Chapter 3

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I woke slowly to the sound of bacon being cooked on my stove. Looking over, I saw Asia passed out on my living room floor, and only remembering her vein over the night before, my mother bear instincts kicked in. There was a person in my house. I had no weapon. My baby was in a completely different room. What was I going to do?

I panicked as I lay there, trying to act like I was still asleep, and listened to the person whistle as they cooked. Wait. Who would break into a house to cook food? I sat up slightly and peeked over the top of the couch to see a messy blob of curly hair on top of a head. I knew that messy hair anywhere.

"Jesus Ry, you scared the crap out of me! How did you even get in here and when did you get here?" I asked, looking at my other best friend, dressed in only an over sized shirt, meaning she had stayed the night as well.

"Good morning to you too little miss sunshine." She joked as she flipped the bacon around. "I have been here since 11 last night when you knocked out on the couch and Asia got bored. I thought I would put my cooking skills to use and make yall some breakfast." She smiled brightly as me.

Ryley had always been a morning person. Even when we were little, she would wake up bright and early to check around the house then proceeding to wake everyone else up. During nap time, she would be the last asleep and the first awake. The teacher didn't know what to do with her.

"Well. Okay then. I'm going to check on Jordan. " I told her, still trying to wake up from my sleet state as I shuffled my feet to the nursery. Slowly opening the door, I peeked my head in to see Jordan fussing about. I wondered how long he had been awake as I moved over to pick him up.

"Good morning Jordan." I cooed and pressed a kiss to his head, as little noises came from him, indicating he was happy. I grinned, proud to be his mother and moved over to the changing table, changing his diaper and into a new long sleeved onesies.

I wrapped him up in his fuzzy blanket and carried him out to the kitchen to feed him.

"Awe, the little monster woke up." Ryley cooed as she moved the last pieces of bacon onto the plate. Knowing before I even asked, she reached into the fridge and pulled out a bottle of breast milk and popped it into the microwave.

"What smells so....good?" Asia yawned out from the couch as she sat up and stretched. She rubbed her eyes and looked at Ryley. "Oh. Hi. I forgot Ms. Chef was here."

I laughed lightly, sitting down in a chair with Jordan. His eyes roamed, taking in the unfamiliar place. His small hand reached up and grabbed my shirt as his face contorted. "I know love, I know. The mommy milk is coming." I cooed at him just before he started to whimper.

"I got it. Ry keep cooking." Asia commanded as she got up and happily skipped to the kitchen and pulled the milk from the microwave. She tested it on her skin first before handing my the burp rag, bibb and bottle.

It was quiet for a few moments as Jordan took quickly to the bottle. I smiled knowing he was going to suck it down quickly.

"So. Are you going to tell Justin?" Asia asked after a while of just watching him drink. She had fixed us all plates, the both of them slowly munching on their pieces of bacon.

"Tell him? Tell him what? That he has a son he most likely wants nothing to do with?" I sighed softly and started burping him. "I think I can make it just fine one my own. And really...I'm not on my own. I have my family supporting me, my friends that come over and keep me sane and well slept when they can. It's just the matter of how I'm going continue to pay for all of this. I need a steady job that has a flexible schedule."

"There's an opening at the club-"Ryley began but I cut her off.

"A family-friendly steady job where I could possibly bring him to work with me or work from home." Ryley nodded and bit her bottom lip as she thought.

"I still think he has a right to know about his child. Wither he wants Jordan or not...he has rights." Asia said softly. "Not that im against your decision. I support you one hundred percent, I just don't want you to be one of those moms that worry about everything, you know? With Justin, he can provide that extra money you need, child support."

I shrugged lightly." I don't know. I'll think about it. But for now, its just going to be me, and my little man."

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6 Months Later

"Jordan, baby, please calm down. Shhh. It's okay." I coo to a very cranky Jordan as I bounce and rock him in my arms. I sighed softly and sat down in the rocking chair, starting to sing,"Across the ocean, across the sea, starting to forget the way you look at me now." He calmed down at the sound of me singing one of his daddy's songs and just looked up at me with his thumb in his mouth.

Every day he was starting to look more and more like Justin. He has his brown eyes, his blonde hair, his smile. Because of that, I'm starting to think, Justin should know about him. The beautiful baby he helped create.

"Jax? Boo. Where are you?" Asia called from the kitchen, setting bags down.

I got up, placing Jordan in his crib and turning on his soothing sound machine to help him fall asleep and walked out the door, leaving it open a crack so I could hear him if he cried.

I ran my hand through my hair as I walked into the kitchen,"Thank you, so much for getting these for me. I don't know what I'd do without you." I told her greatfully, taking the diapers, new bottles and food out of the bags.

Asia shrugged,"I was going to the store anyways. How's the little monster treating you?" she sat down on a bar stool and grabbed an apple out of the basket.

"He's been really cranky and I don't know what to do. He calms down everytime I sing him one of Justin's songs but I dunno.." I told her truthfully with a sigh.

"Oooh. Justin. He's gonna be in town for the next few weeks. You should go see him. Talk to him. Let him know bout Jordan." Asia said before biting into the apple

"You really think so? I mean...what if he refuses us, hates me for keeping him. Blames me....tells me we'll ruin his career..." I swallowed as I thought of all the bad possibilities.

"And what if he wants to be in Jordan's life? Wants to take care of you? Hell, it'll give him a reason to move on from Selena and get rid of Chantel. You aren't fooling anyone Justin, you want her gone as much as we do." Asia rolled her eyes,"But seriously, think about it. I gotta go though. Wes has a surprise for me." she wiggled her eye brows and blew me a kiss before she walked out the door.

"Alright. I'll just...call scooter. Maybe...find a time or place to talk to Justin...without Jordan..." I said aloud as I grabbed my phone. Thing was, Scooter knew about Jordan. My mom contacted him and raised hell when we found out I was pregnant. He told me to call if I ever needed anything, but I never did, as I wanted to remain unknown to Justin and he respected that.

I sat down on my love seat and sighed as I hit the call button and put the phone to my ear. It felt like I was waiting forever until Scooter picked up,"Hey...scooter? It's Jax...."

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