"Hey, Billy" Tim said as he walked through the front door to his brother's house.
"Where have you been?" Mindy asked. She stood behind the island in the kitchen cutting vegetables for dinner.
"Just walked around town" Tim responded as he hobbled to the couch and propped his leg up on the coffee table. "Can you grab me a beer, Billy?"
"I thought you stopped drinking?" Billy questioned as he went into the kitchen and grabbed two beers from the fridge and opened them.
"Well I'm not playing football anymore and there's no better time to drink then now" Tim replied grabbing the beer from his brother and took a long sip. The day Tim had left Dillon he had quit drinking, he wanted to make Lyla proud of him and succeed. It also helped that Texas State had strict rules that anyone caught drinking or of any illegal substances would be dismissed from sports indefinitely.
"You shouldn't be drinking when you're on pain pills, Tim" Mindy said from behind the counter.
"He's fine, Mind." Billy spoke up as he went to sit beside his brother.
"I saw Lyla today" Tim said out of nowhere, taking the couple by surprise. "You never told me she had a kid and a husband"
Billy and Mindy looked at each other from across the room, neither knowing how to reply. One of the babies started crying and Billy sprang from the couch to take care of it. "We didn't know how to tell you." Mindy finally said. She stepped out behind the counter and made her way to the couch. "They're not married, Tim. But I've heard rumours going around town that he's going to propose."
"He seems like a tool." Tim remarked.
"Do you still love her?" Mindy asked curiously.
Tim gave a curt nod and finished off his beer. Mindy squeezed his shoulder and returned to preparing dinner.
"Uncle Tim!" Stevie yelled as he tried to scramble out of his fathers' grip. Billy placed him on the ground and the boy ran and jumped right up on the couch to sit beside Tim.
Tim looked at his nephew; he had missed many holidays and birthdays and wondered how this kid grew up so fast. Stevie must have been one when he last saw him, he now had dirty blonde hair and his green eyes were resembled his own. Tim thought he definitely looked like a Riggins. "There's my favourite nephew"
Stevie crawled onto Tim's lap and started playing with his favourite toy car in his hands. "Dinner's almost ready, y'all better clean up." Mindy announced to the house.
"You know Tim Riggins?" Jordan asked the second that Lyla walked through the front door to their house.
"He's just an old friend from high school" Lyla replied. She made her way into the kitchen to find the table was set and dinner was ready. Carter was cleaned up and sitting in his high chair, ready to eat. Lyla sat down at one end of the small table beside her son while Jordan sat at the opposite end.
"You never told me you went to high school with Tim Riggins. It's a shame about his knee; they said he was the final key to help the Broncos get to the super bowl. Then he blows it a few playoff games in, that has got to be rough. Of course, with Riggins out, the Broncos don't stand a chance to make it any further." Jordan said.
She was a little aggravated that he was talking about Tim Riggins. "Can we just not talk about football while we're eating dinner, please?" Lyla pleaded.
"Sure, anything for you." Jordan remarked. The two started eating in comfortable silence, Carter occasionally making noises as he ate his dinner. "I need to talk to you about something" Jordan said once everyone was done eating and had started on desert.
Lyla peered up at him and saw that he had a smirk playing upon his lips that lightened up his features. His blue eyes were electrified and with his blonde hair ruffled it made him look somewhat goofy. She nodded, encouraging him to continue, unsure of where he was going with this.
Jordan got up out of his seat and made his way over to kneel beside Lyla and Carter. "You know how much I love you and how much I love Carter. We have been a family since the day he was born and I would like to finalize it. I want us to become a real family and I want Carter to be my son. So Miss Lyla Garrity, will you do me the honour and marry me?" With that he pulled out a tiny box and opened it. Sitting in the case was an elegant ring; It was platinum setting with a 1 carat oval diamond sitting in the middle.
"Of course I will marry you" She replied. Jordan pulled out the ring and placed it onto her left ring finger.
"One last thing, I would like to adopt Carter." Jordan said. Lyla hesitated for a moment, Carter wasn't biologically his son but he had always treated him like his own. Jordan had been around since the very day that Carter was born, she knew this day was coming but she hadn't expected it so soon. "We'll talk about it later; I can see your still in shock from the marriage proposal." With that Lyla pulled her fiancé to her and kissed him.