Confrontation [Punk/Lacy]

Brandon settled down when Phil had him and rested his head on his shoulder.

Lacy shook her head regretfully. "Even he knows you're gone all of the time."

"I make it up, you know that."

"I know." She sighed. "I just hate feeling like I'm by myself all of the time, and I don't want him to feel like that." She motioned to Brandon.

He sighed. "I can't do anything to fix it though. I mean, if you do leave the company, we could travel together and all that, but like you said, you don't want to be on the road.'

"I don't want him on the road," she corrected, pointing at Brandon who had fully calmed down and was on his way to sleep. "He's too young."

"Then what do you want me to do? I can't just demand Tiffany to give me days off."

"I guess there's nothing you can do."

"Guess not."

"Guess if you still wanted to leave..." She shrugged.

"Right, I'm leaving." he said gently giving Brandon to Lacy as he kissed Brandon's cheek.

Brandon fussed a little bit before settling back into a sleep.

Lacy sighed and looked away from Phil, putting Brandon in his crib. "Okay."

"Well, see you." he said as he left the room and headed downstairs.

She sighed as Phil left and put her head in her hands.

-

A Month Later

Part of her could not believe that Phil had more or less moved out of the house. He had told her that he was going to stay in North Carolina with Shannon. It had initially made her angry, but more angry at herself to know the fact that she had pretty much chased him off to a whole 'nother coast. lol. She turned down a road and looked in her rear-view mirror at Brandon who was babbling happily and playing with his toys that she left in the backseat for him. She drove down a bit before she parked in front of Shannon's house. She was visiting to let Phil see Brandon. They hadn't been talking much, but Phil was still Brandon's father, and she wasn't going to interfere with that.

Phil had been with Shannon outside, they were riding some dirt bikes and just hanging out for the day.

"Talking to Lacy yet?"

"Nope." Phil said as he watched Shannon get on his bike.

"Sucks. You miss her?" he asked.

Phil just looked at Shannon. "What do you think?"

"Right, sorry man."

She got out of the car and got Brandon from his car seat, starting to walk towards the house.

"Da?" Brandon asked.

"We're going to see him right now."

Brandon had no idea what she said, obviously, but from the nod of her head, he took that as good news and grinned his toothless grin, "Da!"

She chuckled and rang the doorbell, but no one answered, so she reached into her pocket and called Shannon's house. No answer. His cell phone, no answer. Lacy rose a brow and called Phil's phone last.

Phil reached into his pocket, feeling his phone vibrate as Shannon went onto the track. "Yeah?" he asked as he answered.

"Hey. We're here."

"Oh sweet. I'll be there in a second." he said as he hung up and went to meet Lacy and Brandon in the front. "Here he is." Phil chuckled as he took Brandon and kissed his cheek. "Sorry, we were by the track." he told Lacy.

"It's cool." She told him as Brandon giggled and said "da!"

"I guess I'll go say hey to Shannon and get out of your hair for a few hours." She said.

"Whatever you wanna do." he said. "Shannon is on the track. I'll lead the way, I was just hanging out with him anyway."

"Thanks." She told him as she followed him, and Brandon babbled animatedly to Phil.

Phil nodded at Brandon as he babbled on and on. "Very cool." he said with a small chuckle. "He's getting talkative."

"He won't stop 'talking' about you." She told him.

"Oh, guess he's a daddy's boy. Weird."

"He's always been a daddy's boy." She chuckled. "He misses you." And so do I.