Chapter 24

Kayla ran the loofah sponge around her neck and down her shoulder blade, sighing contently as the warm bath water engulfed her naked figure. She closed her eyes and laid her head back on the rolled up towel she had against her bathtub, she made it a point tonight to clear her head and relax to the fullest all night long with no interruptions, she even turned off her phone to make this even more possible. And why did she need this much peace, quiet and relaxation? Well she needed time to herself before the huge bomb went off and caused World War III, she had decided on telling Randy about Jacob tomorrow, she knew he would be home so she was going to drop Jacob off at Nikki and Johns house and then fly all the way to see Randy. She knew it was a bit of a stretch but she needed to do this perfectly and the right way. It was a big deal her finally finding the courage to tell Randy this secret and she had to be prepared for whatever came with telling him, she knew a part of him was going to be more than angry.

She sighed and wiggled her toes under the bath water, continuously rubbing the loofah all down her neck and shoulder. Before she had decided on taking a bath she had put Jacob down to sleep around 8:00 and then got interrupted by a call from Dwayne checking up on her, which she didn't mind at all and that lasted a little while and before she knew it, once she was done talking on the phone to Dwayne and tidying up a bit downstairs, from the mess Jacob left in the living room with his toys, it was 10:00 and she needed to get as much time to herself as possible.

She didn't know how she was going to tell Randy or what words she was even going to come up with to start the conversation but she was hoping the material would just present itself as the day went by. She knew Randy had his girlfriend Kim, and if he was truly happy with her she didn't want to be the one to tear them apart, although she couldn't deny that she was jealous and upset about the fact that him and Kim have lasted a whole year and that he wouldn't give her chance to ever be his girlfriend. As pissed and confused as she was about that, they say if you love something set it free and that verse has stuck in her head for most of the year and she's not going to go back on it now, she's going to stick with her plan on letting Randy be happy if he is truly happy with Kim and step aside and see him for what he is, Jacobs Father. Despite how much she truly loved that man.

Nikki looked from Randy to John and John to Randy and then back again to John. She was hoping for John to send her some sort of signal, to mouth something, anything to her! But he was even speechless in this event. Nikki had no idea what to do, she just spilled the beans, royally fucked up, not on purpose, but that didn't matter, nothing mattered expect getting Randy to blink a couple times and speak. Nikki just shifted her weight from one leg to the other and bit her lower lip nervously, her finger playing with the case on her phone.

John seeing how much in distress his girlfriend was, he slowly walked over to Randy, who was still boring holes into Nicole, and reaching out grasping his shoulder "Hey Randy, man you have to listen-"

Randy jerked his hand away from his shoulder and now turned his attention to John with furious eyes. He let out a vicious laugh "Listen?! What the fuck could you possibly say to me right now John huh?!" he questioned anger lacing his voice. He then looked toward Nikki "Both of you knew?" he looked back at John "You both knew and said nothing?!" he screamed

Nikki sighed finally gaining strength to speak "Randy you have to understand-"

"NO!" he shouted "There is nothing you could say that can make me understand how my two friends can keep from me the fact that I have a son!" He exclaimed with such anger, it looked as if fire were coming out of his eyes.

John had never seen Randy like this but thats not to say he didn't understand because in this instance John completely understood where Randy was coming from "Randy you have no idea what has happened or why."

Randy nodded his head and pointed his finger toward John, agreeing with him "You know what John your right!" he snickered and shook his head "I don't know the story as to what happened or why, but you better believe your ass I am going to fucking find out!" he shouted grabbing his duffle bag in one hand in his water bottle in another "And Im finding out right now!" he exclaimed storming out of the room without another word or giving the chance for either of them to say another word to him either.

Nikki looked out the door to seeing his figure speed walking down the hall "Randy wait!"

John grabbed Nikki's shoulder gently, stopping her from following him or going anywhere. "Let him go." John said in a calm tone "He needs this baby-" he paused for a moment "They both do." he finished and Nikki looked up at him with fear and sadness in her eyes. She felt bad for what she did and she felt even worse for what her best friend was going to go through, she felt scared for Kayla she knew this is going to be one of the worst nights Kayla would have to face.

