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“Mr. Sambora is happy, and he’s hoping Mrs. Sambora is too!” He laughed as he kissed my neck.

“I am!”

The song ended, and Richie held me tight as we walked over to talk to his parents, who I had actually never talked to before, except for when we were younger.

“Mom,” Richie smiled as we walked up to her.

“Richard!” She smiled, kissing his cheeks like a child. “This is beautiful! And Kmae! You’re beautiful as ever!”

“Thanks, Joan,” I smiled.

“Joan? I’m ‘mom’ now!” She laughed, kissing my cheeks too.

I blushed, and turned to find Richie, who had gone over to talk to Adam, his dad.

Me and Richie’s mom talked for awhile, then I went and talked to Richie’s dad.





“What time is it?” Jon asked, looking at me as I watched everyone dancing drunkingly.

“About midnight. This wedding sure went by fast,” I said.

“Where’s Richie?”

I pointed over to him, where he was holding two beers in his hand and was dancing awkwardly with Tico.

“Found him,” Jon laughed.

I took a sip of my drink. I wasn’t drunk, but I didn’t feel good.

“You feeling okay?” Jon asked.

I shrugged. “I think I’m just tired.”

“It should be wrapping up in a bit, I’m guessing.”

“Woo Hoo!! Kmae! Whatcha doin’!?” Richie yelled across the room. I laughed.

“Come here!” I smiled.

He tumbled over, spilling his beers on the way. “You’re so cute, I spilled my beers for you!”

“Everybody’s clearing out, the paparazzi’s gone,” Jon said. “I told the limo driver to watch you guys..” he winked.

“Jon,” I smiled, “not until we get to the hotel room.”

Jon made a disgusted look, as Richie hiccupped, and rattled on about stuff he wanted to do.

“Let’s go get in the limo,” I said, grabbing his hand.

He dropped the two red solo cups and came out the door with me.

Me and Richie piled into the limo, with me basically on Richie’s lap.







Really, to honestly tell you the truth, we did have sex. The best ever, if you want to get into details.





The next morning, I woke up in our hotel room. Everything was qiuet, and I was freezing cold. I rolled over, with Richie sleeping soundless beside me, still with his hat on, and naked.

He always slept so quietly, with his brown eyes looking ever-so-cute, and a beer bottle cradled on his chest.

I cuddled closer to him, feeling his body heat on mine, making me shiver. The radio was turned on to “Close Your Eyes Forever,” and I could almost feel Richie’s heart beating to it.



I must’ve fallen asleep again, with Richie’s soft voice waking me up, sending more shivers down my spine.

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I felt the tears come down as Richie stepped down from the piano, and came towards me.

"You know, there's something else I'd love to give you."

"What's more? You already gave me enough!"

He pulled something from his pocket, and looked at me. "Put out your hand."

I did as he said, as he dropped something into my hand.

I slowly opened it. "Keys?" I said, looking at the keys laying in my hand.

"Yeah," he smiled.

"For what? These can't be car keys," I said puzzled.

"They're for a house," he smiled and looked me in the eyes. "We're moving back to New Jersey."

I wrapped my arms around him. "Really?! Yay! I've missed Jersey!"

"Yes! There's movers moving things right now. When we're home, we won't be in California, we'll be in New Jersey."

I couldn't help but kiss him full on the lips as everyone clapped.

"Can I have this dance?" he whispered in my ear.

I smiled, and looked him in the eyes. "You may."

"Never Say Goodbye" slowly began playing, as he swirled us around the dance hall like we were king an queen. Everyone around us disappeared as Jon watched in patience. I couldn't help but wonder, what was Jon thinking right now? Was he thinking of what he had? Or what he lost?

"You lost more then that in my back seat baby..."

Yeah, that is true. I had lost my virginity in Jon's backseat of the old blue Chevy he had, that one summer in '78. I had just met Richie that day, and I also almost lost him as a few guys from school had tried to beat the heck out of him. But that's a whole different story.

