Second Chance

Orion

Jesse's POV

I stopped in front of our studio room door and took a deep breath. I was really nervous and hoping that nothing went wrong. I turned the handle and opened the door squeezing my eyes shut.

"Jesse! You're back!" James and Mickey yelled in unison. I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that they sounded so happy. "How was it?" Mickey asked walking up to me.

"It was great! She still the same Roe, just older and dresses like a girl now." I shrugged. My hand was tugged on and a little throat was cleared. Crap I don't know how to do this!

Mickey crouched down and looked up a me confused before returning his attention to what was beside me. "And who might you be little one?" They made eye contact and Mickey's jaw dropped, he looked up at me. "No way!" I nodded and Mickey looked back at him.

Orion took his hand out of mine and wiped it on his jeans before sticking it out for Mickey to shake. "The names Orion, Orion Jennings. You're Mickey and that's Jimmy V, Matt and he's Adam." He smiled a big smile and ran his hands through his hair. "Wow! I thought my mom knowing Jesse was cool! This is so much cooler!" He laughed and shook his head.

"Gee, thanks Ri. I felt special up until we walked through the door." I looked over to Adam and he was staring at Orion in shock. I watched as Ri walked towards my acoustic and picked a few chords and he did that to the rest of the guitars along the wall. "Orion do you know how to play?"

"Yeah, kinda, my mom taught me everything she knows. She said she learned from the best and wants to pass it on." He said while he traced the design that was on one of the guitars. "My moms an awesome person, you know, she's taught me everything on her own."

I knelt down beside him and put my hand on his shoulder. "Monroe is an amazing person. She's been one of my best friends since I was 12. You know, Adam and myself taught your mom most of the instruments she knows." He looked at me with his mouth open.

"Are you serious?! You taught her everything? Why didn't she ever tell me?" He looked around for Adam and walked up to him. "You. My mom has a strip of pictures of you guys together on the fireplace. You look different now but it's definitely you." Adam's eyes widened in realization of the pictures Orion was talking about.

"She still has those pictures? Those were from almost 10 years ago." Adam shook his head in disbelief. "I can't believe it."

"Well believe it!" Orion giggled at him. "She takes it off sometimes and just stares at it. She sometimes cries too but she tries to hide it from me." He shrugged. "She looked at it again last night while I was doing my homework." Adam looked like he was about to cry himself.

"Um, Orion why don't you show us what you know how to do on the drums." Matt suggested walking to the recording room with James and Mickey in tow. Orion looked at me and I nodded towards the room, he smiled and ran towards the door to the guys.

"Guys act right with him please!" I yelled as they shut the door.

Adam's POV

Jesse and I sat in silence for a few minutes as I processed everything that just happened in the past half hour. This is fucking crazy. MJ has a kid. How the hell did this happen?

"How did this happen? How old is he? Who's his dad? Why didn't she ever come back to us?" My head was spinning with questions. "Why is she on her own? Why did she keep those pictures of us?" I started panicking.

"Ad, calm down!" Jesse shouted at me. "Orion is 6 years old. Roe met a guy that lived near her aunts house a year after she disappeared. His name is Tyler and they were together for 3 months before she got pregnant with Orion. He didn't want her or the baby when she told him and after that day shes never seen him. He signed his rights over and never got in contact with her again." Jesse sighed and shoved his hands in his pockets. There was a brief silence between us.