Previously: Randy was normally the one who had to take charge of almost everything and right now he had no idea what he had to do. Phil was never the parent type anyway. John's face was very pale and Randy was very concerned and worried about the older man. Randy's eyes widened in complete shock. My husband? He always thought that it was a symbol of love and togetherness. "But what about your family? What about your parents?" "My parents are gone, Randy…." John mumbled to him sadily. "I don't have them anymore. They're both gone forever…." But why was he at the hospital anyway? Randy knew that John needed someone and Randy was the only one available to do that. Phil had some red roses in his hand and Randy knew that they were for John….
Randy was angry at him and Phil knew that his younger brother wanted to hit him for what he had done. He closed his eyes tightly and waited for his brother to punch him. But before that could even happen, a female voice said, "Mr Orton?"
The two brother quickly turned to the sound of a nurse's voice and she was standing there with a warm, gentle smile on her face. Randy was holding his breath as well as his brother when the nurse had said, "I have to say congratulations to you. The baby is a boy."
There was another baby boy. But was this one actually the real thing this time? Randy thought to himself; but he had to push that question aside for the moment and he heard his brother asked, "So…. Um…. Is everything… okay for the… baby?"
The blonde nurse nodded her head. "Yes, everything is completely fine." She replied and Randy rolled his eyes as she winked at Phil and Randy knew that she was going to be just a good fuck for his brother. "The baby boy is very healthy and he has a respectable seven pounds and eleven ounces."
Phil couldn't believe that he was a father and he cleared his throat nervously. "And…. Uh…. How is John doing?" He asked; making Randy blink in surprise as John was the only name that Phil had remembered of all of his cheats and it made Randy wonder if his brother had feelings for John.
The nurse tilted her head slightly. "He is doing very well for the moment; despite having such a difficult labour and towards the end of it all especially." She explained to the two brothers. "The doctor actually thought that he had to take the baby out by doing a c-section, but thankfully he didn't have to and it all worked out in the end."
Phil just gave the nurse a small nod and he sat down with a very pale look on his face. Randy thought that he was either scared to death of being the father of the child with someone who he cheated with on his wife or that he was sick and that he wanted to leave the hospital and never come back. Randy was then thinking that it was both of those thoughts that he was having. Randy didn't know what to say to Phil or to the nurse and he decided that he had to leave.
Randy grabbed his coat from the back of one of the chairs and he glanced away from Phil who was shaking and trembling a little. If Randy was quick enough, he could talk to a few of his employees from his management team before any of them have left their offices for the rest of the day and he could go over the plans of the company's overseas expansion with all of them. But as he was actually putting on his coat, he quickly changed his mind and he thought that leaving so soon would be so wrong of him to do.
"Wait a minute, nurse!" He yelled to the nurse as she was walking away and he saw her stop; turning her attention back to him. "I don't know if I should be asking this or not…. But…. I do know that it is really late…. But can I go and see… the baby?"
This is actually what he wanted to do; he wanted to take a peek at the baby boy who may actually be his older brother's son and the child may be the actual only Orton heir. Randy didn't have the desire to go down that path again and he didn't want to have his heart broken twice. He just couldn't bear it. Because for him; having a marriage or being a father was out of the question for him. It was always going to be a closed chapter for him.
The blonde nurse smiled at him and then she winked at him as well as she had with Phil; making Randy sigh softly and he mumbled under his breath in annoyance. "I can go and see if I can have that arranged for you, young sir." She said brightly and then she left the room quickly.
Randy looked over at Phil and he wanted to talk to him a little. "Hey, Phil…." Randy said quietly as his brother looked up at him with fearful eyes and Randy then knew that his older brother was scared of being a father and also scared of Randy yelling at him again for making the same mistake that he had done with many people. "Don't worry. I'm not going to yell at you or anything like that, Phil. I just want to ask you a question. Are you going to see John and your son?"
Phil blinked a little and he stared down at the flowers in his hand. "Y-Yeah…." Phil said in a nervous tone of voice. "I think that I have to make things up to John and I think that I have to tell him how sorry I am for using him. I never expected him to get pregnant with my child. I used a condom. Maybe it was a faulty one. Dammit. I'm going to see him after you have seen him, Randy."
Randy frowned slightly at the words that Phil was saying. "Are you sure that you want to see him after me?" Randy asked in surprise and his brother nodded his head slowly. "Uh…. Well, okay then. It is your choice anyway."
But seeing the baby wasn't going to be that easy for Randy as he would have to stay at a distance from the child and he would have to see the baby from there in curiosity. The newborn baby was with John when the nurse had told him about thirty minutes later and she was walking with Randy down the hallway to get to John's room.
"Just be sure that you don't stay in there for too long, young sir," The nurse advised to him. "John will be needing a lot of rest."
After Randy had knocked on the door, he waited patiently for John to call him in; but instead, the door was opened very quickly by a blue-eyed man who was wearing a red hoodie and he had a huge grin on his face.
"Hey, kid! Here! Have a drink!" The man said to him kindly; trying to give Randy a plastic cup of hot chocolate and Randy refused to take it.
Randy thought that this man must be about thirty and he must have been at the hospital for a while. So John had lied to him about having "no one" to be there for him. Randy was angry at himself for falling for a lie and he turned to leave the room in a pissed off mood.
"Kid, wait a minute!" The man grabbed him gently by his arm. "You must be here to see the other parent."
Randy frowned in confusion. The other parent? Randy turned his head slightly and he looked around the room. A red-haired woman who must be the man's wife, was holding a wrapped-up baby in the first bed and he saw at the end of the room there was a drawn curtain.
"Um…. Maybe I should come back later…." Randy mumbled shyly, feeling a bit awkward.
"No! You can come in, kid!" The man said a bit loudly; tugging on Randy's arm slightly and then he lowered his voice. "That man could use some company. I heard that he was alone during his labour and that he doesn't have a boyfriend, husband or anyone like that." The man's cheeks turned red deeply. "Um, you are not the baby's-?"
Randy shook his head. "No, I am not the baby's father." He said honestly. "The father of the child is my brother who is sitting in the waiting room."
Randy managed to get out of the man's grip and he walked to the end of the room; peeking around the curtain and he saw that John was asleep. Randy felt the desire to touch John again and to give him a lot of support and comfort. John's side of the room was empty. There was no flowers, there was no balloons and there was no gifts from a new proud and a happy father. Randy gulped nervously. Randy tried to think of Phil being in the role of a dad, being supportive to John and to take responsibility for his son. But he couldn't; not even in this type of situation….
What did Phil say when he had heard that Randy was going to become a father? After Phil had told him congratulations, he had chuckled, "Better you than me."
How very… ironic….
Randy jumped in surprise as he heard a cry of joy from the side of the bed and he saw John's eyes open exhaustedly to the sound, and he was smiling a little.
"Hey, little one. Don't worry." John cooed softly as he sat up slowly and he moved to the edge of the bed to put his feet over the side. "I am here for you. Daddy is here for you."
Then he glanced up lowly and he gasped in shock when he saw Randy standing there and it made him nervous with Randy there watching him and his son.
Randy cleared his throat very nervously and he felt bad for intruding on John's privacy. "Um…. Uh…." Randy looked at him with a shy look on his face. "H-Hi, John…."
