"So what did you say to her?" Punk asked Colt the next day. April had just taken Scarlett out to the park whilst Punk stayed in and cleared out the room which was going to be the baby's room, of course having his second hand man helping him.
"I just told her how you felt. Which by the way, do it on your own next time. She's your wife she won't bite you." Colt said.
"I know but… I didn't expect her to be this ok with it." Punk said, "Am I being selfish?" He asked Colt, pausing with what he was doing and taking a minute to think.
"No." Colt shook his head, "You stopped your full life for April." Colt said.
"No… Me and April both stopped our full lives for Scarlett." Punk corrected him, "I just feel like she'll hold it against me when the kids are older. Then there's the new baby, I can't miss appointments, I'll have to be there for a while after it's born… you don't know how stressful this husband and father thing is." Punk said.
"I'm sure you can balance yourself between them both. I told you when Scarlett was born, you gave it up way too quickly and in the future, you'd end up going back." Colt said.
"I just hope April will be ok here herself. I know you'll always drop by when I'm not in, but she might get lonely… or scared." Punk muttered.
"Oh would you listen to yourself." Colt tutted, "She isn't three Punk, she's capable of looking after herself and Scarlett for a few days a week without you." Colt rolled his eyes.
"Hey, shut up ok. I love her, I don't want her to get bored and lonely in this big house." Punk said.
"Well she has Scarlett, she has the dog shelter. She'll be fine. Stop being such a pussy and just call Vince already, before I do." Colt said.
With April and Scarlett…
April sat on the swing beside Scarlett in the empty park. While Scarlett proceeded to stand up on the swing, swing from the two ropes that held it together, basically doing anything but it sit on it and swing like normal, she thought deeply to herself as she swayed back and forth gently.
A lot of things were running through her mind. She didn't want Punk to go, but hearing Colt talk about the conversation they had at the mall, it made her just give him the freedom of going back, something that she knew now wasn't quite possible for her. She was just a stay at home wife and mom now.
She couldn't help but think that Punk didn't want this baby, she expected him to be so much like what he was with Scarlett when she was pregnant. Yeah he missed a few appointments and scans, but he was always there, some nights he'd even just lie beside her belly and speak to it. Was it a first born thing? Or was it because he knew it was his first daughter, something that he always wanted. She didn't know, but he hadn't showed any affection towards her or the baby so far. It didn't make her feel good about herself.
She felt like, the minute she said he could go back to WWE and that she would be fine, he didn't even argue or tell her that he would stay and help her out, especially with her being pregnant. No, he just kissed her head and thought about himself, something that he done a lot but never noticed.
"Mommy." Scarlett said, finally sitting on the swing like she was, her little legs dangling and swinging, looking across to her mother.
"What is it sweetheart?" April said, looking over at Scarlett.
"You look sad." Scarlett frowned with her little squeaky voice slowly and slurry, she wasn't too confident about her speaking just yet. She was at that age that whatever she seen, wither it was moods on people just by their facial expressions or if it was birds in the sky or if it was a noisy car on the road, she would tell her mother or father about it.
"I do?" April frowned with a sympathetic smile at the cuteness of her baby girl.
Scarlett just nodded and looked over at April signalling for her to come over towards her.
Scarlett jumped off the swing on her little legs, walking towards April and getting lifted up by her and sat on her lap.
"I'm not sad." April reassured Scarlett with a nod and smile, "Mommy is just tired and daddy… well, daddy's going away for a little bit." April said, she couldn't possibly explain everything to her.
"Why?" Scarlett asked firmly, her favourite word tended to be why, like the other night when Punk was putting her to bed, she countered his answers to her questions every time with the word why.
"Well, he's going to work. But we'll still see him. Mommy is just a little sad because she's going to miss him." April said, taking a deep sigh and looking at her unhappy daughter.
Scarlett just sighed, having nothing to say to the reveal of her father not being present day and night like she was used to for the past two years of her life.
"But… good news is that, mommy's going to be having a baby." April smiled, watching her daughter make an o shape with her mouth, April just laughed at her extremely dramatic face, "So you're going to stay at home with me and the baby, Uncle Colt will be around too." April smiled.
"But no daddy?" Scarlett frowned, life wasn't complete without her daddy. She waved her hands out to April for an answer.
"We'll see him." April nodded, not wanting to scare Scarlett by any means, just wanting to tell her in advance so she didn't wake up one morning and take a tantrum at the fact her father wasn't anywhere to be seen, "Just not as often as what we do now." April said, Scarlett looking at her confused.
"You'll still get your daddy hugs." April said, trying to rephrase it, watching Scarlett smile again, "Just… not every night." She said, watching Scarlett's little smile fade back to a frown. If only she done this in front of Punk to let him see the damage he would be doing to his precious little girl by going back to TV, she would like to think that Scarlett's happiness meant more to him that wrestling again, at the moment she wasn't all that convinced.
"How about we go get some ice cream? You can bring daddy home his favourite?" April said, placing Scarlett back down on the ground and standing up herself, watching her nod and run ahead of her, knowing not to cross roads without her permission of course.
April knew there wasn't a reason to get mad verbally to Punk, or physically for that matter. She would be seen to be a hypocrite by telling him he could go back to WWE face to face, and then in her own mind thinking to herself how selfish he was being, she had to remind herself that if she hadn't have agreed to it, he probably wouldn't have gone through with it, at the end of the day, she knew he had so much love for Scarlett and for her and even though he hadn't showed it as much as she wanted him to, she knew he loved this baby and would love it just like Scarlett.
She just wished that he would settle for a life without WWE, they way she had been forced to do when he got her pregnant and turned her whole world upside down, now she was paying for it while he continued to live his dream and get kicks out of wrestling the way she loved and missed dearly. Something about the situation wasn't fair.
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