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.
"Ok John put the bags on the couch for now" Ashley told him once they had gotten to their hotel after an exhausting 3 hour shopping spree.
John put the bags on the couch and collapsed next to them. Randy walked in carrying a sleeping Dean.
"Where should I put him?" Randy asked.
"Bedroom genius" Ashley replied.
"John can you move for 2 seconds so I can change Phinnigan's diaper?" Ashley asked.
John removed himself from the couch with great effort.
"If you need me I'll be napping with Dean" John said heading towards the bedroom.
"Your daddy is a weirdo" she said to the baby "you know what let's forget the diaper change and we'll give you a nice warm bath instead"
Randy came out of the bedroom and had a seat in a near by chair.
"Rans can you do me a favor and open the box with Phinnigan's bath tub so I can give him a bath and put a new out fit on him?" Ashley asked.
"Yeah sure whatever just as long as you never make me go shopping with you again" he said starting to rummage through the numerous bags that were lying all over the living room.
"It wasn't that bad" Ashley said beginning to undress the baby.
"Found it what do you want me to do with it?" he asked.
"Bring it into the bathroom and fill it with warm water then just put it on the kitchen table" she told him.
Randy did as he was told and brought the tub filled with warm water to the table. Phinnigan began to cry a little when Ashley undressed him. But she wasn't too worried because all newborns hated being naked because they were cold. She held the outfit he had on in her hands with a face filled with disgust.
"Dean probably wore this thing" she gaged a little "we'll burn it later"
Randy just laughed at her and watched as she picked the crying infant up and rocked him a little as she walked over to the table.
"Shh, it's ok baby" she comforted him before gently placing him in the warm water.
"See sweetie this isn't so bad" she said wishing his little body with a cloth. He stopped crying when he felt the water on his body.
"He likes it" Randy observed.
"And people call you an idiot" Ashley replied.
"Who the hell calls me an idiot?" he asked.
"Me" she stuck her tongue out at him.
"You ... having a baby it just seems so natural" Randy commented.
"Must be because I am a woman right" Ashley said flatly.
"No, not like that ... what I mean to say is that you seem very at ease with him" Randy corrected himself.
"I used to work at a daycare while still in high school" she explained "I know how to feed a baby, change it's diaper and give it the Heimlich if need be".
"Ok I guess that explains a lot" he said "so what do you think Kelly is going to say?"
Ashley didn't answer Randy's question right away instead she busied herself with washing the little hair that Phinnigan did have with baby shampoo. One she had rinsed his hair and wrapped the baby in a towel and sat back down on the couch to dress him did she reply.
"I couldn't give two shits about what she is going to say just because she is in John's life does not mean that she has to go anywhere near my son"
"But he is John's son too" Randy pointed out.
"He is only John's son because I wanted him to be but we all know who is actually going to be raising this kid and I accept that, John has his own thing going on and that's ok, I didn't really expect him to agree to adopting Phinnigan with me but he did so Phin is his son too"
"So you don't want John in Phinnigan's life?" Randy asked having a seat in a chair near Ashley and the baby.
"Of course I do John is my best friend and I trust him with both mine and Phinnigan's life but that doesn't mean I want that gold digging bitch near my baby"
"Can you grab me a diaper?" she asked Randy gesturing to the package of diapers on the other side of the room. Randy stood up from his chair and grabbed a diaper. He cringed as he handed it to her because he knew that later on someone would have to change the diaper.
"I'm glad my kid is already potty trained" he smirked a little to himself.
Ashley just couldn't let him have his little victory "Sorry to burst your bubble big guy but Dean isn't completely potty trained he still has to wear Pull Ups to bed" she said "and you wanted to adopt him so that means you have to change the pissy Pull Ups which are no better than diapers"
"Do you have to be so vulgar" Randy remarked.
"Randy I have thought worse, done worse, and said worse"
"Yeah I know you have spent way too much time with John" Randy rolled his eyes "but you need to cut down on the swearing because there are little ears around now"
"Randy ... fuck you"
Randy gave her a funny look. She just cracked him a smile.
