It was twelve in the morning when Jack and his brothers walked into the house. They had just came back from Angel's and Bobby's favorite, Hooters. Angel and Bobby were damn near drunk whilst Jack only a few beers and Jerry, being the designated driver, had none.
"Mannn, we should've hit the strip joint. It was only a street away, but I forgot that little Jackie here was a goddamn fairy, so it'd be nothing in it for him." Bobby teased, taking his sock off and throwing it at Jack as they flopped down onto the couch of the entertainment room.
Jack eyed it for a second then picked it off his jeans with his index finger and thumb. "I go to a strip club nearly every night." He bragged, throwing the sock back at Bobby.
Angel lifted his head up from the couch and smirked at Jack. "Really?" He laughed. "Which one?"
Jack gave a simple nod towards the ceiling. "The one upstairs that's exclusive to only me, so no, you can't get in." He walked over to the pool table and lined up the balls in the triangle.
Jerry followed and took a seat at the bar, watching him play a single game. "Enough of this strip talk...Where are we having Christmas?"
Bobby took a seat next to Jerry as Angel got behind the bar and started mixing himself a drink. "Jack Jack is the one with the extra house in Detroit and plus it's huge, so let's save the stress and have it there."
"Yeah, thanks for offering." Jack mumbled sarcastically as he shot a solid into a hole.
"Ew!" Angel shouted, gaining looks and raised eyebrows from his brothers where they seen a sour look on his face with the shot glass under his lip.
"What?" Bobby asked.
"This drink is to soft and warm. Taste like breast milk." He said, louder than he should have.
Jack sucked his teeth and paused as he leaned down about to shoot his shot. "Shut up." He hissed. "I know y'all don't want Selena to come down here."
"Oh, God, no." Jerry groaned. "Shut up before she do and raise hell on us."
Bobby shook his head then turned towards Angel. "You drank Sofi's breast milk?" He questioned.
Angel nodded. "Y'all never tried breast milk?"
They all shook their heads, their faces screwing and scrunching before they busted out laughing at their brother, making him furrow his brows. "Shut the hell up!" He grumbled. "Y'all don't know shit. Y'all just mad cause y'all missing out."
"Hey!" A voice from the doorway called, getting them to turn their heads and see Selena tying her short and black silk robe with daggering eyes. "I'm trying to fucking sleep and so are the kids."
Jack stood up, setting his stick on the floor. "I tried to tell them, babe. It wasn't me, it was all them." He blamed them, making them drop their jaws believing it was false accusations which it wasn't.
Selena rolled her eyes. "Listen, I don't care who it is, just shut up for the love of God."
"My fault, Lena." Angel apologized, dumping the drink into the sink as Jerry and Bobby apologized as well, only getting her to ignore them and walk away.
"You needa go give her that 'act right.' She clearly has an attitude." Bobby said.
"She's always like that." Jack muttered. "And trust me, I give it to her every night, so don't worry about what I need to do, you're the one who can't keep a woman."
Jerry and Angel laughed. Bobby only shrugged it off and smirked. "No. Women can't keep me."
Jack rolled his eyes and set the stick on the pool table. "I'm gonna go upstairs and be with my wife. You three can do whatever, just don't break anything." He told them, leaving the room and walking up to his bedroom.
"Hey, baby." He said to Selena who was curled on top of the covers with the robe still on, her eyes heavy. "Sorry if they woke you up."
Selena rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand. "It's okay. You staying up here?"
Jack nodded. "Yeah." He took off his clothes, stripping down into just his boxers. "It's cold, why are you on top of the covers?"
He got into the bed with her and seen her brows pinching together with her hand over the lower part of her stomach. "Sel, are you okay?"
Selena nodded. "I just feel a little bit hot and stiff, but I'm okay. You okay?"
Jack sat up. "I'm fine. Don't worry about me, Selena. Are you sure you're okay?" He asked.
"Yeah. I just wanna try and go to sleep." She then sent him a weak smile. "Just come here and hold me, please?"
