Melissa’s Reviews > Nine Month Contract > Status Update

This mountain was once my escape from the world, my quiet sanctuary to get away from my thoughts. But I love the noise you bring into my life. You turned my house into a home, and I want to continue our life up here forever...whether that be with more babies or more animals or more of both, I’m all in. I love you, past, present & future & I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?

Proposal

Animals on the Mountain: 14
Babies Coming to the Mountain: 1

Baby name chosen

W-Did you know that your name means noise?
T-Mine?
W-Yes, the name Trista literally means noisy.
T-You’re lying. I need to google that. Go downstairs & grab my phone.
W-Fact-check me for the rest of our lives, baby. Because when I read that, I figured that’s why we’re so perfect together. I’ve been quiet my whole life because the only voice I wanted to hear was yours.

Gray sweatpants never did it for me. It’s just too sloppy of a look. Not masculine enough. But Wyatt right now, with a little extra winter facial hair and this oak-brown-vest situation over his blue flannel that brings out his eyes? Stick a fork in me, I’m done.
Trista

I understand gray sweatpants, but I don’t know how they became a thing.

“Okay, Mr. Next One,” I snap and push him away, already feeling the effects of our canoodling squarely between my legs. “You know the plan. Baby first, a healthy maternity leave, then the rescue center...then we can discuss the possibility of more children. Get your breeding kink under control, man.”

Trista to Wyatt

My own eyes fill with tears at her saying that. A chance meeting on a Denver street corner and a door in the face, and now...she’s making a family with my uncle. Life is wild, and I can’t help but feel my grandpa’s presence wrapping me up in his own hug at this very moment. I know he had a hand in all of this too.
Everly

W-I don’t want to amend our contract, Trista. I want to tear it up.
T-You do?
W-I’m in love with you, lucky number 13. You’re not my 2nd choice or 13th choice. You’re my only choice.
T-Are you sure? Did you hear what I just said about licking our baby after delivery?
W-Yes, but I’m kind of hoping I can talk you out of that.
T-I’d be fine with that. Cause I think I might be in love with you too.

“I probably ruined my chance with you. But I want you to remember that you told me once that you’re a ‘five minutes from now’ person, always stressing about the future. And remember, I’m a ‘five minutes late’ person because I’ve been constantly stuck in the past. But what if, together, we’re right on time? What if we help each other be in the present every day? Doesn’t that sound good, Wyatt?”

Wyatt feels his baby move off the first time