Richie put his lips to my ear as the son slowly began to end. "Are you happy, Mrs. Sambora?"

"Not unless Mr. Sambora is," I laughed.

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"Kmae?" Richie whispered.

I finally woke, the blackness slowly fading away, and I could see myself looking up at a wall.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Well, Jon, would you like to explain?" Krystal said, her arms folded across her chest as she made a face at Jon.

"Well," he started, "I was trying to protect you from Sebastian, and I well, hit you."

I put my hand on my face. "You hit like a girl."

"I'm so sorry," Jon said. "I didn't see you. and I thought I was hitting Seb."

I sat up. "Where are we anyways?"

"In the back of the mansion," Jon said. "We better hurry if you guys still want to have your first dance as husband and wife."

I looked at Richie, as he looked at me. "Do you think you'll be okay?"

I nodded. "Of course, it's not like he put me in a coma."

Richie laughed as he helped me up, and we went back into the mansion.







"Well, you know," Jon stated, as we all sat down, and he began to give his speech before the music was set up and everything, "I've been a friend of Richie and Kmae's for a long time. Me and Kmae, we've had our share of events."

Please don't say that at my wedding, I said to myself, putting my hand on my face.

"But they're both my family. I couldn't see myself without either of them in my lives. There wouldn't be a me if I didn't have them, if I didn't meet either of them, there'd be a hole in my heart," Jon said, almost crying as he put a fake smile on through the tears, "I ruined Kmae's angels, and she still didn't kick me out of the wedding. I just punched her out by accident and she still joked with me about me not hitting her like a man. She's my inspiration for everything, music, and she's helped me through everything. And her with Richie is even more beautiful. I wouldn't ever be able to see Richie with anyone else, except for the spunky girl from Iowa who changed his life around."

I felt myself crying, as I laid my head on Richie's shoulder, as Jon continued to speak.

"Richie's my best friend, and I'm glad he's gotten the person he's dreamed of for his whole lifetime. I'm glad that even though everything that has ever happened between all of us has finally been resolved, and these two are finally married, and happy. I've ruined parts of this wedding, yes, but Kmae and Richie forgave me for everything, and I'm truly grateful. I just hope and pray for them, and what they'll be when they're older. I love them."

Everyone clapped, and the clanging of glasses erupted through the room as I tried to wipe away my tears.

Richie looked at me. "He's something special, isn't he?"

I nodded, because I couldn't talk, after hearing all of that.

The music began to play, but first, Richie stopped it.

"Can I sing the song I wrote for her?" he asked the DJ.

The guy nodded, as Richie sat down at the piano.

"I didn't know you played piano," I laughed.

He smiled, and the DJ gave him the microphone.

"This is called 'If I Can't Have Your Love,'" he smiled, and slowly began to sing:

It's hard to remember a time

When I didn't have you, when I didn't have nothing but a cold bed to come to at

night

That was all I knew, until there was you

And then you took my world and turned it all around

I couldn't live without you now

Baby, if I can't have your love

If I can't feel your touch I got nothing

Baby, if I can't taste your kiss then I don't exist

I got nothing

No I can't imagine living life without you

I can't imagine living life without your love

I wake up with you by my side

Can't let go, I can't even bear the thought of you in another man's eyes

I would lose control, I would die

'Cause now you're in my heart and I can't let you out

I gotta keep you here somehow

Baby, if I can't have your love

If I can't feel your touch I got nothing

Baby, if I can't taste your kiss then I don't exist

I got nothing

If I can't be your man, I wouldn't know who I am

I got nothing

I got nothing

No, I can't imagine living life without you

I can't imagine living life without your love

'Cause I can't imagine living life without you

Can't imagine living life without your love

Believe me baby I don't mean to doubt you

But if you ever leave, that would be the end of me, baby

Baby, if I can't feel your touch I got nothing

Baby, if I can't taste your kiss then I don't exist

I got nothing

I got nothing

If I can't be your man, I wouldn't know who I am

I'd be nothing

Baby, if I can't have your love

If I can't feel your touch

I got nothing

No, I can't imagine living life without you....

