A sinking feeling hit my atmosphere, breaking the thought that I chained and tried to lock away free, "Does this have to do with the calls you've been getting?" I knew that it's the only explanation to what he was trying to say and it surly made me feel more concerned than the night before. I rested my trembly hands on my lap, clearing the image he was facing from any bad vibes that would cause discomfort or worry to him, allowing him to confide his secret or whatever it was freely and with no pressure. Robert's breaths had a slight variation between them as he looked down, "Yes." He admitted. His gaze returned to me again and his muscles tensed up, "I will fully understand your reaction so please don't hold your actions back." He nervously informed me, "Just tell me already. Trust me, nothing will change my mind." I assured impatiently, determined to know what was this thing that's bothering my man's heart. He drew in a deep breath and released it in a long sigh, "Technically I'm still a married man."
Like lightning, what he said struck me and left me speechless. Out of all the theories that I created, non of them had the words a married man. Having a small heart attack and problems to process the matter in my mind, my mouth fell ajar, "What the!?"
"Sorry, you got it wrong. Please allow me to explain." Robert held up his hands in a defensive way and changed his sitting position, "What I meant to say was that the divorce isn't finished yet." He added quickly, clarifying the misleading statement and I got back to the slightly more relieved state again. I thought that he already finalized the divorce the same day he came back to LA, he never mentioned how did it go however, he never liked to talk about that matter. "Go on." I said, pleading for answers to my question.
Robert folded his arms on the table and began talking, "A couple of days ago, to be more persist, the day before you arrived to LA .. We umm .. Emma and I went to our first hearing, so we can finalize the divorce."
The second he mentioned her name, I felt my breakfast making a come back. Fast flashes of her face became clear again, reminding me of that time, that dinner, the way she was looking at him and how it was just a mask, a game of pretend to fool him. Robert didn't pay attention to my gaging moment, he went on, "At first, I thought it'd go well and we would be settled, done for good, just like most of the divorce cases but I was wrong." He fretted and tried to observe my still half calm expression. "What happened?"
Anxiously, Robert licked his lips and pressed them together creating a thin line resembling how sick he felt talking about the subject but there also was dread hiding underneath the fearless brown eyes somewhere. "There were terms," He started, "That we both should agree on and they were pretty just but," He scratched the back of his head, pausing again, bring my impatience to a peak.
"She made a statement that set off a new round of negotiations and hearings. The matter is set for trial next week and my attorney was pure failure during the first hearing so I fired him." My worries and speculations started forming around the statement.
"What does she want from you? You don't even have kids to fight over custody." I queried, still disgusted to talk about her but non of that mattered when I saw Robert's apologetic expression, not commenting on what I said. Everything seemed to stop around me spinning me a new kind of whirlpool "Oh God." A hand clamped over my mouth as I looked at him in shock. "She's fifteen weeks pregnant with my child." The news came like a bolt from the blue and a sudden surge of emotions bubbled up. I quickly started denying, "How! Robert there's no way that's your kid, she's lying! What if she was cheating on you at the time?" thousands of vague thoughts raced to come out. "A kid? A kid!"
"The child is mine Mella. A paternity test was made the next day to clear the doubts concerning the veracity of the claim." Robert lowered his head, messaging his temples ending any other possibility I was about to come up with. He fiddled with his fingers, showing worry of what I was going to say next.
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Fix My Heart ( A Robert Downey Jr. Fanfic )
Fanfiction*Completed* - Do you do this? Do you kill yourself slowly by keeping gray clouds of thoughts and feelings live inside you? Do you torture yourself by falling for someone that has no desire to be yours but you keep on doing it anyways? Because I do...
