FallenCrescendo
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Bobby looks at the kid.
"So what's the long story?"
“My girlfriend, well…not really my girlfriend. We hooked up a few times and now she’s…uh…pregnant. Five months along. She said she doesn’t want the baby. She has never wanted kids. She found out too late to abort, she said. We were together in Peru, and I was actually planning to go to LA with some buddies of mine when she dropped the bombshell. I…"
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Bobby meets Buck in Minnesota after he has lost his family, ends up adopting an adult, and somehow becomes a grandpa. Their chance meeting changes everything for both of them.
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Whoever told Buck that excessively talking and narrating things to his baby would aid in her cognitive development is a bitch.
“I have to go to work today, so you’re gonna hang out with your Auntie Maddie because she has the day off, and then tomorrow morning after my shift you and I are gonna get breakfast with Eddie, so I’m packing your pink dress with the blue flowers because I think it’s very breakfasty. That’s not a word, though. Sometimes it’s okay to make up words for emphasis, but not all the time, okay?”
Evie thinks her dad is the most fascinating thing in the world and he would like to keep it that way, thank you very much. She stares and smiles at him while he talks, reacts to certain words like she’s starting to understand what they mean, claps her hands together when he says the names of her favorite people, it’s awesome.
However, Buck seems to have made one very grave mistake and in her very first act of spite against her dad, Evie will not let him live it down.
"Eddie!"
Or, narrating his entire life to his daughter started as a good idea until she decided to use her first word to out Buck’s big dumb crush on his best friend.
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Eddie has no idea that one random phone call on a Wednesday afternoon would be the thing that changed his life so completely. He won’t understand the importance of it for several weeks, will completely forget about it after a while, but it sets off a ripple, one that grows into a wave and rewrites his life.
Or: Weeks after returning from Texas, a single phone call changes Eddie's life, even if he doesn't realize it right away.