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"You may now kiss your bride!" The priest laughed.

Richie looked me in the eyes as I wrapped my arms around his neck, and pressing my lips to his. The crowd erupted in claps and excitement as I finally pulled away, and me and Richie turned to look at everyone.

"Now what?" Alec said from behind Richie.

Everyone burst out laughing as cameras flashed and me and Richie walked down the aisle to say "hello" to everyone.

"That was weird," Jon said.

I looked at him weird. "What do you mean?"

"You guys got married, and I'm still single."

I rolled my eyes. "Jon, you'll be okay."

"My best friend just got married, and yesturday I got chewed out for dropping angels."

"You're gonna be fine," I laughed.

Richie held onto my hand as I said hello and hugged everyone.










We walked out the door and was followed by trails of flashes from the cameras and people shouting our names. There was a white stretch limo, followed by three other ones waiting.

"The first one's ours, the next three are for the wedding parties," Richie said.

We climbed into the first limo, and sat looking at eachother.

"I don't know what to say, Mrs. Sambora," Richie smiled.

I smiled too. "Back at you, Mr. Sambora."

He smiled. "Do you believe we've gotten this far?"

"No, I can't. It's weird. Like, we're just starting to date."

Richie caught me by surprise, jumping into my seat and french-kissing me, as we sat in the limo making out.









The driver opened the door as I tried to pull my dress back up.

"Where's Mr. Sambora?" The driver asked, looking at me concerned.

"He'll be a few minutes, uh, late," I said, getting out of the limo, trying to hide the almost naked Richie behind me.

"I didn't think the limo ride was THAT long!" the driver said, laughing as we got out of the limo.

Richie came quickly behind me, as we went into the big mansion Richie had rented for our wedding.

He grabbed my hand as we walked into the ballroom part of the house.

"Where's Jon?" I asked.

Richie shrugged as I spotted someone in the corner, sociallizing with someone.

"Who is that?" I squinted.

Slowly, the figure came towards me. "Kmae! Was up dude?!"

Oh shit.

Sebastian emerged from the darkened part of the room.

"Seb, why are you here?"

"'Cuz I wanted to see what I almost had once," he grabbed my arm from Richie.

"Stop!" I cried, and Richie turned back towards me.

"Seb? What the hell are you doing?" Jon's voice echoed.

"Kmae!" Krystal yelled, "Stop Jon!"

Jon came up beside me, suckerpunching Seb.

"Stop!" I cried, as Seb's grip was ripped from my skin, and something hit me.

I felt everything around me go black, with the screams of Jon, Richie and Krystal all around me.

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"He'd never stoop that low," Richie said.

"HE HAS BEFORE!!" I said.

Richie shushed me. "Hush, Beauty, or you won't be able to calm down."

"He RUINED my angels!" I screamed, and buried my head in Richie's shoulder.

I could feel his hand rubbing my back. "You're okay, you're with me," he whispered.

He wrapped his arms around my waste. "You want to do something?"

I smiled through the tears. "Like what?"

"The game of love, where you do 'stuff.'"

I smiled. "I think I know what you mean."

He matched my smile and lifted me up into his arms, kissing me ever-so gently, and carrying me up the marble suitcase.













Later, we boarded the plane, and set off for Paris, France.







THE DAY OF THE WEDDING:




"Shut up," Krystal laughed as I showed her the chipped fingernail polish on my hand that she had done. "Not everybody can do their nails perfect."

"No! They're awesome! Nothing more nail polish can't fix."

She laughed, as she curled her hair up into a bun. "Does it look okay?"

"Yeah!" I said.

She had her bridesmaid dress on, which was a teal blue, and had her hair in a bun.

"Jon won't be able to keep his hands off me," she laughed, as she had a hair pin in her mouth.

I shook my head, as I smoothed out my dress. "Is this real?"

