Back To The Bay Days

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Ashley POV

I slowly awoke in the familiar bed, with familiar arms engulfing me. Your LA home had become ours mere days ago. Dominick's home on the market and already sold. I slowly rolled over and looked over your sleeping face. Your hair untamed making a smile crack my lips. All the bullshit we'd been through seemed to be worth it now.

"Why are you up so early..." You groaned and yanked me closer, peppering kissing along my neck as I laughed. Your hands found my sides and I squeaked as you tickled me.

"Gerald!" You opened your eyes before laughing and stopping your actions to pull my body against yours.

"Mmm fine... now why are you up so early?" You huffed slightly and placed your head back down on your pillow.

"Because I'm an early bird... I should get you in shape, but you're persistent in not caring about your health."

"Ya...ya...ya." You groaned before smirking. "I'm fine..." You ran your hand over my cheek. "You're covered in bruises... I hate seeing you like this because it makes me worried." I placed my hand over yours.

"don't be worried this is what I'm good at...."

"Getting hit?"

"Recovering."

"You never told me what happened after I left fully.... Dominick's told me more than you..." I sighed slightly and shrugged, looking to the ceiling.

"It's mainly shit I'm trying to never remember.... My dad raped me... I remember being almost frozen... him and his friends just... holding me down..." I wanted to throw up, yet I shivered and you pulled me closer. "Then there was selling drugs and guns... sleeping in the streets. I remember it was just starting to snow as I sat under the bridge... My hands felt like ice blocks... frozen so much I couldn't move them... I walked down to the house were your mother use to stay... broke in and went downstairs." I laughed weakly. "I turned on the gas stove and I thank my lucky stars some idiot didn't use up all the propane at some point. I sat there thawing out till that damn tank ran empty. I don't know how many winter nights I survived, but I did... I fucking survived somehow..."

"How did you meet Dominick?"

"That was... a lot more recent than the bay. Once the UFC took me on board I was so set. They put me up in hotels, cars, whatever I wanted. I was never greedy though. One night a lot of fighters were in New York... same hotel and they all had a party in the penthouse. I didn't want to party. I went downstairs to the bar and ordered a coffee, got a booth and pulled out a book." I chuckled once more. I loved this story. "Dominick, who I had no idea who he actually was came up to me.... asked me about my book. He was sober when he sat down. He ordered a whiskey on the rocks and I saw you for a few seconds. We talked all night down there till the bartender told us he was closing up, it was four am. I felt like we knew everything about each other and it was nice telling someone what the fuck I had been through you know... so he walked me up to my room and kissed my cheek... said good night. The next day I figured out who he was and he figured out I was a fighter too. We clicked even more, but neither of us wanted a relationship at the time. Obviously we'd both given up on the idea of love... yet the only way we worked around that was by sleeping together a lot... and then saying we weren't in a relationship to anyone who asked."

"He was good for you." You whispered and gently ran your hand along my arm. "I sometimes wish that I had done you right... but I know life works out certain ways for a reason."

"Yeah... but here we are once again." I chuckled before brushing my lips against yours only to be interrupted by the familiar sound of pattering feet down the hall.

"Mummy... Daddy..." I felt my heart leap. Kamden had never uttered the word Daddy directed towards Gerald. Yet here he came running in wearing his pjs and jumping in between us.

"Hey buddy..." You mumbled. "What's wrong?"

"I had a dream about my real daddy.... he said you were my daddy now and you were going to take care of me and mommy... is it true?" I looked to you, I'd felt my heart shatter yet in a good way if that is possible. I nodded slowly before looking down at my son.

"Yeah buddy.... Gerald is going to take care of us..."

"But if you're going to be my daddy that means you need to love my mommy... do you love my mommy?" He sat up and stared you down, surely a dominick personality trait if I ever did see one. You nodded before looking to me then him as you spoke.

"Kam... I'm going to do everything in my power to take care of you both... and I've loved your mommy long before your daddy knew her... I'd made a mistake and I'd lost her.... but you see buddy I don't regret that mistake."

"Why?"

"Because if I had never made that mistake she wouldn't have had you... and you are one of the best things in her life..." He grinned, satisfied with your confession before hugging you.

"I love you.."

"Love you too Kamden." You looked at me with watery eyes. It had been a huge moment for you two. A bonding moment no less.

"I'm gonna go make breakfast...." I slowly stood and I swore the world itself spun around me like a whirlpool. My ears rang so loud that I covered them with my hands. My vision blurring as I took a single step in hopes to even stay standing.

"Ash.... Ash.." I heard you in the fog of my brain then thud. That weightless feeling as ones body hits the floor in it's unconscious bliss.

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