Kayla sauntered out of the bathroom, closing the light from behind her, she had just finished her amazing and long bath and she truly felt like she was on cloud nine. Except for the fact that her conscience was eating away at her, as much as she tried to clear her mind, she couldn't, Randy kept consuming it and all the thoughts of what he would do or what he would say when he found out tomorrow scared her to be truly honest but she knew it was a step she had to take and she had to get through with it with strength.

She pulled her pink night shorts over her legs and then proceeded to pull her black short sleeve sleep tank over her head. She pulled the covers back on her bed and laid herself in them with a long sigh, she felt so good and comfortable at the moment she could just knock out but she had one more thing to do before letting sleep take over. She had to turn her phone back on and set her alarm for 5am so she could get her work out in, make breakfast for her and Jacob, drop Jacob off at Nikki and Johns which was a 3 hour car ride in itself and then head to the airport to catch her 11am flight to see Randy.

As she heard the wireless tone of the phone turning back on she waited for the lights on the screen to flash the time and her background picture. She smiled when she saw Jacob appear on her background and suddenly groaned when she saw the time, it was 10 past mid-night. She defiantly had to get some sleep if she was going to wake up at 5am and just as she was about to set her alarm, notification tones started going off rapidly one after the other. She noticed they were all texts from Nikki and a couple calls from both her and John. She raised a brow in confusion 'What could possibly be going on at this time that they need me so urgently?' she questioned herself in her head. She decided to just shrug it off and call Nikki, she didn't even bother reading what the texts said.

She waiting patiently, biting her lip in the process for Nikki to answer the phone and finally she anwsered on the 3rd ring. "Jesus Christ! Finally you answer, where the hell have you been all night?!" Nikki's worried voice boomed through the phone.

Kayla laughed softly at her overreaction "Babe calm down, I was taking a long bubble bath and it felt so good to-"

She was cut off by Nikki's voice "Yeah, Yeah that's nice but we have bigger issues here!" she exclaimed "Did you read my texts?"

Kayla shrugged "Well no, I figured I would just call."

Nikki sighed "Ok well Listen Kayla-"

Kayla cut her off hearing a sudden ring on the door bell downstairs. She raised a brow confused and cut Nikki off "Hey Nikki, Let me call you back, there is someone at the door."

Nikki gasped "Kayla that's what I'm trying to tell you!"

"Oh would you hush, you can tell me whatever it is you need to tell me when I call you back. Give me five minutes." She stated and lifted herself out of bed, hanging up the phone, leaving Nikki hanging and a worried mess.

Kayla made her way down the stairs as the rings from the door bell came more frequent. She groaned she was going to kill whoever it was behind that door, god forbid Jacob wakes up and doesn't want to go back to sleep at this hour. Who would even be at her door at this hour, truth be told she was a little scared, she bit her lower lip and began to think if it was even a good idea to go answer the door. Just as she got to the last step on the stair case the person behind the door began to bang loudly, she assumed with their fist, this made her jump back a huge step, she was officially scared now. She slowly made her way to the door, she was about to peak through the peep hole when she heard "KAYLA MARIE BROOKS YOU OPEN THIS DAMN DOOR RIGHT NOW!"

She raised a brow in confusion 'Randy?' she thought to herself. 'Well that's a coincidence' she stated to herself again.

She sighed and opened the door before he could bang again, she would be pissed if Jacob woke up with all this damn noise but to her surprise she had yet to hear him creep out of his room. When she opened the door she put her hands around her arms to protect herself from the cold, she forgot to put on her robe so her hands would have to do to warm her up. Then she saw him, he looked so handsome, just like he always did, even if he was just standing in front of her with track pants and a hooded sweater, he still made her heart beat fast and chills run up and down her spin, she felt herself wanting to blush even looking at him but then she stopped herself finding herself looking into his eyes, they weren't happy or the usually baby blue she knew, no, they were a dark gray and they had anger and hurt behind them. Her heart suddenly went cold, did he know something? Why is he so pissed? "R-Randy-" she stuttered "What are you doing here? At this time?" She questioned the door still wide open.

He rushed inside from the cold and pushed her out of the way as he grabbed the door slamming it shut behind him "WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!"

'Oh no' she thought 'He found out' she swallowed the huge lump forming in her throat and let chunks of hair fall to her face as she looked down at the floor ashamed of herself. She knew he was waiting for an answer and she couldn't prolong this situation any more. She slowly looked up seeing the anger and hurt in his eyes and then looked away over at the top of the stairs to make sure Jacob wasn't awake. She cleared her throat and looked back towards him "First of all lower your voice, Jacob is upstairs sleeping!" She spoke firm but softly.