"I needed to get it out of my system" she said as she finished putting Phinnigan into a pair of nice clean new pajamas.
"Ok I changed and bathed the little guy and he doesn't need another bottle for another 2 hours what shall we do with our spare time?"
"We could always watch TV" Randy suggested.
"How about a movie instead"
"Ok, which one?" Randy asked.
Ashley handed Phinnigan to Randy and got up and ran over to her carry on and began rummaging through it.
"I know I packed it in here somewhere ... no that's not it ... hey I've been looking for my light green thong for like 3 days and now I've found it" Randy's left eyebrow shot up a bit at that statement "SCORE ! I found it!"
"UGH! Ashley why do we have to watch The Boondock Saints again?" Randy whined a little. Ashley had already made him and John watch that movie over 300 times.
"Because I love it" she insisted popping the DVD into the DVD player that was connected to the TV.
Ashley had a seat next to Randy and the movie started.
"Did you know that they had to shoot the beginning scene in a Protestant church because no Catholic one would let them film it there because of the plot"
"Yes you've only told me every time we watch the stupid movie" Randy replied.
Ashley gasped "This is not a stupid movie!"
"It is when you have seen it 3000 times"
"This has to be one of the greatest movies of all times" Ashley said.
"You only like it because the two main characters are Irish" Randy said.
"God damn right they are Irish ... fighting for the rights of the little man"
After that Ashley didn't say another word she just sat there humming the song that played in the beginning of the movie. It fascinated Randy to no end to see how Ashley could get so into a movie she had seen so many times before but she somehow always managed to do it. About an hour into the movie John woke up from his nap and decided to join them in the living room.
"Cool watching The Boondock Saints" he said having a seat next to Ashley.
"Daddy I'm hungry" Dean said walking into the room rubbing his eyes.
"What do you want to eat?" Randy asked relieved he had something to do besides watch the movie with the two other idiots he was friends with.
"Peanut butter and jelly sandwich" he said.
"Ok let me call room service" he said.
Randy got up to use the phone and Dean took his seat his attention turning to the movie. Neither John or Ashley noticed him or they would have shut the movie off because it certainly wasn't a movie Dean should have been watching because every other word out of the characters mouths was fuck.
"Auntie whats does fuck mean?" Dean asked.
Ashley's head snapped towards the direction of Dean's voice. It was the first time that she noticed that he was awake. She quickly made a grab for the remote control and shut the movie off.
"Umm ... Dean honey fuck is a bad word that little boys and girls shouldn't say because it gets them in trouble" Ashley said.
"But they guys said fuck a lot on the TV" Dean pointed out.
Randy heard Dean say that.
"Nice going Ash teaching my kid the F word" he shot her a glare.
"He would have learned it eventually seeing as it's John's favorite word" Ashley replied "and it's not like I sat him down and taught him how to say it I didn't notice he was in the room till he asked me what the F word meant"
"Dean you aren't allowed to say that word ok" Randy said kneeling down to Dean's level "that is a very bad word and only bad people use that word"
"What about Uncle John it's his favorite word"
"Well honey Uncle John is an idiot" Ashley said.
John shot Ashley a look but she pretended not to notice.
"Your dad is right Dean fuck is a bad word and I'm not going to say it anymore" John said.
"Pinky promise" Dean said holding out his pinky.
"Pinky promise" John said having no idea what Dean wanted him to do.
"No Uncle John you are supposed to go like this" Dean said taking John's pinky and linking it with his own and shaking it.
Ashley and Randy chuckled at John's expense. Even John had to laugh, Dean was too cute not to. The little boy with the dark brown hair and hazel eyes had quickly made an impression on all of them.
"So Dean tomorrow you get to meet all the guys Daddy and Uncle John work with are you excited"
"Do I get to meet Batista and The Undertaker?" Dean asked excitedly.
"Yeah because tomorrow is a cross brand super show" Ashley explained.
"Cool they are my two favorites!" Dean explained jumping up and down.
"Oh that is a diss ya boy likes Dave and Mark better than you" Ashley laughed to herself.
