Proper right here’s how the proposal went down — with Maci and Catelynn calling it “awkward” to witness whereas they’ve been in town to talk to Amber about Kristina presumably adopting her daughter Leah.
Amber Portwood and Gary Wayt would possibly not be a pair, nevertheless sooner than Wayt went missing and the pair decided to go their separate strategies, the two appeared to be actually in love.
On Thursday’s all new Teen Mom: The Subsequent Chapter, Portwood obtained a go to from longtime buddies and fellow castmates Maci Bookout and Catelynn Lowell, who’ve been in town to help have time Portwood’s birthday. Nonetheless then she was hit with a wonderful bigger shock — Wayt getting down on one knee!
And she or he wasn’t the one one shocked by Wayt’s declaration of affection, with Bookout and Lowell equally stunned as he decided to pop the questions moments after they walked in and met him for the very first time.
Nonetheless sooner than all that, Portwood knowledgeable her buddies whereas introducing them to Wayt, “He was the second one who I was like, ‘Hmm, he sounds–‘”
“Legit,” Bookout interjected, filling inside the clear.
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“Like truly legit,” Portwood confirmed. “And ever since. It has been seven months now.”
After getting crammed in on his Vietnamese-American background, collectively along with his strict upbringing, the women prepared for his or her night time day out, nevertheless not sooner than Wayt showered plenty of compliments onto Portwood. His attract seemed to be impressing every Bookout and Lowell, as he joked that he was going to be sending drinks from a desk on the restaurant to the “cute one with the glasses,” referring to his lady love.
When the mother of two made level out of being the one single one inside the group, Wayt shortly snapped into movement.
“I’m the one one out of us that isn’t married,” Portwood said, with Bookout and Lowell telling their buddy that she she dodged a bullet by not getting hitched to a couple of her former flames.
“Speaking of that,” Wayt interjected, stunning all three girls into silence as he acquired down on one knee in entrance of her entrance room couch.
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“Amber Portwood,” he continued. “I such as you, and you’ve got been fully fantastic to me. And I don’t see myself with anybody else nevertheless you. I must spend the rest of my life with you. I such as you. Will you marry me?”
“Certain, I’ll. I actually will marry you,” Portwood said, sooner than Wayt grabbed her off the couch for a kiss.
Nonetheless shell-shocked over what they’d witnessed, Lowell and Bookout regarded on in amazement, with Lowell yelling out, “What?”
“Is he messing with us? I’ve ever witnessed a proposal,” Bookout added.
Whereas the pair have been positively happy for his or her buddy, in a confessional, they later admitted that being there for the intimate second was “awkward.”
“Notably since that was our first introduction,” Lowell knowledgeable the cameras.
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“We truly met him, like, 5 minutes sooner than,” Bookout said. “If she’s happy, I’m happy for her.”
Together with celebrating Portwood’s birthday — and apparently engagement, too — another reason Bookout and Lowell have been in town was to speak to their buddy in regards to the potential for her ex Gary Shirley’s partner Kristina adopting his and Portwood’s 15-year-old daughter, Leah.
And whereas Shirley knowledgeable Lowell and Bookout that Portwood knew about these talks, that didn’t look like the case all through their girls’ night time time.
“She didn’t even level out an inkling that Leah wishes Kristina to undertake her,” Bookout said in a confessional. “So, I don’t suppose we should at all times carry it up.”
Nonetheless with Shirley planning a celebration for Portwood, the hope was that they may all be an enormous, happy, blended family and have time collectively, whatever the tensions at Leah’s birthday dinner earlier inside the season.
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All appeared to be properly, with Leah meeting new Gary and Portwood having a satisfying dialog alongside together with her daughter. When requested what Leah considered all of it, she saved it fast and sweet, telling her dad she said howdy to her mom and met “Gary 2.0.”
The celebration ended with plans for Leah and Portwood to spend additional time collectively. Shirley and Kristina even penciled in a single different family dinner for the group the following night time.
“I truly appreciated the reality that Maci and Cate truly wanted to supply me such fantastic advice for me to actually have my family once more,” Portwood said in a confessional. “As soon as I seen my daughter, it’s like butterflies. I couldn’t be anymore happier, truly.”
As for the adoption communicate, it appears to be like that’s being tabled for now.
Teen Mom: The Subsequent Chapter, airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on MTV.