| 019 | Rhyot |

The second I noticed that my Ruby had finally allowed her body to rest and fell asleep next to me, I let out a sigh of relief, "Klaus, lay down her seat softly, she's asleep, if she didn't change on that, she's a heavy sleeper, but do it swiftly. Then you pick the blanket in the back of car and cover her with it."

He did exactly what I told him without questioning, when he was done, he leaned into the space between my seat and Ruby's, eyes on me, "You messed up pretty badly, brother, pretty badly."

I kept my eyes on the road, refusing to see his judging eyes, "I noticed."

"You have a son, Rhys," he gasped. "Oh my God, Addie is going to go insane."

God, the thought of my sister hearing about this... "She'll kill me."

"Not kill you, because now you have a son, but she'll definitely punch you. Does the Princess knows Addie too?"

"Of course, she knows her. Well, she knew, I don't know if she remembers her. Adeline went with mom when they divorced and mom went back to the west coast, I was 11 then, my sister was 13, while Ruby was 8, and she said she doesn't remember much of what happened before her parents divorce when she was 10. Ruby was always..." sigh, "introverted and antisocial, way more antisocial than me, for the record, she didn't like people, ever, I don't think that changed. Call Leah, she's definitely awake, I need to talk to her."

"Alright," he grabbed his ear pods, put one in my right ear and kept the other for himself, in less than a minute he was calling her and she picked it up.

"Rhys?" She spoke startled. "Are you alright?"

"I'm in London, Leah. Well, not in London, but getting there, but I was in London. Now, what I wanna know, is why did you not tell me that I have a son, and that he is friends with your son?" I tightened my grip on the wheel.

"Oh, don't give me that, I just learned it tonight. Only Nevy had seen my son's best friend, he's the one who picks him up in school, and drops him, and he hadn't come to my place yet. Imagine my shock when I learned that his friend looked nearly identical to you, and that his mum, was none other than Ruby Sinnott Vaughan, or that she's The Ryacinth's daughter," she squeaked. "She was shocked too, when she saw me. In fact, dude, what the fuck? Why did you make her think she was in love and fucking Hayes? You always knew he was gay and into Cole! Like, what the hell?"

"Well, seems like they talked," Klaus scoffed.

"Hi, Niklaus," she groaned.

"Hey, blonde," he referred to her hair.

"I may have told her that you're the father and that it was you all along. Did you know, that she knew the Crowther are mafia? Bitch, I had to play dumb when she told me, I had no idea she knew any of that!" She groaned. "She collapsed when I told her that Hayes skipped lots of her classes, because she had no idea, Rhys."

"What do you mean collapsed?" I side eyed Ruby, worry taking over.

Sigh, "Men, she's... sick? I don't know exactly, but your son freaked out and he flipped her over his arms, he's a big boy, definitely taller than her without heels and he's 10, he's taller than my son and Lloyd is tall for his age. He carried her and helped her through a seizure, which apparently, are frequent, and she has them since an accident that happened about 8 to 9 months after Rhett was born. She told me that it took her more than five years to be able to drive again, I don't even know why the hell she was driving at all, she was 16," sigh. "Either way, the accident didn't really cause it, it just awakened a genetic condition from her mum's side, one that her grandpa had and her mum didn't, but she does, and it causes seizures. She acted like it was nothing. I think it's serious."

My blood went cold in my veins and I saw red. She lied, she said she wasn't driving, that someone else was and they died, she fucking lied about this. "She... has seizures? How did her dad died? Was it heart related?"

"Cardiac arrest," she said softly. "She didn't elaborate, but I had a bad feeling."

"Seizures can cause heart attacks," Klaus whispered haunted, his eyes going to my Ruby, sleeping like an angel in the passenger seat. "Shit."

"It's what I thought, I don't know if Rhett understands the gravity of Ruby's health situation, I also don't know how far this goes. She seems the type to try to act strong to him, so he won't worry, because he's clearly the type to. He's like you, Rhys, introverted and shy, he worries for her a lot, and it's just the two of them. She didn't lie to him about his dad, but she told him a sum of the version she used to believe in, but he probably caught on the fact that his mum may have gotten his dad wrong, when I dropped that you were a twin."

"He didn't know that Rhys and Hayes were twins?" Klaus asked.

"No, but he probably saw the confusion in her face, seconds before she collapsed, that she might have switched the twins. They will probably talk about it on Monday, when she'll pick him in school, he'll sleep her until then. I also told a sum of what happened in Harvard, to make her understand that it was you the whole time, she was very shocked. And did you really make Rhett in the locker room of gymnasium? Men, you're nasty, she loved it."

I gasped, "What? She told you that?"

"In the locker room?" Klaus' jaw dropped.

"Yes, of course, she did. I asked, we're girls, we shared our stories, because I also went through university pregnant, we bonded on that, or so I hope," she chuckled anxiously. "We'll go to the highlands in Scotland in July. Me, Neville, her, her mum, your son, and my three kids. In fact, the dinner tonight was for this, because she didn't want her son to be alone, and wanted to take his best friend with them, she'll be going to the highlands for research for her new fantasy book that will be set in it, something like that. But, when I saw that it was her and that her son was yours, I had to find a way to make this a family trip. I was going to call you tomorrow after lunch, well, today already."

"Do you a picture, Leah?" I couldn't help myself.