Chapter 11 Not too Late

Brenda sat in her trailer waiting for them to come and get her. She had one more scene to shoot and she would be done for the day. She figured she wasn't going to get to do the BBQ tonight after all but the weekend would probably be a better idea anyway. Everybody worked so that way people could actually enjoy themselves and hang out with Brandon for a while. Brenda picked up her cell and dialed Brandon. After three rings his voicemail picked up.

"Hey this is Brandon Walsh, leave me a message and I will call you back." The beep sounded.

"Hey Bran, its Brenda, I am almost finished here, wanted to see what you were up too, call me back when you get this. Bye."

Brenda snapped her phone closed as she heard a knock on her trailer door. Finally she thought. "Come in."

"Miss Walsh?" a young man peaked in.

"That's me" Brenda smiled.

"I have a delivery for you." the young man climbed in and set what looked like 3 dozen red roses on the counter. "Just sign here."

Brenda smelled the roses, "Thanks" she said as she sighed her name.

Brenda grabbed the card, opened it and smiled.

I miss you already.

Love always,

Dylan

Brenda took a deep breath and held the card to her chest. He still made her heart melt.

"Miss Walsh, they want you on set." a voice came from the outside of her trailer.

"Ok coming." Brenda sighed as she looked at the flowers again and headed to set.

**

Brandon followed Kelly home. He watched as she hurried into her house. He sat there and thought about what he was going to say to her. He just wanted to apologize to her. It wasn't his business what Dylan did with Sammy. Brandon replayed the conversation in his head and he regretted putting his two cents in. Brandon looked at her house one more time and changed his mind. Just when he was about to drive away he saw a girl leave Kelly's house. He figured it must be Sammy's nanny, Brandon shut off the car again and just got out. He slowly made his up to her porch. Brandon took a deep breath and rang the door bell. Kelly opened the door quickly, she looked at Brandon with confusion.

"How did you know where I lived?" Kelly spoke softly.

"I followed you."

Kelly crossed her arms, "What are you doing here Brandon?"

"Can I come in?"

Kelly looked back into the house, she hesitated, "Sure, come on in." Kelly moved to the side and let him in.

"Kel, I just wanted to say I am sorry, I shouldn't of said anything about Dylan and I didn't mean to upset you." Brandon said sincerely.

"Its ok, its complicated. Its not a big deal."

"But you left so suddenly, I just had to come and apologize to you, it isn't my business."

"Mommy look what I made." Sammy came running into the room holding a piece of paper.

Kelly turned quickly and kneeled down by her son. "Wow, that is beautiful. Is it for me?" Kelly said sweetly.

Brandon swallowed hard as he saw the little boy. He looked at him intently. His eyes were big and the lightest shade of blue, he had curly blonde hair and he was really cute. Brandon wasn't sure why but he was drawn to him. He had heard about him, but had never seen even a picture of him and until now never wanted to. Brandon stared at the boy and smiled.

"Hi Sammy." Brandon kneeled down so he was at his same level. "I am Brandon a friend of your moms."

Kelly stood up quickly and looked toward the ceiling as she couldn't believe he was meeting his son for the first time and had no clue. Kelly couldn't hold back her tears, she tried to look away so they wouldn't notice.

"Hi Brandon, nice to meet cha." the little boy smiled and stared back at him.

Kelly quickly wiped her tears, "Listen Sammy, why don't you go in your room and leave me to talk to my friend Brandon, ok sweetie."

"Ok mommy…bye Brandon." Sammy waved and ran down the hall.

Brandon was taken back by seeing Sammy, he wasn't sure why, "He's beautiful Kel, he really is."

Kelly nodded sadly as the tears fell down her face. Brandon looked at her and frowned his brow, "What's wrong Kel?"

Kelly began to sob, this was so much harder than she expected and she hadn't had time to mentally prepare to break the news to him at least today.

"Um Brandon, I am going to tell you something that is going to make you hate me."

Brandon moved closer to her, "I couldn't hate you, what is it?"

"Its about Sammy." Kelly closed her eyes as the tears fell harder.

Brandon walked over and embraced her, "Shhh, its ok, what is it?"

Kelly cuddled into his embrace and closed her eyes. Brandon had no idea that what Kelly was about to tell him, would change his life forever. She opened up her eyes slowly, "Dylan isn't Sammy's father….you are."

Kelly felt Brandon's embrace lessen as he slowly let go of her. "What?" Brandon almost whispered as he backed away from her.

"Your Sammy's father."

Brandon felt his chest get heavy, he stood there in shock. "He is?" Brandon breathed out. "You never…" Brandon shook his head. He couldn't speak. "You kept it from me." Brandon finally got his voice back.

"I am sorry Brandon." Kelly said tearfully.

Brandon finally looked at her. He tried to speak but couldn't, Brandon took two steps backwards, he turned toward the door leaving and slamming it on his way out. Kelly dropped her face in her hands and continued to cry.

