second generation family secrets • bebe&stan • 10.01.22
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Spending a full day working in relative solitude works wonders, the physical labor gets out the pent up emotions and he has plenty of time to digest the information and periodically took the time to recheck the facts to make sure he wasn't getting confused.
What he knew for certain was that he witnessed three positive pregnancy tests, he slept with the girl long enough ago, and didn't use protection. Now he didn't know if it was his at a dna level yet, but didn't remember the last time he heard a guy in the locker room say something about sleeping with her. So to him it was most plausibly his, but knew his mom might suggest a dna test so he wanted to at least mentally prepare for that. His mom literally buried a body his goldfish killed when he was 8, who knew what she was willing to do to keep him from being 'trapped' by a girl. His dad would probably be excited to have a baby shower and have attention from the other dads.
Randy would be very into the idea of being a grandfather, and Stan predicted maybe a shift towards religion and a pressure to get married. He could almost see it already, his dad pressuring him to have a backyard shotgun wedding. 'For the baby's sake', but in actuality Randy just wants attention from his peers. How would Kyle react? He can only not tell his best friend for so long, but even then it's better for him to know so he can have someone on his side.
While lost in his thoughts, finishing up his last bits of menial labor, and starting to log everything, that's when he got the break up message and Kyle's text. Well, now Stan didn't have to break things off with Wendy, she went and did it herself. This was ideal, now he could be publicly with Bebe if she felt comfortable with that. To steal your best friend's boyfriend is risky business but it seemed to go over that that bad so far... Until he saw the fresh new Eavesdropper article with his texts on screen. He didn't have a app on his phone so that part threw him off but the texts were real.
His stomach dropped to the floor, his throat closed up, there was no way people would really believe it, right? It was true, but he wasn't ready for the information to go public quite yet. His apple watch started beeping, signaling that 6pm had hit. He had one hour before Bebe would show up, so he made strides to his dads office.
"Hey Stan," he heard his dads chipper voice the second the doors opened, but his expression grew confused at his son's demeanor.
"Dad," he started, but he didn't know how to continue. "I got a girl at my school pregnant."
"You got Wendy pregnant?" Randy asked flabbergasted. "Stan!"
He shakes his head, "No, Bebe the blonde one." And he realized the moment he said it how bad he really sounded. But instead his dad grins and nods.
"Nice Stan. You know, when I was your age I got a blonde pregnant too. That's why Thomas doesn't like me very much." That puzzled Stan for a second, what blonde had a son with black hair?
Mental crickets, until ,,, Craig. Craig's mom is blonde and he has black hair. "Craig's my brother?!?!?" That was way more shocking to him than the fact he was about to be a dad in a matter of months. He had a brother, a half brother but a whole ass brother really and he had no idea.
Nodding and grinning Randy continues, "Yea son, fucking hot blonde women is just what Marsh men do Stan. You're becoming a man."
He had to go. This what not the conversation he meant to have, that he wanted to have or needed to have. Full irish exit, silent power walking to go take a shower and try to process what he just found out. He's a dad, Craig's an uncle? Part of it made sense, why else did he feel like he needed to take care of this baby if it wasn't karma for his dad abandoning Craig. But as time crept forward he had to decide to let this whole Craig thing be for a later time.
7:00 on the dot, Stan set a alarm to make sure he was fully ready. Looking fresh, feeling clean. But mentally so drained and confused. He had been promised leftover which even that sounded nice after the past two days he's had.
Checking himself out in his mirror when he hears his mom call up the stairs that his friend was there and to come down.
