Redeeming Kyle: 69 Bottles #3 (20 page)

He steps out of the bathroom. “I’m right here, Addison. Congrats you guys. That’s fucking awesome.” Peacock slaps hands with Kyle then with Talon.
 

“Dude, I lost a bet to her,” Mouse chimes in.
 

Peacock looks at him, “What was the bet?”
 

Mouse laughs, “I bet her a hundred bucks that she couldn’t eat three pancakes, four strips of bacon, a mountain of eggs and two pieces of toast. She fucking devoured it, dude. She won’t take my money though,” he says dejected.
 

“Why not?” Peacock raises an eyebrow.
 

“She said it wasn’t fair, which is why the entire bus now knows she’s pregnant and with twins.”
 

“Well, then buy her something nice,” Peacock says.
 

“Like what?”
 

“Hell if I know, ask her boyfriends,” Peacock says with a laugh.
 

The banter continues for a little while longer and my heart swells with pride that these guys are family, my family, our family, and regardless of the fact that we’ve only been together a few short weeks, the band thinks that our news is amazing. No one asks who the dad is; they all just congratulate Kyle and Talon together. Throughout the entire conversation, I see Talon and Kyle smiling, interacting with their friends and I can visibly see weight lifting from their shoulders. It doesn’t matter to the band who the father is, so why should it matter to both of them.
 

“We better go,” Kyle says. “Dex, there’s still some bacon.”
 

“Thanks, man.” he calls from his bunk.
 

“I’ll get coats,” I volunteer and stand. My head spins hard, my stomach whirls. I sit back down.
 

“Addison?” Kyle kneels before me.

“I’m alright, stood up too fast.”
 

“Relax a minute, angel. I’ll get our stuff.”
 

I put my forehead in my hands and breathe through the nausea. I really don’t want to vomit, I haven’t done it after a meal yet and I really don’t want to insult Kyle. But something isn’t agreeing with me. “I’m sorry, cowboy, but I need you to move.”
 

He’s stunned for a moment then moves. I skirt past him straight for the bathroom and throw up. Kyle is by my side in a moment. “Baby girl, I’m so sorry…”
 

“Stop,” I say between heaves. “Apparently they don’t like bacon,” I say quietly.
 

“How can you tell?”
 

I heave again, sending more chunks up. After a couple of dry heaves it passes. “Look,” I point to the toilet. “Its just bacon.”
 

He laughs. “I’ve never seen that before.”
 

I laugh too, “Me either.” There is other stuff there too, but the primary content is bacon.
 

“So I guess we have to take bacon off your menu, huh?” I pout and he laughs. “For now at least.” I smile and flush.
 

“Let me brush my teeth and I’ll be out.”
 

“You sure you’re okay?”
 

“I’m great now.”
 

He shakes his head, smiles, and then leaves me to brush my teeth.
 

When I come out, “Bets off, you ralphed,” Mouse says with a laugh.
 

“Whatever, it stayed down for more than twenty minutes.” I cross my arms over my chest and tap my converse covered foot on the floor.
 

“Yeah, okay, fine,” Mouse pouts.
 

I laugh and lean over the table. “I don’t want your money, Mouse. It’s all good. Challenge me in a year when I’m not pregnant, double or nothing.”
 

He bursts out laughing. “You’re on, Red.”
 

“You okay, angel?” Talon asks.
 

“Perfect. We ready?” He nods and holds my coat out for me. I slide my arms in and I go to take my purse.
 

“Nope, I got it,” Talon says, serious.
 

“I can carry my own…” He just shakes his head. I roll my eyes.
 

“It weighs more than five pounds.”
 

“Oh for Pete’s sake.” I laugh and walk down the steps and off of the bus and climb right into the center of the back seat of the SUV. Talon slides in on one side and Kyle on the other.
 

“I threw this in here for you, thought you’d want to catalog your breakfast. Though, I don’t know if it counts anymore.” He raises an eyebrow.

I smile at him. “It still counts, they apparently don’t like bacon.” He cocks his head so I explain to him.
 

“Okay, that’s funny.”
 

“No, it’s not,” I pout, “I love bacon.” Everyone laughs and I take my journal from him and pull my phone from my pocket and I flip through the pictures Kyle took showing them to Talon as we drive toward his mother’s house.

We got to her house around eleven, and she has this beautiful one story house and is the lone building in a cul-de-sac. She’s a petite woman, about five four or five and round around the middle. She dotes on Talon and I’m surprised when Talon introduces me as his girlfriend and Kyle as his boyfriend, though she already knows Kyle. I imagine a phone call or two from her in the coming days, wanting more information about the relationship, but for now she brushes it off. She doesn’t take to me right away but when I step into the kitchen to help her with lunch, she warms up to me a little bit. I eat, despite not being very hungry after breakfast but the guys give me that look.
 

We don’t stay very long once the boys notice that I’m starting to fade. She becomes disappointed when Talon tells her that during the tour break he needs to be in LA to take care of business. I know that’s not the case, but he’s going to be there because I have another appointment. He doesn’t tell her about the twins or even that I’m pregnant, which is okay with me. I understand immediately why they’ve grown closer over the years. She is very loving and affectionate toward him and her pride in his success is palpable.
 

It’s about one when we return to the bus, but I’m so tired that I fall asleep on the way back and the guys take me to bed. “How long do you need to get ready?” Talon asks as he lays me down.

I shrug, “ninety minutes?” He looks at the clock.
 

“So wake you up about five thirty?”
 

