The Only Things That’s Missing is You Having My Last Name

We met at the Cullman Urgent Care sign off Main Street. He was with some friends and I had left my friends at heritage park to go catch a Pokémon stop. I met him there and we became friends. I kept him in the friend zone for almost 2 years before I finally let him take his chance. I got pregnant with our son and it changed everything. I realized the perfect man was here for me. That I had kept him locked away behind a rock door. He was right there the whole time. He never stopped taking chances on me and we finally both knew it meant to be.

It was at the hospital right after the birth of our son. Just me, Richard and our newly born Ian. Richard had told me. “We are a family, now all you need is my last name” he had said I know I don’t have a ring but you can have my class ring. But in that moment I didn’t care about some ring. We were going to be a real family and everything finally felt complete. The Barlow’s that’s who we are gonna be.