**

Brenda finished changing as she heard a soft knock on her trailer.

"Yeah, come in." she called out.

"Your limo has arrived, madam." Dylan said in a fake French accent.

"Hey handsome." Brenda smiled as Dylan stepped in. "You didn't have any problems getting on the lot?"

Dylan wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close, "Nope I told them I was Brenda Walsh's sex slave, they let me right in."

Brenda laughed, "Oh that sounds good." she leaned in and planted a passionate kiss on his lips. "Thanks for the flowers."

"Anytime, as soon as I dropped you off I went straight to get them, I had missed you already." Brenda smiled

"Have you talked to Brandon?"

"No, I tried calling him he didn't answer."

"Yeah I did too, well maybe he is home, ready?"

"Absolutely." Dylan lifted his eyebrows

"Come on Romeo."

Brenda and Dylan pulled into the driveway and noticed her car was there. "Oh good he's here. Hope he isn't bummed about the BBQ."

"I am sure its fine." Dylan wrapped his arm around her shoulders and they walked closely together to the front door. "Maybe he isn't here, its dark in there." Brenda said trying to fish out her key.

"Well good then that means we have alone time."

"Dylan is that all you think about?" Brenda gave him a smirk.

"Noooo." Dylan shook his head yes, he kissed down her neck as she let them in the house.

"Wait, Dylan wait till I get inside." Brenda giggled as she threw the light switch up. They both froze as they saw Brandon sitting on the couch.

"Hey you, what are you doing in the dark?" Brenda noticed Brandon looked like he had been crying and his face was white. She looked up at Dylan as she swallowed hard.

"Bran, what's wrong?"

Brandon looked straight at Dylan, "Did you know?" Dylan knew right away what he was talking about.

Dylan looked down, "Yeah."

"I can't believe this." he said sadly.

Brenda went and sat next to her brother, she set her hand on his shoulder. Brandon looked at his sister, "You knew too?" The look in eyes made Brenda want to cry, she had never in her life seen her brother look at her like that and she never wanted to see it again. Brandon's eyes screamed sadness, confusion, anger every emotion you could imagine.

Brenda closed her eyes for a second, "Yeah, they told me last week."

Brandon got up quickly, "How could you guys do that to me?" he said angrily towards Dylan. "It wasn't enough that all those years you kept coming in between us and taking her from me but then you had to take my son too."

"B it wasn't like that, she was trying to protect you."

"Protect me from my own son?" Brandon was yelling now.

"Brandon, I am sorry…she asked me and I was only trying to be a good friend to her. I owed her."

"What about being a friend to me." Brandon exhaled trying to calm down, he knew it wasn't fair to direct all his anger at Dylan. "And now your with my sister, why, so you can hurt her, knock her up and not be around."

"Hey" Dylan pointed in Brandon's face. Brenda started to cry remembering that Brandon didn't know her situation with her fertility. "You have no idea what your talking about man so I would stop…now." Dylan stuck up for Brenda.

Brenda finally spoke, "Brandon, I know what Kelly and Dylan did wasn't right but you were married, think about it, maybe it wasn't the best idea but look at the alternative."

"If I would have known…things would have been different, he's been without me for so long already, he doesn't even know who I am."

"Its not to late." Brenda got up and walked towards her brother.

"I am so mad at her I couldn't even look at her. I don't know if I could forgive her." Brandon held back his tears.

"But Sammy didn't do anything, it wasn't his fault, maybe it will take awhile to forgive Kelly but don't take it out on Sam, he's a great kid." Brandon swallowed hard, he knew Brenda was right.

"She should have told me, I would have done the right thing." Brandon hesitated, "Look at the alternative." Brandon looked at Dylan with daggers.

"That's not fair, Sammy wasn't his, you cant blame Dylan for not being around for him. He tried.." now it was Brenda's turn to stick up from Dylan.

Dylan interrupted, "I tried, Kelly and I tried to make it work, but it didn't and Sammy isn't mine…it was a bad idea."

Brandon sat down on the couch and put his face in his hands. Dylan looked at Brenda and motioned he was going to go into the bedroom and leave them alone. Brenda nodded and went and sat next to her brother. She moved her hand across his back trying to comfort him.

"It will be ok…it will. It's going to take awhile." Brenda put her arm around her brother and rested her head on his shoulder. He quickly took his thumb and wiped the tears, Brandon placed the side of his head on hers.

"I have a son Bren, a son." Brandon whispered.

"I know." she whispered back.

I know soo emotional, I must be hormonal because I got teary even writing this chapter. It was hard for me to keep Brandon's character in this because he wasn't an emotional guy but I think in this case he would have been. Also I knew he wouldn't be yelling and being mean towards Kelly cause he wasn't like that. So I choose for him to take out his anger on Dylan instead which I thought as more his style. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter even though it was sad. My next goal is to have the next chapter of Little Fish up but this one was calling me.