“I don’t need to sleep…”

“Nonsense angel. Sleep as long as you like, if you’re up before then great, if not, we’ll wake you.”
 

“What about sound?”
 

He smiles, “we got this. You sleep.” He kisses my forehead. Kyle follows suit and they both leave me to sleep.
 

“Baby girl…”
 

“No,” I groan.

“Yes love, time to wake.”
 

I wrap my arms around his neck, throwing him off balance and he falls onto the bed next to me. I snuggle into him and fall back to sleep.
 

“Come on, baby girl. It’s time to get ready and you need to eat. I made you mac n’ cheese,” he taunts me to wake up and he knows that will do it.
 

“Fine. I’ll get up, only because you have mac n’ cheese for me.”
 

He laughs and I crawl out of bed to pee.

When I come back he’s sitting on the bed with a big bowl for me and I climb up, he gives it to me and I start eating. “I’m going to be an elephant by the time this pregnancy is over if you keep feeding me like this.”
 

He laughs, “I doubt that. You’ve hardly gained any weight so far and you’ve been eating like this for over a week.”
 

“I just wish I wasn’t so tired all the time.”
 

“It will pass. Pretty soon we won’t be able to keep up with you.”
 

I finish eating and I drink my apple juice. When I’m done, I start to get ready for the show. I decide to just pull my hair up tonight, not wanting to mess with it, and I do my make up while still in the clothes I slept in.
 

I put on the red dress Kyle gave me, accent it with my thigh high fishnets and a garter that’s now sitting a little higher on my waist and rather than the big heels, I go for my calf high Doc Martins. I sweep my hair off to the side into a messy bun and add a small red flower over my ear. I need to dye it again, but I don’t have time today.
 

When Talon comes in he stops dead in his tracks. “What?” I say.
 

“You look amazing.” He comes over and wraps his arms around me. “I love that dress on you.” He leans down and kisses my shoulder.
 

“Thanks, big man.”
 

“Listen, the guys want to go out after the show. I want to take Kyle, will you come too?”
 

I shake my head. “No, I don’t have the energy for something like that, but I want you to take him out. Spend some time with him.”
 

“I don’t want to leave you here alone,” he says.
 

“I won’t be alone, Tori and probably Rusty will be here. I have some work to catch up on and it will be great for you and Kyle to spend some time together, the two of you, without me.”

“Alright, angel. As long as you’re okay, but if you’re not, you better call us.”
 

I tap his nose with my finger. “I promise.”
 

The show goes amazing, as always. The ritual tonight doesn’t change, though Dex has taken to calling me preggo, quietly of course, whenever he’s near me. I smacked him the first time he did it. Then laughed the second. My visual of Kyle’s arms wrapped around me sort of came true tonight when he put his hands on my pouch while Talon kissed me. It made my heart swell.
 

Our duets went great, again he got a little glossy eyed, but he contained himself. When we were done, he hugged me, kissed my cheek and whispered I love you in my ear and I walked off stage, right into Kyle’s arms and a big Talon smile when he looked at both of us.
 

The greenroom was packed and I was the center of attention, much to my dismay. But this is the added show, again after our duet went viral. Pictures were taken and autographs signed and I retired to the bus after some argument with Kyle about him going out tonight. He didn’t want to go, but I reminded him about what I said yesterday and he reluctantly agreed.
 

When I got back to the bus, I ate two bananas and drank an entire glass of apple juice with my vitamin before taking up residence in my bedroom. I change into pajama pants, a cami and one of Kyle’s t-shirts and make myself comfortable.
 

I work for a while and when I leave the bedroom to pee, Peacock is sitting at one of the tables.
 

“Hey.”
 

“Hey,” he says back.

“Give me a minute, I’ll be right back.” He nods and I step into the bathroom.
 

When I come out he hasn’t moved. I sit down next to him. “I think it’s time we talk,” I tell him and he nods. “Why aren’t you with the guys?”
 

“I was for a little while, but I decided to come back.”

“What’s on your mind, Eric?”
 

“Thank you, for introducing me to Jess.”
 

I smile. “I didn’t do that, you guys did it on your own, I just provided them with the passes.”
 

He chuckles. “True, but she’s become like a best friend to me.”
 

“That’s great, are you guys…?”
 

He shakes his head. “No, it’s not like that.”
 

“Then tell me,” I say with a smile.
 

“I’m gay, Addison.”
 

“For some reason, that doesn’t surprise me.” I say with a smile.
 

“Why does everyone seem to know?”
 

“Why do you say that?” I ask him.
 

“The other night, Tuesday night, I was in the bathroom when I overheard Talon and Kyle and what Talon said to him.” Oh… “When I came out of the bathroom, Kyle and I talked for a couple minutes.”

“He didn’t tell me that.”
 

“I didn’t think he would. He’s pretty discreet about stuff. But I asked him about the three of you and then it came up. He said he already knew, and that most of the band does, just that no one will say anything about it.”
 

I smile, “That’s because they’re waiting for you. I had an idea, just because of the way you were around the women at the clubs. You weren’t exactly gung-ho about them. Not in the way Dex or Mouse or even Talon and Kyle are. You always had this quiet reserve about you, but the girls naturally love a bass player so you played the part, not the stereotype. Are you ready to come out of the closet?”
 

“Sometimes I think I am, but then Dex will say something and I think twice about it.”
 

“To you?”
 

“No, just, well you know the way he is. He’ll stick his dick into anything with a receptacle for it. Mouse is that way too, but not quite as intense as Dex.”