Disclaimer: I own nothing except for Ashley and the kids. John and the other WWE wrestlers own themselves or so they think. The WWE is owned by Vince McMahon . Finally music artist Frankie J owns himself also… Damn. People will be speaking Spanish in this chapter. I have no Spanish speaking skills so my sister is helping me translate because she is fluent if she tells me the wrong words please don't blame me. Translations in parenthesis.
Ashley sighed as she ran her hands through her chestnut brown hair. A pair of hands wrapped around her waist.
"How are you feeling today" Frankie asked.
"I'm ok just thinking about when I was pregnant with Christian" she said.
"You miss them don't you?" Frankie asked.
"Of course I do but I've made too many mistakes and now I can never mend them" she said.
"You know I love you right and I just want to see you happy so go" he said.
Ashley stared at her closest friend that she had since moving to San Diego about 10 months earlier. He and his wife Daniella had been nothing but friendly to her since then.
"I've called a couple of times but I've never been able to talk… I remember the last words I said to John" she said.
Flashback
It was early in the morning and Ashley had been on the road for a while she had been gone for 2 weeks. She wanted to drive around the country before settling down somewhere. She found a pay phone she needed to call John and explain. She dialed their phone number and waited. She knew it was late there too but she needed to hear his voice.
"Hello" he answered.
Ashley could hear the exhaustion in his voice along with a million other emotions. She wanted to speak but no words would come out.
"Hello is someone there?" he asked.
"Ashley is that you please talk to me baby" he said. "please just come home"
"I'm sorry John" was all she said before hanging up on him.
end
Frankie and Daniella were the only ones who knew her real name was Ashley, she had been going by Alexandria Hardy since she had been living there.
"Frankie I can't go and you know why" she said.
"You are doing my wife and I this huge favor maybe if you weren't you could have been home by now" he said.
"Frankie me going home has nothing to do with me carrying this baby for you and your wife, if I really wanted to go home I would have already" she insisted.
Frankie and his wife found out early on that Dani was sterile early on in their marriage. They were desperate to have a child and had come to Ashley with the idea of surrogacy . She couldn't bare to see her friends suffer so she agreed to it. So here she was 7 months pregnant . The baby was to be named Francisco Javier Bautista Jr. after his father of course.
"Are you sure?" Frankie asked.
"Yes I am" she said. "I do miss them though"
"I don't blame you when I have to leave Dani and go on tour it kills me" he said.
"But what would we do without Frankie J's soulful voice" Ashley teased.
"I have no idea" Frankie said scratching the back of his head.
"You should get home before Dani starts to worry " Ashley said.
"She knows I'm over here in fact she sent me over we want to show you something" he said.
Frankie and Dani lived down the street from Ashley's house so they were always over each other's houses. Frankie grabbed her hand and they walked down the street.
"Daniella I'm back" Frankie yelled.
"I'm in the kitchen" she replied.
Dani was a small compact woman with long raven black hair and dark eyes. She was born in Cancun, Mexico where her family still lived. Ashley loved listening to her speak her accent was really strong and it interested Ashley.
"Hola mi amor" she said. (Hello my love)
"Hey Dani" Ashley said.
"Hola cómo es el bebé hoy" she asked. (hi how is the baby today)
"Kicking up a storm" Ashley replied.
Ashley could now speak perfect Spanish thanks to Frankie and Dani. It had taken some work but she had enjoyed learning a new language.
"So how's work?" Dani asked.
After Ashley left she had transfered from Stanford to a smaller law school in California and graduated a short time ago. She now worked in a small firm that handled mainly pro bono cases but she loved it.
"Going good" she said.
"Recuerde apenas que trabajar a duramente no es bueno para usted"Dani scolded. (remember working to hard is not good for you).
"Mamá Buena" Ashley joked. (Ok mom)
"I'm serious" Dani said.
"I know you are but me and the baby are fine so stop worrying" Ashley said.
"I'm a soon to be mom,worrying is my job" she said.
"So what did you want to show me?" Ashley asked.
"Oh we have the babies room all set up and we wanted you to be the first one to see it" Dani said.
Frankie lead both women to the room and opened the door and turned on the light.
"It's beautiful" Ashley said.
The walls were painted a light blue and they had a Winnie the Pooh border. The whole room was Winnie the Pooh. On the wall closest the the window was a mural of The Hundred Acre Woods.
"Every little kids dream don't ya think" Frankie said.
"Yeah it is" Ashley said.
2 months and a day later
It was April 23rd and Ashley's water had broken.
"Not good this has to be a bad omen" Ashley thought.
"How do you figure?" Frankie asked.
"Today is John's birthday he's turning 31" Ashley said.
"So the baby and John will have the same birthday I don't see the problem" he said.
"Trust me there is one" Ashley said.
4 hours later
Little Francisco Javier Bautista Jr came into the world.
"That's it I've decided I never want to go through that again!" Ashley exclaimed.
Frankie laughed and kissed Ashley one the forehead.
"I'll be back I'm going to go pick up Dani so she can see the baby" he said.
"Ok I'm going to go to sleep" Ashley said.
Ashley's head hit the pillow and she instantly fell asleep. She was awoken a few hours later by a loud crash of thunder.
"Great that is all I need" Ashley said.
"How are you feeling" a nurse asked.
"I'm ok a little sore but ok" Ashley replied.
"Do you want to see the baby?" the nurse asked.
"Yeah" Ashley replied.
The nurse brought little Francisco down from the nursery and put him in Ashley's arms.
"He's beautiful" the nurse said.
"Yeah he is" Ashley replied.
Ashley held the baby for a little longer but she had to put him down because she was about to break down. Looking at that baby made her think of her own children. Technically Little Frankie was her's too but she never thought of it that way he was Frankie and Dani's baby from the start. She weeped silently for a long time. But then two police officers entered her room.
"Ashley Harris?" they asked.
"Yeah that's me" she said. A growing fear took hold of her.
"Were sorry to inform you of this but Mr. Frankie Bautista and his wife were killed in a car crash on the way here" one of them said.
Ashley blacked out this was way too much for her to handle right now. The two closest friends she had since starting over were dead.
It turns out Frankie and Dani had said in their wills that if anything happened to them Ashley was to have custody of Little Frankie. So now Ashley was sitting in her house with the baby upstairs asleep. It had been 6 months and Ashley had learned something life was way too short she needed to get up and do something with her life and she knew just what to do.
"Hey Vince it's Ashley give me a call if that job offer is still open" Ashley left a message on Vince's voice mail.
It was time to make her return to her family.