"What do you mean?" She asked as she looked in the mirror.

"Am I really getting married? To Richie Sambora?"

She turned around and looked at me, and smiled. "Yes, Kmae, you are."

"It doesn't seem real."

She grabbed my engagement ring from the table beside her. "Does this look real enough to you?"

I shook my head in disbelief. "Wow, me and Richie have come far."

"Yeah you guys have."

The door opened, as a lady stepped in. "Kmae, Krystal? You've got five minutes."

I swallowed hard, and she shut the door.

"You'll be okay, right?" Krystal asked.

"Yeah, I mean, it's Richie. We've been together for how many years.."

"You'll be fine."

I smiled as I hugged her, and we set out into the church.












Our wedding consisted of friends of Richie, and the band, and some old friends from our highschool.

The music began playing as I slowly waited for everyone to walk down the aisle. Then, it was my turn, as Jon walked me down the aisle, and everyone stood up. The sounds of whispers going through the church was almost buzzing in my ears, as flashes and clicks of cameras blinded me.

Jon slowly walked us up, and then, I could see my prince.

Richie stood tall, smiling at me as I walked down the aisle towards him. He looked handsome, with his suit and a rose in his tux.

Jon looked at me, smiled, then let me go as I stood beside Richie.

"You look beautiful," he whispered.

I smiled, because that's all I could do. I couldn't talk.

"Dearly beloved," the priest began. But after that, I couldn't hear anything but the thump thump of my heart.

"Do you, Richie Sambora, take Kmae Bruce to be your wife?"

Richie smiled as he turned towards me and held both of my hands.

"Of course, I do." He smiled. Laughter erupted from the crowd.

"And Kmae?"

"I, I do." I stuttered, but then finally said it.

"Do we have the rings?" The priest smiled.

Richie pulled our rings out of his tux, and slid the ring onto my finger.

"I'll love you forever, Kmae, you understand?" he whispered.

I shook my head. "I love you too."

The priest smiled. "Well, as far as I can tell, we've got two love birds. Why don't I make them husband and wife?"

Richie smiled and gribbed my hand tighter.

"I now pronounce you husband and wife, ladies and gentleman, Mr. and Mrs. Richie Sambora."

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A few days passed, me and Krystal went dress shopping, picking out a beautiful mermaid gown, with sequins, and a long train.

I took it home, hid it in my closet, and prayed that Richie wouldn't find it.









2 Days before the wedding: Me and Richie's house.




"Are you going to bring much?" Richie asked.

"Nope, my dress, my hair curler..."

"Dress?" Richie smiled. "Can I see?"

"No!"

"And why not?"

"You're the groom! You can't see yet!"

Richie laughed and rolled his eyes, and began talking in a foreign accent. "The things I do for love around here."

"Well, you could always just wait two days."

"I never thought of that."

"Why'd you think we were going to Paris?"

Richie shrugged, and then laughed. "I knew about the wedding, how could I forget?"

"You could be like an old lady and forget."

"But I'm not an old lady," he laughed.

There was a slam downstairs, followed by a shatter of glass.

"What the hell was that?" Richie exclaimed, as he darted out of the room, going down the stairs.

I followed after him, gliding down the staircase.




"Jon?" Richie said. "What the hell are you doing?"

I came up behind Richie, and my mouth dropped.

Jon stood there, with three broken angel statues that my mother had given to me the year she died. They were supposed to be on the table for my wedding.

"Jon!" I cried. "What the fuck were you doing?!"

"I was just...setting my suitcase down."

I felt the hot tears come down as I dashed passed Richie to grab the broken angels.

"Jon!" I screamed. "You KNEW these were all I had left of my mother!"

"Oops."

I felt the fury build up inside me. "You dirty rotten-"

"Kmae! I didn't mean to!" He interuppted.

"Well, why would you touch them anyways?"

"Because, I thought you'd want me to put them on the table."

I clenched my fists tighter as I looked down at the shattered angels. "Jon, get out."

