You and I

Chapter 12 : Coming Clean

{Gaga's POV}

I take a sip of my wine and look at Angelina. She looks at me and then at her dad, who's looking at me. 

"I'll go check on her..." Leo says, slowly pushing himself back from the table. As he walks in the direction Rosalia ran, I put my wine glass down. 

"So...." 

"I think you should tell him that I know and Rose probably knows too." Angelina says, looking me in the eyes. 

"Knows what?" Scarlett asks, confused. 

"But he's going to be mad at me for not waiting." I say

"Waiting for what?" Scarlett asks again.

"No, because I found out myself, you didn't tell me." Angelina says.

"What the hell are you two talking about!?" Scarlett asks loudly.

"NOTHING SCARLETT!" Angelina snaps back. My eyes widen as I look from Angelina to Scarlett. "Scar...I'm sorry it's just....it's personal..."  

"You used to tell me everything...why can't you now?" Scarlett asks.

"Scarlett it really is betw-"

"Shut the fuck up." Scarlett cuts me off, her eyes not leaving Angelina's face. I want to get up and push her up against a wall and tell HER to shut the fuck up and stop being a nosy bitch but I probably shouldn't make her mad, since she's about to learn the truth.

"Don't talk to her like that..." Angelina looks down at the table. I can tell she's pissed, but I don't know what to do.

"Why? Because she's a celebrity? Because she's 'Lady Gaga'?"

"Because she's my MOM." Angelina shouts.

There's silence. All I hear is the sound of Leonardo's footsteps slowly getting closer.

I put my head in my hands, knowing this will start something. 

"Stefani..." I hear. I look up.

"We need to talk..." Leo says

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{Angelina's POV}

"Because we agreed we would wait until the right time! You went and told Angelina without my permission and now Rose knows too! It wasn't time yet!" I hear my dad say, loudly. I'm listening to their conversation from outside my dad's office door.

"Leo...I didn't tell Angelina or Rosalia....Angelina knew and confronted me. I don't know how Rosalia found out...Angie couldn't have told her, she hasn't been alone with her since she talked to me." Gaga explains.

"Well either way, they know now and apparently Scarlett does too...you didn't tell her about what happened in New York, did you?" My dad whispers.

What happened in New York?

"No! Of course not! But that's another thing we need to talk about. You never told me you were in a relationship. I would have never done what I did...what we did..." Gaga says.

"Well I didn't really have the opportunity to tell you...it all just HAPPENED." 

"We'll figure this out later. Right now, we have to decide what to do about this other situation. They are going to have LOTS of questions"

"So we answer them..." My dad says.

I hear footsteps approaching the door and I sprint down the hall to my room and jump onto my bed. I roll over and see Rosalia still laying in hers. She's on her side with the pillow over her head. I slide off of my bed and crawl onto hers. 

"Rose..." I whisper, taking the pillow off of her head. She turns to look at me, her eyes red and puffy.

"Rosalia it's gonna be okay. At least we know our mother now!" I say, rubbing her arm. 

"But Ang....dad LIED! What else do you thin he's lied about!?" Rose rolls back over. 

I think about what she just said and realize she has a point. 

"Girls...c-can we see you in your dad's office please?" I hear Stefani's soft voice from the doorway. I turn and see her looking at her toes. I shake Rose and she begins to get up.

Rose walks past her without even looking at her and I see the hurt in Stefani's face. I begin to walk past her too, but then I pause. I turn back around and wrap my arms around her. 

"I forgive you." I say. I feel her wrap her arms around me too and she squeezes me. We both let go and begin to walk toward my dad's office. Scarlett is sitting on the couch in the corner, dad is at his desk, and Rose is leaning up against a bookshelf. Gaga walks toward dad's desk and stands next to him and I sit next to Scarlett. 

My dad looks at Gaga and nods as if to say 'You first'.

Gaga clears her throat. "As you all have probably gathered, I am not just a friend of Leo's....I'm also the biological mother of his daughters, Rosalia and Angelina." She looks at each of us and gives a small smile. 

"We know you girls, and you too Scarlett, are going to have lots of questions. We have called this 'meeting' to discuss this and to answer your questions. Would anyone like to go first?" dad asks.

"I will. Are you our real father?" Rose asks, flatly.

"I'm your adoptive father, not your biological father, but to me that's the same as being 'real' because I raised you when he did not." 

"Where is our dad now?" I ask.

"He....is married....and works for Sirius XM..." Gaga says, fiddling with her nails. I can see she doesn't like to talk about him.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Scarlett asks.

"Because I didn't want to tell any of you without Stefani knowing about it first. Or with her help."

"Do we get to come and live with you?" I ask. 

"W-what? You don't want to stay with your dad?" Gaga asks, confused.

"We want to get to know you and make up for time lost." Rosalia says. I look at her, suprised she's backing me up.

"We would have to talk about it..." Dad rubs the back of his neck. 

"Why did you give us up?" Rosalia asks, slowly. 

It is quiet.

I look around the room. Scarlett, Rose, and my dad all look Gaga in the face. She looks like she wants to cry. 

I hate for her to hurt like this, but I'm curious about it too.