Chapter 1:
"Thanks again for letting me stay here Dave" said John to his step brother Dave Batista.
"No problem John. My home is your home for as ling as you need. You don't have to keep thanking me."
John stayed quiet as he just sat in the living room with his head hanging low.
Batista looked over at his friend and decided to break the silence.
"Ok, look I know you're going through a lot with the divorce and Ted kicking you out of the house and the kids not wanting anything to do with it but you have to look on the bright side, you're one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors again." said Dave trying to get John to cheer up.
"Oh yes, because that life was so great when I was younger" said John sarcastically.
He was the CEO of the WWE at 32 years old, he already had three kids ages 16, 15, and 12, and he was married, legally I mean. He did spent a lot of time at work ever since his dad had passed away and left him the company when he was 18. Ted was tired of feeling like his family and he where second compared to John's job and couldn't take it anymore.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways you should get going, aren't you suppose to pick up the kids like in ten minutes" said Dave.
'The kids, that's going to be great.' thought John sarcastically. The ids where actually taking Ted's side.
John took the kids to the ice cream shop he used to take them to all the time when they were younger called 'Tutty Fruity'. He looked at them. Atticus,16, was blocking him out by listening to music, Gretchen, 15, was texting whoever was on her phone, and Jaden was idly poking on his sundae.
"ok, look." John said. "I know your siding with your dad on this but you guys can't shun me out like this. I am still your father" he added.
"Oh yeah, because you've been so much of a father lately." Gretchen said sarcastically.
"Well I'm trying to now aren't I." John said redirecting his attention to Jaden. "So Jaden, their going to start a new season of soccer at the sports recreation center 'The Mustang', are you going to join?"
"I don't know, maybe." said Jayden.
"And you, Atticus. Atticus?" John called on him.
Atticus bopped his head to the music ignoring John.
"Atticus your headphones aren't even plugged in." John said, eyebrow twitching.
Atticus just continued to bop his head ignoring his father.
Driving them home was almost as bad as talking to them at the shop. Jaden turned the music up as loud as possible. While Alexis argued with one of her friends over the phone. And Atticus didn't even look his way.
"We're here." said John as he stopped his Ferrari in front of the multi-million dollar mansion he USED to live in.
"Bye pops." Jayden said as he quickly got out of the car.
"Later." said Gretchen walking while texting out of the car.
Atticus just got out of the car.
John looked at his three ids as the maid greeted them and let them inside the house. John could even remember when the last time Atticus called him 'dad' or 'pops' was. He felt guilty, it was his fault. If he didn't work so much he would have been able to spend more time at home, more time with his kids, with his husband. But it was to late.