Title: Ride Of Your Life

Author: Adrian Jade

Summary: One day you wake up and realize that everything you thought mattered to you doesn't. John Cena has a girlfriend who he thinks he loves and a best friend who he knows he will always love. What happens when on a random pit stop to a Walmart they find something that could change all of their lives. John needs to choose where his heart belongs.

Disclaimer: I own all the people that you don't recognize. Everyone else own themselves and their characters belong to the WWE.

Phinnigan was up every 3 hours that night but Ashley and John traded off every other turn. Despite being awake more than she was asleep she still felt pretty rested.

"So where's Kelly?" Ashley asked. The whole "family" was lying in Ashley's bed. John had Phinnigan on his chest. He looked at Ashley a moment before answering.

"We had a fight and I left" John admitted.

"I'm sorry if you and Kelly are fighting had anything to do with me" Ashley said, but she was only being half honest.

"Kelly took something that I told her in confidence and turned it around to hurt you ... us fighting had nothing to do with you I would still be as pissed if she did it to Randy or any of my other friends"

"Kelly is a bitch plain and simple and the only reason I even tolerate her is because I care about you and if you feel you need to be with her then go ahead."

"I don't know anymore"

"Well you need to figure it out because people aren't going to wait forever" Ashley informed him "besides Kelly isn't the one for you ... your true soul mate is out there somewhere you just need to find her" with that being said Ashley began to doze off.

"But don't think you are forgiven because I am still so pissed at you I am just too tired right now but believe me when I wake up we are going to have a long talk about this" She closed her eyes.

John thought about what Ashley had just said to him, "I've already found her" he whispered. Phinnigan began to stir, he opened his eyes and looked at John.

"What do you say we let your mom sleep a little while longer and I'll give you a tour of where you'll be living for now on" John suggested. He then chided himself because the baby wasn't going to answer back. He got out of bed carefully not to wake up Ashley. John felt mixed up now. What were they ... best friends but she was also the mother of his son. This whole thing happened so fast and now it was finally catching up with him. For the first time in his life he felt the weight of responsibility on his shoulders. God his parents didn't even know yet. It had only been two days right ... but for 2 whole days they have had a grandson that they knew nothing about. Oh god he was already screwing up his kid and the poor baby was only about 4 days old.

"Dude get a hold of yourself" John scolded himself. He looked at Phinnigan who was staring at the ceiling fan.

"I'm a good dad right?" Phinnigan turned to where the voice came from and reached his little hand up to touch John's chin.

"I'm taking that as a yes ok" John informed "now come on this is a big house so lets get started"

John and Phinnigan left the bedroom and descended to the second floor, where they were bombarded with different pieces of furniture and moving men.

"Oh is this him?" Kyle practically squealed as he appeared before John.

John tightened his grip a little on Phinnigan. There was no way he was letting Kyle get anywhere near his son. John's feelings towards Kyle were simple it was the almost 2007 and he could do what he wanted as far as his sexual orientation but what freaked John out was everyone knew that Kyle had a little crush on John.

"Look at those pretty green eyes ... oh I knew my whole pale green wall color was going to work!"

"Good for you Kyle ... I'm just going to go down stairs now" John said slowly inching away from Kyle.

"By the way John nice boxers" Kyle called down to John when he was halfway down the stairs. It was only then did John realize that he had forgotten to put clothes on so he had been talking to Kyle wearing nothing but a pair of black Calvin Klein boxer briefs. He muttered curse words to himself as he walked into the kitchen. Isa was sitting on the counter drinking a cup of tea.

"Nice hair" John snickered.

"Don't you have a train to get hit by" Isa asked.

"Your wit never ceases to amaze me" Isa rolled her eyes.

"He's starting to get fussy which means you should probably either change him or feed him but I'm going with the first one cause he is about to scream ... extra diapers and wipes are in the hall closet, have fun daddy"

Phinnigan's face was getting redder and redder by the second. John could tell if he didn't do something soon he wasn't going to like what his son was going to do.

"No ... shh baby it's ok come on don't cry daddy is here to take care of you"

"I suggest you go now while he hasn't started screaming yet" Isa said.

John grabbed the supplies and spread out a blanket out on the floor before placing Phinnigan on it and getting ready to change him. He took a deep breath before undoing Phinnigan's pajamas.

"This can't be too hard I mean my parents changed my diapers all the time when I was a baby" John coached himself. He closed one eye as he undid Phinnigan's onesie and finally his diaper.

"Yo that is gross!" John exclaimed once he saw what was in the diaper.

"Oh sure you probably think this is so funny" he said grabbing some wipes.

He cringed once it was all over but he had done it ... he had changed his first diaper.

"That wasn't so hard" he said to himself.

"Hey dumbass you put the god damn diaper on wrong" Isabella commented from the doorway.

"You know what I give up" John threw his hands up in frustration.

"Move before you hurt yourself" Isa pushed John out of the way. She showed John how to properly change a diaper.

"How the hell do you know how to do that you hate kids?" John asked.

"It's called common sense you brain dead moron the tabs go in the front!"

"I don't know who I hate more you or Kyle"

"I'd say Kyle because at least you don't have to worry about me wanting to have sex with you" John shuddered.

"Toss me that blanket on the couch will ya" John said suddenly feeling naked.

