Her face when he said, "Grandma." 🥹

Meet The BFFs

Free spirit Liberty, cheerful Summer, and geeky Travis are unlikely friends since highschool, and nothing can come between these three. Except perhaps the growing feelings that Summer, Liberty and Travis have for eachother...

The idea that this man who Chimney loved as a brother, who he lost too soon, came back to him in his moment of need and pointed him home? The way Kevin is one of his ghosts, but only in the most loving way.

As tragic as it was, losing Kevin brought with it a realization of unconditional love in the Lees—because not only did they manage to love him through the hurt, but they needed him, too. He wasn't a reminder of their pain—he was the son they had left who they could have lost, too, but didn't. He was love and joy, even through all the hurt. They were a family. A little bit broken, but built on the kind of foundation Chimney had never had until them, at least not since he'd lost his mom.

For Kevin to be the one to point him home? To send him to the two people whose unconditional love had kept him alive, if only in their hearts? To the parents who'd raised them both and didn't deserve to lose another son? To the two people who had never let him down?

“Maddie, Howard! What a surprise!” Anne ushered them into the house. 

“Hi Mrs. Lee,” Chimney said as he gives her a hug. “I hope you don’t mind us dropping by. We have some news we wanted to share.”

“You’re always welcome here,” she assured him, making sure Maddie got an equally motherly hug. John joined them in the hallway with his own hugs. 

“This is for both of you,” Maddie said, handing them a small box with a ribbon on it. 

Anne opened it to see a sonogram a nestled in the tissue paper with a note saying “Will you please be my grandparents?”

Anne welled up and she saw John do the same. “Of course we will.”

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