AJ walked into the room where Brian and Howie were already waiting to get the meeting underway. AJ dropped into an empty chair and let out a long tired sigh.
"What's up?" Howie asked.
"Nothin' it's just Jen," AJ said.
"Nick's Jen?" Brian asked confussed.
"Yeah."
"What about her? Is she okay? Please don't tell me that there's something wrong with the baby," Brian said trying to find out what was wrong.
"Nick cheated on her," AJ said seriously.
"Oh my god," Brian said while Howie just sat there, not knowing what to say.
"There's more," AJ said, "he used to hit her..."
"What!?" Howie yelled, totally shocked.
"Yeah and on top of that, he wanted her to get an abortion because he thought that a baby would ruin his career."
"Damn," Howie said.
"Did they break up?" Brian asked.
"Yeah."
"Wow, I can't believe it," Brian said still in shock.
"Neither can I," AJ confessed, "She's been an emotional wreck since all of this happened."
"Yeah, I bet," Brian agreed.
"Jen told you all this?" Howie asked.
"Yeah," AJ answered.
"How did you get her to tell you?" Brian asked.
"She just told me."
"Really?" Howie asked shocked.
"Yeah, I was the first one she talked to after it happened so I guess that's why."
"Probably," Brian said. Then Nick suddenly stormed into the room startteling all of them.
"Look AJ," Nick yelled, "I'm not gonna take your crap!"
"Nick calm down," Brian said.
"Why the hell should I calm down? The ass hole is sleeping with my girlfriend!" Nick yelled and Brian and Howie turned their attention to AJ.
"Hey, you were the one who was beating her up!" AJ yelled back.
"What??"
"You heard me! She told me everything Nick and if either of us is an ass hole, it's you," AJ yelled and left the room.
"I thought you were better than beating up girlfriends," Brian said sicked by what he learned.
"I am, they're lying," Nick said quickly.
"I think you're the one who's lying," Howie said.
"Some friends you guys turned out to be," Nick said.
"No, we're great friends, you just aren't the person that we thought you were," Brian told him.
"I never touched her," Nick said.
"Did you tell her to get an abortion?"
"Yeah, but that was because we weren't ready for him."
"I think it was because you knew it would hurt you."
"Bri, come on, you know as well as I do that I can't take care of a baby."
"You have to learn."
"Can I tell you something?" Nick asked lowering his voice.
"Yeah," Brian said.
"You can't say anything."
"Okay."
"I don't think Anthony's mine."
"What?" Howie asked shocked.
"He's yours I can tell," Brian said, "He looks like you."
"Yeah, he's a blond, Jen ain't blond," Howie mentioned.
"That doesn't mean anything," Nick said.
"That mean daddy's blond," Brian said, "And that means you."
"You guys ready?" Kevin asked walking into the room, "Where's AJ?"
"Wonder boy over here pissed him off," Howie said pointed at Nick.
"What the hell did I do?" Nick asked.
"You came in here yelling at him," Brian said, "He wasn't going to take kindly to that and you know it."
"What did I miss?" Kevin asked.
"Everything," Howie answered.
"Look, I'm going out," Nick said walking out of the room.
"He and Jen broke up apparently he beat her and from what I heard, AJ slept with her," Brian told him.
"Damn," Kevin said, "What about the baby?"
"He seems to be the forgotten one in all of this," Brian answered.
"So they broke up because he beat her?"
"That and he cheated on her."
"This poor kid."
"Tell me about it." The three of them sat back, not really sure what to do. Soon AJ came back into the room and saw that Nick was no longer there.
"Are we going to get started or what?" AJ asked.
"We should wait for Nick," Kevin said.
"Why? So he can yell at me again? I don't think so."
"AJ please," Kevin said.
"Please what? I wanna know what I did to make all you guys be like this."
"Did you sleep with her?" Brian asked.
"Yes, but they were broken up at the time," AJ confessed after a moment of just looking at Brian.
"Maybe it hadn't occured to him that they had broken up so he thought that they were still together," Howie commented.
"Okay, but that doesn't mean I did anything wrong."
"Compared to what Nick did, I don't think so," Kevin said.
"So can we please do this meeting?" AJ asked.
Chapter 5