Jon walked away with his head hung low, as Richie came down from the stairway. "Do you think superglue will work?"

"I don't think so."

Richie bent down, and put his hand under my chin. "Are you okay?"

I stood up. "No! I'm not! I don't know what Jon's problem is, and why he's got to ruin MY stuff for his sake." I began to cry.

Richie hugged me. "Kmae, it was probably just an accident."

"An accident?" I said. "Don't you think he'd have to PUSH those angels down to get them to fall? They can't fall from just a suitcase falling."

Richie looked me in the eyes with his I-highly-doubt-Jon-would-stoop-that-low look. "Kmae, just relax."

"Relax? That's all I had LEFT of my mother!"

Richie held me tighter against the cool fabric of his t-shirt. "I'm really sorry Kmae, I wish I could fix them."

"Jon needs to stop, he's going to ruin our wedding."

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"Himself?" Richie asked. "But why?"

"Don't you get it?" I whispered. "He's protecting me from himself!"

"Why?" Richie asked again.

"He doesn't want himself to ruin the wedding. He's trying to fall either back in love with Diane or the new girl."

"Diane's married," Richie whispered.

"She is?" I said.

"Yeah, she got married a year or two ago."

"Why's he going after her?" I asked.

Richie shrugged.

I did too, and grabbed my coffee cup from the table, taking a sip. "Well, tomorrow's still Christmas Eve."

"I got you something."

"I got you something too."

"What about Jon?"

I bit my lip. "Shoot, I forgot about him..."

"Don't worry, I got Bob Dylan to sign him a guitar."

"For real?" I asked.

"For real," Richie laughed. "We've got other things on our hands at the moment. When are you going dress shopping?"

"I'm not sure, I've still got to call Krystal."

"That's alright, maybe wait until after the holidays."

"That's what I was thinking of doing."

"Great minds think alike," Richie smiled. "What do you want to do tonorrow night? Sleep, eat, love?"

"How about all three?" I laughed. "And please times the love by one million."

"Done!" he laughed. "I have a photoshoot early in the morning, but then we can do whatever you'd like."

I smiled. "Hope you have fun."

"Are you kidding? You're coming with, of course I'll have fun."

I blushed. "Why do you have such a way with words?"

"Because, I'm still Richie Sambora, the luckiest man in the world."

"And why's that?"

He smiled. "Because I'm engaged to the person of my dreams."

I set my coffee cup down and wrapped my arms around his neck, and leaned back to look at him. "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, you know?"

He smiled as he ran his finger through my hair. "Beauty, there's always going to be an us, okay?"

I smiled, as I felt tears welling up. "Okay."

He smiled wider as he kissed me, and we leaned back on the counter.

But what we didn't see, was whatJon was planning on doing to us, and the people we'd become.

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"Why are you so perverted?" I smiled.

"Because there's a beautiful girl in front of me, and I can't help myself!"

I rolled my eyes. "I'll go see who he's talking to, alright?"

"Alrighty," he said.

I snuck behind the doorway in the parlor area. Jon was sitting on the edge of the chair, the phone in hand.

“Im pretty sure Kmae's going to be pissed," he said.

"Pissed?" I whispered to myself.

"She won't understand," Jon said. "She's getting married to Richie."

Why does our marriage get dragged into this?

"How will I?" he said, angrily. "She can't understand me. Dot wouldn't, how would she?"

Is he talking about me?

"I better go. Richie's probably wondering who I'm talking to."

Well, duh.

"Goodbye," he said, hanging the phone back on the wall.

I snuck back into the kitchen, where Richie was eating snacks from the cupboard.

"Richie," I laughed. "Why are you eating those?"

He instantly dropped the bag and smiled. "I wasn't eating anything..."

"I think I know who Jon's talking to."

"Who?"

I leaned against the cupboard. "Remember his exgirlfriend Diane?"

"Yeah?"

I looked at Richie with my "do-you-get-it-now" look.

