An Undead Surprise

You Look Really Funny Daddy(11)

"What?" Reese asked completely stunned, she couldn't believe her ears. Did George really just say that Asia wants to have a baby with him?

"Yeah." George said weakly. He couldn't seem to fully process this new information. Sure they had talked about starting a family sometime in the future, but he didn't think that she would bring it up again so soon. But with everything that had been going on, like with Aron leaving the band, the new album, a new tour, and things with Riley, was it really a good time to try and bring another child into the world? Were they even ready? Hell he was still trying to figure out how to take care of his four year old daughter and that was no where near compared to raising a newborn baby. He loved Asia with all his heart, he would love to one day marry her, then start a family... But he wanted the time to be right, when they were both absolutely ready for that type of life. He wanted Asia to be on peaceful terms with Devin too. It would probably be easier if he wasn't in a band but that was his career.

"George are you okay?" Danny asked, George looked up at him.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He paused and looked around the room. "Where's Riley?"

"Relax she's upstairs playing with her dolls." Reese assured him, he nodded his head and relaxed back into the couch.

"So what are you going to do? Do you think now would be a good time to even try to get pregnant?" Reese spoke up after a moment of silence.

"With everything going on? I don't think so."

"How are you going to tell her?"

George shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know yet, but when the time comes I'll tell her that now isn't a good time."

"Daddy!" Riley called from the top of the stairs. "Where are you?"

"I'm in the living room." He called back to her, getting up to meet her at the bottom of the stairs. He looked up to see that she was holding the railing, taking careful steps with a small smile on her face. At that moment; as she concentrated on her steps, she looked so much like Devin. The way her eyelids closed and opened, the look of concentration that settled on her face, and the way her brown hair rested in small waves on her shoulders. George had seen that same look on Devin's face when she had been deciding if she should go on tour with him. She reached the last step and looked up at George with a huge smile, proud that she had walked down the stairs by herself.

"You're becoming a big girl, aren't you?" He asked her as they made their way to the living room.

"But daddy I am a big girl!"

"Oh well I do apologize, but you're still my little girl." He said as he sat back down on the couch. She ran in behind him and jumped into Danny's lap, he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tight. Reese leaned over and tickled her until she slid off of Danny's lap and ran for cover by George.

"Daddy?" She asked as he pulled her into his side.

"Yes sweetie?"

"Why are you and mommy not together?" She asked as she turned her head up to look at him. George hadn't been expecting Riley to ask that question so soon, and apparently neither was Danny. From the other side of the room the Puerto Rican could be heard choking on his beer, and Reese yelling at him to hold his arms up above his head.

George shook his head at Danny then turned back to look at Riley. She smiled up at him with a glint of hope in her eyes. Now that she knows who he is and that she's seeing Asia and him together, her mind was probably more than likely wondering why it wasn't happening with her parents. She might even see other kids with both of their parents and wonder why her own weren't together. It wasn't like him and Devin didn't used to date, it wasn't like they got a divorce or broke up and now can't stand to be around each other and whenever they were it was for Riley's sake. But she, like most kids, probably didn't understand any of that neither, all she truly knew was that her parents were apart from each other.