Chapter 4: Let it be Exposed

Adrian's POV

I hung up my phone and grip the stirring wheel. Ricky is lucky I wasn't going to rush home. I head to the store where I was initially headed. I plan to get groceries so me and Ricky could have dinner tonight but honestly I don't know how tonight is going to go. I park on the lot closes to the store and grab a cart walking into the store. While shopping for some cereal I see a familiar face pull into the aisle with a little brown head kid. She stops in her tracks shocked. A devilish smile creeps onto my face before I decide to move closer.

"Hi Amy, long time no see" I say with the same smile on my face.

"Adrian, hey what brings you to New York?" She asks with the same shocked face.

"Ricky" I say simply with a small smirk. She didn't reply after that. "This must be John" I say now looking down at John.

"You have a big stomach" John says holding on to his box of cereal with one hand and touching my stomach with his finger. Amy slaps his hand telling him how he should apologize.

"Oh no it's okay. It's his daddy's baby anyways." Amy looked up at me with an emotion I couldn't quite pinpoint. All I know is that it's not a happy emotion. "He should know he has a sister on the way" I continue walking leaving John and Amy in the cereal aisle. At least I got some satisfaction in seeing her in New York but her being here is still a problem.

Amy's POV

I was just standing there soaking that Adrian is really pregnant with John's half sister and Ricky's baby. He really did move on.

"Are you okay mom?" John asks as I go deep into thought. I quickly clear my head.

"Yea I'm fine" I assured him. We continued shopping then made our way home.

At home John didn't seem like he could concentrate on his homework. He stopped right in the middle to ask me a question.

"Mom?"

"Yeah hun?"

"So that was Adrian? At the store?" He asks. I've only told him about Adrian once which was when I told him about Ricky.

"Yeah that was"

"Why would dad give me a sister knowing we wouldn't be sharing the same mom?" He questioned with a sad look.

"I don't know John, I don't know what goes on in that crazy head of his" I say more to myself than John. He slowly nods then gets back to homework.

Ricky's POV

I sat on my couch turning on the tv. Seconds later Adrian walks into the house. I help her with the groceries slowly knowing that later we'd get into an argument about Amy. As I set the last of the groceries in the cabinet Adrian sits and looks at me with her arms crossed.

"What?" I asked looking at her.

"You told me there'd be no chance that I'll see Amy here." She said with a deathly stare.

"I didn't know she was in this city or that she even worked for Ben" I said in my defense.

"Oh so you see her everyday at work to?" She said now yelling and getting angrier.

"Why are you even mad Adrian? I'm with you not her!"

"You left me for Amy Juergens once, how do I know you're not gonna do it again huh?"

"She's not even Amy Juergens anymore she's Amy...something she's Amy.. Parker, Amy Parker! See she's married!"

"We all know she'd leave any guy to be with you!"

"Why is she such a threat to you Adrian? Ever since high school you've looked at her as a threat and you've always done something just to beat her! Amy gets pregnant you get pregnant, Amy gets a gold bracelet you get a diamond one, Amy has a baby shower you get an even bigger and unnecessary baby shower. Why Adrian why? I asked begging for an answer.

"Because you love her. You always love her and you still do. I wanted that from you so desperately. I didn't know what you love about her or what made you go crazy about her but I wanted you to feel like that with me because I felt like that with you. Even though I have you now, you'll never feel like that with me, never. And I know you're only staying with me for this baby. You don't give a damn about me."

"Adrian, you're the mother of my child. I love you and I care about you. The way I love you is totally different than the way I loved Amy." And it was true. I didn't love them the same. Even though I'm with Adrian, there's always room for Amy in my heart. "Come on, lets go watch a movie or something."

"Okay" she laughed as I took her hand and led her to the living room.

Next Morning

Amy's POV

I went to work pretty early and sat on my desk. I decided to to text Lauren and see how the pregnancy is going. Ricky walks in without me noticing.

"Sorry about yesterday Amy" he apologized sincerely.

"Oh hey Ricky. Are you talking about lunch or Adrian?" I asked obviously upset about what Adrian told me and John.

"I'm sorry about that too Amy but I was talking about the lunch." He pulled out his wallet and handed me some money.

"Here Amy, I know you paid for the lunch and I wanna pay my part."

"Oh no it's okay Ricky you don't need to pay me back" I said looking at the money that was clearly more than both our lunches and could probably pay for house bills.

"But I want to"

"What if I don't want it?" I replied back. He put his money back in his wallet.

"How about I pay you back by taking you to a restaurant tonight?" He asked. I was hesitant to answer.

"Sure. I-I'll go." I said.

"Great." He walked to his office. I went back to texting Lauren and told her about Ricky asking me to dinner.

Lauren: 'Are you going?'

Amy: 'Well yea I told him I am and I'm curious about his life'

Lauren: 'Don't you think Chase would be kinda mad that you chose dinner with Ricky over dinner with your family?'

Amy: We have dinner every night and one night wouldn't hurt. Besides, I have dinner with you sometimes so it shouldn't make a difference

Lauren: Well have fun

I turned off my phone and got to work.

Later that day I went home and I started picking out my outfit for me and Ricky's dinner. It was between a black dress and a navy blue dress. Chase walked in wondering what I was doing.

"What are you up to?" He asked looking at the dresses.

"Oh yeah I'm going to have dinner with Ricky"

"Ricky? Is it like a date? Are you guys dating?" He asked.

"No we are not dating and no it isn't a date it's a friendly dinner."

"Then why are you trying to pick out a nice dress?"

"Because we're going to a restaurant."

"I'm just kidding I trust you to talk to other guys. Do you need help getting ready?" He asked with a slight smile.

