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The end comes quicker than you want sometimes, and too slow at others. What happens when the end comes too soon to everything? When you settle down, you have kids, you spend your life with the person you love. You end your single days, take yourself off the market. What happens when the end comes abruptly out of nowhere and you die? What would happen to your beloved?
What happens when the end doesn't separate you?
In life, some people are given a second chance, a chance that other people were never given, and never would be. I was frail, dying, and unborn. The world outside was loud and painful, and then I just . . . Died. Mommy and I were in Heaven, she held me in her arms, so cold, but warm to me, and then she handed me to Him. He nodded at her, and she walked. I felt at ease, watching the gorgeous woman who couldn't possibly be a mommy walk away. I did not cry, I felt her still with me in my little heart.
And I knew we would be together again.
The memory ended when Josh shook my arm. "Alice?" Josh whispered in my ear. "Alice!" I turned to face him and sighed. "Yes?" I whispered. Earlier this year, he had made me his wife. His one and only. "I miss you," he breathed. "I know . . . I cherish the rain because it brings you, and the sun takes you from me," I sighed. "The end, Alice . . . It's the end," Josh tightened his arms around me and a tear dripped down my cheek. "My Alice," he whispered, "Don't cry for the end of my life, smile because it was." I was sobbing now, shaking wildly. "You're all that I lived for . . . And now you only come every so often," I whispered. He nodded.
Desiree walked past our room and stopped. "Ten minutes, Dad," she whispered somberly, and danced away as I moaned in agony. He nodded and I clung desperately to him, wanting him to be mine forever. "Alice," he sighed, embracing me. He held my charm, still around his neck, and traced the intricate designs. I touched his lightly, and he sighed. "You'll be in my heart forever, Alice. If it never rains again, I'll be that last ray of sunlight to the day, the first star you see, and the first trickle of sunlight you'll see in the morning through those curtains. I'm the moonlight on the soft brown earth that bleaches your skin of it's gorgeous warm brown, and the first ray of sun through that window when the rain stops. I'll be the chill in the air before it starts, Alice," he breathed into my ear. He kissed me, taking his time, and he rose, the end of our reunion. His shirt was quickly on and he held my hand for a moment. I closed my eyes and listened to his breathing, and when I opened them, it stopped, and he was gone.
The rain had stopped, and sunlight trickled through the window lightly. I smiled through my tears, and his whisper was in the room. "I love you, Alice." "I love you too, Josh, I'll love you until the day our entire family dies."
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I walked down the stairs into the giant loft, the attic room was mine and Josh's because we watched the sunrise together, then the sunset, through two large glass doors that led to balconies.
Aimee danced, gracefully, through the loft, and Joshua watched with a wide grin on his face, a twinkle of admiration in his eye. Aimee spun three times, as the song came to a close, and Joshua and I applauded, Josh standing up in a quick movement to go embrace her.
Thunder sounded off in the distance, and Joshua's eyes lit up. "Mom's getting lucky today, two times in a day," Desiree said. We looked for her, and realized she was standing on the branch of our tree that went past the window of this room. "Desiree!" Marcus called from further down. She laughed, the sound was purely innocent and like music. "Yes, my love?" she called back down. Before he could respond, she leapt to another branch, spun in the air, and stuck the landing perfectly, then flipped off and landed on the ground perfectly. "Desiree!" Marcus snarled. We all laughed, and Josh was suddenly laughing with us. I smiled and backed into his arms quietly.
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