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“Now we just need to figure out how to be good parents to a newborn.”
“That’s a new experience for both of us,” Langston says. “I can’t believe Amanda did all of this alone when she had Hayden. We have both of us, my mom, and a nanny, and we’re still exhausted.”
“Don’t forget my mom too,” Jenni says.
“Yes, your mom has been wonderful,” Langston agrees.
“But Amanda has you now.” I look back over to where she’s taking the baby from her kid. “And she’s lucky to have you both. You’ve been great to Hayden. And to her.”
“We do our best,” Langston says.
They really do seem to have everything figured out.
I watch them with longing. They have such a beautiful family. I’m not sure it’s in my future to have one myself.
Maybe I’ll be the forever bachelor of the family. It certainly won’t be Ashton.
Will it be enough to love Faith from afar, always stuck in the friend zone?
It will have to be. Because it’s all I have, and that’s at least better than nothing.
But there’s something heartbreaking about accepting that fact.
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