John rushed toward her. "Ashley! I'm so sorry! I was going to tell you soon! I swear!" He blurted out as his anger for Dot mixed with his fear of losing Ashley.
"Don't baby her ass Johnny! She needs to know the damn truth! That we are going to be parents together and she is in the damn way!" Dorothea yelled, hoping to get rid of her once and for all.
He turned back to her. "Shut the fuck up Dot!" Then he looked at Ashley. "I'm so sorry. This is not what I wanted! I didn't want you to find out like this! You've got to believe me! I wasn't trying to hide it from you! I was going to tell you! This doesn't change anything between you and me!"
Ashley was on the verge of tears. "Please stop John. This changes everything."
"It doesn't have to! Come on let's go home together so we can talk this out. I love you Ashley. Dot doesn't mean anything to me! I swear!"
"That's a hell of a thing to say about your child's Mother!" Dot yelled looking at him like she could kill him.
John turned to her. "Would you shut the hell up! All of this is your fucking fault! If you had taken your damn pills like you were supposed to, we wouldn't be in this fucking mess!"
"How long have you known?" Ashley asked looking at John and then she glanced over at Dot, and just the sight of her made her feel sick to her stomach.
"She told me today, before the concert. She went to the doctor and based on her last period and due date, it looks like the kid is mine. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have trusted her to take those damn birth control pills. What can I do to make this up to you. Nothing matters to me but you. I love you Ashley."
"But she has slept with other people! Bobby and Jake! And God only knows who else!"
"Hey you watch your damn mouth! I might be pregnant but I can still beat your skinny little ass with very little effort!" Dorothea mouthed off, not liking what was being said about her. "You really need to face the fact that the only guy I slept with without a condom was Johnny! So little miss priss, as you can plainly see Johnny and I will be a ready made family and I guess you just need to head on back to hickville and find you some cute little redneck to cozy up to!"
"Damn it Dot I told you to shut up! We are not a family I can't be with you! Kid or no kid, I love Ashley and she is the only one I want to be with!"
"What about it blondie? Do you still want to be with him? The father of my child? Can you live with the fact that he has obligations to me and our child?"
Ashley was still in shock and just stood there. So Dot continued.
"I love him I always have! You barely know him! The only thing you really have in common is between the sheets! If you were out of the picture we would get back together and be a happy family!"
"Ash don't listen to her. I can't be with her! I don't love her! I never did!"
"But you will love your child and every child needs their Father."
"What are you saying Ashley? You can help me take care of the baby you can be like a second Mom." He tried to explain.
"Oh hell no! This bitch won't ever touch our child! Dorothea shouted at John and turned toward Ashley giving her an evil eye.
Ashley's head felt like it was spinning.. "No John, I can't do that. I'm sorry but I told you I don't want to have any kids and I'm certainly not ready to be any sort of Mom to someone elses child."
"We can make this work!" He tried to get her to understand.
"No we can't. I've got to go." Ashley went in the building and he followed her.
She walked over to the waitress at the counter. "Mam can I use your phone?"
"Sure sweetie it's over there by the register."
"Who are you calling?" John demanded to know, but she wouldn't answer him. He felt an instant pounding in his brain and ran his hands through his hair hoping to relieve some of the pressure.
She dialed but didn't get an answer so she hung up and dialed a different number. Her voice was shaking. "Can you please come get me? I'm at the All American Diner."
She hung up . And tried to push past him.
"Where the hell are you going?"
"Please stop John everybody in here is staring at us!"
"I don't give a shit! I love you! Stop trying to push me away!"
She walked outside and he barreled out the door behind her.
"Who the fuck did you call Ashley?" He was getting angry that she wouldn't talk to him.
"Don't worry about me John. You have a lot of more important things to worry about."
"How can you say that? Nothing is more important than you!"
"I'm sorry! I just can't deal with it! Okay! The thought of you touching her makes me sick! And knowing y'all have a baby coming is just the last straw! How much shit do you really expect me to take John?"
"I'm sorry. I wish I could take it back. Hell I wish I hadn't ever met her. Ashley please I am begging you. Please don't leave me. I can't lose you." John pleaded with teary eyes.
A little while later the black Charger pulled up.
John looked up. "What the fuck Ash? You called Jake?"
"I couldn't get Stacey, so I called my brother."
Ricky got out of the passenger side. "What's going on Ash? Did this asshole do something to you?"
"Fuck you man! John yelled out. Mad as hell she had called him. You're not leaving with them!" He glanced in her direction not taking his eyes off of Ricky.
"I've got to go John." She walked over by Ricky as the driver door opened. Jake got out with a can of beer in his hand.
"I told you, you'd fuck up Bongiovi!"
"Shut up Jake!" Ashley yelled walking over to her brother.
