>> did that make it all better? >> it absolutely did. >> how was brooke as a mom? did she just take right to it? >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> they moved into a house and both had jobs. but the young couple soon realized that family life came with grown-up responsibilities and problems. >> did she confide in you at all about how thing were not great at home? >> yeah, of course she talked to her friends about it. tried to be as supportive as we can but we were on such a different level than she was. here we were still single and she was married with a baby. so hard pressed to kind of relate in that area. i think she knew that it wasn't going to work, you know? >> after two years, the couple split. brooke moved out and clayton stayed in the house with their son. but brooke's family says she and clayton were committed to raising the child together. >> she lived a few doors up from