"Arianna, get inside," Sam told her, walking down the stairs of the porch. Arianna ignored Sam and tried to grab the toy from Jo, but Jo dropped it on the floor and stepped on it with her arms crossed.
"Jo!" Kendall yelled at her as Jo kicked the toy towards Arianna, while smirking. Arianna had tears rolling down her innocent 3 year old face.
"Arianna, baby. Go inside okay, I'll be a minute, okay." Sam gently said to her daughter as Arianna picked up the remains of her toy and walked towards the house and inside with her head down. Miley walked over to Kendall and Jo.
"Who the hell do you think you are! Making my 3 year old daughter cry! Do you think it's funny when a little girl cries because some heartless, cold bitch just wrecked her favorite doll?!" Sam snapped at Jo. Kendall didn't answer her because he was still in shock of the girl standing in front of him when Jo spoke back with her usual cocky tone.
"Who the hell are you?" Jo asked, with her smirk and arms still crossed. Kendall snapped out of his daze and turned to Jo.
"Jo, go in the house, now." Jo was about to open her mouth again when Kendall said "Now!" Jo rolled her eyes and walked towards his house as Kendall turned to make sure she was inside before turning back to the girl in front of him.
"Sam what are you doing here and who's that little girl you were talking to? What happened to you? Where'd you go?" he asked quietly, but Sam just looked ahead of him and ignored him and started walking back into the house.
"Samantha, sweetie. I think you should tell him." Mr. Holland said quietly as Sam looked to the ground and then turned back around to face Kendall.
"You want to know the answers to those questions?" Kendall nodded. "Okay, well when you dumped me, I was pregnant! So I bailed on Princeton and moved back to Texas to raise our baby. Her name's Arianna and after the way your little slut just treated her and ruined my daughter's favorite doll, I don't want you anywhere near her, you got that?"
Sam started walking back up to the steps, but before she could, Kendall grabbed her arm and turned her around. She could tell from his expression that he was angry, and for a lot of reasons, but Sam didn't care. She snatched her arm back and glared at him. "You were pregnant and you didn't bother to tell me?! I was a father Sam and you didn't bother to tell me! Samantha, I have a daughter I never even knew about and you just ran away like child!" Kendall yelled angrily, and Sam felt her eyes fill with tears.
"Whatever Kendall, knowing you, you would've jumped at the first chance you got to leave me with Arianna! I raised a baby on my own and so far, she's happy. She's had a good childhood without you so far. She doesn't need you to come and ruin her life, just like you did to mine!" Sam yelled as she stormed back up the porch steps and she opened the front door, and she slammed it behind her.
Kendall stood in the middle of Sam's driveway, frozen to the spot at his new discovery. He was a father, he had a daughter. Sam and his child had been in Texas all along. He had a daughter named Arianna. He sighed and looked around to see everyone staring at him.
"Tell Sam I need to talk to her, please." He quietly said, as he walked back into his parent's house. Mrs. Knight, Mrs. Holland, Camille, Jessica and Brandon all walked out. Brandon was carrying Arianna in his arms, and she looked around up at her family with a tearstained face.
"Who was that lady who hurt dolly? Why was the man in Mommy's picture here? Why was Mommy crying?" Arianna sniffled, as Brandon kissed her forehead and looked at the rest of the two families.
"Honey that was Jo. And the man in your mom's picture was here to visit us. He and your mom don't agree on some things, so they had a little argument." Carlos said to her. Arianna glanced up at the Knight house and then she jumped down from Brandon's arms and ran into the house and up to Sam's room.
She opened the door and saw Sam sobbing on the bed, and she climbed up and sat down beside Sam, "Mommy, who was that man that was in your picture? Why was he yelling at you? Did I do something wrong?"
"No, baby, you did nothing wrong. That man, he was someone that you're mommy used to know. Me and him don't agree on some things, sweetie. He wanted to know who you were, that was all, and I didn't want to tell him," Sam explained, and she wiped her tears and sat up, pulling Arianna onto her lap.
"I love you, Mommy," Arianna and she snuggled into her mother's chest, making Sam smile.
"I love you too, baby girl," Sam said, kissing Arianna's head and snuggling her back, and they soon fell asleep on Sam's bed.
Kendall stormed into the Knight household and slammed the door shut, catching Jo's attention from the kitchen, making her run to him and wrap her arms around him tightly.
"Kenny, who was that little brat outside?" Jo whined making Kendall wince and push her away out of anger.
"Don't call her a brat Jo!" Kendall snapped as he turned away from her and started walking upstairs, but Jo refused and grabbed his arm and turned him to look at her.
