Chapter 108 - Every Word Was A Piece Of My Heart

"Babe, I know you do."  She confirms, reaching for his hand with a smile on her face.  "We'll have babies, when the time is right and if you think I need to talk to someone about losing the baby, I will, but I thought I was handling it okay."

Jon looks at her with a vague look of surprise, squeezing her hand tight, "I think we should talk to someone about it, together.  I'm obviously not doing as well as I thought."

Monica leans in and kisses him, lightly on the lips.  "Sounds good to me.  Should we get back to my guests??  I'd like to get this edited, with whatever anyone wants me to change and get it to the production company so we can get it released."

"There's no hurry to do that.  Let's take our time and get it right."

"As far as I'm concerned, it's perfect." she laughs, with his hand still in hers, she leads him out of her editing room and back to the gang that are watching her video compilation quite intensely.  

"Well, what do you guys think?"  Jon asks them as he takes his seat, "Is she making us super stars?"

"This shit is good."  Alec tells him, "She has a great eye for this sort of thing."

"Thanks Alec.  It may not be so easy if my subjects weren't so willing."  Monica adds as she takes a seat on Jon's lap.  His arms instantly go around her and he holds her tight.  "So, is there anything that you guys want out yet?"

Much to Monica's surprise, there wasn't much that the guys wanted taken out.  She had a few shots of the guys partying with Sebastian Back and Skid Row.  On a table close to Richie, she snapped a shot that had a little bit of God's happy grass in the image.  That needed to be taken out.

She also needed to take some shots out with nude girls, that didn't bother her - but David was a little concerned about what the fans may think.  He was sitting too close to bare breasts and Monica could see that he was actually embarrassed.

They all had taken some notes throughout the course of the viewing and Monica promised that she would take them all under advisement when she was doing the 2nd to the last edit.  "I'm giving it one more go through, you guys can see it and then it's off to get made.  Like it or not."

"How long will it take you to do these edits?"  Tico asked her, "Will it just be a couple of days, or are you talking longer?"  he slides to the end of his chair, finishes off his beer and continues, "I'm taking a vacation and I leave in 2 days.  If I see the final edit, that's fine.  If I don't, that's fine too."  He sets his empty bottle on the table.

"I can have it done in the next day or two."  Monica tells him, "that shouldn't be any problem."

"Good."  Tico stands and looks at his co-viewers, "I'm leaving, who needs a ride."

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After everyone said their goodbyes and left, Jon and Monica were left alone in her studio.  "I think you did an amazing job with our ugly mugs and our foolish behavior."  Jon tells her, kicked back on the couch, his feet on the coffee table.

Monica stops picking up the empty beer bottles and looks at her husband, "Thank you."

"I'm serious babe." he laughs, "I think it's great."

"I do too.  There is a lot of me in that video and I am so glad that no one wanted to butcher it too bad."

"Mom and dad like it.  I was worried about them, with some of the footage that you have."

"Like you downing a bottle of Jack Daniels?  You playing with knives or the shots I have of you in the shower?" she laughs back at him.  "I have footage that I could sell and make A LOT of money."

"I know."

"What's next?" she plops down next to him on the couch, his arm goes around her and he pulls her close.

With several kisses on her forehead, "What do you mean?  We're going home, aren't we?"

"Yeah.  I mean, what's planned for the band?" she looks at him from the corner of her eye, "What's next for Bon Jovi?"

Jon rests his head on the top of hers, "Well, as soon as you release this video we're going to have to promote it."

"Seriously?"

Laughing at her again, "Well, yeah.  If you want it to be successful, we'll have to."

"I guess I didn't think about that."  Monica slides down, resting her head on Jon's lap,   "Do we need to delay releasing it?"

Jon starts to run his finger through her hair, tracing the outline of her ear, "No, I think we can do it.  It might get tricky with dates, but we'll manage."

"So what's next for Bon Jovi - that was my original question, dear." she rolls on her back, looks up at him, "Are we home for a while?"

He nods his head yes, while saying "No.  Unfortunately."  He watches the happiness leave her face like a deflated balloon, "We have a some time - but not a lot."

"When and where do you go?" she rolls on her side, burying her face in his belly.  He starts to caress her arm, her side, her hip, and down her leg.  "When do we have to hit the road?

Jon takes a moment and thinks, "Well, T leaves for vacation in a couple of days and I know he has almost a week planned, so I guess we have about a week before we have to leave."

"Where are we going first?" she mumbles, with her lips pressed on his belly, her head up his shirt.  "Please tell me that it's some place warm."

"I think we pick back up in Boston, but when we add dates for your video, I don't know where we're going."

"Does the video change much?"

He pats her ass, "It should change too much, it will most likely add stops, but we don't need to worry about that.  Once management gets it scheduled and all the details worked out, all we have to do it show up."  Jon looks around her studio, "Are you sure that you want to leave?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" Monica looks up at him, without moving her head, "Of course I'll leave."

"As soon as you release this video, you'll be in high demand.  There isn't anything like this out on the market for any artist."

"So." she quietly responds.

"Babe, everyone will want you to make on for them."  he laughs at her, "look at the response that you got from your Bruce pictures."

"Well, I don't work for anyone else now."

"Why not?"

"Why should I?"

Jon wiggles a little in his seat, giving Monica the impression that he wants to get up, so quickly she sits up, "Don't you want to make a name for yourself in the industry?"

"I already have one, babe."

"Other than your married name?" he questions her, shocked by the fact that she is being resistant about it, "Photography and art has always been your passion.  I thought that you would walk through the doors of opportunity that this video will open."

Monica stands up and rights her clothes, firming her top and straightening out her long flowing curls.  "Jon, I have all the opportunity that I need with you and the guys."

"Do you really want to be known for being out photographer, our videographer?"

"Sure, what's wrong with that?"

He shakes his head and chuckles at her, "Well, you are super talented and I think that you can corner this market."

"Maybe so, but I don't want to do it for anyone else right now."  Monica walks into Jon and kisses the dimple on his chin, "Take me home Mr. Bongiovi."