Randy nodded his head and put his hands on his hips "Oh Jacob, You mean MY son?" he questioned sarcastically.

Kayla swallowed and bit her lip, she didn't know where to begin or how but she had to force her lips to move and words to form "O-Ok Randy listen-"

"I want to know what the fuck went through your head to do this?!" he exclaimed "To not tell me he is my son?!"

She sighed and chewed on her lower lip nervously "In order for me to do that you need to let me explain Randy." she answered but very softly almost as if she was defeated because he had every right in this situation.

He snickered "Oh your going to explain and it better be a very good explanation because I missed a year of my sons life!" he screamed.

Thats it. Kayla had it, he was just screaming at her and not letting her get anything out or explain anything and the worst part was with the noise he was making Jacob could wake up any minute and the was the last thing she wanted was for Jacob to witness any of this or for her to have to explain to him what was going on and why there was so much yelling, when there never is yelling in this house. She groaned frustration and grabbed his hand forcefully leading him downstairs to the basement where they could talk and get out all their emotions the way they wanted. You can hardly hear screaming upstairs from the basement and it was the perfect place.

As she led him down to the basement she stared him down "I told you Jacob was sleeping!" she yelled getting her voice back "And Yes he is OUR son" she said putting the emphasis on our. "So have some consideration."

Randy snickered and paced back and forth "Consideration…" he whispered trailing off "Consideration!?" he screamed backing her into a corner wall, his hands above her head "Where was the consideration when you decided to keep my son from me without even telling me first, hmm?" he said in a low voice, with a very harsh tone, so harsh she could feel the anger penetrating from beneath him. He stared into her eyes waiting for her to respond. All he saw was guilt and hurt, and shook his head and let his hands fall off the wall, backing away from her.

A few seconds later she finally spoke "I was scared of rejection to me and Jacob, I didn't think you would want to be in either of our lives." she explained calmly pushing herself off the wall.

Randy head shot back, and he laughed unamused "Wow what an excuse!" he exclaimed and snickered.

Kayla sighed slapped her hands against her legs "Its not an excuse Randy!" she shouted "Tell me its not true, that you never wanted commitment! Tell me!" She exclaimed and when he just stared at her she continued "Thats right, you never wanted commitment and guess what Randy Kids is a commitment and correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you drill it into my head that we would never be anything more than what we were, sex?!

Randy ran his hands over his short hair with a soft chuckle, he couldn't believe this was happening "I don't give a shit what I said, I still had a right to know about this!" he exclaimed

Kayla sighed and nodded her head "Yes Your right and I know that now and you have to believe me I was going to tell you!"

He licked his lips and shook his head not believing a word she was saying "Yeah Im sure, just after a year of keeping my son from me you got up one morning and decided 'Hey I think ill drop this bomb on Randy today'". he mocked.

Kayla sighed and looked down at the floor, she deserved that, she deserved everything he was telling her. "You don't know how hard it was, I debated with myself for weeks on whether I should tell you or not but knowing how you felt about me and the you never wanted marriage or kids out of me well…" she paused and looked up into his eyes her hazels ones now filling with tears "It hurt me."

Randy felt a pang of hurt in his chest seeing her on the edge of crying, he hadn't seen her in so long and the last thing he wanted to see her do was cry, his eyes soften and he lowered his tone ten notches "Kayla-" he began.

She didn't stop, she just cut him off and continued talking "And then you came to the hospital to be with me through the birth…" she paused "The birth of our son and I knew then I had to tell you but you rushed out so quickly you didn't give me a chance, and I know that's not an excuse because I could have called and told you after the fact but-"

He walked a few steps closer and attempted again to get her attention "Ok but Kayla-"

She cut him off again continuing "You were with Kim and I couldn't tell you and take the chance at breaking you guys up, I knew there was a big possibility you were happy and as much as I loved you I wanted you to be happy so that's why I never told you after-"

She was suddenly cut off, seconds later all she felt were soft lips moving against her own, her heart froze and her feet fell like they were going to turn into a puddle of goo. Feeling those lips on hers again, the way they taste of mint from chewing gum or the way the crashed so perfectly down on hers, she missed it and feeling it after this whole year, it felt like she was feeling it for the first time. His hands made their way up to her neck and his thumbs gently caressed her cheeks, she moaned softly as he deepened the kiss and pressed their bodies closer together. She felt it again. She felt that heat between their bodies. That heat she hadn't felt in over a year. It was passion.

