Having The Bad Boy's Baby (new version)

21. Brook

February 10, 2021 (21 weeks and 1 day along)

Twitter and instagram have been flooding with support messages for Jacob and I during this whole situation and I was honestly blown away.

There were so many that I had to turn my notifications off as it kept blowing up. It's been six days now since the last article had been published and since then, my parents have been speaking with lawyers about what course of action we should take. I can't even go outside my house to throw the garbage away without being bombarded by paparazzi asking to see Grayson or when the baby was due or if Jacob and I were still together or if the rumor about me being the other 'woman' was true.

It was ridiculous.

I feel terrible for bringing all of this drama to Jacob and his family.

"What's got you all down in the dumps?" Wynter asked as she walked into the dining room where I was currently sitting eating a tub of ice cream. "And why do you look like your seconds from a melt down?"

I swallowed the lump that had formed in my throat as I blinked my stinging eyes to keep the tears at bay. But those treacherous tears ignored me and rolled down my cheeks and she widened her eyes. "Oh shit, fuck, what did I say? Come on don't cry."

"What's going on in here?" Mom asked as she walked in as Wynter panicked.

"She just stared crying for no reason," she exclaimed with wide eyes as I sat there sobbing with the spoon with ice cream long forgotten. I fucking hated this. I hate myself for bringing all of this chaos to a family that had nothing to do with any of this.

"Honey? What's wrong?" Mom asked as she pulled me into her arms where I contiene crying. My chest felt heavy, I could barely breath and my head was hurting.

"I ha—hate he-her, so fu-fucking muc-much," I hiccuped as I held onto her with tears streaming down my face.

"Last I saw she was in the kitchen eating ice cream and scrolling through he-what's going on?" Dad's voice asked as he cut of mid sentence.

"Brook? Baby?" Jacob's voice called as he stood beside my mother who let me go and I looked up to see him looking down at me with a worried frown, I heard my parents and sister leave the kitchen, "Can you tell me what's wrong?" He asked as he wiped the tears away with the pads of his thumbs. I inhaled a shaky breath as I tried to calm down but it was hard. He was patient and waited for me to collect myself before sitting next to me holding my hands. I swallowed the lump in my throat, eyes sore from crying and throat dry. He reached out and grabbed the bottle of water Wynter must've taken out from the fridge for herself and handed to me. I gave him a shaky smile as I downed the water in one gulp before setting it on the island. I wiped my face and sniffled.

"What happened?" He asked when I had calmed down enough to speak.

"I'm sorry," I murmured and he raised a brow, "for causing all of this drama for you and your family. Especially with how things are going with Tory."

He shook his head and cupped my face as he rubbed my cheeks with his thumbs, "you have nothing to be sorry for, Brook. I knew—as well as my family—what I was getting into when I got with you. There will always be moments like these that we'll have to deal with, but that doesn't mean that we're going to let them win."

I took a shaky breath as my lip trembled with a new threat of tears and he pulled me against him, "I will do whatever I have to do to keep you and our children safe, Brook." I gripped his shirt as tears began rolling down my face again and he just held me, letting me cry.

*****

"Kon'nichiwa mama," Jacob greeted his mother over the phone an hour later after my meltdown. "Listen I have a question. You deal with lawsuits right?"

"Yes, our law firm deals with law suits and other cases, why?" She asked and I could hear the sound of pots and pans on the other end of the line meaning she was in the middle of cooking.

"You know how Brook and I have been having problems with one of our classmates?"

"Yes, this girl Hanna if I'm correct?"

"Yes, she's been in contact with various tabloids and have been selling lies and photos of Grayson to them."

A loud banging sounded making me wince and she began cursing up a storm in Japanese. I looked at Jacob who gave me a sheepish smile.

"Ano musume wa mō akita. Konkai, kanojo wa nani o shimashita ka? Kanojo ni okane o harawa seru tame ni, watashi ga shinakereba naranai koto wa nani demo suru koto o chikaimasu. Soshite burukku, kanojo wa genkidesu ka?" I have no clue what she said as I understood nothing. (I've had enough of that girl. What did she do this time? I swear I will do whatever I have to do to make her pay. And Brook, how is she doing?)

"Yeah, she's doing better." Jacob replied and his mother hummed in reply, "but to answer your question, Hanna—Brook and I believe—had followed her and Grayson to Grand park a few days ago," and I heard Trevor asking why she was slamming the pans before she went on a rant again in Japanese. Jacob looked at me and rolled his eyes making me give him a small smile. He leaned over and pressed a kiss to my forehead making me close my eyes.

"Hey, kiddo, your mom was telling me you're having problems with your classmate?" Trevor's voice echoed through the speakers and second later when Addison had stoped her rant, "What happened now?"

"She took a photo of Brook and Grayson at the park before selling it to some tabloid magazine a few days ago," Jacob replied, "We believe she's also responsible for all those other articles that have been published where they talked about Brook being a home-wrecker,"

"Hōmurekkā? Kanojo wa okashiku natte imasu ka? O ni-ri wa kesshite kappurude wa arimasendeshita!" I found that when she's pissed the fuck out that Addison speaks Japanese and I have no fucking clue what she says at all not even when Jacob teaching me some words in his language. I seriously need to start learning Japanese if I want to understand half of what she says. (home wrecker? is she out of her freaking mind? you two were never a couple!)

"I know that, Gijiroku," Jacob replied and I just laid on my bed watching him talk, "Brook's parents had hired a few bodyguards if you've noticed."

"We have," Trevor answered, "I was going ask why there were two more."

"It's because of Hanna," Jacob said quickly adding, "paparazzi learned where we go to school and I saw Hanna speaking to one of them a few few weeks ago."

"And you didn't care to mention this to us,why?" His mother asked clearly pissed and I don't blame her.

"Didn't want to worry you," Jacob replied rubbing the back of his neck as she started yelling at him for being irresponsible and stupid and I don't even know what else. "Would you be willing to represent us? Brook and I want to file a law suit against her for defamation and for selling images of Grayson to the media without Brook's permission."

"Our permission," I corrected and he looked at me and I smiled, "you're his father." He smiled and nodded.

"She's crossed the line and she will learn to not mess with me and my family." He said and his mother and Trevor were silent for a few moments before Trevor spoke up.

"When are you available to come see us at the office?"