| Chapter 5
The next morning Hope walks into the bedroom to find Bo still passed out cold. She looks down at the alarm clock and notices it almost noon already. She then walks over to the windows pulls open the blinds and then goes back over to the bed and yanks the pillow out from under his head. "Time to rise and shine Brady." She yells Bo tries to pull the sheet over his head but she won�t let him. "Come on Hope just five more minutes." "Brady I want you out of here and I want you out of here now." "Fancy Face come back to bed." "You must seriously still be drunk if you think I'm going anywhere near that bed while you�re in it." "What?" He states looking around the room. "Hope!" He then replied looking up at her. "What are you doing here?" "What am I doing here?" She questioned annoyed. "It's my house I live here." "Well it's my house too." "You agreed to move out." He sits up slightly. "I thought you were staying with Mrs. H?" She grabbed the sheet from him and tosses it towards the foot of the bed. "I stayed there a few nights and I let you stay here last night and now I want you gone." "Okay why are you so mad at me?" "In case you've forgotten our son is dead because of your daughter and you chose to be a family with her and that tramp of an ex-wife of yours." "First off Hope I never chose Billie over you ........ But it's more then that you�re deliberately trying to pick a fight with me and I want to know why." She picks up his shirt and throws it at him. "Just get dressed and get out. I'll be downstairs in the kitchen don't bother to say goodbye." Bo grabbed her arm before she could turn and leave. "Did something happen last night?" "If you�re asking if anything happened between the two of us Brady?" "I didn't mean it that way Hope; I'd never forget sleeping with you." "Let go of me." She yelled tying to pull out of his grasp. He pulls her down on to the bed next to himself and releases her arm. "You've done something you regret and you�re taking it out on me and that's not fair, Fancy Face." "You don't know what you�re talking about Bo." He looks her straight in the eyes. "Yes Hope I do." She can tell just by the look in his eyes that he did know. "How'd you find out?" She asked as her eyes filled with water and she quickly closed them. "It doesn't matter how I found out Hope. Why matters is why you did it." Crying. "I needed you Brady and you weren't there and he was." He puts his arms around her and holds her tight. "And I'm sure he said all the right things.........damn that man for taking advantage of you like that, and damn Billie for putting this whole thing into motion." He takes a deep breath. �Hope you have to believe me when I tell you that the night of our son�s funeral I didn�t sleep with Billie. I got drunk and passed out.� "Bo Patrick didn't take advantage of me I took advantage of him..�� Hope spit out really quickly. �I needed to be held and loved and more importantly I needed somebody to help me forget about you." She looked up at him. "Something I knew deep down in my heart no man could ever make me do....... and I should have never believed what I saw. Especially knowing what lengths Billie would go to get you back, and to destroy our faith in one another. I love you to much Brady" He pulled her into a deep kiss and then held her tight. "Oh God Fancy Face you have no idea how long I've waited to hear you say that." "I'm scared Bo and I need you..... And I'm afraid after I tell you why I'm so scared you'll hate me." He holds her face in his hands. "I could never hate you, Fancy Face. I love you way too much and there isn�t anything the two of us together can�t get through.� "There's no easy way to say this Bo, so I�m just gonna come out and says it." "You can tell me anything." "Bo I'm........I'm.....�sorry.� She takes a really deep breath and then looks him in the eyes as tears come streaming down her face. �I'm pregnant with Patrick's Lockhart�s child." ~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~**~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~~*~*~**~~**~*~*~*~*~~*~ A few hours later Hope is wiping the tears from her face as she walked down the stairs and was shocked to see Bo sitting on the couch drinking a beer. "I thought you left." She replied as she walked over and stood in front of him. Not making eye contact with her. "I tried to several times but I just couldn't do it......I even got as far as getting into my truck, starting the engine and putting into gear, but I just couldn't bring myself to turn my head and back down the driveway." She sits back onto the coffee table. "So I decided to sit here and concentrate on getting over my hangover." "Don't you mean concentrate on getting drunk again?" He gave her an evil look. "Don't patronize me Hope." She got up from the table and started to walk away. "I know this doesn't help Bo, but I'm sorry." "Sorry!�Your sorry!" He yells "So I guess because your sorry everything's suppose to be okay, is that it?� Hope looked away from him. �Well newsflash honey everything�s not okay.� He stood up and began to yell louder. �You're pregnant with another man's baby.......and all because you thought I was sleeping with Billie." His voice lowers as he starts to laugh. "You know the funniest thing about all of this is? ���Is�.. I begged Jenn, I begged her.� He shakes his head in disgust. �I practically got down on my knees and begged her to tell you what I allowed Billie to do to us once again..�� �Bo.� Hope cried �You have no idea how upset I was when I found out she made you believe that we slept together once again. And all I was worried about was ��..Hope is never going to forgive me for allowing Billie to screw things up for us once again .....how stupid could I have been to trust Billie once more.� He places both his hands on the side of her face, as you see the anger in him build. �But what the hell? Why should I be upset about it, when my wife fell for it hook line and sinker.� He dropped her hands. �And then sleep with the first pathetic man that came along?" She didn�t know what to say, so she turned her body and starts to head towards the stairs. "You know?" He began yelling again. "At least when I broke our wedding vows and lied to you about what happened the night Zack died it was to protect you." He starts to cry. "Because I couldn't bare putting you through anymore pain then you were already in.........never mind the fact that I had to live with the fact that I helped my daughter kill our son��. and the fact I had to deal with my one child killing another one of my children.......something you luckily will never have to deal with ..........because on top of everything else it's hell." She turns and looks back at him with tears screaming down her face. "But that's okay Hope because at least your broken wedding vow didn't kill a child.� He looked at her with more disgust and disappointment then she�s ever seen him show. �It just produced one." Her whole body shook as his last remark and the reality of what she�s done hit her so hard. She started to cry even harder then before, almost tripping, as she ran up the stairs. Bo stood there for a moment with his hands over his face. He couldn't believe he just said that. Quickly he made his way up the stairs and caught her around her waist as she hit the top step. "Let go of me Brady" She cried. He pulled her back and held her tight. "I'm so sorry Fancy Face I didn't mean it, I swear. I'm just so upset and so hurt and I guess I wanted to make you hurt too. I'm sorry, I should have never said that�.. I love you and I guess with the way I was feeling I should have just left earlier." She turned in his arms to face him. "Brady are we going to be able to get through this? Is our marriage really going to be able to survive everything we've done and said to each other since we lost Zack?" He takes her by the hand and they walk into the bedroom. They sit on the bed next to one another. "We've been through a lot, haven't we Fancy Face?" She places her hands on her stomach. "And I'm afraid things are just going to get worse." He looks down at her hands. "Are you sure you're pregnant?" "Yes!" She takes a deep breath. "Jenn meet me at the hospital the other day and Lexie ran a blood test." "Are you sure it's Lockhart's?" Getting upset. "Bo I haven't been with anybody else... I don't even recall sleeping with him." He places his arms around her and tried to calm her. "I'm sorry that was a stupid question." She pulls away from him. "I don't even know how you can bare to look at me, let alone touch me." "That's easy.....I love you." She looks up at him. "Are we really going to be able to survive me being pregnant with Patrick's baby?" Bo places his hand on her stomach. "If the whole thing with JT taught me anything, it's the fact that no matter what, this baby is a part of you........and there's no way I couldn't love it or you." "Does that mean you'll come back home, and somehow find a way to try and be the family we were always meant to be?" He slowly kisses her lips. "I didn't want to leave in the first place." |