The One I Want

As a professional football player, I had a playbook for everything on the field.Then I retired and found out there's no playbook for life-especially when the one you thought was perfect gets flipped upside down.There's no play for suddenly becoming a divorced, single dad. There's no plan for moving your family back to the town you grew up in.And there is definitely not a play for falling in love with the nanny.I didn't mean to. Betsy Sullivan just has that way about her.It started with wanting to see her smile. It grew to needing to hear her laugh.Before I knew it, her red lips and perfect curves were all I could think about. And I started to picture a life together - a perfect life together.Except nothing is ever perfect. Nothing is how you envision it. I learned that hard lesson once already.And if I'm not careful, I might find myself learning it again.I shouldn't want her. My head knows that. My heart doesn't seem to care.