"Oh, shit," Richie said.

"Mmhm. It's gotta be her."

"But...Why?"

I shrugged. "I think he's trying to tell us something,"

"What?"

"He doesn't want us to get married."

"Why wouldn't he?" Richie said,
worriedly. "I mean, he knows you mean EVERYTHING to me."

"Can't you tell? He doesn't want you to marry me because he's protecting me."

"From what?"

"Someone," I said. "Himself."

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"Well, don't whine to me if your jaw hurts," I said, handing him a Kleenex for his bloody nose. "Why did Seb start the fight with you anyways?"

"He's always been mean to me," Jon said. "Since they started that band, he hasn't been the same."

"Snake's still pretty cool," I said. "He just has changed since he's been around Sebastian. Don't you think?"

"Yeah," Richie said.

I looked up at the clock, which hung on the wall. "Ten o'clock?"



"Yeah," Richie said. "Did you want to go do something?"

"Like what?" I smiled.

"Oh my God..." Jon moaned in the corner. "You guys flirt too much!"

"Why aren't you flirting with your new 'girl'?" I asked.

Jon rolled his eyes. "She's more of a biker chick."

"Jon," Richie said, "she's got more metal piercings than your car."

I burst out laughing, as Jon shot me a look and Richie wrapped his arms around me.

"Whatever, can't you guys be happy?" Jon said.

"I am happy," I smiled as I looked up to Richie. He smiled too as we gave eachother a quick kiss.

The phone rang again.

"Can I get it this time?" I asked.

"Nope!" Jon said, as he bolted to the phone.

"Who's he talking to?" Richie asked.

"I don't know. He was talking to whoever it was earlier too."

"I wish he'd tell us," Richie said. "He's using our phone bill."

"Want me to peek?" I smiled.

"At what?" Richie laughed, a very scary laugh.

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I quickly changed, and flew down the stairs. I hadn't seen Snake and Sebastian for a long time.

I walked into the patio, where they were all sitting around the table, except for Jon, who sat like a lone soldier in the corner.

"There she is," Sebastain laughed. "Why do women take so long to change?"

"If we didn't, I'd look like you," I joked.

Everyone went "Ooooo" when I said that as Sebastain stood up.

"Wow, little girl, you've been getting meaner and meaner everyday," Sebastian laughed, as he grabbed my arm.

I broke free from his grip. "Don't ever touch me."

Jon sat uneasily in his chair, as I looked over.

Richie laughed. "That's enough, Bach. You don't want to hurt her before the wedding."

Sebastian backed away, and sat back down on the chair. "Sorry, Sambora. I just miss messing with the little bitch she used to be."

"I take that as a compliment," I laughed.

Sebastian looked over at Jon. "Why are you so silent?"

Jon shook his head. "Your big mouth won't let me get a word out."

Sebastian's look scared me. "What did you say, you little punk?"

"Little punk?" Jon laughed. "You're obviously talking about what you're packing in those jeans."

Sebastian stepped up. "You want to take this outside?"

"Gladly," Jon said, as he stood up too.

"Guys!" I screamed. "You're NOT going to fight eachother, alright?"

Sebastian ignored me, as he took a swing towards Jon, and missed. Richie got into it too, trying to break it up, including Snake also.

"Stop!" I yelled, as Jon's punch into Seb's face made a horrifying noise, and a picture crashed to the floor.

Seb grabbed ahold of Richie and pushed him over to the porch. Jon's fist, bloody from Seb's nose, took another crack into Seb's face, until he gave up.

"You asshole!" Sebastian yelled, as he grabbed Snake.

The look that Jon gave Seb gave me chills. "Get out."

Sebastian and Snake left, with Seb limping.

"Kmae?" Richie said. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah," I said, breathless. "What was that about?"

"Me and Seb have never gotten along," Jon said.

"I can see," I said. "Do you need to go to the doctor? I think he broke your nose or something."

"I'm fine."

"Are you sure, Jon?"

"I'm positive."