Mourning The Losses (Erik Jones Fanfic)

Talks Chapter 22

"Is Landon coming with us?" Erik asked as I was packing. "Do you want him to?" I asked turning to look at him. "Yeah, but what do we do if I win?" He asked. "I don't know, Daniel likes him." I said. "Just drop him off with my friend?" He asked. "You want him to hear us celebrate your win then we won't." I replied finishing up packing. "That's a good point." He said before leaving the room. I walked into Landon's room and Erik was in the middle of helping Landon pack. "You have been taking this whole 'I'm a father' thing extremely well since you found out about Landon." I said when we went to bed. "Yeah, he's my son of course I am." He replied. "What would you say about more kids?" I asked.

"I don't know, it would be nice to not miss out on the first two years of my child's life but we are twenty." He said. "I know we are twenty but I had Landon when I was still a teenager." I replied. "Yeah true." He replied before we drifted off to sleep. "Erik, we gotta go babe." I said shaking him he slowly woke up and got ready then we were off after getting Landon. When we got to Iowa we went to the RV and hung out with Daniel. "Hey, we forgot to ask you are you Hayley's baby's father?" I asked Daniel. "Oh, uh yeah, we made a deal over the baby." He said. "That's good, we won't ask about it if you don't want to talk about it." Erik said. "That's right." I replied. "If I win tonight, would you watch Landon for us?" Erik then asked. "Sure, just no more babies yet." He replied. "Don't worry, Landon's going to be my baby for a while." I replied. Erik brought Landon with him so I went to take a nap because who doesn't need a nap.

*Erik Jones P.O.V.*

"How do you feel about Landon being yours?" Daniel asked. One of my crew members decided to take Landon to the bathroom so I could talk about the car. "Truthfully I'm happy that he's mine he's one of the best things that have ever happened to me, but I've been living with Zoey and Landon a few nights a week and I don't know if I truly like her anymore, I've heard of people falling out of love with the person they married or are going out with and I think that's what is happening with me." I said I've been thinking about this for a few weeks now. "Oh, man what's going to happen if you are?" He asked. "I don't know is there anyone I can talk to?" I asked. "Any of the sprint cup guys, or any other guy older than us." Daniel said. "Yeah, that's a good idea." I said. "Here's Landon back." My crew member said. "Thank you, was he good?" I asked. "Since Zoey Harris raised him of course he was good." He told me. "Ture." I said before he went back to work. "Hey, Chris can I ask you something?" I asked. "Sure what's up?" He asked.

"I think I'm falling out of love with Zoey." I said. "Oh, um well then that's new." He said. "What do I do?" I asked. "I don't know just take things slow." He replied. "That's what we have been doing, but I don't want to split up our family." I said. "Then talk to her." Chris told me. "Yeah, I will talk to her." I said. "Let's get ready to drive." He said before it was time to practice. After practices I went to get Landon who was with a crew member in the garage. "Where's Landon?" I asked not seeing him. "Right here Erik, he's ok." I heard Zoey say. "Hey Zoey, can we talk about something, Daniel said he would watch Landon." I told her. "Sure, let's go find him." She said. We dropped Landon off with Daniel and went to talk in the RV.

"What's up?" She asked when we sat on the couch. "Um, well I think there may be a chance that I'm falling out of love with you." I said. "Oh." She replied looking at the floor. "I uh, well what do we do?" I asked. "I don't know, I just I uh, can we take a little break?" She asked. "We can but I don't want to." I said. "But if you don't know how you feel you should find out." She told me. "Then, let's take a break." I said. "You do have your RV here right?" She asked me. "Yes I do." I said. "I'll be by your house for my things this week." She said. "Alright, hey can I bring Landon to the shop this week?" I asked her. "Sure you can." She replied. I then went to get my things and went back to my RV.

*Zoey's P.O.V.* 

"Hey Daniel, I'm here to get Landon." I said when he answered. "Are you and Erik ok?" He asked. "We are taking a break." I told him. "Oh, well hopefully things work out for you two." He said. "Yeah hopefully." I replied. "Are you staying here or going home?" He then asked. "I'll stay I mean Erik will always be Landon's father and I'm not a mean person who's going to keep her child away from their father because things didn't work out." I told him. "Ok, well I'll go get him hold on." He said before closing the door. "Mommy, where's daddy?" Landon asked when he didn't see Erik. "Mommy and daddy aren't living together right now, we love each other very much but right now is not the time for us to see each other." I explained. 

"Oh, will you live together again?" He asked. "Maybe but right now we aren't." I told him. "Will I see daddy?" He asked. "I'm going to let you go watch daddy work but you have to be good for his team." I told him. "Ok I will." He said. "Thank you Daniel." I said. "Yeah thank you." Landon said to Daniel. We then walked to the RV and I got him ready for bed. "Mommy, where's daddy?" He asked. "Daddy had some things to do with the race car so we will see him tomorrow." I told him. "Ok goodnight mommy." He said. "Goodnight baby." I said before kissing him turning off the light and going to watch TV.

The next day I was taking Landon to go see Erik. "I don't get it." I heard when we were walking to the garages. "What?" Someone else said. Erik and Daniel. "What's going on in my head about Zoey." Erik said. "What's going on now?" Daniel asked. "I told her I wanted to take a break but all I want to do is be with her and Landon, she's my other half and I need her back." Erik told him. "Daddy." Landon called walking to him. "Hey bud, what's going on?" Erik asked him. "Nothing, can I watch you race yet?" Landon asked. "Not yet, in a while." He said. "No now." He said. "Landon, you have to wait mister." I said. "Hey Zoey." Erik said. "Hi Erik, how's the car?" I asked. "Good." He replied.