JJBA Short Stories

Joseph Joestar: Baby

Authors note: Hey heads up this is Sad! More than a little sad! Just warning you!
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He is where? Doing what?! I couldn't believe what Smokey had just told me. Joseph took off somewhere, left me behind! It was Days since we heard from him and Speedwagon was the one to call and didn't even think to talk to me. "Ashley are you ok?" Smokey asks and I fall to my knees he doesn't know if or when he will be coming back could be more than a month he is on business. My hands rest on my stomach which was already bigger than the original size.

"Smokey I'm pregnant," I say and he freaks out and pulls me to Mrs. Joestar to tell her. She was slightly disturbed since this was out of wedlock and he and I weren't even seeing each other it was more of a one-time thing.

"Well Ashley Joseph and Speedwagon will be back Hopefully sooner than later and we will tell them when they get back but I don't think telling him while he is doing this is the best idea," she says and I nod. Its already been 4 months another month and ill be over halfway to birth. All I can do now is wait I guess.

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"Joseph... Joseph didn't make it" Speedwagon says and my heart dropped, I had dressed up special to meet them I wanted to look perfect for him.

" I know you must feeling upset but don't get worked up it wouldn't be good for err the baby," he says and I look at Edina tears flowing from her eyes and my legs give out and 2 men catch me.

"It'll b alright Ashley" Edina pats my back. "It gets easier" she adds and I cry hard I loved him even if he didn't love me or even like me more than a friend. I've been carrying his baby now for 7 and a half months and it's been rough without him Edina is old same as Speedwagon and Smokey is just a kid.

Now its time for the funeral and I am very close to 9 months pregnant. Speedwagon suggested that I stay home and that there's no reason to put myself through it and I shouldn't be getting so worked up this late in my pregnancy. I don't care I don't even know what I'm going to do when this thing is born... Carry on the Joestar name I guess but it doesn't mean I'll be a good mom.

I meet Lisa Lisa Josephs mom and she is happy to be a grandma but as we all look down at his tombstone no shred of happiness can be found. "Guess who?" I hear and my body froze no way I go to turn but slip in the mud strong arms catch me and I see him. Am I dead? Did I have a stroke? Am I dying right now? "Seems I've missed a lot while I was gone," he says and lifts me back up. "Hey everybody I finally got to New York and nobody was there to meet me! So I heard you were all at a funeral. I looked high and low! Hey, Coach Lisa Lisa! Are you all healed up? Messina, you're here too! I want to ask von Stroheim if he can fix up with some gadgets. But it looks like war with the Germans" he says and I can't even think. People try to stop him and I have to sit down I don't feel well. "You're alive?!" They say and he looks at the tombstone " hold on a minute I'm alive!" He yells and my attention is pulled in another direction.

"Don't run out in the rain like that you big silly, you're still recovering!" Some blonde with blue eyes walks over and I feel the tears. He is alive but with her, "you don't know that I got married either?!" With that, it felt like a knife through my heart twisting. "You didn't send the telegram like I asked did you?!" He yells and I step back feeling suffocated. Speedwagon sets a hand on my back and the tears spill as I look in his eyes.

"Dammit Suzie Q!" He says and chases her. Everyone looks at me and smokey breaks down into tears on the floor.  We go back to Mrs. Joestars hotel and Joseph explains everything. "So Ashley I see you've been busy, who's the lucky guy?" He asks with an arm around Suzie Q I start to cry again. "Uhh I didn't mean to upset you-you don't have to tell me I just haven't seen you in forever," he says and I shake my head.