Isa walked over to the couch and picked up the blanket was was draped over the back of it.

"You mean this blanket ..."

"Isa give me the blanket please" John said extending his hand.

"Why should I?" Isa placed her free hand on her chin as if to think about if she really wanted to give him the blanket.

"I really hate you" John said, but he had a smile on his face so Isa knew he wasn't serious.

She threw him the blanket which he caught and quickly wrapped around his waist. He felt so much better once he knew Kyle couldn't see him in his boxers again.

"You know I think you liked seeing me wearing just boxers otherwise you would have given me the blanket right away" John said bending down to pick up Phinnigan.

"Oh I just threw up a little in my mouth" Isa said holding her stomach.

"You know you want me" John said walking past her into the kitchen.

Isa went back to her tea while John began gather things to make Phinnigan a bottle.

"Can you hold him for 2 seconds?"

"Hey there big guy" Isabella cooed taking the baby from John.

"If I didn't know any better I'd think you liked him" John said pouring the formula into a bottle.

"Of course I like him" Isa said "he's a good baby who doesn't really cry and he likes music so we get along"

"He's unusually calm for a baby his age" John observed "I think I have only heard him cry a handful of times"

"If all babies were like him then I might have actually wanted one" Isa said

John laughed "with your luck you'd end up with Damien". Of course he was referring to the Omen movies.

"Yeah no kidding" Isa said.

"But seriously Isa not all kids are bad it all depends on how you raise em"

"Thank you Dr. Phil" Isa retorted.

"You are lucky my son's bottle is ready or otherwise I would respond to that" John said taking Phinnigan from her.

"So have you told your parents yet?" Isa asked.

"No I figured Ashley and I would drive up later today and tell them together" he answered.

"In other words you were too scared to tell your parents by yourself so you decided to have Ashley there so if they kill you there will be a witness"

"Basically"

"Listen Ash told me what you did ..." John cut her off before she could get another word in.

"It was an accident I didn't mean for it to come out the way it did but I honestly wasn't thinking and I just wanted Kelly to understand why I agreed to adopt Phinnigan" John was almost pleading for Isa to understand why he did what he did.

Isa blinked at him "First off you should really let people finish their sentences, second you probably want to burp him right about now" Isa gestured to Phinnigan.

"Whoops sorry Phin" John removed the bottle from Phinnigan's mouth and brought him up to his shoulder to burp him.

"Third of all I tried to help you out by reasoning with her but she is a stubborn ass who decided to throw a bitch fest and lock herself in the game room for most of the day. Leaving yours truly to take care of the kid.

"Why did you try to help me?' John asked.

"I may not like you all that much but I know that in some sick twisted sort of way you love Ashley and wouldn't want to hurt her like that"

"I do love her ... she's my best friend" John said.

"I think it's a little more than friendship for you am I right?"

"She is the one who decided to be just friends and I just let her go because I figured having her as a friend was better than not having her at all"

"And is it?"

"No, at least if I didn't have her at all she wouldn't be around all the time and I wouldn't have this constant reminder of what we once had ... I know we were both young and too caught up in ourselves to really make it work but we are both older and more mature now"

"What about Kelly do you love her?"

John took a minute to readjust Phinnigan in his arms and give him back his bottle. Phinnigan looked up at him as he sucked happily on his bottle. For a moment John was staring into Phinnigan's pale green eyes trying to find an answer but it wasn't in there, it was in his heart.

"I don't know" he finally admitted "I thought I did but now with everything going on I'm not so sure"

"Don't you think you should decide?" Isa asked.

"It's not that simple"

"Sure it is, you go up to Kelly and tell her that you think that she is nothing but a gold digging whore who isn't worth a minute of your time and you never want to see her again and after she smacks you in the face you find Ashley and take her in your arms and kiss her till neither one of you can breathe" Isabella explained "then tell her that you never wanted to break up with her and that you have always loved her and always will ... simple as that"

"Yeah and everything will just magically work itself out and Ashley and I will live happily ever after right ... maybe adopt a few more kids before moving somewhere quiet, oh maybe a big house in the country with a white picked fence and I'll retire and Ashley and I will grow old together and be the elderly couple who sit on the pouch in their rocking chairs just watching the sun set before we walking into the house holding hands" It was John's turn to roll his eyes "not going to happen"

"That was really descriptive so obviously you must have thought about this before"

"Stop trying to psychoanalyze me!" John said putting Phinnigan's empty bottle down and returning the baby to his shoulder.

"Well then stop making it so damn easy ... all I am saying is it is clear that you subconsciously had some hope of getting back together when you adopted Phinnigan ... you may not want to admit it but you want the family with the 2.5 kids and the minivan ... and you can laugh about it now but that empty space you feel inside won't be filled till you be a man and do something that makes you happy for once in your life ... Jesus man you are so in love with Ashley that you let her break up with you just so she could be happy and you have been miserable ever since and the only reason you are with Kelly is because she is a warm body in a cold bed"

"I'm walking away now and I'm taking my son with me" John said getting up from the table.

"I'm right and believe me I am going to bill you"

"Yeah ... yeah"

"I am right" Isabella said to herself as she watched him walk away "now all I have to do is get Ashley to admit she feels the same way. Don't worry Phinnigan Auntie Isabella has your best interest at heart ... mommy and daddy won't know what hit them"