trust the timing of your life.

Sofìa was trying. She wanted to trust in and believe in him but it was easier said than done. Every time she thought about Beckett, thoughts of how he was in high school kept circling her mind. “Oh, I hope it’s still good. If it’s gone downhill, I’ll just have to move again.” Sofìa exaggerated, a wide smile quickly moving across her features as she thought about the diner and their past dates there. “Not yet, I’ve been cooking for her every night but she’s already getting sick of my cooking. I don’t think I’ve been there since we moved- have you?” 

“They made a fair point then, suggesting you work here instead of in a busier city. In the grand scheme, you could probably help more people in Grove.” Sofìa responded, smiling as she listened to him talk about his sister. “That’s so good to hear, that you two are close. It’s so sad when families are separated, I’m glad it’s not like that for you.”  

“Really? Was it the orange coloured one?” She asked, “I turned my nose up at that one!” Sofìa exclaimed, before pulling the cup closer to her nose pretending to smell it like a wine tasting. “Strawberries, maybe?” 

“Out of all the animals it could be, please let it be a squirrel. Please.” Sofìa all but pleaded. “If it’s a bear, I’m telling you now that I’ll sacrifice you.” 

“Perhaps they just needed more time to think of their excuses, or they’re planning a surprise for you.” She offered up before throwing the ball back towards him. “Don’t be ridiculous, this is plenty fun. They’re the ones missing out. I’ll tell them for you if you want?” 

“You didn’t hear that?” Sofia asked again, the worry quickly building. “I don’t think that’s the wind, I can’t feel it.” Maybe she was overthinking it, but she couldn’t get her mind off it. “Can you see anything?” 

It wasn’t completely her intention to be so negative towards him and his intentions for his business structure but it was weird for her to see him be so organised about it. Maybe she just hadn’t noticed it before. “Okay, sorry, sorry.” Sofìa said, her hands going up as she talked. “I’ll trust you with it.” She spoke, despite the fact that they didn’t really need to check in with each other about things like this anymore and ignoring the fact that at times she didn’t believe the trust herself. Sofìa laughed easily as she watched him trying to get Harper to laugh. She missed this. Watching him interact with their daughter and watching the love between them. “Hmm,” Sofìa hummed, “What are you hungry for? Burgers, maybe?” 

Sofìa sighed in response, “Some help wouldn’t be horrible.” She said as she started to pull the screws apart to try again. 

“She is pretty amazing, I think we really lucked out- I’m completely unbiased, of course.” She answered, despite the circumstances and stress that led up to having Harper at the end of the day Sofìa did feel lucky. “Absolutely, I think she’d like that,” Sof said before turning to Harper, “Do you want uncle Wes to read to you?” Harper’s eyes immediately lit up at the idea, “I think she’ll love that, actually. Nothing too hard, though, she’s still learning to follow along. You can tonight, if you’d like? Or any time, really.” 

She smiled as she listened to him start talking about the science behind it all, whilst she barely understood most of it Sofìa could easily listen to him talk about science- or really anything for hours on end. “I’m sure it won’t hinder her too much,” She said, playing along with the teasing, “I mean, I haven’t noticed it yet but, time will tell right?” Sofìa laughed before gasping, “Are you trying to tell me I don’t have to pay for someone else to tutor her? She starts school next year, will you be free for the next thirteen years of your life?” It was mostly a joke, but Sofìa would be glad to have help with school work if she got stuck trying to help Harper with any of it. “Don’t be ridiculous,” She said as she rearranged the blankets to be more comfortable around them before fluffing one to go over them. “Come here, we can share it.” 

“I have never thought of it like that,” Sof admitted, “I have healing abilities but I’ve never thought about how many people without abilities would find it suspicious. It’s so normal here.” She spoke. “Are you guys close?” 

Despite saying otherwise she still had the hope of her and Beckett still being a family in the future, but most of it depended on Beckett. She had hoped that he could do better, so that she could have more faith in him and that they could be happier than last time. Sofìa was glad that he had changed the topic, it still made her upset to talk about their yet again failed family. Starting to smile, Sofìa answered, “She was born on the twenty first of July, blueberries are her favourite food and... ‘no’ is her favourite word.” She said with a laugh; she could easily talk about her daughter all day. “She likes it when we-” Sofìa paused, it wasn’t a ‘we’ situation anymore. “I read books to her. She likes ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark.’ Harper thinks the owl is cute.” 

“Right, right, I forgot, it’s all about the genetics?” She teased, “Should I quit trying while I’m ahead?” Sof then asked with a deadpanned look as if she was being serious about it. “It would have been three, but Harper really started to pull her own weight on our second try. It was something new for her.” Sofìa shook her head in jest, “I should get you one of those lanyards for your phone, that way you don’t lose it again. We should be fine,” She said after a moment of thinking before turning move the blankets behind them around, “We can just fix these around to make it a bit more comfy for us,” 

Sofìa had always tried with Alexa, even with Alexa and Wes now broken up, she was still trying to be her friend- Sof didn’t know why Alexa didn’t seem to want the same thing. She sighed as she looked at the tent, typically she was good at building things from instructions but apparently not today. “We must have missed something. Were these poles meant for the sides?” 

“Experience is good, sure, but how can you be so sure that it’s going to make a profit? It feels risky.” Sofìa answered, despite having no business experience herself Sofìa was unsure about the decision; maybe part of it was being unsure about Beckett’s involvement in it all, but it wasn’t something she was about to say to his face. Sofìa couldn’t help but light up at the words ‘as a family’. It gave her some hope for them, they both still wanted their family. “I’m sure someone would prefer if we got some ice cream,” She laughed with a pointed look towards their daughter. “But how about lunch?” 

“Okay, are you ready?” Sofia asked before serving the ping pong ball, she couldn’t remember the last time she had played ping pong, and it showed in her serve. The ball made it above the net and across the table, a better result than she had expected. 

“Yeah, didn’t you know? That’s why I didn’t go to uni, no academic skills.” Sofìa paused before laughing, “And, well, you know the whole pregnancy thing.” She said, still laughing before stopping, looking at him with an apaed expression. “Hey! It took us two tries to do this with two people. That was with a newborn baby!” Sofìa tried to defend herself, the laugh coming back quickly. Sofìa was glad that it didn’t take them long to revert back to how they were before... life became what it was. “Did you not read my ‘do you have everything?’ message?”