"Oh grow up"
"Randal Keith"
"Ashley Fiona"
"Yeah well my dad is a better wrestler than yours" Ashley said sticking out her tongue.
"You two are more like children that the actual children" John said.
"Phin is asleep ... John I command you to set up his playpen" Ashley waved her hand in a manner that told him to move.
"Oh yeah let me hop right to that" John said sarcastically.
"I have been taking care of YOUR son since you decided to take a nap so the least you can do is set the the stupid thing up"
John sighed "Fine"
He set the play pen up and took the baby from Ashley and put him in it. A knock on the door caught Dean's attention.
"I'll get it" he said excitedly running to the door.
"No you won't" Randy said coming to stand next to him.
"Who it is daddy?" Dean asked.
"I don't know yet" Randy said looking through the peephole.
"Oh shit" he said "umm ... guys I have good news and bad news"
"What is it?" Ashley asked.
"The good news is Dean's sandwich is here but the bad news is so is Kelly who is holding said sandwich"
"Mother fu...dger" John said "we need to hide the kids and all this stuff"
"Why?" Ashley asked.
"Because I think Kelly deserves to have me sit down and explain the situation to her" John said.
Kelly knocked again but this time much louder. Ashley looked over into the playpen to see Phinnigan was still sleeping.
"If she wakes him up I'll kill that bitch myself"
"Go" John whispered furiously.
"Fine ... Randy grab Phinnigan's playpen and I'll get the bags and we'll hang out in the bedroom"
"But what about my sandwich" Dean whined.
"You can eat it in the bedroom" Ashley told him as she grabbed some of the bags. John carried the rest of the bags and hurried Ashley and Dean into the other room. Randy carefully picked up the playpen up and brought it into the other room.
"Randy ... dumbass when I said take the playpen into the bedroom I meant for you to take the baby out first" Ashley smacked him upside his head.
"Well he's fine and still sleeping so relax" Randy said rubbing the spot where she hit him.
"Dean we need to be quiet because Uncle John has to talk to a mean lady who doesn't like kids and if she hears you she will want to kill you" Ashley warned Dean.
Dean got a scared look on his face.
"Ashley" was all John needed to say for Ashley to know she was in trouble.
John jogged out of the room and answered the door. He smiled at Kelly hoping she wouldn't sense anything was different.
"What took you so long to answer the door?" she asked.
"I ... I was in the shower so I had to throw some clothes on" he lied.
"Did you order a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?" Kelly asked.
"No that's Randy's, he and Ashley are watching Newlyweds in the other room"
"Oh ok maybe I should go say hi" Kelly said taking a step towards the bedroom door.
"No" John yelled "they are ... sick it's really bad in there so let me just bring this to Randy and then we can talk" he said taking the sandwich from her.
He walked back into the bedroom to find Ashley, Randy and Dean all laying on the bed watching Spongebob Squarepants.
"Here you go Dean" John said giving the sandwich to Dean "remember quiet"
Dean took the sandwich from John and practically shoved the whole thing into his mouth. Ashley watched him and rolled her eyes.
"Dean take small bites because you are gonna choke"
John left before he could hear Dean's answer. John found Kate sitting on the couch looking at something.
"John what's this?" she asked holding the outfit Phinnigan had been wearing earlier that day.
"It looks like baby clothes" John replied.
"Yeah I know that I mean what is it doing here?" she asked.
"Well ... umm ... I kinda have a baby" he said.
"I'm sorry I must have heard you wrong" Kelly said "I thought you said you kinda have a baby"
"I did" he said looking at his shoes.
"How do kinda have a baby?" she asked.
"Because Ashley and I kinda adopted a the baby boy we found" John admitted.
"YOU ADOPTED A BABY WITH HER!" Kelly yelled.
Of course Kelly's outburst woke up Phinnigan who started to scream bloody murder because apparently he didn't like being woken up. Ashley picked the baby up and tried to talk him around hoping that he would go back to sleep but he continued to cry.
"Let's go for a walk" Ashley suggested to Randy.
