Disclaimer: I don't own 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager' No Ownage...
Summery: This Is Five Years after the Current Episodes... Adrian, Ricky, Amy, Ben, Grace, Jack and everyone graduated... Adrian has a pretty big secret that only Grace and Jack know...
A/N: This is chapter ten! Yay! Now that I got that out of my system, this chapter follows Ricky, you can probably tell by the way the thoughts go and that it's the way he sees her and the kids, you know…And you'll find out some pretty, maybe or maybe not, Ricky things…Good luck!
Secret Life of Adrian
Ricky stared at her alarm clock. Its cold blue numbers glared at him. Eight thirty seven. He knew he would have to get up soon. He couldn't just leave Adrian alone to deal with J.J. and Bella.
Ricky shuddered at her name. Bella. He had been awake since he woke up earlier that morning. After he had his nightmare and Adrian had calmed him down. She was so soothing that he couldn't help but stay awake and listen to her breathing.
"Even if you don't know Bella's yours."
Her sentence had him thinking all night. Questions ran through his head.
Why hadn't she told him? Did she not think he was worth her daughter? Their daughter? Did she hate him? Was that it? Or was it because he left with Amy, Ben and J.J.?
"He doesn't know about her. Took off with another woman before I even knew. Not that you have to know anyway."
He didn't know about her, but he would have wanted to. And 'took off with another woman'? Did she really think that? He was going to take care of his son and be apart of his life, just like he would have done with Bella if she told him.
Ricky pushed him-self off his stomach and onto his knee's. He took in the room. Adrian slept in here every night, alone. Not unless Bella came in here, but she didn't strike him as a sleep-with-the-parent kind of kid.
He heard giggling from the other room which beckoned him to get up. He grabbed his pants and slipped them on before he walked out into the hall. When he reached the end, he turned to the kitchen. As he saw the scene before him, he smiled and leaned up against the doorway.
Even at fifteen till nine, they stood in the kitchen rolling out cookie dough. Bella was sitting on the counter top. J.J. was standing on a chair that was pulled from another room. Adrian had a roller in hand and was rolling the dough, while eating it and giving it to the smaller people in the room.
All three were covered in flour; patches of white were in their hair and over their clothes. But what drew him to the sight before him were their smiles. Their laughter. He had never, in his five years, heard his son laugh that much, especially with a person he didn't know.
He had never seen J.J. smile like he was now. Or Adrian. Their smiles, much like Bella's, reached ear to ear, covering their faces. They all looked so happy, baking and eating raw cookie dough.
He listened carefully, wanting to hear what they were talking about.
"-id he really?" Adrian had said, but Ricky missed the first part of the sentence.
Bella and J.J. nodded excitedly.
"Yeah!" Bella said.
"And then Steve looked around and he didn't see them in the picture!" J.J. exclaimed.
"Well, did he find them?" Adrian asked looking at them curiously, looking at each of them.
"Only when we told him." J.J. said shrugging nonchalantly.
"Did he say thank you?" Adrian questioned popping another piece of dough in his mouth.
"I think." J.J. said looking up.
"He did!" Bella said matter-of-factly. Adrian rolled her eyes and looked down at the dough.
"I think we're ready. Are you guys?" Both nodded, the smiles once again spreading across their faces.
Adrian moved away from them, only after telling them to be careful, and had gotten some cookie cutters in all different shapes. Ricky decided to take the opportunity to make him-self known.
Walking into the room he said, "Hey, do I get to cut out some?" J.J. grinned at his father.
"Of course Daddy. Here." J.J. handed Ricky a cookie cutter and Ricky looked at it.
It was an 'A'.
Ricky eyed his son.
"You trying to tell me something here, Jay?" Ricky asked. He shrugged and went back to cutting. Ricky pushed his shape into the dough and then pulled it out, along with the doughy letter 'A'.
He placed it on a tray with a few others before he pulled Adrian away. Once out of earshot from the children, but they could still see them, Ricky spoke.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Adrian looked confused as his eyes bore into hers.
"Tell you…?" She left the question hanging hoping he would fill in the blanks.
And he did.
"Why didn't you tell me that Bella is my daughter?"
TBC…
A/N: Okay, its nine forty seven and I have to be in bed by ten or bad things start to happen. Thank you all for telling me her name, Tom's girlfriend that is. Tammy, I'll remember that. Thank you Ashley, Ziva4eva and Mary! That will save me a lot of precious time when I'm writing, I don't know if I'm going to put her in, even if briefly. Nice to know. Thank you for reading and review please!