Beyond The Lights

Chapter 6: Fast Forward

*Fast forwards 5 years*

"Ok Cameron do you have everything you need, do you have your spare change of clothes for after, do you have your uniform, your pads, your drink and lunch and your smile?" I ask Carter and my 4 year old son Cameron Levi Holbrooke. Today he has a football game in the town over and I'm making sure he has everything.

So 6 months after Carter proposed we got married in a local church, then went back to a hotel and had a big party like 200 people were there like it was huge. Then around a year later I fell pregnant and we had Cameron Levi Holbrooke. We named him after Carter's father. Carter is now a full time accountant and I'm half a stay at home mom the other half a professional football player for the Atlanta Falcons. I have been playing with them for going on 5 years now and Carter and I are starting to hope I get another offer from another team because we want to move out of the Atlanta/Georgia area to somewhere new like California, Texas, Idaho ,Miami or Wisconsin.

Since graduation Holden has just proposed to a lovely girl called Marlie and he's still coaching at UGA and sometimes he brings me in to help coach the incoming freshman players, which I really like because I can see them starting their journey into being division 1 athletes which is really rewarding in many different ways.

Sierra and Carson have just come home from traveling the word for 4 years. They were in Australia for the first and last year, for the second year they travelled all around Europe and then for the third year they travelled around Asia so like China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Cambodia. They told me they want to go back to Singapore and Sri Lanka because it was so beautiful.

Despite living together for 4 years in college then not seeing each other for 3 years, Shaine and Millie are now dating and I have never seen Shaine so happy in his life like he is when he is around Millie.

As soon as college was over and Carter and I had a steady income we moved out into an apartment close to both of our family's homes but Holden's house in my case.

Since getting married to Carter and having Cameron, my life has just changed so much and for the better. It's full of positivity and happiness and I want to keep it that way. Next week I have a game and Carter is going to bring Cameron and when we have our chants we always bring Cameron in because he loves to scream and jump around. He loves the chaos of it all.

We're trying to get Cameron to play football but we think he likes either soccer or basketball better. We just don't know if he's really enjoying it because as much as he loves to scream and jump about the only time I ever see him do that is when we do the chants, but whenever he's home with us he's the most easy, laid back and chilled 4 year old child you will ever meet.