𝙅𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙀𝙔.

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[Riley]

The plane ride was silent all the way to California. I didn't know what to say. Michael is a father. A father to a son named Kenneth. And the mother is Jaliyah. A whole family; something I planned to have with him but haven't delivered yet. Something that was in our future; is now present for him and someone else. I want to cry, yet I know I should be happy. I don't hate Jaliyah, I don't hate their son. Everything happens for a reason. And like Michael always says, "We'll make it work."
We get off the plane and head to our Uber. It takes us 4 1/2 hours to get to California, but California is 3 hours behind so we get there at about 8:30 PM (Cali time).
I feel bad for not talking to him. I want him to know that I'm still here.

"Michael?" I break the silence in the car.

He looks at me.

"I'm not going anywhere, I told you that. I'm going to help you. We need to make this a more positive thing than negative."

"Riley," he holds onto my hands. "I, a huge celebrity that everyone wants to know what I am doing 24/7, have a child by someone who has caused a crazy amount of drama for us that everyone knows about. This isn't life to them, the social media, this is a TV show to them."

"I understand that Michael. You and me are a team, we will work through this. The hate; everything."

He kisses me passionately. "I love you."

"I love you too," I say.

Michael tells the Uber to drop us off at a hotel instead of his house since it's pretty late and he doesn't want to startle his parents.

The next day, we go straight to his house and are greeted by his Beautiful mother.

"Riley!" she says in excitement. "It's been so long!" I hug her.

"I know! You haven't seen me since I was like 17," I say.

"I'm glad Michael finally found you. I always had a feeling about you two."

"Okay mom," he laughs.

We walk in and I look around a bit.

"Where's dad?" Michael asks momma Jordan.

"He's still sleep."

"Oh, alright," he says and grabs my hand. "Lemme show you around."

This place was HUGE. I thought the house we had in Newark was big, not compared to this place. He showed me his bedroom which would soon be redecorated when I moved in. I told him I loved comics too but he said he wanted something different.
He showed me the spa he had, which me and him will both be in a lot of the time.
After the "tour", Michael's dad had already woke up and he greeted me with the same love Momma Jordan did. All day we caught up and talked about family. Yes, Michael did tell them about his son with Jaliyah. They weren't mad he had a son but they were mad about who the mother was. After that conversation, we all decided to go out to eat.

[Michael]

While we were eating, I get a phone call from Jaliyah. I excuse myself from the table and go into the Men's bathroom and answer the phone.

"Yes I got the DNA test back," I said.

"Michael I don't want you to hate me. Iced changed and you should know that from the conversation we had at the hospital after the birth."

"I believe you've changed but this is still a bit crazy."

"You don't think it's crazy for me? I just gave birth to a son who's father is in the public eye."

"At least we don't have to worry about money."

"And I'm not putting you on child support."

"Thank god," I exhale. "So when do I get to see him.

"You can visit him now but you'll be able to take him for a couple of days in about 2 months.

"Alright that's good with me. The movie will be done by then, you think you should move up here."

"I'll do whatever it takes for my son to have both of his parents in his life."