"Let's go Ricky!" She demanded, she had to get the hell away from John now.
"Ashley!" John called out, wanting to beg her to stay.
"I'll take good care of her! Jake laughed as Ricky and Ashley walked closer to the car.
"You better keep your fucking hands off of her you damn prick!" John yelled.
Richie walked outside. He heard Jake's car and came out to see what the commotion was.
Ashley slid in the backseat and Ricky climbed inside. Jake walked to the driver door and took a few sips of his beer and slung almost a full can at John and yelled. "Fuck you Bongiovi!" Then he jumped in and skidded out of the parking lot.
"Damn it!" John took his drenched shirt off and shook his head wildly trying to get some of the beer out of his hair.
"That fucking asshole man! I'm going over there!" John yelled walking toward the limo.
"Do what you want. But I would give her some space man." Richie hoped to reason with him.
"But she's over there with that prick!" John argued. His temper flaring.
"Her brother's there. I'll try to call Stacey to go over and make sure she's okay."
"Yeah do that and let me talk to her." John walked toward the diner and Dot was blocking the door.
"Get out of my damn way!" He yelled at her.
"Don't be mad at me because she made her choice. She doesn't love you! She doesn't want anything to do with our baby! Maybe she's in love with Jake! No I bet she goes back after Bret! Well they shouldn't have any trouble getting little miss innocent in the sack this time!" Dot laughed.
"You just need to shut up and get the fuck out of my face!" John's whole body jerked a little as he yelled because he was so pissed.
"Come on Dot! Grow the fuck up! If you're going to be a Mother, act like one!" Richie scolded her, but she couldn't seem to wipe the smirk off her face.
She moved aside and let John walk by. They walked over to the payphone and Richie dialed Stacey. After three rings she picked up.
"Hello." A groggy Stacey mumbled.
"Hey babe it's Richie." He barely got it out when John grabbed the phone right out of his hand.
"Stacey it's Johnny! Listen I fucked up really bad and Ash just left the diner with Jake and Ricky. Can you go over there and check on her? Don't let her stay over there with that asshole!"
"What happened?" Stacey asked wondering what would send Ash to call Ricky and Jake."
"Well you're going to find out sooner or later. Dot's pregnant and .......................I'm the father." Even as he confessed this to her he still couldn't believe it.
"Oh my God! How the hell could you get Dot pregnant? What in the Sam Hill were you thinking? Did you not use protection with her?"
"She was always on the damn pill! How the hell was I supposed to know the bitch quit taking it?"
"That's the oldest trick in the book John to catch a man. Quit taking your pills and get pregnant! Voila instant family! Or they tell the guy, you don't need to wear a condom I can't have any children!"
"Damn I just wasn't thinking. I trusted that bitch!"
"Men need to wise up! Some chicks are looking for more than a good time! They are hunting for a husband or somebody to knock them up!"
"I guess I learned that shit the hard way." Please go over there! Make her come to your house and call me at the apartment. I have to talk to her. I just can't leave it like this."
"Johnny she's running. It's what she does. Don't spook her. She's like a deer. One sudden move and she's gone."
"But this is all my fault! And I love her. I can't let her go. Please see what you can do."
"Okay bye." Stacey hung up and got dressed as Jake's car pulled up. She walked outside and they were standing in the front yard.
"Where were you? I just tried to call you?" Ashley asked watching Stacey walk across the street.
"I was asleep. I heard Jake's car pull up. What's going on?"
"Her new boyfriend she's so crazy for has done gone and knocked up his ex!" Jake laughed.
"What?" Stacey tried to act shocked looking at Ashley.
"Yeah she went to the doctor and the due date is nine months exactly from when John slept with her at his apartment."
"But what about Jake! He plowed that damn field too!"
Ashley turned to Jake.
"Oh hell no! I wore a condom!" Jake shook his head back and forth. "Even though she told me I didn't have to, that she was on the pill. I ain't a dumbass like Bongiovi! Hell he even admits he didn't wear a rubber!"
"Only because his memory was messed up and he thought she was his girlfriend! She had always been on the pill and he never wore one with her." Ashley felt like she needed to explain it.
"Looks like that was a big mistake now!" Jake chuckled.
"Oh Ash I'm so sorry. What is John gonna do?"
"What can he do? Dot wants him back. She wants him to play daddy."
"He doesn't want to be with her! Right?" Stacey asked looking at Ashley.
"He said no. But it's his baby. A baby should be with it's father."
"So what are you doing here?"
"Dot was with him. I overheard them talking and him telling her he didn't want her to go out with some guy they know from school, that asked her out. She asked why and he told her because you're pregnant with my kid. He sounded jealous. Even though he denies it, he must have some sort of feelings for her."
