“Uhm I’ll be back over momentarily”, I say then walk over to Alex. “I am not drawing that” I say quietly so only he can hear. “Understandable”, he responds, “But what should we respond to your ex with?”
"I don't know? Frick off?" I suggest. Alex sighs. "But it's baby mama Martha! We can do worse than that!" Alex complains. I groan. "Shut up." I mutter and motion to the stream that's still on.
“Ok ok well I’ll delete the DM and you could probably do another request”, Alex says. “I can agree with that”, I say as I walk back over to my tablet. “So instead of that I’m going to take another request. Any suggestions?”, I ask the chat.
"John we have a problem-" Alex mumbles. "How big of a problem?" I ask. "Might wanna shut off the stream kind of problem-" he says. I nod and shut it off. "Ok so what's the problem?" I ask and he shows me another DM from Martha. Another picture but it's a baby boy with DNA test next to it… with my name on it.
“So I guess it wasn’t with another guy but she still cheated”, I mumble under my breath. “But you don’t want to leave a kid without a father”, Alex responds. He’s right on that one. I should meet the kid especially if he’s mine but I also don’t want Martha to try anything.
I take my phone back from Alex and message Martha.
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John: hey, can we meet up at a park so I can meet the kid?
Martha: yeah of course! His name is Philip by the way.
John: can't wait to meet Philip! Can my boyfriend come too?
Martha: sure
“Well Alex we’re heading to the park to meet the kid. She said his name is Philip”, I say. “Okie dokie”, he responds then goes to get ready. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say ok like a regular person now that I think about it.
An hour later, we're in the park Martha told us to go to. We walk around a bit until I see Martha pushing a stroller. We meet by a bench and she sits down to take our son out of the stroller. "How old is he?" I ask. Kind of a stupid question. "Almost 1 and a half." She says and gives him to me.
“Hey kiddo”, I say quietly. Pip grabs onto my finger and babbles a bit. “I do have a question though”, I start to say, “why did you request a drawing of you and me together”
"You know how I love to tease you." She smiles and tries to hold my hand. Alex intervenes and holds my hand first. Aww my protective boyfriend. "Well don't do that anymore." I mumble to Martha and play with Pip again. He really does look like me.
“So”, Martha says, “I was thinking about putting him up for adoption as well. It’s too much for a single mother to handle.” I immediately look towards Alex and he already knows what I’m going to say.
Alex gives me the nod and I look back to Martha. "We'll take care of him. But if we are, you have to pay child support until we officially adopt him." I tell her. Ha! Maybe my dad forcing me into Law school wasn't that bad.
“I can agree to that, his stuff is in my car”, she says. I guess she was really hoping that I was going to take him home with me. Well she was right. We go to get pips stuff before taking him back home.
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Alex tries to re-assemble Pips crib in my room while I play with him. Obviously, the full crib wouldn't fit in Alex's Toyota the way it fit in Martha's SUV, so we had to disassemble it. Just like the other stuff that Alex has yet to put together. Apparently "I'm not allowed" and "he needs to do it to pass the time".
After a couple hours of construction Alex finished building pips stuff. Streams are gonna get a lot more interesting with a kid in the house as well. The times have to be more set in stone so we don’t interrupt his sleeping schedule or something. I do send the group chat a picture of pip though.
Lizzy: YOU AND ALEX ADOPTED!?!
Mari: WHEN WERE YOU PREGNANT JOHN????????
John: I wasn't- and sort of- this is Pip, he is biologically my kid and Martha is his mom but she doesn't want him anymore so he's mine and Alex's
Alex: I'm half a dad
John: not how that works- anyway
Herc: he's cute
Lizzy: how old?
John: almost a year and a half
Mari: can we come over with Susan????
John: tmrw. Pips going to sleep now.
Lizzy: meanie
Mari: see you tmrw then!!
I put pip to bed then go out to the living room with Alex once he falls asleep. “Can’t believe he has a play date already”, he says. “Well Mari and lizzy were very excited”, I respond.
"So you're really ok with this?" I ask after a moment of silence. "I've known you long enough to know this will work out. We'll be the best dads ever." He says and kisses my cheek. I blush and nod. "We will be."
This has been the best week of my entire life. I started dating my best friend and we adopted my son. I don’t think things could get any happier.
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Drawn Together - A Lams Fanfiction (Collab With E_musician)
FanfictionLams collab with E_musician John loves to stream while drawings and his roommate Alex moderates the chat. So what happens when the audience starts requesting a drawing of Alex since they've never seen him? Let's find out together.
