Leighla stared at Colby after the scientis's words. His face was frozen, eyes wide with a little bit of water in them. He was staring at the ground, face expressionless. She gently took her daughter from him and placed her inside her stroller. His hands were trmbling.
The entire room was silent. Zahra looked shocked as well, Brandon looked stunned, the counsellor looked proud and the scientist looked remorceful. The children were quiet, probably sencing the uneasiness in the room. All that could be heard was the 'tick' 'tock' of the grandfather clock in the corner of the room.
"Do you have anything to say, miss Scriber?" The councellor asked, voice cold, yet had a mocking tone to it. She didn't respond, just fell back against the couch, placing her face in her hands, looking to the ground. Her hands covered her mouth, eyes wide.
"Anything?"
"I-I" Zahra stuttered, genuinley sounding shocked by the news.
"Yes?"
"Colb, i am so sorry. I didn't know. I thought the baby was yours." She looked at Colby, who didn't respond to her. He just stared at the floor, his breaths starting to get harder and more forceful with every puff.
"Colby, calm down." Brandon ordered from the other side of the room, noticing his brother's shoulders start to shake and his breaths become deeper and harder. His hands and arms were trembling. He was so angry.
"Thought." Colby spat, not looking at the woman who had lied to him for so long. He still stared at the floor. "You thought the kid was mine."
"I did." She said.
"You lied to me!" He thundered, standing up and towering over Zahra. "You said i was the only one who you had been with, that there was no way the kid could be anybody elses. You were sleeping with other guys were you?!" He growled loudly. Zahra's eyes widened. She hadn't seen Colby so angry before.
Leighla didn't react. The way Colby was acting was nothing compared to how she'd seen him a good few times when they had been together. In her opinion, he was acting calmer than he should be at this moment.
"I-I"
"No!" He growled, frightening her. "I'm not done! You said there was no way that the kid could be anybody elses! Who's is it? Huh?!"
"I don't know!" Zahra screamed, making a few people in the room jump. Avianna started to cry and immediatley the scientist took her and Lucas and the newborn out of the room and into the hallway. "Maybe Chad's, or a guy i was with the day before NXT, or the night after-" She trailed off. Bad mistake.
"So three potential dads! You slept with four guys in four days! Do you have any idea how bad that is and sounds?!"
"I'm sorry! I genuinley thought it was yours!"
"Thought! You thought! You had no proof. You only told me, that's taking away from the kid and the other dads! You were trying to get me to raise your kid, knowing there was a one in four chance that it wasn't mine!"
"I know!" She screamed, tears sliding down her face. "But we were so happy together! I was so happy when i was with you, i thought you felt the same and you'd consider the child yours!"
"So you were never gonna tell me that there was a higher chance the baby wasn't mine! Your sounding like such a $lut right now!" Zahra slapped him hard across the face. Colby's hair covered his face, so he flicked his head back and roughly gripped her biseps, forcing her to her feet. He ripped his large hands away, seeing the red marks on her skin.
"How dare you! Youknow i'm not like that!"
"Bull$hit! You slept with four different guys in four days! How does that not sound like a $lut?!"
"I just was in love with you! I love you!" Leighla tensed, biting her lip. She hated hearing those words from her to him. "I justw anted us to be a family. You always wanted a family!"
"Yes, i had one before you came into the picture! You ruined it!" Leighla frowned. Did he mean him, her and Avianna?
"Well you didn't seem at all resistant to me. Never said no! Even after you got off the phone with her, telling her you loved her, you were in bed with me not even ten minutes later!" She shreaked. Leighla bit her lip, trying to keep her tears from flowing.
"I know! But i realise i made a mistake now! I never should have been with you! I never should've done anything with you!" Leighla stared at him, not knowing how to feel.
"So, you never should've said you loved me?"
"Yes! Never! I didn't even mean it!" Zahra started sobbing, slapping Colby over and over. He pushed her back, gently, and she fell onto the couch, tears sliding down her face.
"Your such a homewrecker." He growled, realising she took him from his fiancee and unborn child.
"And she's not?!" Zahra cried loudly. "If you never went there that day, she wouldnt've told you about the kid, and you'd be with me and the baby! She's the homewrecker too!" She cried, pointing at Leighla. She stiffened more, not knowing what Colby was going to say.
"No she's not!" He growled as she stood up again. "She told me the thruth, it was gonna come out eventually! Something, by the way, you never did!" Zahra didn't respond, just cried more as Brandon stood up.
"I feel sorry for that child, having to grow up with you as a mother." He growled.
"With me as a mother? Your leaving me?"
"Damn right! We're through!" She cried more and louder as Colby stormed over to Leighla, roughly grabbed her hand and lead her over towards the door, Brandon following as all three of them left.
Colby stormed outside, still keeping a iron grip on Leighla as he walked outside the building. Brandon had presumably went to get the children. Colby collapsed onto a steel bench, pulling Leighla with him.
Then, Colby Lopez became overcome with his emotions, as when his ex-fiancee sat down next to him, he bueried his face in his hands and started to cry. He couldn't deal with the fact that he'd been tricked into beleiving a child that wasn't his, actually was. And a child he didn't beleive was his, actually was. He couldn't deal with the fact that he'd left his fiancee and unborn child for a homewrecking $lut who tried to ensure that Colby stayed with her because she was pregnant. He knew he'd thrown away a happy life that he could've had with Leighla for Zahra, who he'd just broken up with.
Leighla just stared at him in sympathy as the man broke down in front of her. For once, he was the vulnerable young man that Leighla had fallen in love with many years before and not the older man who was forced to put up walls to many in his life due to his dream.