"Actually" I kissed him slowly and passionately on the lips "I don't but thanks for the offer." I turned around smiling, grabbed my black dress and headed for the bathroom.

Chase's POV

I smiled to myself looking at the bathroom door. The doorbell rang and I went to get it. I opened it seeing a man just a couple inches below me wearing a suit.

"You must be Ricky" I said to him.

"Yea, and you must be-"

"Chase, Amy's husband" I said cutting him off.

"Yea I thought so." He said looking at his shoes. We were still in the front door glaring at each other till John came.

"Chase don't be rude, let him in" John said. I moved aside letting Ricky in.

Ricky's POV

I see John for the first time in years. I've never seen his face all I've heard is his voice on the phone. I walk into the house and sit on the couch. John comes and sits next to me. I'm still amazed on how big he is. The last time I saw him he was only 2 years old.

"You look so much like Amy" I said to him in a soft voice.

"That's funny because she sees a lot of you in me" he said looking up at me. It just hit me that I was having a face to face conversation with my son who I last saw only said momma and dada and incoherent noises and sounds. Yeah I've had conversations with him on the phone but face to face was different.

"I have a lot of questions for you but before I ask them I want to get to know you since I don't remember anything from when I was two." He said looking up at me. "Do you like baseball?" He asked still looking at me.

"Of course." I said smiling. "You want to go to some batting cages for your little interview with me?" I asked him still smiling.

"Exactly what I was thinking." He said smiling back at me.

Amy's POV

I watched how John and Ricky talked. It may be the first time John met Ricky with John being able to remember this moment but if you were a stranger, you would have figured that they were father and son. Ricky noticed and stood up.

"You look great Amy" he complimented.

"Thanks, so do you" I complimented back.

"Okay we all look nice" chase said butting in. He walked up to me and gave me a long goodbye kiss. I saw Ricky looking down. I grabbed my purse and went for the door.

"Bye guys" I said before going into Ricky's car. They waved and went into the house. We started driving to an area I've been to several times but never noticed the restaurant around the corner.

"Here we are" he said.

"Wait, there's a Jeff's here?" I asked not knowing the sudden change in area.

"Yea I looked it up and was surprised to see one in New York." We walked in and for ourselves a booth. I didn't know how we'd start the conversation so I hoped for the waitress to come later. She then came with two menus and ready to take our order. As she took our orders to the kitchen me and Ricky sat in silence. I didn't know what else to do than twiddle my thumbs. Our food finally came and Ricky decided to start the conversation.

"So you found out Adrian is pregnant?"

"Yeah. But lets not talk about Adrian"

"What do you want to talk about?"

"You" I said looking up at him. He looked at me surprised. Then he laughed a little.

"What about me?"

"How's your life? How was California after I left?" He took a deep breath.

"Horrible. I didn't know what to do. I didn't go back to sleeping around which surprised me" he laughed at that statement "I was upset, angry, a whole lot of different emotions ran through me. It kinda left when your mom flew to California with John so I could see him." He did a small chuckle. I nodded and thought about the memory. "So how'd you meet Chase"

"Oh well we were going to the same high school and he saw me crying at the steps of the stairs. He comforted me and we became like best friends then he asked me out and we've dated till college. We went to different colleges. He wanted to be an engineer and already planned out his goal to do that. Our colleges weren't far so we were able to see each other. After college we saw each other everyday."

"Why were you crying?" He asked concerned.

"That was 3 weeks after I moved to New York. I was still hurting Ricky." I answered. He played with his food not knowing what to say. We sat there looking at our foods.

"Amy I don't want us talking to be awkward." That caught my attention which made me look up at him. "What happened was years ago and we've clearly moved on but now that I'm in New York and we're working together and Adrian is having John's half sister and I'd like to spend time with John so lets learn to be friends, okay,"

"Yeah, okay" I said quietly. "So how was your day?"

"Pretty good without the yelling from Adrian." He said rolling his eyes. I laughed at that. "John has grown up pretty fast. I could still remember when he first walked"

"Yea, me too" I replied smiling. "Do you ever plan on proposing to Adrian?" I could tell that question shocked him. He looked at home with the same expression I had when I asked home the question. He looked down and answered.

"Honestly, I never plan to marry Adrian. I was just going to take care of her and our daughter even though she really wants me to propose to her." He laughed as I laughed with him.

"I could imagine the things she's do to try to get you to propose to her."

"Yea I think she purposely stopped taking birth control pills so he could get pregnant."

"That sounds like Adrian." We spent the night talking about life and each other. We didn't notice that they were getting ready to close up until the manager came and told us. As we drove home there was a silence. It was a comfortable silence. We got to my house and he walked me to my doorstep.

"Thanks for the dinner Ricky, I had a great time" I told him with a smile.

"So did I. Goodnight." Before he walked back to his car I pulled him into a hug. I haven't hug him in years and it felt nice to hug him again.

"Goodnight" I said while letting go. He smiled at me and walked to his car. I opened my door finding Chase on the couch. "Chase why haven't you gone to sleep?" I asked him concerned.

"Because I was waiting for you" he answered getting up. "Amy, tell me you're not falling for him again." He asked me sincerely.

"Chase I told you him and I are never going to happen"

"I know but I'm just scared that you're going to go back to your first love."

"Don't be Chase. We vowed to be together and no one is gonna break us apart simply because of that." He leaned in and kissed me.

"I love you Amy"

"I love you too Chase." I walked to the bedroom to get changed and ready for bed before I walked into John's room and kissed him goodnight. He was sleeping so peacefully. I couldn't help but think about Ricky as he resembled the way he slept.