Page 82 of Camden

After Cam kissed my head and left to meet the guys, I got dressed quickly and ran to the store. I made it through the store, self-checkout, and back out to the car with no one stopping me. Heading straight for the master bath as soon as I made it back to Cam’s house, I sat the box on the counter where I left it all day.

Until now.

This was only the second time I’d ever taken a pregnancy test, and it was already so much different from the first time. That time I had been praying for a negative. I didn’t want a child withthatman.

This time? This time was the opposite. Every fiber of my being wanted a positive result because I loved Cam so much. I could picture every moment of my future with him.

I think he felt the same way.

So, if I were pregnant, it would be just one more step in the right direction.

I grabbed my phone and hit the facetime button to call Rylie. Her bright and smiling face filled my screen. “Hi!” she practically chirped into the phone.

“Hey. You have icing on your cheek,” I said and pointed to my own as if it were there instead.

“Shit,” she mumbled and wiped at her face. “What are you doing?”

“Freaking out.”

Her brows creased in concern. “What's wrong?”

“Yeah, what’s going on?” Haley asked as she popped her head up behind Rylie.

“Hey, Hales. What are you guys doing?”

She lifted a cinnamon roll. “I brought this one a snack because she was craving cinnamon rolls. Stop trying to change the subject. Why are you freaking out?” She took a big bite of her own roll as I turned the camera around to focus on the test sitting on my counter.

Haley started coughing around her mouth full of food. “Warn me, first,” she said through the coughs while Rylie squealed happily.

“Seriously! What did it say?” Rylie asked.

“I don’t know yet.” I turned the camera back around so they could see my face.

“What do you mean you don’t know yet?” Rylie asked.

Haley rolled her eyes. “I think she means she hasn’t taken it.”

“Well, why not?” Rylie demanded.

“I’m freaking out,” I repeated the entire reason for my call.

Rylie’s expression softened in understanding. Her voice was soft as she spoke. “There’s nothing to freak out about. Cam loves you. He would love a baby just as much.”

“It’s not that. It’s just…when I thought about the possibility of it,” I paused, trying to find the right words. “I felt this hope rise in my chest. I want it to be positive. Is that insane?”Because it felt kind of insane.

“I don’t think it’s insane,” Rylie said.

Haley nodded in agreement. “I don’t think so either. I don’t have kids and I definitely don’t have a man, but if I had someone that I loved as much as you and Cam love each other, I would want to start a family, too.”

“Even if you weren’t married?” I asked.

She thought about it for a minute before shaking her head. “I don’t think that there is a time frame or a right way of doing things if you truly love each other. It isn’t the fifties. It doesn’t have to be love, marriage, and babies in that order.”

It didn’t matter what order we did things in as long as Cam and I were together, we could face whatever happened. “You’re right.”

“Of course I am. Now take the test so we know if we’re going to be aunts.”

“Shouldn’t Cam be the first to know?” I joked as a sat the phone down on the counter and opened the box, grabbing one of the tests.

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