Getting It Right (BOOK THREE)

Chapter 51

"Any news yet?" Keenan's dad asks as he finishes up the scrambled eggs for breakfast. His mother kisses him on the cheek when he enters the kitchen.

"Nope, but it's only been a day." Keenan replies, and takes a glass from the cabinets to pour himself some orange juice.

"Well you don't sound too excited about getting the DNA test results back." His moms says and sets three plates out on the table.

Keenan sits down at the table feeling indifferent to his parents obvious excitement. When he told them about the DNA test they were confused at first but they understood once he explained his hunch that something was off about Aubrey's story. "I don't want to get my hopes up too high. What if I'm only making this up in my head and trying to convince myself that Neveah is really my daughter?"

"It's OK to be scared of the results," His father assures him. "I'm sorry you have to be going through this at such a young age."

His mother slices the stack of buttered toast on one of the plates then distributes it across the three plates. "What are you going to do if Neveah is your baby?" She asks. "Get back together with Aubrey?" Her tone of voice expresses the animosity she feels towards Aubrey.

"I have no idea. I've though it about it so many times and I right now, I can't imagine getting back together with Aubrey. But then I think about Neveah and how she's so young, she needs both of her parents in her life, especially at this age. I've seen what happens when your parents aren't together, Corey is a prime example of growing up with a rough childhood and I don't want to put Neveah through that. There's just so many factors to consider and I guess I won't truly know what to do until I get the results."

"Whatever you decide, just now that we support you." His mother says, "I don't think I'll ever be able to erase what Aubrey did to you but you're old enough to make your own decisions...of course you wouldn't be in this mess if you weren't having one night stands with girls in Florida but---"

"Ma," Keenan cuts her off. "Really, you wanna bring this up now? It wasn't a one night stand."

"It was either saying that or pointing out the fact that you cheated on Sevyn," She challenges.

He slumps in his chair, "Call it what you want."

"Eggs are done!" His father calls out, hoping to break the tension. He carries the pan over to the table and distributes eggs on to everyone's plates. Keenan stares off into space, lost in his thoughts that are filled with nothing but Neveah and Aubrey. Nothing else matters to him right now. His music, his career, nothing.

The first thing Sevyn does when she wakes up, is go and find her brothers. Malcolm was still in bed with Miranda and she dragged him out his room in search of Ty. They find him in the living room eating a huge bowl of cereal with his eyes fixated on the TV that's playing cartoons. Ty looks up at them questioningly when they approach.

"Yes...?"

"I need to talk to both of you." Sevyn states.

Ty mutes the TV and Malcolm plops down next to him on the couch, Sevyn decides to continue standing in case she has to run. Taking a deep breath, she looks back and forth between her brothers and prepares to recite the conversation she prepared in her head last night before falling asleep.

"What I'm about to tell you is either going to make you kill me or hug me." She begins. "And I'm telling you this because you two are my older brothers and I don't want you finding out from anyone else except me."

"Are you confessing something to us? You never confess to us, whatever you did must have been horrible." Malcolm studies her, trying to see if he can figure out her next words.