Seeds of Jealousy

Brian



“If Mel is about to tell me then this can’t be good,” I state, looking around the room, waiting for answers for why they are all yelling at each other.



“Well, Brian,” She starts again.



“Wait, I’ll tell him,” Dee tells the room.



She looks around the room before her gaze settles on me. “They are all taking things the wrong way. I wrote a note, ready to leave, because Justin...”



“The truth, Dee,” Mikey warns, interrupting her.



I look at Justin. “Justin, talk to me. I want to hear what’s gong on from you. I know you will never lie to me. You and Mel have always been honest with me. I don’t want to have her tell me. This is about us, even though I am grateful to know I have the law on my side.” I look at Mel who nods.



He looks at me, but not in the eye. Instead of telling me what it said, he hands me the note. Reading it I look from him to Dee.



“Someone better explain this to me.” I am feeling myself getting annoyed with everything going on. “Justin? Please.”



“I don’t want you mad at me,” he whispers.



“As long as you tell me the truth Justin, I won’t be mad.” I lift his head. “I will believe you Justin.”



“You have known her a lot longer.”



I look at Dee who is looking like someone took her chew toy away.



“Well since you have Mikey and Em and fucking Mel on your side, I will not think you are lying to me. Justin; we have been through too much. Talk to me.”



“Dee has been blackmailing him,” Mikey shouts out, making me look at him and back to Justin who reluctantly nods his head.



“Explain,” I say, leaning in to him.



“She’s been blackmailing me to not go places with you and Brianna. She said she would take your daughter and leave and you’d never see her again. I didn’t want you to lose her.”



I look into his eyes, knowing now that he is looking at me, that I am finally seeing the truth.



I once again look at Dee. “Guys, and I use that term loosely, could you all please leave the three of us alone?” I look from Em, to Mikey and to the manliest of them all, Mel.



“Sure, let’s go, guys,” Mel tells them. I see Mikey hug Justin and then Emmett hugs him as well leaving Mel. She, too, walks over to Justin hugging him and whispering in his ear. She then moves over to me and hugs me. “If you need help, let me know.”



I smile at her. “Thanks, Mel. I might need you to draw up some papers for me later.”



Nodding she walks out with the boys.



Turning back to Justin and Dee I look right at her. “You better explain this.”



“Brian, it’s not what they are making it out to be. All I ever wanted was for you to be a part of our daughter’s life. For us to be a family and we have been one. We have had a lot of fun.”



“Without Justin,” I remind her, effectively cutting her off.



“Those were his decisions,” she blurts out.



“Bullshit. I know Justin and he wouldn’t have given up time with any of my, our children without a reason,” I practically yell at her.



“Brian.” Justin steps in. “Please, there has to be a way to work this out, for Brianna.”



“No worries about that. I will see my daughter.” Kissing him I turn to Dee. “No more excuses, tell me what you are up to.”



“Brian. Like I said I only wanted for us to have a family. With a full time mom and dad. If we live different places, one is always missing something. I love you. I wanted our daughter to have what we never did.” She starts to cry.



“Dee, as noble as that sounds, she already has MORE than we did. She has family who loves and adores her. She has a mother and two fathers who love and adore her. She has a whole family who is there for her. Dee, I am gay, we will never be together in the way you want us to but both Justin and I are there for you and Brianna. I will not let you sit here and threaten Justin like this. He would do anything for me. Anything for Brianna and if given half the chance, anything for you. But he will never give up on us. Trust me, I tried pushing him away, but he is so stubborn he stayed with me.” I look at Justin who smiles at me. I pull him into me.



“Always will,” he tells me, making me smile.



“Just like you WERE the most important person in my life, it’s not like that anymore. NOW it’s my kids, then Justin, then friends. Now, if you want to continue to be around us, fine, we will rent the loft below ours for you and Brianna. But NO MORE FUCKING TRICKS!” Justin laughs at this and, as I look at him, I realize what I said. “Fuck” We both laugh at the meaning of it.



“Brian,” she starts up again, but one look at her she nods. “I just want to say one thing. Justin, I’m sorry. I just didn’t want to give up this fairytale with Brian. We always talked about living away from the family and always remaining together.”



“Dee you fucking took off for ten years. Things change. I was gay then and I am still gay now. Justin is my partner. Either deal with it or leave, but you will NOT just take MY daughter and leave. I will fight you for her if you try.”



Justin looks at me.



“I’m not doing anything, Brian,” she says. “I just wanted us to be together, for our daughter.” She starts to cry.



Walking over to her I take her face in my hand. “Dee, we will all be there for her, but you went about this the wrong way. I won’t take her from you unless you give me another reason. Don’t fuck with what’s mine. And that includes my kids, and my partner. Don’t make me choose between you and him, because I will not only choose him, but I will get Mel to file papers giving me full custody of Brianna. Do I make myself clear?”



Looking at Justin she nods and saids, “Crystal.” Justin smiles at her. Must be an inside joke.





Two Weeks Later



Justin



I can’t believe it’s all worked out. Dee has been nice the last few weeks. We got her and Brianna all moved into the loft belong us.



Brianna is happy she isn’t too far away and Brian actually loves it. He would have Gus closer if it wasn’t for his ‘love/ hate’ thing with Mel.



Plus it helps the fact Brianna didn’t have to change schools. I look over to see Brian talking with Brianna, laughing at something.



“What’s so funny?” I ask.



“She wants to paint her room YELLOW!” Brian yells out. Laughing.



“What is wrong with yellow?” I ask.



“I now have to deal with two people who love yellow.” Brian pouts.



“Just deal with it, Dad,” Brianna laughs out.



“Yes, dear,” he mumbles which makes Brianna and I bust out into a laughing fit.



“What is going on in here?” Dee asks.



“Oh nothing, your daughter is a gay man in a girls body,” Brian tells her.



“EWW DAD!” Brianna and I both say together.



“She wants to paint her room, yellow. So fucking boring.” Brian looks up to see us all staring at him. “What?”



“Nothing. You are so cute.” I whisper, kissing his lips.



“I’ll show you how cute later.”



I give him my sunshine smile.



Everything is so perfect. Little do I know that with all good things, some things turn out to be for the worse. And this is one of those times.