TIME, A BABY, AND HIM AGAIN

Hey guys, so this is a time jump to...

Two years later.

LEXIE’S POV

I paced back and forth in the living room, in the house that I shared with Landon. I still couldn’t believe that a year had passed and I was now a mother.

My arms cradled my baby as he wailed into my shoulder; he had woken up a little cranky this morning.

I had rushed to carry him from his crib when I heard him crying; his little bonnet I used to protect his hair was lying on the floor; he had thrown it.

I remembered when I took him to see my mother; she couldn’t contain her excitement.

Despite how she was gradually getting her strength back, she still wouldn’t allow anyone to hold him except her.

My back ached from carrying him all morning, but I couldn’t put him down.

He refused to stay in his crib, and every time I tried, his cries would only grow louder, more desperate.

And I guess all mothers could relate to how piercing a baby’s screams could be.

I was running out of ways to calm him down; I just f