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I look up at him, the test still trembling in my hand. His eyes flick to it, and I watch the realization hit him—the split second of shock, then the way it melts into something wide and bright and unguarded.
“Wait,” he breathes, a slow smile tugging at his mouth. “Are you?—?”
I nod, my lip quivering. “Yeah.”
And then he’s across the room in two strides, hands on my face, forehead pressed to mine as we both laugh and cry at the same time.
“Oh, Soph…” he whispers, voice rough with emotion. “You’re serious?”
“Completely.”
He exhales a shaky laugh, pulling me into his arms and lifting me off the floor like he can’t help himself. “We’re gonna be parents.”
“You already are,” I murmur against his shoulder, smiling through my tears.
He sets me down just enough to look at me, eyes bright. “Yeah,” he says, voice soft but sure. “But now we’re doing it again. From the very beginning.”
I laugh, wiping under my eyes. “You’re not freaking out?”
“Freaking out?” He grins, kissing my forehead. “I’ve been hit by three-hundred-pound linemen at full speed. This? This is the best thing that’s ever blindsided me.”
I laugh, half-sob, half-smile, and melt back into him. His hands find mine, fingers tracing gently over my knuckles.
For a long moment, we just stand there in the glow of the morning light spilling through the bathroom window. The house is alive with the sound of laughter, and Caleb’s voice echoing down the hall, singing something wildly off-key.
And in the middle of it all, between the football games, the late nights, the chaos and the love, we’ve found something special, sacred. Something that’s ours.
Beck looks up at me, that same grin tugging at his mouth. “You ready, Mrs. Harrison?”
I nod, smiling through the tears. “Yeah. More than ever.”
He kisses me once more, softly, reverently, and when we step out of that bathroom together, I know without a doubt that life is about to get even louder, messier, and infinitely more beautiful.
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Logan
They say you can’t outrun where you came from.
I’ve been trying my whole damn life to prove them wrong.
The air is sharp enough to bite, breath turning to smoke as I line up on the far right. The turf glitters under the stadium lights, and the roar of seventy thousand fans melts into that steady hum that always comes right before the snap — the sound of everything I’ve ever wanted hanging in the balance.
