one night stand

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JOEY

i fixed the cuff links of my shirt. i stared at my reflection through the mirror. my mother was visiting today and i'm not going to lie i was nervous, i knew i owe her an apology over what happened last time. it was also her first time meeting kira and i was scared about what my mother would say, she was the judge mental type everytime it came to my girlfriends, not that kira is my girlfriend but she is carrying my baby.

speaking of kira, i walked over to her room and saw that soph was helping her with her makeup. my jaw dropped she looked beautiful, even without makeup she still was beautiful. soph turned to look at me. "how does she look." she turns the chair so kira was facing me.

"beautiful." i respond. i didn't realize i've been staring at her because i heard soph say my name over and over.

"joseph matthew birlem!" i snap out of my thoughts and look over at soph. "hm?" i look at her then at kira before clearing my throat. i then heard the doorbell ring so that was my cue to leave.

"i'll see you two downstairs." i mutter and head out of kira's room. that was awkward.

i walk out to the living room and see my mother with river by her side talking to beatrice. "joey!" he yelled out before running towards me.

"hey little man." i pick him up and give him a kiss on his forehead before setting him back down on the ground.

"mommy?" he gave me a pout.

"she's helping-" i stop mid sentence remembering that he doesn't know who kira is, neither does my mother and i didn't want to risk her hearing her name yet.

"a friend." i smile at him.

"a friend?" my mother repeats, her eyebrow raised.

i give her a fake smile and nod. "yes mom, a friend."

"river!" soph runs right past me and picks river up.

"mommy!" he cheered as he hugged his mom back.

i'm not going to lie i was jealous of river's and soph's relationship. i've always wanted a kid because i knew i could be better than my father, i wanted to be different but at the same time i'm scared i'm going to fuck this up with kira. payton had came in after soph did. the three of them left into the living room so i could talk to my mom.

"i'm sorry." we've been sitting here for thirty minutes in silence. none of us has said anything until she finally did. "i didn't mean to say what i said. i know you were in a rough place and i didn't mean to make it worse."

i took a deep breath. "i forgive you, it's okay. i didn't mean to say the things i said too. i just hope we can move past all of this yes?" she smiled and nodded. "yes of course."

we sat there and chatted for awhile and caught up with each other lives. i didn't tell her about talia, talia was just temporary. i was about to tell her about kira until she had came downstairs for dinner. she must've been too scared to come down until it was time for dinner.

KIRA

"so you're the girl my son knocked up?" joeys mother, jen says. she raised her brow and took a sip of her wine before looking at joey. "you did a pretty good job though i really wish you would've waited until you two were actually seeing each other." i loved her already.

"yeah i wish your son bought me dinner before putting a baby inside me but.. you know." i let out a nervous laughter before taking a sip of my water since i couldn't have any alcohol which sucks because i could use a shot or two of vodka right about now.

joey choked on his drink and coughed loudly. jen smiled and nudged his shoulder. "i like her already, better than what's her face."

"talia." he replied in annoyance.

she nods. "i hope you don't knock that one up, i would hate to be the grandmother of her child."

joey sighed and got up from his chair. "i'm going to go check on dinner." jen hands him her glass.

"get me a refill won't you love?" joey nods and walks out of the dining room. jen got up from her seat and sat down next to me where joey was sitting.

"you're really beautiful you know?" jen says.

i smiled at her. "thank you."

"after the death of my unborn grandson i thought joey would never heal, but i'm so glad you came into his life and blessed him with another kid." she took my hands into hers and looked straight into my eyes. "i hope you two will get to be something more in the future rather than being just parents." she giggled and let go of my hands.

her words sent shivers down my spine. i never really saw myself dating joey actually, in fact i haven't even wondered about what will happen to us once the baby is born. will we be more? or will we be just two people who have a kid together. i mean he does have a girlfriend after all so i guess it'd be kind of dumb of me to even think that we'd have a future together, he probably loves her with his whole heart.

JOEY

after i got my mother's refill i went back into the dining room to tell them dinner was ready, but then i heard the doorbell ring. i was confused because i wasn't expecting anyone tonight, but just in case i had my gun with me.

i walk to the door and open it only to see talia standing there wearing a nice dress. "hi baby." she squealed running up to me and hugging me tightly.

i raised my brow. what the fuck was she doing here? i push her off of me without seeming rude. she looked at me with a huge smile on her face. "i know you weren't expecting me but i thought it would be a great idea to meet your mother since she was coming today."

"how did you-"

"i read your messages on accident on thursday when i was over here." i scoff and shook my head. i opened my mouth to say something else but i was interrupted by payton.

"hey man, i almost forgot to give you that ring you asked me to get." i turn around and shoot payton an 'are you kidding me' look.

"oops." i heard him mumble.

"a ring?" talia exclaimed

"a ring?!" my mother shouts as she walked into the room with kira. i closed my eyes and took a deep breath, i could tell this was going to be a long dinner.