Out of the Blue... // A John "Swazz" Swift Story

45

Our plane ended up landing two hours later than planned so it was now 9 and we were getting our rental car and a hotel room figured. Well I was, John was on the phone with Brent and Jocelyn letting them know that we had landed and figuring a time that we could meet.

"Okay ma'am we will have your car out front when you are ready, the hotel will be three miles north and then make a left turn just past the lake." The man at the service desk informed

"Thank you sir" I smiled grabbing the keys and receipt from the desk in front of me.

I walked outside of the building with my bag and found John finishing up on the phone, "what'd ya find out?" I asked

"They gave me their address and said to stop by whenever it's convenient for me. He has a basketball game tonight at 7 if we want to go. He plays basketball!" He exclaimed picking me up spinning me around.

"Hahahahaha" I laughed as she spun me and put me back down, "do you want to go to the hotel and drop our stuff off and then we can head over and see him?" I asked

"Sure now let's hurry!" He said getting in the passenger seat excitedly.

I drove us to the hotel and we checked in and took the bags up to our room. John unlocked the door and walked in, dropped out stuff on the floor and walked back out and to the elevator, to say he was excited was an understatement.

John drove us to the house and parked outside. I took in the mid sized house, it was painted a warm brown and had a white door to match the shutters on the many windows. It looked homie and warm. John jumped out and opened my door as we walked up to the house, knocking on the door.

A younger looking couple opened the door with smiling faces, "hi you must be John Swift?" The lady asked

"Yes ma'am and I take it you're Jocelyn Kin?" He asked

"You're correct on that, this is my husband Brent" she introduced and they shook hands.

"This is my girlfriend Adilynn, it's great to meet you" he introduced me.

"Please come in its snowing out here" Jocelyn welcomed, "we can talk in the living room" Brent said leading us into a room with a couch and two chairs.

"Thank you guys for allowing us" John spoke

"Thank you for coming, Kelton has been very curious lately about family and stuff but we don't really know what to tell him, he's so young" Brent informed

"Well I never ever intended for any of this to happen but I didn't have any say in anything until a few years ago and then I wasn't in a place to pull a kid into my life at the time, it wouldn't have been fair to him" John nodded

"Well that being said we've been warned as to why Kelton was removed from your care and we need to discus that before anything can happen." Jocelyn trailed off

"See that's where the story got twisted, he was never even in my care, they took him out of my hands in the hospital room and I never saw him after that. I didn't know his name until I turned 18 and I got an unmarked letter in the mail, I still carry it with me everyday." John got defensive, I put my hand on his knee in hopes to calm him down.

"We were never told this," Brent nodded, "what about his mother? Is she still in the picture?" He asked

"She passed away during birth, her parents are the ones who took him, they made up some story about how I was an addict and an unfit father. I married their daughter and stayed with her everyday as a freshman in high school and I'm and unfit father?" He asked more to himself

"Mr. Swift we didn't know" Brent said apologetically, "would you like to go meet Kelton? We can leave the ladies to talk?" He asked standing

John looked at me and I smiled at him, "go see your son" and with that he was following Brent out of the room.