Jack's eyes scanned her body for a second, positive that she wasn't telling the truth, but he didn't know what was going on, so he knew sleep would probably help.
He slowly laid back next to her then carefully wrapped his arms around her. A small moan escaped from her when she moved just a slight bit to be closer to him and rest her head on his chest.
She knew she was okay. She knew everything was going to be just fine.
Jack had just dropped off his brothers at the airport and picked up the kids from their after school activities. Once he pulled into the driveway, he seen Selena walking towards the front door in her scrubs.
He took Naomi out of her booster seat and ran towards her mother, Dylan beating her to it. "Mommy!" She sang.
Selena pulled out of her hug from Dylan then grinned at Naomi. "Hey, babe." She pulled her in for a tight hug. "How was ballet?"
Naomi tucked her hands behind her back and frowned towards the concrete, remaining silent.
Selena looked up at Jack who was walking towards them with a bag of food in one hand and another bag with things almost ripping through the bag. "What happened with her?"
Jack handed Selena the bag of food while he pulled out his keys to unlock the door. "Her instructor said that she stepped on one of the little girls foot."
"Did you say sorry at least?"
Jack chuckled and pushed open the door. "No, that's exactly why she got put in timeout. The teacher told her to apologize and little bit refused to."
Selena handed Dylan the bag of food and gently pushed him inside the house and stepped in front of the doorway where Jack still held the screen door open with his back.
Her hands rested on her waist and she raised a brow at Naomi. "Why didn't you apologize?"
Naomi shrugged hard. "Mama, it wasn't my fault her foot was in the way. It was all cause of her. If her foot wasn't next to me then I wouldn't have hurt it."
Selena shook her head and huffed. "Tomorrow when you go back to class, you better apologize to her or I will take the new dollhouse that Daddy bought you and put it out for a week. Do you hear me?"
Naomi's bottom lip stuck out as she folded her arms. "Yes ma'am."
"Okay, now go get some food." She stepped aside and let Naomi softly stomp past her with her small feet.
Selena let out sigh and shook her head then turned towards Jack and forced a small smile. "Hey, baby."
"Hey, baby." He repeated softly, still leaning on the door.
Selena gave him a gentle kiss then glanced down at the bag he was holding. "What's all of that in there?"
Jack followed Selena into the house. "Stuff Dylan wanted to buy for his three girlfriends."
"Three?" She chuckled. "Well, that was nice of you to buy them stuff."
"Yeah, I know how it was back then, so we went on a small splurge." Jack set the bag on the counter once they got into the kitchen where the kids were eating and the dog was sitting right where kitchen met the living room, knowing where his boundaries were.
"Mom, when we're done eating, can you help me wrap the presents?" Dylan asked, shoving fries into his mouth.
"Mhm." She agreed, grabbing her chocolate shake and burger. "What did you get them?"
"I got Bridget a marshmallow bow and arrow because she always eats those in class, I got Gia a robot dog, and then I got Megan an art case that has a lot of colors in it."
Selena would complain about Jack throwing money away on children that aren't in their family if they weren't rich, but since they are, she didn't care as long as they didn't make it a habit.
"Mama, Since Dylan got toys for girls, can I get Joey something?" Naomi asked, her mouth full of chicken nuggets.
Jack's head snapped towards Naomi before Selena could give Naomi an answer. "Who the hell is Joey?"
"Yeah, we can get Joey a little something." Selena smiled, everyone completely ignoring Jack, making him repeat his question.
"Uh, hellooo? Who is Joey?"
"Just Nye's little boyfriend at school, no biggy."
"Boyfriend my ass." Jack then looked down at Naomi who was sitting next to Dylan, eating her food and finding nothing wrong. "Who said you could have a boyfriend?"
Naomi innocently shrugged. "He did."
"Oh, well excuse me. My opinion doesn't matter anymore to the princess, huh?"
Naomi shook her head.
