Chapter One

Jon entered the family room where he found all of his children and a few of their friends, listening to music. Jon stood at the entrance, listening to the music; it had good rhythm, the guitar riff was fast and lively, the lyrics were about love, it was like something he would have written twenty years ago.
"Who is that?" Jon asked his daughter, Stephanie jumped with fright when he spoke, then looked back at him. "Who is who?" she asked pushing her eyebrows together, did he mean the person playing the song, or her friends? "the guy on the radio." Jon said running his fingers through his hair. "His name's Jasper Black." Stephanie's friend, Lilly answered. "Jasper Black..huh?" Jon said walking into the kitchen.

Jasper Black...Jasper Black, why does that name sound so fimular? Jon thought, this was really annoying him. The name was so fimular, but where had he heard it? Jon sat at the kitchen table for quite some time trying to remember, nothing came to him. "Daddy..." he heard a voice call, Jon looked down to see a pair of big brown eyes staring up at him, "daddy, read this, it's my favorite!" Romeo said handing a book to Jon. Jon studied the cover of the book, it was a Thomas the Tank Engine book. "I thought Star Wars was your favorite?" Jon asked picking Romeo up and sitting him on his lap. Romeo scrunched up his nose, "no I HATE it!" Jon became slightly confused, just yesterday it was Romeo's all time favorite book. He then remember Romeo was four; his favorite things changed daily.

"Ok buddy, you want some oba first?" Jon asked, knowing Romeo would ask for some of what he called water. "Oba" Romeo confirmed, Jon put the book down the the table and tried to get Romeo off his lap. He was not budging. "Meo' you'll have to get off if you want me to get you some oba." Jon told him, but Romeo still wouldn't move. With a sigh, Jon picked Romeo up and walked over to the fridge to get him his water. Jon got himself a beer, he didn't usually drink around the kids, but today was a long day; Dorothea was in LA visiting some friends for the weekend, so Jon was stuck with the kids and tonight a bunch of their friends were staying over. Being on tour was no where near as exhausting as minding eight kids, all under sixteen, for the day.

After reading and re-reading and re-reading the book to Romeo, Jon finally decided it was time for him and Jake to go to bed. It took quite some time to get them to go to sleep because they were asking for drinks and to be read stories, they needed to go to the bathroom, brush their teeth...but finally after an hour they were asleep.

Jon went back down to the family room to see if any of the kids were down there. Not a sole to be seen. Jon lay on the big blue couch and put his laptop on his chest. He decided he had to put a face to the name. He googled JASPER BLACK. An photo came up, Jon opened it up and studied his face; jet black hair, piercing blue eyes, strong jaw line, full lips, a cleffed chin, tanned. The caption underneath read 'The New Rock n Roll hearthrob' Jon chuckled to himself, he remembered the many times he was given the name 'heartthrob.'

After two hours Jon decided he was going to hit the sack. But before he could go to the comfort of his bed, he had to check on the kids. First stop along the corrider, Jesse's room. Jon quitely knocked on the door then opened it, Jesse sat at his computer with headphones on, bandaids next to the computer, his fingers strapped. Jesse took his headphones off when he saw Jon in the room.
"Hey dad," Jesse said turning around on his chair to face Jon. "Hey kiddo, been playing guitar for too long again?" Jon asked looking at his sons fingers. Jesse shrugged, "once you start playing, it's like time stops...what seems like five minutes is really five hours" he said with a smile. A huge smile crept across Jon's face, he really did love that his kids really appreciated music. "Don't stay up all night, champ." Jon said ruffling his hair. "I won't.." Jesse said turning back around to the computer and putting his headphones back on.
Next stop was his daughters room, Jon stopped outside the door. She more than likely didn't want him to come in. Jon knocked on the door, and stuck his head in. He looked around the room, the girls were singing and dancing. Stephanie looked over at the door when she felt the draft, she got down off her bed and walked over to Jon. "Don't stay up too late, okay sweetheart?" Jon whispered, he didn't want her to get embarrased infront of her friends because he called her sweetheart, Stephanie walked over to her french antique dressing table, it was white, with gold handles and pink roses painted down the sides, she picked up photo album and handed it to Jon. "I found this earlier, and thought you might want to see it." Stephanie said with a smile, not showing her teeth, "good night sweetie," Jon said smiling at her "night dad," Stephaie said then walked back over to her friends who were now painting each others nails.
He was nearly at the end of the corridor now, he just had to check on Jakey and Romeo and then he could take comfort in his big warm bed. He quitely opened Romeo's bedroom door, toys were all over the floor, Dorothea would kill Jon if they weren't clean by the time she got back, he looked over at Romeo who was fast asleep; thumb in his mouth, lying on his stomach with his butt high in the air. Jon loved it when all his kids were at this age, back then he was the coolest guy on the planet. Jon sighed quitely, at least he still had Romeo, and a bit of Jake.
Jon crossed the hall to Jake's room, the door was open; Jake didn't like the dark. He saw Jake's blanket had fallen on the floor, Jake was always kicking in his sleep. Jon went over and out the blanket back over Jake. As soon as the blanket went on Jake his eyes opened. "Dad.." Jake said tiredly, "yeah buddy?" Jon whispered. "Stay." Jake asked holding his arm, "Ok, bud." Jake moved over in the bed to make room for Jon to lie down. Jon lay down next to his son, Jake hadn't done this in quite some time. Jon remembered when he used to have to lay next to Jake every night so he could get to sleep. They talked for a while, then in mid sentance Jake fell asleep.

Jon crawled out of the bed and practially ran to his room. He quickly got out of his jeans and went under his covers, after five minutes he was fast asleep.



Jon was standing in a hotel room, looking at two people asleep. Where the fuck am I? he walked over to take a closer look at the people in the bed. Alot of wild blonde hair covered the mans face, he looked at the woman; she had jet black hair, extreamly long eyelashes, lucious blood red full lips, high cheek bones, she was beautiful. Who are these people? Why does she look so fimular? The man under the wild blonde hair sat up, he pushed back the hair from his face, it was Jon.