Chapter 117

Later that night Melody woke up again, this time fully waking up due to the pain in her chest. It was a stabbing pain like someone was piercing knives through her longs. The itchiness in her throat only made it worse. The only thing she could do to relieve that was cough.

Once she started the coughing fit wouldn't stop. It scared her, she could hardly catch her breath between coughs and it hurt her longs even more.

A warm hand on back between her shoulder blades finally made her relax a little.
She turned to her left to see a worried look on Jon's face. She wasn't sure herself what was going on, she didn't have a cough before.

Jon softly stroked Melody's back which helped even out her breathing until she was finally breathing normally again.

Jon's hand didn't move from her back when he asked, "You alright?"
Melody nodded shortly, still a little breathless. "I'm okay."

He wan't convinced when she stood up and his hand fell away. "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked again.
Melody nodded again as she walked around the bed and Jon's eyes followed her movements. "I'm just getting a drink." She reassured him. "Go back to sleep, I'll be right back." She said as she walked out of the room.

Her longs were still hurting but she tried to ignore it on her way to the kitchen.
She easily found a glass, she knew the kitchen well by now and poured herself a glass of water, draining the glass in one time.

After she put the glass away in the dishwasher, she took a teaspoon out of the cutlery drawer and found honey in the same cupboard coffee, tea and sugar were stored along with cups. Hopefully a teaspoon of honey would soothe her throat.



Later that morning Melody rushed back into the bedroom after her shower to get dressed.
Jon woke up when she walked in, noticing her all wet and wrapped in a towel, he disappointedly said, "Aw now I have to shower alone." and got out of the bed.
"Sorry but I have to get ready for work." Melody explained as she reached for a pair of panties before drying off.
"Right, work. About work, do you think you can join your friend Lori to the concert? I like having something pretty to look at." He smiled at her and walked closer to put his arms around her.
Melody smiled back up at him. "Only if I can be half an hour late."
"If you have to." Jon said with an exaggerated sigh like Melody always did. It would be better than noyhing. He bent down a little and kissed her before going to the bathroom.

Melody continued getting dressed and get ready for work. As she bent over to grab a bra from a drawer, the stabbing pain in her chest returned. She hoped she didn't get a mysterious coughing fit again. As she stood up, the pain eased a little. She wondered what it could be. At least she wasn't coughing, she thought.



They met again in the kitchen and kissed before Melody left.
"Have a good day." He told her as she got in the elevator.
"You too." She said before the doors closed and she went down.

In the lobby she was greeted by the doorman who wished her a good day too.

When she walked outside to walk the short walk to work the itchiness in her throat returned and with that another coughing fit that made the pain return even worse than before.
Breathless she arrived at work. Luckily there weren't many people there yet and nobody asked about it. She wouldn't know what to answer anyway. She was fine. She hoped she wasn't getting a cold again, now wasn't a good time to get sick, there never was a good time for that.

Her day at the hotel was as busy as every Friday was. At least now she had something to look forward to after work.



Jon had a busy day too, for once the fan club meeting was not for him but the fans got to see David's musical so he got to spent the afternoon with the fans. Which left Jon alone with Tico and Phil to do the sound check. Even without David it went easily.

Other than sound check he still had other things to do, arrangements to be made for after the tour. It kept him busy all day too.



During the day Melody got to hear Lori talk excitedly about the concert later that night. She felt a little left out to miss the beginning but soon she'd get to watch every show so missing half an hour from this one wasn't so bad and she knew who she was going home with after the concerts. If only she didn't get sick again before leaving. She had gotten sick before their last trip too. Then she had Jon to take care of her, now she wouldn't. She'd be alright, it would pass.



Lori left the hotel at 6 pm, as excited as she had been all day. Two more hours, Melody thought to herself, soon enough she could drive to the concert, sure Jon had made sure she could still get in.



At the stadium Jon was getting ready for the concert, backstage he was having dinner with the rest of the band before going to his dressing room to get ready to perform.

He changed his outfit for the show just before it was time to go on stage.

He watched the guys go on stage and waited for the opening tunes of the first song to walk up the stairs to the stage. As usual the crowd went wild with screams as he appeared. He still loved that feeling, it was amazing.

With amazing energy he played the first few songs. In only a little while Melody would be there to make his evening complete like she always did. It couldn't be long before she got there.



Melody was one of the last at the hotel, until 8 pm there always was someone at the front desk to check people in and that was Melody's job. During the day there were more people to help her but now she was leaving the hotel by herself.

Instead of driving her car, she decided to call a cab, she'd have a ride home anyway. As she stepped outside into the fresh air, it happened again, another coughing fit until she was breathless.

Painfully she got in the cab for the short drive, a few not too deep breath, smoothed out the pain until it was gone by the time she got to the venue.

A few minutes later she was looking around for familiar faces from the security team that still stood outside. She didn't recognize one of them.

With a little sigh she finally walked over to the ticket booth, to see if anything had been left there for her. Of course the lady at the booth wasn't very co-operative at first until Melody could finally show ID but nothing had been left for her.

Instead she went back over to the security guards, who wouldn't let her pass either, but after a long discussion finally got through to Matt on their walkie talkies.

Finally someone arrived with an access all areas ticket on a lanyard for her, finally she could go see her man.

As she walked through the building, she could hear Jon singing already, his voice getting louder the closer she got until she finally made her way to the first row and looked up at the stage with a smile.

When Jon noticed her a bright smile appeared on his face too. All of a sudden he felt even more into playing, more at ease, more want to make his show perfect.



After the show they met in front of Jon's dressing room, he was ready to go but the sweat wasn't a nice thing so he went in to change anyway but not before giving Melody a long, deep kiss.

He quickly got changed with Melody in the room, making suggestive looks and hurried out of the building when he finished, the sooner he got home the better. Last night Melody had been sleeping, but now she wasn't and it had been a while, he was about to burst and he was going to make sure Melody felt the same way.