Jack chuckled. "How long y'all been together then?"
"Only four." She said, throwing Grizzly a nugget.
"Stop feeding the dog, babe." He told her before getting back to the conversation. "Four what?"
"Days." She simply told him, reaching for another one of her nuggets.
Jack grabbed the box of nuggets and pulled it away. "Nope. We're gonna get to the bottom of this square named Joey."
Naomi sucked her teeth and threw her head back. "Daddyyy." She whined.
"How old do you think you have to be until you have a boyfriend?"
Naomi began to count on her hands then came to a conclusion. "Twelve."
"Oh...And how old are you?"
"Five." She answered under her breath, leaning against the counter then resting her chin in her hand.
"Don't you think you got a long way until then?" Before Naomi could get out a response, he started to interrogate her more. "What do y'all be talking about? What y'all be doing?"
"Just play at the park."
"How y'all get to the park? He picks you up in his car? I don't like the sound of this, Nye."
Selena and Dylan started to laugh making Naomi sit up and stick her hand out at Dylan, raising her voice."But how come Dylan can ha-"
Jack cut her off. "We're not talking about him though...What does he do?"
"He colors and plays tag."
"No, like what does he do for a living?"
Naomi shrugged. "I don't know."
Jack tsk'ed. "How y'all together, but you don't know? You better find out, cause how is he gonna support you? He not gonna buy you stuff. He isn't gonna feed you, cause guess what..."
"What?"
"You gotta move out now. Go pack your suitcase and live with him."
Naomi giggled along with Dylan. "But dad..."
Jack shook his head. "Don't wanna hear it." He slid her chicken nuggets back to her. "Finish your last meal here and then I'll take you to his house. Where he stay at?" He then snorted. "He probably still live with his mom."
Selena laughed then threw her's and Dylan's food away. She stood behind Jack then wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Are you feeling better today?" He asked her, watching as Dylan and Naomi hopped down from the counter and ran into the living room to watch television.
"I think so. I'm not sure. I felt like I was on fire earlier at work, but maybe they just had the heat on to high."
Jack furrowed his brows skeptically then unwrapped her arms from around him and turned around to face her. "It's Los Angeles, Selena, why would they have the heat up."
Selena only shrugged and eyed the floor.
"Baby, do you need to go to the doctor?" He brought the back of his hand to her forehead then cheek, feeling her temperature.
Selena swatted his hand away. "I am a doctor."
"A children's doctor and besides you can't self-diagnose. If this keeps up then we're going. I don't care what you say."
Selena didn't answer. She only leaned against him and sat on his knee. Jack then wrapped his arm around her waist and held her close. "The guys are coming over tonight. I think Tessa and Olivia are coming and I don't know if Mason and Will are bringing girls or what."
"When?"
"Sometime tonight." Jack shrugged.
"Mom, dad! You're on tv!" Dylan shouted from the living room, not really any emotion to his voice since the both of them were used to seeing it all the time.
Jack and Selena turned towards the living room to see the two of them walking out of the interview from the other day.
Selena walked out of the kitchen and picked up the remote to turn off the television. "You two have homework to do, so get on it." She walked back to Jack in the kitchen. "I'm gonna go take a shower then take a nap. Love you."
"Love you too." She pecked his cheek then went upstairs, leaving Jack to help them with their homework.
"Are they asleep?" Jack asked Selena as she walked down the stairs in an oversized beige sweater and jeans.
"Yeah." She muttered under her breath but still gave him a small smile. "Everyone already outside?"
Jack nodded. "Tessa wanted to light a fire, so everyone's sitting around it. You should probably grab a jacket still though."
"Okay. You go ahead, I'll be out in a second." She told him before he gave her quick kiss then walked out to the backseat.
Selena dragged herself back up the stairs and into the bathroom. Her palms started to get more moist than they were and her breathing started to slow.
She sank down onto the floor and sat there for a long minute. Finally gathering herself together, she reached forward and grabbed the pregnancy test then read the results.