A Second Chance at love

Chapter 25: Honeymoon Hiatus

As the early morning light filtered in through our hotel room window, I covered my head with my pillow-I was exhausted, I didn't sleep worth a damn the whole night.

I rolled over and saw Jon laying there awake, I could tell by his eyes that he hadn't gotten much sleep either.

"Morning" I said groggily "what time is our flight?

"Not until 11am" he yawned. "What time is it?" he asked me.

"5:00am" I said. "UGH!!!!" was all he could say.

We laid in bed till 6am before deciding to get up. While Jon showered, I wrote in my journal till I was startled by a knock at the door. As I got up to see who it was the water in the bathroom shut off quickly, and Jon came out dripping wet, wearing nothing but a towel.

"Who is it??" he said stepping in front of me as he got to the door.

"Its Jordan" came his brother's voice from the other side of the door "we need to talk"

Jon opened the door and let Jordan come in "I am really sorry to bother you guys" he said since I know you just got married and want to be alone and all-"but, Maurice just called Biscuit and said he is having an emergency mandatory meeting for EVERYONE at 11:00am"

"We should be in the air then J." I said. I saw Jon shake his head sadly "DAMMIT!," he fumed "I am going to kill someone for this!" He added- " when Maurice calls for a mandatory meeting he means business-and if you don't show up, your excuse better be that you died, because he will get really pissed!"

"Are you saying we aren't going to be able to go on our honeymoon?" I said flopping down on the bed.

"I'll see if I can get the tickets changed to a later flight, since I know getting away for a few days would do you a world of good." Jon said.

He turned back to Jordan and asked "Where is the meeting taking place?" "Maurice's place I think--you should talk to Biscuit he knows more about it than me, he's trying to touch base with Donnie and Joe, I gotta go tell Danny." he said.

"Thanks for letting me know little brother" Jon said as Jordan left.

I went in to shower while he called the airlines, and unfortunately all their later flights were booked, so he ended up having to cancel our flight reservations and get a refund.

"Don't worry baby, he said softly, I'll make it up to you, I promise."

Biscuit stopped by our room with the details--the meeting was actually at the restaurant of the hotel we were staying in! Jon went upstairs to chat with the guys, and I called and had a talk with Dr. Wakefield, and set up an appointment with her. Then I headed upstairs to see the guys.

"Wow! Must have been some night!" Donnie chuckled- you guys look like walking zombies."

"you would too if you only got a couple decent hours of sleep!" I shot back at him.

"Donnie, it might be wise for you to shut up now" Danny admonished his big mouthed friend.

Donnie didn't listen. Instead he said "kept your girl up all night doing the horizontal hokey pokey eh knight?"

"Shut the hell up Wahlberg!" Jon snapped.

"from the way he's acting" Donnie said "if I didn't know any better, I'd say his woman held out on him and he didn't get any action last night."

"that's harsh" he added glaring at me "not giving your man any -- and on your wedding night??- that is so damn wrong! --you should have been lovin each other ALL night long."

"Donald Edmund Wahlberg Jr" Biscuit said grabbing him by the arm- we need to talk in the hallway now!" he said sternly before adding--"and I am doing the talking and you will do the listening-- got it?"

The rest of us cracked up as Biscuit took him out into the hallway.

"You guys ok?" Joe asked quietly, "you both do seem very tired and very tense."

"Lets put it this way" I said "how would you feel if your looney mother showed up with your abusive ex on your wedding night and he started putting his hands on you and tried to have his way with you, going so far as to kiss you and try to shove his tongue in your mouth while trying to take your clothes off while threatening you and your husband?"

"that was the most horrible feeling in the world I said as I felt the tears welling up in my eyes." I really wanted last night to be a special night for Jon and I and that lousy sonofabitch Jake ruined it."

Donnie came back in while I was talking and sat down quietly "I'm really sorry guys, I didn't know."

"you should have seen the way Jon jacked that loser's jaw though!" Danny said with a little grin--"it was awesome!!"--"I think he actually broke it."

Jordan chuckled- "oh come on Danny, my brother is no fighter....hell, he hits like a freakin girl!"

"Want me to demonstrate on you?" Jon said glaring at Jordan. Then he added "I am not a fighter, but, I will protect my family no matter what- "nobody puts their hands on my wife and gets away with it." "and that goes double for anyone that tries to hurt my daughter Jon added.

While the guys were in their meeting, I went and had a nice long session with Dr. Wakefield, and then I went to church and prayed with my pastor.

When I got back, Jon was just waking up from a much needed nap. "how did it go?" he asked me. "pretty good" I said taking my shoes off.

"you are not going to like what I have to say next" Jon said taking my hand. "after we check out tomorrow, I'll drop you off at home then I gotta meet the guys at the studio to work on our new album."

"What?!?" I cried "I thought he gave you guys a two week break!"

"so did we" Jon said "so did we" then he added Mom, said she'll still watch Emma so we can have some time to ourselves at home like she was planning on doing while we were gone."

"Our luck really went south in a hurry-didn't it?" I said

Jon just nodded. "we'll get through this rough patch, I know we will." he said.