King of my Heart

TWENTY-FIVE

(Sorry for the delay on this!)

Ty woke up to a strange sounds coming from the ensuite bathroom. He laid there for a few minutes before he heard it again. Ty looked over, seeing Jocelyn missing from bed. It was her in the bathroom. Ty threw back the covers before getting out of bed. He crossed the floor before gently opening up the bathroom door.
"Joce." Ty found Jocelyn on her knees with her head in the bowl of the toilet.
"This is what happens when you tell your friends you haven't been sick much." He walked over and sat down on the floor next to her. Ty slowly rubbed her back as she vomited again.
"Taylor always told me that she was so sick with Briar."
"Hyperemesis gravidarum."
"What now?" Taylor managed a laughed.
"That's what she had." Jocelyn managed to pulled her head out of the toilet. Jocelyn laid down on the floor, putting her head in his lap. Ty immediately started to run his fingers in her sweat soaked hair as his other hand rested on her hip.
"We've been in this position before." Ty said.
"We have." Ty thought back to three years prior, when Jocelyn had the flu. "You bought a pregnancy test." Ty laughed.
"I did. I was trying to be smart."
"I know." They sat there for a few minutes before Ty spoke again.
"Are you ready to go back to bed?" Jocelyn sat up so Ty could stand. He held out his hands, Jocelyn gladly taking them.
"I can handle this every once and a while. I would hate to do this every day." Ty guided her out of their bathroom and back to their bedroom.
"Well, growing a human being is hard work." Jocelyn smiled.
"If I do this again, I hope the next time is even easier."
"Do you want to do this again?" Ty asked as he pulled the covers away. Jocelyn climbed in and let him cover her back up.
"Yeah, if we're able to." Ty got back into bed with her. He pulled her close, his arm wrapping around her waist. He tucked his other arm under her head. "Do you?"
"Absolutely." Ty buried his into her neck, peppering kisses on her skin. She leaned into him as she laced her fingers with his.
"It's late, Ty." Jocelyn said, feeling his hand trailed down from her waist to her thigh.
"Hmm." He squeezed her thigh.
"We should get some sleep." She wiggled her hips as she scooted back closer to him.
"Yeah." His hand slowly fisted the hem of her pajamas. "Tell me to stop then." She pulled his hand back to under her pajamas.
"Don't." Jocelyn found herself fast on her back as Ty couldn't keep his hands off of her. Her pajamas were now up around her ribs as he peppered kisses on her stomach.
"I still can't believe there's a baby in there."
"I know. I think I've started to show. Just a tad." Ty ran his hand down her stomach, feeling a very small bump. He kept his hands there for a while before Jocelyn's hands joined his.
"Right here."
"I don't want to leave this little bubble." Jocelyn said, taking her hands off his.
"That would be a dream." Ty leaned down, placing a kiss on her tiny bump. Jocelyn took his shirt in her hands, bringing him face to face with his wife. She leaned up, pressing her lips to his. "I love you, so much."
"I love you, too." Ty went to lean down to return the kiss, but Jocelyn had pushed him off to get out of bed. He chuckled as she practically ran into the bathroom.
***
Ty barely got settled in his office when he had a phone call coming through. It was Marlene at the reception desk.
"What's up, Marlene?" Ty asked when he answered the phone.
"You have a visitor."
"I wasn't expecting anyone today."
"She said she really needed to see you." Evie. The last time she showed up at the shop unannounced did not end well.
"Tell Evie I'm not..." Marlene cut him off.
"It's not Evie."
"Oh. Okay. You can send her up to my office."
"Okay." Ty hung up the phone. He sat there for a few minutes, wondering who was coming up to his office. The knock on the door signaled she was there.
"Come in." The door opened and Ty came face-to-face to a woman that looked almost identical to his wife. "Andrea."
"You know who I am?"
"It's kind of hard not to. My wife looks exactly like you." Ty gestered for her to take a seat. "Why are you here?"
"I want to see Jocelyn."
"What do you want me to do about it? You left. When she was 8 months old. Just up and left."
"I know and I've been ashamed of myself since."
"You should be. If you want to see her, I don't know why you thought coming here was a good idea. How did you even..."
"I saw you two on TV. When you won at the Brickyard. I had been keeping tabs on her and Evan for years.:
"What do you want me to do?"
"Can you get her and I in the same room?" Ty bit his lip. "Ty, please."
"I can't, in good conscience, do that. I can't lie to her or coerce her to talk to you."
"Ty."
"Can you step out for a minute?" He asked. Andrea nodded before leaving the office. Ty immediately called Jocelyn.
"I was just thinking about you." Jocelyn greeted him with. "What's up?"
"Your mom is here." Silence. "Joce."
"Can you repeat that? I don't think I quite heard what you said."
"Andrea Davis is here at Joe Gibbs Racing."
"Ty, please don't joke with me right now."
"I'm not."
"How did she..."
"She said she's been keeping tabs on you and Evan for years. Saw us on TV when I won in Indy." Jocelyn let out a shaky breath. "She wants to meet you."
"No. I can't. I can't face her. I've never seen her before. I just..."
"You look just like her."
"I didn't need to hear that!" Ty knew she was crying now.
"I'm sorry. I'll tell her that you don't..."
"Wait. Evan and Daphne will be in town tomorrow."
"You want Evan there?"
"I need him here to see her in the flesh."
"Okay. What do you want me to tell her?"
"Dinner. 7 PM. At our house. That's all I'm giving her."
"Okay."
"Why are you so calm about this, Ty?"
"You need me to be calm, Joce. You're about to come face-to-face with the woman who gave birth to you for the first time." Jocelyn let out a breath.
"What did I do to deserve a second chance with you?" Ty just smiled.
"Just by being you." They said their goodbyes before hanging up. Andrea came back into the room a minute later. "Dinner at our house. 7PM." Ty said, writing their address on the stack of Post-its on his desk. He handed it over to her. "Show up. She'll never recover if you don't."
"Ty..."
"Seriously. This is your only chance to see her. I don't know how she really feels, but I know if you don't show up after showing up here, begging to see her..."
"Do you see your parents every day, Ty?"
"My mom, yes. My dad passed away almost 4 years ago." Andrea didn't say anything. "She's giving you a chance. Don't fuck it up."