Wait for the Dream

Aiden Baker and Bailey Michaels have been best friends ever since four year old Aiden declared it so. Together they’ve experienced every one of life’s ups and downs. Every time Bailey felt hurt or forgotten by her parents. Every family game night with the Bakers. Every skinned knee, birthday, and day in between, Aiden and Bailey never left each other’s side.

However, a one night stand and two pink lines have turned Bailey’s life upside down. She’s cut off by her parents and the baby daddy bows out before the first doctor’s appointment. But, Aiden is there, moving into the room next to hers, showing up to every doctor’s appointment, for every craving, holding her hand (or hair) through every pregnancy complication.

Moving in together might have been a mistake, because the threat of the feelings they’ve both kept buried deep inside for most of their lives threaten to explode. Their friendship means too much to both of them to risk bringing those feelings into the light. Still, with every lingering touch, every comment from Aiden about how much he loves the little life growing in Bailey’s belly, tensions rise. Bit by bit their resolve cracks.

What if they confess those feelings, and they aren’t mutual? Or worse, they are and in the end the relationship doesn’t work out. Aiden and the rest of the Bakers are the only family Bailey has ever truly known. Bailey is the best friend Aiden will ever have. Is the fear of losing each other worth the risk of exposing all the feelings they’ve kept secret? They risk losing everything, but this could be a chance at the dream they’ve both been waiting for.