Gently, she reached over to him and stroked his long hair and upper back. She wasn't the one who had lied to him for so long, and she was still furious at him for putting her through all of this because of Zahra, but she still loved him deeply and hated seeing him upset. She knew he was just put through alot from the last few minutes of revalations. First, he finds out the little boy he'd been raising was his nephew, he had a daughter he and Leighla didn't know about, and his mistress had been lying to him about the paternity of her child. His head had been forced to develop a new outlook on life, and it looked like the guilt of what he'd done to Leighla was putting him through hell.
He didn't speak for many minutes, only cried into his hands and lap as realisation demolished his mind and being. She kept stroking his blonde and black hair gently, her fingers gently stroking over his upper back and shoulderblades. He didn't usually cry in front of her, but when he did, she'd grown used to the things that calmed him down and did them when he was distraught like this.
When it seemed like he didn't have any more tears to cry, he stopped his sobs slowly and leaned back up to rest on the cold steel. He gulped slowly, resting his head on Leighla's shoulder. She gently kissed his head and kept stroking his hair, until he seemed to be calm and slightly relaxed.
By this time, Brandon had the children in Leighla's car and had been sitting inside it, talking to his son, until Colby and Leighla were finished doing what they were doing. He glanced at his brother and what would be his sister in law regularly and smiled when he saw they're intimate position. They wern't screaming at each other, like the last time he'd seen them together, so seeing them slightly cuddled up without looking awkward or forced, was a good thing for him.
Colby and Leighla didn't speak for the time they'd been in there position. It was only then did they see Zahra walk out and go into a car. Her and Colby locked eyes for a brief moment, before he turned away from her, buering his face in Leighla's hair. She felt hot tears sliding down the back of her neck as Zahra got inside a large black car. She internally groaned at the feeling, before Colby started crying hard on her shoulder. Damn it. She'd worked hard to try and calm him down.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He sobbed and cried onto her shoulder. She hushed him, starting to stroke his hair again.
"Shh. It's okay. Calm down." She whispered to him gently, trying to comfort the distraught man as he cried onto her shoulder.
"I fucked up, didn't i? I ruined everything between us and i broke our family, all for her" He spat, babbling like a drunk person would, before he started crying and talking again. "I almost killed you, and-and our daughter. I'm so-so sorry i wasn't there for you when you needed m-me the most. I-I'm so sorry. I hate myself for what i've done to you, and our baby. I-I had it a-all. You, her, my job, but i threw it away for that $lut" He spat out the last word, feeling more tears slide as he spilled everything he was thinking to the woman who held his heart. "I-I can't live with what i've done. I-I am so sorry. Please forgive me, baby. Please." He begged her like a little boy, looking up at the ice blue eyes which he'd stared into almost every day for over seven years.
Leighla looked down at him, seeing the hot tears sliding down his face, large dark eyes sparkling darkly with redness around the rims. Her heart broke. He looked like a lost little boy, which in some ways, he was.
"Baby," She cooed softly, without even realising it. She gently wiped away the tears that had fallen and he placed his head back on her shoulder.
"Shh. It's okay. Calm down. Everything's gonna be fine." She tried to convince him, as he finally stopped crying for the second time. He felt like such a fool. The biggest idiot in the world. How could he do that? Was he that stupid? Why did he think cheating was the right thing to do, leaving this amazing woman for some ring rat who tried to ruin his life.
After a few more minutes of trying to compose himself, he finally succeeded and unwrapped his large arms from Leighla's waist, pulling away from her the slightest bit.
"You okay?" She gently questioned, finally seeing him pull himself together.
Colby chuckled, sniffling a little. "Yeah, i just feel like a idiot, you know?"
"You're not an idiot."
"I am right now. What the hell was i thinking?"
"A little birdie told me it was the distance. You couldn't change that."
"Who told you that?"
"Renee." Ah. It made sense. She was close to the blonde woman.
"It was that too, but i didn't have to cheat. I could've prevented that."
"I know, but you didn't. Can't change that now, can you?"
"Guess not. But look where it got me. Being a single dad and screwing up the best thing i ever had." She looked away from him.
"What?"
"Nothing. Just thinking." He gently grabbed her hand and forced her to look at him. He didn't not notice the way her eyes sparkled as she looked at him.
"I hope you know everything i just said is the truth. And i hope you know i am sorry for doing what i did. And i hope you are for what you did."
"I am." She mumbled.
"Good. I know Lucas knows what it's like to have a family, and i want that for Avianna. I forgive you for what you did, and i think it's only fitting that you do the same." Leighla opened her mouth to speak, but Colby interupted her, holding both her hands in hers, seeing her black cracked fingernails on top of his large, warm hands. "If you do, i swear, thing'll get better. I'll give you the world. I'll give you the wedding of your dreams, the most perfect children, i'll be the best father to Avianna and i'll make sure you never want for anything again. So, what do you say?"
It sounded so perfect. Leighla knew he was being sincere, since he didn't even blink when he was talking. He stared into her eyes, vowing to give her the world if she let him into her heart once more. Could she really do this again? Would he cheat again? Would Zahra pop up in their lives again?
Colby seemed to read her mind.
"No. she's gone now. I'll never do anything like what i did again. I know i have too much to loose. So, what do you say? One more try?" He questioned, letting go of her left hand again briefly, before fishing in his jean pocket for a few moments, before coming up with a nineteen thousand dollar diamond ring. The diamond sparkled as brightly as it did the first time Leighla had saw it in that pretty bouquet of roses that day. She looked up as Colby stared into her eyes, hoping she'd say yes.
"One more try. Yes."
With those words, the ring was placed on her left ring finger, where it was suppost to be. With those words, their relationship was completley repaired, and before long, the duo were announced Mr. and Mrs. Colby Lopez.
And, nothing ever broke them apart again.
The end.
