Rookie Move by Samantha Lind

Author:Samantha Lind [Lind, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samantha Lind

Chapter Ten

Hailey

“Surprise!” I yell out as Dylan, and I enter my parents’ living room. Mom and Dad are still sitting around enjoying their morning coffee before the hustle and bustle of Christmas Eve festivities start.

“What the hell?” Mom yells out, jumping up to rush to me, almost spilling her coffee as she does.

“I wanted to surprise you!” I tell her, just as I’m tackled from the side. Emily wraps me in a side hug, almost choking me out.

“Well, you accomplished that.” Mom laughs as she hugs me, pushing Emily out of the way. “Did you two know about this?” Mom asks Emily and Dad.

Dad shakes his head, and Em’s face breaks out into a huge smile. She was totally in on the surprise. “You girls.” Mom tries to scold us but can’t keep the smile off of her face. “I was just coming to terms that you wouldn’t be here today and tomorrow and that I was just going to have to get used to that, and here you are!” she cries, happy tears, of course. She eventually lets me go, then pulls Dylan into a hug. “Good to see you; you’ve been doing okay?” she asks him, her motherly worries never far from her mind. She practically already thinks of Dylan as her son-in-law, even though we’re not engaged or planning a wedding anytime soon.

“Been great, especially now that I’ve got this one with me all the time,” Dylan tells her as I step back, leaning on his side and resting my head on his shoulder.

“Well, where’s my hug?” Dad asks a moment later. I step into his open arms and just breathe. That familiar smell of his aftershave or deodorant brings back so many memories from when I was a little girl. I was such a daddy’s girl, not quite like Emily was, but in my own ways. I miss his perfect bear hugs and snuggling into his side on the couch. No one will ever replace my dad in my life. Still, I have to wonder if some of what I experienced as a child, seeing how my parents loved one another, how they weren’t afraid to show their affection towards one another, is why Dylan and I are so close and have lasted all these years. Most people our age have had multiple relationships by this point in their lives, and we’ve just always been a couple, it seems. I guess we’re just one of those lucky couples that found their soulmate early in life.

“Missed you, Daddy,” I tell him, pulling back from his hug.

“Missed you, too, sweetheart. Thank you for the surprise; it sure will make your mother’s holiday having you kids home.”

“I didn’t really want to miss it, and since Dylan has three days off, we figured it would work out to fly back,” I tell him.

“You know you’re always welcome to come back home. The door is always open for you.”

“I know, Dad,” I tell him sincerely.

“Dylan, I’m stealing my sister for the

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