't you gonna introduce me to your friend?" Jon desperately called out, walking in passed me. I shut the door behind him and went back to the couch, not caring anymore about this good looking guy. I just wanted sleep.
"Oh that's Rosemary, you know the girl I've been telling you about?" I heard Richie say in the other room, then the bed creaked so I assume he got back in to it.
"Of course I know who you're talking about, you haven't shut up about her for the past two days!.... So you haven't slept with her then? Cause if you don't I will."
"Jon shut up!" A soft thud and then an "oof" sounded through the room as Richie threw a pillow at Jon, causing Jon to giggle.
"I'm only joking Rich." He said sarcastically. Jon then came back out into the small main room and plopped down into a chair. After about 15 minutes of trying to flirt with me, I got the sense to get up and shove him out the door. I wasn't that into romance at an hour this early.
I was about to go lay down on the couch but decided to go into Richie's room. It was dimly lit, the first rays of sunshine starting to peak through the curtains. Richie was strewn out on one half of the bed, the other half completely open, as if waiting for me to lay down. I cautiously crawled in, not wanting to disturb him, and buried myself in the covers. A couple seconds later two strong arms wrapped around me, enveloping me in warmth and pulling me towards a firm chest. I could feel his heartbeat on my back, its slow steady rhythm soothing me as I drifted off to sleep.