Only Forever

21

Demi's POV

"Mayla Dream Lovato! Get your butt over here right now!" I shout through the house when I see the absolute mess she made in my bathroom. "Mayla!" I shout again after a couple minutes of no response. I sigh heavily as I walk out of the bathroom and my room and down the hall to the top of the stairs.

"Woah, what happened?" Jay asks walking around the corner and I see him at the bottom of the stairs with Mayla hiding behind his legs.

"Mayla, get up here." I say sternly as I raise my brows and I see her pout before slowly walking up the stairs. I glance up at Jay who looks confused and I sigh as I grab Mayla's hand as soon as she makes it to the top of the stairs and I lead her to my bathroom again. "Wanna tell me what happened?" I ask nodding to the nail polish that is all over my bathtub and cabinets.

"I don't know." She mumbles shrugging and I roll my eyes just as Jay walks into the room and his eyes widen when he sees the mess.

"I think you do know. You better tell me right now missy." I reply as I bend down to her level and she looks at me with tears in her eyes and I feel myself start to feel bad.

"I'm sorry." She cries and I sigh as her tears start falling.

"Hey, let's calm down, okay?" I say rubbing her back and she nods as she starts wiping her tears away. "Okay, let's just clean this all up and we can talk." I say and she nods so I stand up grab some rags out of my drawer and then wet them with water. Luckily the nail polish hadn't dried yet so it should be pretty easy to clean. While we were cleaning it up, Jay had gotten a call so he walked away to answer it. When we finally cleaned it all up, I went downstairs with her and I put her in her timeout chair that I recently had to invest in because the terrible twos were starting to show through. I set the timer on the microwave before walking out and going to find Jay. I eventually found him outside and he was sitting on the couch on the patio.

"Hey, you okay?" I ask when I see him staring straight ahead with a straight face.

"That was the paternity results." He says quietly and I grip the door handle tighter as I glance in the kitchen to make sure Mayla is fine and then I walk up to him while keeping the door open. I take a deep breath as I slowly sit down on the table in front of him and I grab his hands in mine causing him to look at me.

"And?" I ask quietly and he sighs heavily as he looks down at our hands.

"And she's not mine." He breathes out and I let out a breath that I didn't even know I was holding. He then pulls his hands from mine and stands up as he starts pacing in front of me, and I was confused.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I ask standing up and walking up to him and he sighs.

"I was just anticipating that phone call to go another way. I just had myself prepared that she was mine, and she isn't." He explains and I nod.

"Did you want her to be yours?" I ask grabbing his hand in mine.

"I don't know. I wouldn't be upset if she was because I love kids and can't wait to have my own, but at the same time, I wouldn't want any attachments to Raya." He answers as we walk back to the couches and I nod.

"And that's valid." I tell him rubbing his back and he smiles as he turns to look at me. He then leans in and kisses me softly and I smile against his lips as his hand makes his way to my jaw and caresses my cheek softly.

"Ewwwww!" I then hear causing us to pull away and I turn to see Mayla standing there giggling.

"Aren't you supposed to be in time out?" I ask raising my brows and she shakes her head as she walks up to me and climbs onto my lap.