"Ok just let me change Dean's clothes because it is a little too cold to wear a t-shirt and jeans" Randy said.
"Where we goin daddy?" Dean asked.
"For a walk Little guy so let's put on some of your new clothes and your new $120 sneakers that you will out grow in like 2 months" Randy said more for Ashley than for Dean because she was the one who bought them.
"Were you knot the one who mentioned that we are not anywhere near broke"
Randy just shook his head as he picked out a pair of jeans and a long sleeved camouflage shirt for Dean to put on. While Randy was dressing Dean, Ashley took Phinnigan's carriage out of the box and managed to assemble it all by herself ... she felt really proud. She picked the baby up from his spot where he had been lying on the bed and put him into his carriage. He was still crying a little and Ashley swore if she got Kelly alone she would personally strangle her.
"Nice going whore" Ashley said walking into the room with the crying baby in the carriage.
Dean came running out of the room and hid behind Ashley's leg.
"Who the hell is he?" Kelly asked in a tone that sported shock and annoyance.
"His name is Dean he's Randy's son" John replied.
"Auntie I don't want her to kill me" Dean said scared.
"Why does he think I am going to kill him" Kelly asked putting her hands on her hips. Her dark brown eyes clashing with Ashley's grey ones. Kelly was about 3 inches shorter than Ashley and not as well built so it was easy to see who would win in a fight.
"You know what Kelly I have no idea" Ashley mocked innocence.
"You bi..." Kelly started but was interrupted by Ashley.
"Kelly little children in the room" Ashley reminded her sweetly.
"All ready to go" Randy said.
"Daddy hold me" Dean said holding out his arms.
Randy picked him up and with the other hand he started to push the carriage out of the hotel room.
"Now Kelly try not to miss me" Ashley said shutting the door before Kelly could reply.
"God I hate her!" Kelly fumed "why does she always have to be around?"
"Because Ashley is my best friend and I trust her more than anyone else" John said.
"More than me?" Kelly asked pouting.
"Ashley won't break my heart" John said.
"But she did once right I mean that is why you two aren't together anymore right?" Kelly asked.
John flexed his jaw muscle, he clenched and unclenched his fists. His past with Ashley he didn't like to talk about it because it still ran raw with him and Kelly knew that.
"I don't want to talk about it" he said annoyed.
"Fine ... whatever no need to bite my head off" Kelly said "but why did you have to adopt a baby with her of all people?"
"Ash can't have kids and I know how much it means to her to have a family and I would help her in any way I can because she's important to me" he replied honestly. He did not hide the fact that Ashley was important to him and Kelly had known that when they started dating but sometimes she wondered who was more important to him.
"So the dumb bitch is can't have kids" Kelly said smirking.
"Kelly that ain't funny Ash can't have children because she was beat repeatedly as a teenager"
"Chris beat her?" Kelly asked shocked.
"Of course not, Chris would rather die than see his kids hurt. After Ash's mom died her dad couldn't take the pain of looking at Ashley or her two younger brothers so he put them in a group home and apparently they beat her so bad that she can't conceive children of her own"
"That is so sad" Kelly said actually feeling bad for Ashley "that is something I don't even wish for my worst enemy"
"I think Ashley and Phinnigan need each other" John said.
"She named him Phinnigan?" Kelly asked with a hint of disgust.
"It was her grandfather's name and believe me it grows on you" John said.
"So do you consider him your son?" Kelly asked.
"Yes"
"So if we had kids would you tell them he was their brother?"
"Hold on who said anything about kids" John said.
"Oh so you will share a son with Ashley but you don't want kids with me you know what that is fucked up John" she said starting to get upset.
"I never said that you just threw me for a loop when you mentioned kids that we don't have but yes if we did have children Phinnigan would be considered their brother" John stated.
"Great ... just great" Kelly mumbled to herself "now not only do I have to deal with the bitch now I have her brat to deal with too, sometimes I wonder if John is really worth it"
Now with this baby in the picture she would need to try harder to make herself look better than Ashley in John's eyes if that was even possible.