Bitter Rivals
Chapter 4
A Baby, a Date, and a Breakup

"You want to have a baby?" Nicky asked. He inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. Thank God she doesn't know about Bailey.

"Yeah," Kelly replied. Nicky just stared at her. After a few minutes, Kelly waved her hand in front of his face. Wait, did she say a baby?

"Nicky," she said. Nicky snapped out of his trance with a shake of his head.

"That's great, Kel," he said with a big smile on his face.

"Really?" Kelly asked.

"Yeah, let's go," he stood up and started to walk out of the dining room. He completely forgot that he was having an affair. All he could think about was him and Kelly and their future child.

"I didn't mean right now," she said with a laugh, but she stood up and followed him into their bed room.

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The next morning Nicky woke up at 7:00. Bailey didn't have any photo shoot's scheduled, so he could sleep in. Kelly was already awake. She had already taken a shower and was in the bathroom drying her hair.

He laid there a while longer and thought about his drama-filled love life. He loved Kelly, but he was starting to love Bailey too. He knew he had to end things with her before he and Kelly had a baby. He just couldn't do it. Bailey would be crushed. And Nationals were only a month away! If he dumped her now, there's no way she would be able to train for Nationals! He sighed and rolled out of bed.

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Payson stood at the balance beam watching Kenzie do her routine. She knew that they defiantly needed to work on it if they wanted to beat the "New Queen of the Beam" as Gymnastics Weekly had deemed Bailey Ellington. According to most of the gymnasts and coaches she had spoken with, though, Bailey deserved Lauren's other nickname too. "The Bitch of the Beam"

The article had also mentioned that she was coached by Nicky Russo and Kelly Parker. Payson had almost had a heartattack. It sounded like some sort of soap opera. Her ex-boyfriend and her former arch-rival were coaching the daughter of her star gymnast's mother's arch-enemy.

"Okay, Kenzie," Payson said, "we need to bump up your difficulty level."

"But I can barely do this!" Kenzie argued.

"Well, do you want to win?" Payson asked.

Before Kenzie could reply, Amanda cut in, "Of course she does. Do whatever Payson says, darling."

Kenzie rolled her eyes and walked over to the water fountain.

"I don't know what's wrong with that girl," Amanda said, "Not willing to do what it takes to win, that's not like my McKenna."

"McKenzie," Payson corrected.

"Right," Amanda said.

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Nicky sat down at his desk to do the paperwork from the previous night. He heard three knocks on his door. Damn

"Come in," he said. Bailey entered the room. She was actually dressed this time with purple long sleeve shirt and blue jeans. Her four-inch boots made her almost five-feet tall. Nicky gave her a tight smile.

"When were you going to tell me?" Bailey asked. She looked as if she was about to cry.

"Tell you what?" Nicky said. He stood up and walked over to her. He started to wrap his arms around her, but she pulled away.

"That Kelly's pregnant!" she snapped. She fought back her tears, not wanting Nicky to see her cry.

"She's not pregnant, yet," Nicky said.

"She told me that she was!" Bailey said. "You might not know this, but Kelly and I are actually friends."

Nicky snorted. "Right. Cause I'm sure you sleep with all your friends' husbands."

"Shut up!" Bailey snapped. The tears finally started flowing.

"Bailey," Nicky said, "Kelly's not pregnant. We just started trying last night." He knew he had made a mistake the second the words were out of his mouth.

"Last night! Last night! You sleep with me here then you go home and sleep with your wife! What the hell! Nicky, how could you do this to me!" Bailey said between her tears.

"Kelly and I are married, Bailey! You know that! That's kind of what married people do!" Nicky said.

"Do married people sleep with sixteen year olds too?" Bailey snapped.

"Bailey, I was going to tell you about this after Nationals. And I was going to end things with us too!" Nicky said.

Bailey gave him a heartbreaking look before running out of his office.

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Payson stood on the corner of the street talking to Ryan Hurley. The star point guard for the New York Wildcats! She had bumped into him, literally, on her way to the grocery store. The two had been talking for about thirty minutes.

"I have to go, Payson, but maybe we could go out tonight?" Ryan asked.

Payson blushed, "That'd be great."

"Why don't you give me your number and I'll call you," Ryan said giving her a heartstopping grin.

She blushed some more before motioning for his cell phone. He handed it too her, and she punched her number in. Ryan flashed her that grin again before climbing into his million dollar car.

"I have a date with Ryan Hurley," she whispered to herself. "Ryan Hurley!"

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"So, Kel, when were you going to tell me that you are pregnant?" Nicky asked her at dinner that night.

"Who told you that?" she asked quickly.

"Bailey. She congratulated me. And I told her that you weren't pregnant."

Kelly sat down the fork that she had in her hand before sighing and saying, "I didn't know how you were going to react. We've never discussed having kids before, and I was scared."

"So you decided to lie," Nicky said calmly.

"I didn't lie. I said that I wanted a baby, and I do."

Nicky laughed, "Okay, fine. How about we just forget about all that. So how far along are you?"

"About two months," she said.

"And how long have you known?" he asked.

"I found out yesterday after I left the gym," she said.

"So we're going to have a baby?" Nicky asked.

"Yeah, we're going to have a baby," Kelly said with a huge smile on her face.

Will Kelly find out about Bailey and Nicky? Will Payson have a good date with Ryan? Will Nicky ever finish his paperwork? Review and you'll find out faster!

So I have the next chapter finished, but I'm going to wait until I finish the one after it to post the it. Also, I have a poll on my profile that about what people think about Bailey and Nicky. Depending on how the votes go, I might let them get back together!

A special thanks to OneCrazyHufflepuffGinger for all the awesome ideas that she had! And for listening to my ideas. Without her, this story wouldn't be nearly as good.

And for anyone that thinks Kelly is OOC, just wait. The bitch will return!

Damn, this is a long A/N. For my fellow Payson and Nicky fans out there, just wait! A few more chapters and they will reunite at Nationals.

PLEASE REVIEW!