Chapter 8 Jeff took a deep breath as he knocked on the hotel room door.  Mika seemed a little surprised when she answered, "Um..Hi."   "Hey.  Is Harley here?", Jeff asked nervously. "Yeah.  Come on in.", Mika said as she stepped back and let him into the room. Harley had just stepped back into the room from the balcony.  Her heart skipped a beat when she saw Jeff standing there.  She looked over at Joey to make sure that he was still asleep and then back at Jeff not knowing what to say to him. "We need to talk.  Let’s go for a ride.", Jeff suggested quietly. As much as Harley wanted to tell him no and tell him to go away, she couldn’t.  She had avoided this for so long, but now she couldn’t avoid it any longer.  Harley looked at Mika with a raised eyebrow.  Mika nodded knowing that Harley was silently asking her to watch Joey so she could go with Jeff.  "Okay.", Harley told Jeff.  Neither of them said a word as they rode the elevator to the lobby and walked out to Jeff’s car.  They remained quiet for the first ten minutes of the ride - neither of them new where to start.  Suddenly, Jeff pulled the car onto a deserted side street and stopped abruptly.  Putting the car in park, he turned to Harley, "If you tell me I’m seeing things, if you tell me I’m just crazy, I’ll leave you alone and never bother you again." Harley didn’t say a word. "Why didn’t you tell me?", Jeff asked with a heavy heart. "I didn’t even know you.  What was I suppose to do?", Harley snapped. "You could’ve found me.  All you had to do was call Jana.", Jeff informed her.  "You were just a kid.", Harley stated very matter of fact. "So were you.", Jeff returned. Harley looked at him, "No I wasn’t.  I was twenty-two years old.  That makes what I did illegal."  Jeff looked at her like he couldn’t believe she was that much older than him, "I was grown up enough to make a baby, then I was grown up enough to take care of one." "Oh please.  You probably chalked that night up to a conquest and bragged to all your friends about how you screwed this girl and left her lying in a hotel bed.", Harley blurted out.   "You know nothing about me!", Jeff yelled. "Exactly!", Harley yelled back.  They both sat there fuming mad. "So why now?  Why did you decide to tell me now?", Jeff asked a little more calmly.  "I didn’t.  My dear friend, Mika, took it upon herself to make a life altering decision for me.", Harley said sarcastically. That seemed to shock Jeff a little. "I didn’t even know you were gonna be there.  I didn’t even know you were a wrestler.  I didn’t want to come on this trip in the first place and I definitely wouldn’t have if I’d known this was going to happen.", Harley informed him.  "So, you would just let that boy live his life never knowing his father?  You were NEVER gonna tell me?", Jeff questioned. "Right.  We’ve done just fine without you this long, why should we need to change that?", Harley asked. Jeff was hurt by Harley’s words and said nothing more.  He started the car and headed back towards the hotel.                      Last Chapter ..*.. Next Chapter ..*.. Chapter Index ..*.. Home