"Why, Kenny? It's not like she's anyone special to you!" Jo said with a light smirk and a giggle as Kendall turned back to face her willingly and shook his head before snatched his arm back.
"That little girl Jo, that little girl that is no one special to you is my daughter, alright? So you either buy her a new doll to make up for what you just did or the wedding, our wedding, is off!" Kendall yelled at her as he stormed upstairs angrily as Jo stood in shock in the middle of the hall, and the door slammed from upstairs when she turned to see the rest of the household standing behind her.
"Where is Kendall? He is about to die." James mumbled and started walking upstairs followed by Logan and Carlos.
"Mrs. Knight, how come Kendall never told me that he had a daughter?" Jo complained.
Mrs. Knight winced and turned to look at Jo, and she said, "He didn't tell you Jo because he didn't know about Adrianna. He had just broken up with Samantha and they had been intimate about a month before and Kendall had broken up with her one morning, saying he was too young to be so serious about someone, especially before college. That afternoon, Samantha found out she was pregnant so a week after graduation she packed up and moved back to her home state of Texas, where she had the baby and raised her so he could focus on moving on and getting over her, and growing old with someone else." Mrs. Knight said, explaining every detail to Jo.
Katie walked past the two and glared at Jo before running up the stairs to her room. Jo winced at the sight of the teenage girl and walked into the kitchen from the dining room following Mrs. Knight aimlessly, "But why didn't she tell him?" Jo whined some more, which was starting to annoy Mrs. Knight.
"Jo, if you want to know you should not be asking me, it's Kendall you should be talking too. Or even Samantha, because it's not actually any of my business. To be honest, it's not your business either, only Kendall and Sam's." Mrs. Knight said.
Logan and Carlos walk in and lean against the counter, stealing one of Mrs. Knight's cookies she just took out of the oven. Jo then spoke harshly to her "It is most definitely my business, Mrs. Knight, because when I marry your son, that little brat will be my stepdaughter unfortunately. So I have to know these things so as I can comfort Kendall and give him the support he needs."
"You, comfort Kendall? Jo you couldn't comfort a cactus," Carlos said, making Logan laugh and high five Carlos. Jo glared at Carlos and Logan as Kendall walked into the room and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge. When he grabbed it, he started to walk away again, but Jo stopped him and ran in front of his path to stop him from walking away.
"Kenny, can we talk?" she asked sweetly. Kendall sighed and glanced at his family. He knew they all hated Jo's guts, but he couldn't help it. He had already asked her to marry him and he was fine with that idea, until Samantha jumped back into his life so quickly.
"Yeah I guess." he said, and walked out into the backyard with her. He sat on the swing in the far back of the yard and she sat beside him. "What's up, Jo? What's wrong?" Jo looked at Kendall and sighed. She knew that he wanted Sam again a that's why she had to do everything in her power to make herself better than Sam, no matter what.
"Kendall, I just have a few things to ask you. Why didn't you know about the-" She stopped herself before she called his daughter a brat again, "the girl? Why didn't she tell you? Why did you break up with her? Why did you look at them the way you did? How did you meet the mother of the girl before?" she asked. Kendall looked down awkwardly and stayed silent for a few moments. And then, the story poured from his lips like liquor.
"I'd known her for years. She moved next door to me when she moved here from Texas when she was 12 years old. We started dating when we were young, probably about 13 years old. She was my high school sweetheart and I truly loved her with all my heart. But then I felt like it got too much after we sex together for the first time, it was either we had sex or we were fighting and that was all we ever did. I guess one night, I forgot a condom and I didn't know it. The morning I broke up with her, she looked like her world had just crumbled from underneath her and I felt so guilty. But I didn't want to fight all the time. No matter how much I loved her, I couldn't do it anymore. So I ended it and then when I saw her at graduation. She looked beautiful, absolutely beautiful. I don't know what it was, but I couldn't keep my eyes off her the whole time. I actually almost tripped on stage before I was scared she was watching me. Then, the next day, when I went to her house to ask her to take me back and beg for forgiveness, her dad told me she'd left and wasn't planning on coming back. My world fell apart so I moved to New York to try and get her off my mind. I dated tons of girls, but none of them matched up to her. So I stopped dating for a year. And then I met you. And I liked you, so I asked you out and it was great. I don't know why Sam never told me about our kid but I really wish she had. I didn't look at them any differently from you Jo. All feelings for Sam that I had left over flooded out when I met you. But my daughter... I want to be in her life. I didn't get to be in it for three years now but I want to be in it now, for good."
Kendall knew he was lying to himself by telling himself that he loved Jo, especially since he knew he didn't. But he had to lie to himself, he didn't have a choice. Because otherwise, he would believe that he loved Sam. He knew he did, but he didn't want to believe it, ever.