"Damn Ash I'm sorry honey. Please cut your losses and let this be the last time you let him hurt you!"
"Tell her Stace! She needs to hear it!" Jake chimed in smoking a cigarette by the front door."
"Cause you're really one to talk! Damn it Jake, you hurt me more than anybody!" Ashley exclaimed, surprised by what he had just said.
"And that's how I know you are letting this dude walk all over you! You would have already kicked me in the balls a long time ago!"
"Jake just keep all your opinions to yourself I can't put up with you too!"
"Come inside Stace."
"Okay girl." They walked upstairs. "Why is my door open? I locked it when I left!" She hollered down the stairs.
Jake ran up the stairs. "I picked that lock. I like sleeping in your bed. I can smell that great way your hair smells all over your pillows."
"Stay out of my room! I'm not playing Jake!"
"You don't mean that. You have that look in your eyes." He smiled at her.
"Oh I do alright! The one that says you totally disgust me!"
"You know ever since you moved up here and started hanging with those long haired punks you have gotten really mouthy!"
"Up yours Jake! I'm just not taking your shit anymore!" She looked at him like she meant business.
"I've always loved that feistyness about you. It's always turned me on." He chuckled.
"Jake go on! We are trying to talk!" Stacey raised her voice glancing back at him.
"It's okay. I know what y'all are gonna talk about and don't worry, I'm up for threesome anytime y'all get ready." He laughed.
"You are always such a damn pervert Jake! It's a real turn off!" Ashley got up and started pushing him toward the door. "Bye bye see ya later!" He got to the door and wouldn't let her push him anymore.
"Go on Jake get out!"
"If you give me a kiss!" He stood there with a smirk looking at her.
"Hell no!" She hollered out.
"You know you miss being with me." He smiled. Remember that last weekend we were together and stayed in that cabin up at Flint Creek?"
"Yeah I do. We had a good time that weekend but I haven't wanted you to kiss me in a month of Sundays and I certainly don't want it now so please leave so I can talk to Stacey."
"You know I still love you Ash?" Jake smiled looking at her.
"Okay can you do it from the hallway?"
"Damn you are cold. I'm starting to think you never gave a shit about me."
"Go with that thought." She pushed once more and he was in the hall and she closed the door and locked it.
"Finally some peace in my own damn house." She laid down on her bed.
"Just forget him. What are you going to do about Johnny?"
"I don't know. He told me I could help him take care of the baby. I could be like a second mom!"
"Oh dang he really said that?"
"Yep and and I'm like thinking, oh hell no there's no way I could even be around a child of theirs that was conceived when me and John were still together. I guess that makes me sorrier than shit but hell I just can't do it!"
"Nope it doesn't. But it does give you your answer, cut him loose. He wants you to call him at the apartment."
"How do you know?"
"Richie was with him and they called me before I came over here. Call him."
"I can't! What should I say?"
"Say something like, I can't be with you when you've done gone off and gotten another chick pregnant! Goodbye and goodnight asshole!"
"God how am I going to do this? I love him so much. This is really tearing me up."
"Enough to help him raise his and Dorothea's baby?"
"Hell no I ain't raising any babies especially Dorothea Hurley's baby!"
"Well call him and tell him!"
Okay." She picked up the phone and hit speakerphone and dialed John's number.
"Hello." John picked up on the first ring.
"Hey." Was all she could muster when she heard his super sexy voice answer on the other end of the line.
"Hey baby. I'm so glad you called. Are you over at Stacey's I was so worried about you, off with that asshole. Please come home."
"No John. I'm sorry but this just isn't going to work out."
"What? Wait what are you talking about?"
"Us this just isn't going to work. I can't be with you anymore. I just can't live like this. We have to breakup." She got the words out quickly. Before she couldn't get them out at all.
"We can't end it like this Ashley! We love each other. Where are you? Your Dad's? I'm coming over there!"
"No John please don't rile up my brother and Jake."
"Ash this isn't right. I love you. I didn't know she was trying to get pregnant. Please don't leave me. At least come say it to my face." He sniffled into the phone wiping his eyes.
"No I can't." Her voice cracked a little.
"So you don't love me?"
"You know I do. This is so hard for me. I'm so sorry John, I wish I could except it but I just can't. I need time to be by myself and you need time to get ready to be a Daddy. Maybe you should try to work it out with Dorothea. A child needs both parents."
"No I won't be with the bitch that's ruining my life! Even if you breakup with me and hate me forever, I won't ever get back with her!"
"I don't hate you John. I'll always love you. I just can't be with you. I'm so sorry, but I've got to go."
"Ash wait!" He yelled into the phone and heard a click when she hung up.
He threw the phone across the room and sat down on the couch in shock. "Fuck my life!"
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