It's Not So Easy

Chapter 22

A/N : if you have any suggestions, by all means, suggest please!! thanks guys:)

I got off of Axl and went over to Alicia.

"Duff, what are you doing??" She says placing one hand on her hip and throwing the other one in the air.

"I'm sorry.. He just makes me so mad. I would give anything to see him happy, but he would do anything to see me hurt. He's always ruining stuff for me Alicia."

"I understand that it must be a pain in the ass putting up with his shit all the time, Duff. I do. But you're gonna have to start acting more mature." She says as she walks over to the couch to set next to Steven.

I should probably apologize to Axl. It would be the adult thing to do.

I knock on his door, but it's silent. 

"Axl.. are you in there?" I say putting my ear up to the door.

"Yes dipshit who else would be in here?" He says.

I open Axl's door, and go over to his bed where he's laying.

"Look." I pause, thinking of something to say. "I know we don't get along that great, but you are my best friend, and we really need to stop getting in cat-fights." I finally say.

"That's true, but it's just a little hard to see you with her." He finishes.

"I can understand that, Ax. I can. All I ask of you is that you just let us be happy okay? We're gonna have a baby ya know, and I just don't want her stressed." I add.

"Of course, I understand." He says.

"So can we go back to the way everything used to be?" I say. "I'd like that." Axl agrees.

I hit his back, out of friendship this time, and leave his room.

I walk back into the living room where the rest of the guys and Alicia are. I set on the couch beside Slash, and open a beer. Responsible Duff sucks, so at this point I'm just ready to give up.

"What's with you and Ax, man?" Slash says breaking the silence, and exhaling smoke.

"Nothing now." I add, and don't go into much detail. Slash just nods.

April gets up and goes into my room, so I follow.
"I'm sorry." I mumble. "I know, me too." She says in return.

"What do you have to be sorry for?" I ask.

"Im a hormonal mess, and I jump on to you for everything."

"No baby, no. I make everything so hard on you, I realize that. You have no need to apologize." I press a soft kiss into her forehead, and rub her arms.

"I love you." I hear her whisper through her tears. "I love you too honey." I say back, and pat the bed for her to lay next to me.

"What should we name her?" And she rubs her little baby bump.

"Her?!" I say in shock. "How do you know it's a girl?"

"I can just feel it." She says back.

"Hmmm." I mumble, trying to thing of a good name.

"I know! Layla." I say with all confidence.
"Duff, that's beautiful. I've spent all day trying to come up with a name that I like, and I couldn't. But that is just beautiful." Alicia says lifting her head up off of my chest, and looking me in the eye.

"Thank you, thank you. But what about a middle name?" I say.

"Mae." She pauses. "Layla Mae Mckagan."

"Okay it's settled then. Hello there little Layla Mae Mckagan." I say rubbing Alicia's belly, and she giggles as I start to sing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' to our little baby.

I set our clock for ten thirty because we usually don't wake up until three in the afternoon on a day where we don't have anything planned, and tomorrow I have a surprise for Alicia.

"Why are we getting up so early?" and Alicia scoots over closer to me.

"You'll just have to see." I reply back, and we close our eyes.

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*Ring ring ring*

I roll over to turn off the clock, and plant kisses all over Alicia's face to wake her up.

"Wake up baby." I murmur into her ear.

A smile is visible on her face, and she returns the kisses. "Can you tell me what we're doing up so early now?" She says.

"No, not yet. But we have to get ready." I say getting up to pick out something for us to wear.
I pick out blue jeans, a Metallica t-shirt, and a jean jacket to go with it. I pick out a Misfits t-shirt, and jeans for Alicia.

"Nothing special, but special at the same time." I smile. We put on our clothes, fix our hair, and we leave the apartment.

"Bye fuckers, have fun!" Slash shouts as we walk out the door. Alicia and I both wave.

I tie one of our bandanas around Alicia's eyes because I don't want her to know where I'm taking her before we get there.

"Duff, is this really necessary?" and she points to the bandana tied around her forehead.

"Yes, I don't want you knowing what it is before we get there. We'll be in the car for like ten minutes." I say turning up the Sex Pistols.

"And we're here." I say as I pull into the parking lot.  I go around the car to the passenger side, and take Alicia's hand to guide her to the front of the building.

"Are we baby shopping?" She says as she points to the baby store in front of us.

"Yes in fact, we are. I have basically an unlimited amount of money, now that Appetite is selling fast as fuck, so buy whatever you want." I say and we go in.

"Duff, you're the best baby daddy ever!" She kisses my cheek, and runs over to get a buggy.

Anything to make my two girls happy.

A/N : I can't believe this has 1k views! I'm sorry that it took so long to update, but they should be getting more frequent. It's hard with two fanfics, but I'll manage. Also, I know they don't necessarily know that it's a girl yet, but they are 100% positive, so we'll just have to wait and see! :)