He slowly pulled away from the kiss and rested his forehead against hers, both he and her out of breath. Her eyes fluttered open to meet with his beautiful blue ones, he shook his head against her forehead and swallowed hard "Kayla I love you and I always have." he paused searching her eyes "I just figured it out too late."

He said it, those three words she was dying to hear since she had known him. He loves her. She felt her heart race and her lips form into a smile. He confessed to always loving her and she never knew it, he never knew it, if she had known so much could have been changed about the past year. She was upset at the fact he didn't find out sooner, she was upset that he couldn't share in the joy of their sons first year, but he was right it wasn't too late. A few seconds later she realized something, something that made her smile turn upside-down and made her slowly pull away from him "Wait... it is too late." She whispered

Randy tried taking a couple steps closer to her "Why, Why is it too late?" he questioned and when she didn't answer it hit him and he looked down at the floor in disappointment "Because of Dwayne?"

Kayla's head shot up and she shook her head giving a soft laugh.

Randy was confused by this, he shrugged his shoulder and sighed "I don't get it whats so funny about that?"

Kayla smirked, after all this time he was still able to make her laugh, smile and most of all she was still able to make him jealous. "Dwayne has nothing to do with this."

Randy raised a brow as Kayla walked closer to him, closing the space between them, she just stared into his eyes. "Haven't you guys been together for the past year?"

"Randy." Kayla sighed with a smile "We were only together for a few weeks, and then after we found out about the pregnancy, It just never felt right."

A wave of relief washed over Randy and he smiled, he looked down into her eyes and moved a strand of hair away from her face "So you haven't been with anyone since us?"

Kayla bit her lower lip and shook her head. No words were needed she just shook her head and he smirked down at her sudden shyness. Kayla wasn't smiling though, this was the part she hated the most. This is what she was talking about when she said it was too late. 'If you love then let go' she said to herself in her mind. "But you have, and her name is Kim." she paused to look up at him seeing his smirk disappear from his beautiful features "And this isn`t right if your still with her."

"Ill break up with her." He stated immediately holding her hands in his.

Kayla furiously shook her head "No! Thats the last thing I want is for you to break up with her for me!"

Randy shook his head more confused then ever "I don't get it, I just confessed my feelings for you and you obviously feel the same and you have for the past 3 years, so why wouldn't you want me to?"

Kayla bit her lip "Randy if you break up with her I want you to do it because you truly want to because your not happy with her, not because of me."

Randy sighed and grabbed her hands pulling her towards him, her body pressed up against his "Kayla I haven't been happy since you left, I was just with her to fill the void."

Kayla smiled softly and looked up into his eyes "You go home, talk to her, and then decide what you want to do."

"But I already know what I want to do." he whispered

"Just do that for me, Humor me." She smiled and rubbed his cheek with her thumb.

He nodded with a smile and slowly leaned down brushing his lips against hers, leaving light feather kisses against her lips, making her want more. "Ill be back for you Kayla." he whispered against her lips.

She nodded with a smile as they pulled apart, but Randy didn't forget about his son, before he turned to leave he turned towards her and cleared his throat "Don't think I'm forgetting about my son, I want him in my life, I want to be around him, I want him to know who I am."

Kayla smiled "He will, believe me."

He made his way towards the stairs but turned back before walking up "Oh and Kay-"

"Hmm?" She questioned with a hum.

"I don't just want him in my life, I want you too." He smirked and gave her a small wink as he made his way up the basement stairs to leave.

The day has come! Kayla has finally told Randy, they have had the conversation but Kayla is not out of the woods yet, Randy wants to be in his sons life and most importantly hers! But she needs to know he truly wants to be with her and she wants to make sure he break up with Kim for the right reasons. Lets see whats coming up next in Chapter 25.

*Side Note: This story is a few chapters from finishing and I may be starting a new one. I have an Idea for a totally new story but I also have an idea for a sequel or part two of angel of the morning. Just putting it out there, closer towards the last chapter I will put up a post on my two story ideas and have you guys choose which you would like to be more involved with. Thank again! Keep reading, Keep reviewing, I love hearing from you guys! :)