Right here’s how the proposal went down — with Maci and Catelynn calling it “awkward” to witness whereas they have been on the town to speak to Amber about Kristina presumably adopting her daughter Leah.
Amber Portwood and Gary Wayt could not be a pair, however earlier than Wayt went lacking and the pair determined to go their separate methods, the 2 gave the impression to be really in love.
On Thursday’s all new Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, Portwood obtained a go to from longtime buddies and fellow castmates Maci Bookout and Catelynn Lowell, who have been on the town to assist have fun Portwood’s birthday. However then she was hit with a good greater 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 greatly surprised as he determined to pop the questions moments after they walked in and met him for the very first time.
However earlier than all that, Portwood instructed her buddies whereas introducing them to Wayt, “He was the second individual that I used to be like, ‘Hmm, he sounds–‘”
“Legit,” Bookout interjected, filling within the clean.
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“Like actually legit,” Portwood confirmed. “And ever since. It has been seven months now.”
After getting crammed in on his Vietnamese-American background, together with his strict upbringing, the ladies ready for his or her evening out, however not earlier than Wayt showered a number of compliments onto Portwood. His appeal appeared to be impressing each 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 woman love.
When the mom of two made point out of being the one single one within the group, Wayt shortly snapped into motion.
“I am the one one out of us that is not married,” Portwood mentioned, with Bookout and Lowell telling their buddy that she she dodged a bullet by not getting hitched to a few of her former flames.
“Talking of that,” Wayt interjected, stunning all three women into silence as he acquired down on one knee in entrance of her front room sofa.
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“Amber Portwood,” he continued. “I like you, and you have been completely superb to me. And I do not see myself with anyone else however you. I need to spend the remainder of my life with you. I like you. Will you marry me?”
“Sure, I’ll. I really will marry you,” Portwood mentioned, earlier than Wayt grabbed her off the sofa for a kiss.
Nonetheless shell-shocked over what they’d witnessed, Lowell and Bookout seemed 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 completely satisfied for his or her buddy, in a confessional, they later admitted that being there for the intimate second was “awkward.”
“Particularly since that was our first introduction,” Lowell instructed the cameras.
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“We actually met him, like, 5 minutes earlier than,” Bookout mentioned. “If she’s completely satisfied, I am completely satisfied for her.”
Along with celebrating Portwood’s birthday — and apparently engagement, too — another excuse Bookout and Lowell have been on the town was to talk to their buddy about the potential of her ex Gary Shirley’s spouse Kristina adopting his and Portwood’s 15-year-old daughter, Leah.
And whereas Shirley instructed Lowell and Bookout that Portwood knew about these talks, that did not appear to be the case throughout their women’ evening.
“She did not even point out an inkling that Leah desires Kristina to undertake her,” Bookout mentioned in a confessional. “So, I do not suppose we must always convey it up.”
However with Shirley planning a celebration for Portwood, the hope was that they may all be an enormous, completely satisfied, blended household and have fun collectively, regardless of the tensions at Leah’s birthday dinner earlier within the season.
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All gave the impression to be effectively, with Leah assembly new Gary and Portwood having a nice dialog along with her daughter. When requested what Leah considered all of it, she saved it brief and candy, telling her dad she mentioned good day to her mother and met “Gary 2.0.”
The occasion ended with plans for Leah and Portwood to spend extra time collectively. Shirley and Kristina even penciled in one other household dinner for the group the next night.
“I actually appreciated the truth that Maci and Cate actually needed to present me such superb recommendation for me to really have my household again,” Portwood mentioned in a confessional. “Once I noticed my daughter, it is like butterflies. I could not be anymore happier, actually.”
As for the adoption speak, it seems to be like that is being tabled for now.
Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on MTV.
