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.
Chapter 14: The Shit is About to Hit The Fan
"Daddy my throat hurts" Dean complained in a raspy voice.
"I know buddy but there is really nothing we can do except to take the medicine the doctor's gave you" Randy said sympathetically.
Dean went to lay down as Randy took his laptop out of his bag. He set it on a nearby table and turned it on.
"Come on start you son of a …" he began to yell but stopped midsentence when he remembered Dean was still within hearing range.
Dean giggled "Daddy you need a new laptop cause you are always yelling at the one you have now"
"Yeah … Yeah" Randy grumbled.
"Finally … hey Dean, Auntie Ashley is online you want to talk to her for a few minutes before bed?" Randy asked.
"Yeah" Dean jumped up from where he was laying and went over and had a seat on his father's lap.
Randy turned on his webcam and he grinned when he saw his best friend sitting at her desk sending a text message.
"Is that text to me?"
"Jesus guys do you not want to scare me" Ashley said placing a hand over her heard because she had only just seconds ago realized that Randy and Dean sent her a video im.
"Hi Auntie" Dean said brightly.
"Hey sweetie I heard you didn't feel too good"
"Yeah my throat hurts" Dean whined massaging his burning throat.
"Strep?" She asked Randy.
"Yep"
"Damn I remember when I was a kid I had strep every other week" Ashley recalled.
"How did you get better Auntie?" Dean asked.
"I had an operation where the doctors removed my tonsils and I never had strep throat or even a sore throat ever again"
"Daddy, do I need to have an operation?" Dean asked fearfully.
"No you don't" Randy shot a glare at Ashley "it's time for bed now"
"Ok night" Dean said getting off of his father's lap.
"Wow, that was way too easy" Ashley remarked.
"It's because he doesn't feel good believe me it is never usually that easy"
"Daddy come tuck me in" both Ashley and Randy heard Dean yell.
"I'll be right back" he said walking away from the screen.
He came back about 10 minutes later. Ashley was still texting on her phone when he returned.
"Who are you running up your phone bill for?" he asked already knowing the answer.
"Shane" she replied.
"The $2,000 phone bill last month didn't faze you at all did it?" he asked.
"I have a texting plan now so it only costs me nine bucks for unlimited texts … best spent nine bucks of my life"
"I have some kinda sad but also kinda good news" Randy said.
"How can news be kinda sad but kinda good?" Ashley asked.
"Well it's good because when you hear it you'll feel a little bit vindicated but it's sad because it involves someone very close to us"
"… umm ok" was her reply as she continued to text.
"Anyways I can tell you are dying to hear what I have to say" he rolled his eyes "Kelly had a miscarriage a few weeks ago"
Ashley looked up from her phone. She didn't say anything right away because she wanted to phrase the right things to say in her mind before she said them out loud. But nothing came to her at all.
"Sucks to be her" she said not really caring.
"I thought you might show a little bit more concern for John than that" Randy said a little appalled at her response.
"What did you really expect of me Randy?" she asked "did you expect me to get all weepy eyed and vow to come all the way back to the states to comfort him?"
"No … but you could at least pretend to care" he replied.
"I could pretend to care but that would be a lie and I just don't feel like lying right now, I honestly don't care about John or Kelly anymore and they can both rot in hell for all I care … I love my new life with Shane and I'm not going to drag myself or Shane or even Phinnigan through all that pain and heartache again"
"John and Kelly are both adults and what they do is none of my concern" she added.
"I gotta go" he signed off without even saying goodbye.
The next day Randy was still blown away by Ashley's response last night. He couldn't really understand why Ashley was acting like this. Sure John had been a huge jackass and broke her heart but Randy just couldn't help but shiver at the thought that Ashley no longer had any warm feelings towards John at all. He made his way to John's locker room. The door was open just a little bit and he was about to walk in when he heard Kelly and Melina talking.
"Lina, I have to tell you a big secret that I haven't told anyone else" Randy heard Kelly say.
He was about to turn away until he heard Kelly mention a secret. For some reason his legs wouldn't move. He wasn't sure why he was so interested in Kelly's secret but he was.
"It's about the baby" Kelly said.
"What about the baby?" Melina asked.
"There never was one I just told John I was pregnant because I wanted Ashley and her brat out of our lives forever" Kelly admitted.
"Wow … that's just so … wow" was all Melina could say.
"I know it was extremely cruel of me to string John along like that but I needed to get rid of Ashley so I could have John all to myself" Kelly explained.
"Well I guess it worked" Melina said.
"Even better than I thought it was going to and now John and I are engaged" Kelly practically squealed.
"Don't you feel bad for tricking John into proposing to you?" Melina asked.
"I did at first but I mean we have our whole lives to have children right"
"What about the son John already has don't you think it's a little unfair to keep him away from his son?"
"That kid isn't his son, he's just some charity case that John felt bad for and if you ask me he's better off without him"
"Sure Kel whatever you say" Melina said unsurely.
"Oh shit I got to let Ashley know about this" Randy whispered to himself "and then I have to break it to John … poor guy"