John and Cathy returned with the champagne. John poured us all a glass as well as giving Sherri some in a little glass. John gathered us near the fireplace and he looked at the wedding picture of him and Carrie as he raised his glass into the air.
“Each of us are angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another,” as he looked to Cathy, to Sherri, then to me before we drank from our glasses.
“So when are you two getting married?” Cathy asked me.
I looked to John as I said, “Would it be OK if it is after we finish college John that is only a year away.”
“That would be just fine,” John replied.
“Where are you two going to get married?” Cathy asked.
Sherri pulled at John’s pant leg as she motioned him down to her level. She whispered something into his ear. A smile came to his face as he stood back up then looked down to Sherri.
“You tell them princess,” John said looking to Cathy and me.
Sherri looked at John then to us as she said, “There is this lovely place where the moon dances on the water, where stars shine bright to many to count. A place you can hear the gentle lapping of the waves crashing against the shoreline.” Sherri paused then she added, “The place we are to meet Carrie and Melissa when the time is right.”
“That would be lovely and nice,” I replied as tears filled my eyes once more.
Sherri motioned John back down to her as she said, “It’s OK as those are happy tears mommy cries.”
“I think it is time I put you to bed young lady,” I said to her wiping at my tears. “Give daddy and Cathy a good night kiss first,” I added.
Sherri hugged John tightly and she whispered into his ear however I heard her as she said, “Thank you daddy I now know dreams can come true,” before she kissed him on his cheek.
I wiped at the fresh tears in my eyes as I sat in the study looking to John. His typing stopped as he looked at me. A strange thought entered my head as I stared at him, one that I could not find the answer too inside my head. I looked to him as I tilted my head.
“John, if I never told you I tell you now,” I said then paused as I took his hand into mine as I added, “Thank You, for making that little girl’s dreams come true back then.”
A poem came into my head that I once heard. I smiled at John as I said,
“Only as high as I reach can I grow.
Only as far as I seek can I go.
Only as deep as I look can I see.
Only as much as I dream can I be.”
John squeezed my hand tightly in his as he looked into my eyes. I stared deeply into his to see just where his soul now may lie. His eyes fill with darkness as I felt his hand grow cold. John whispers to me in the same tone as that voice in my head once did.
“I walk these grounds alone.
I fear not as I walk into the unknown,
For each time I enter and open the gate,
I know on the other side that Fate awaits.
Night after night, I return, to fight my personal hell.
Forever shall I walk alone in the darkness.
For the darkness knows me and I know the darkness so well.”
John turned his computer off and he leaves me to ponder his words. Did his words mean he was going to take away our dreams? Was he telling me he has never left his own darkness? What did the man I love mean by his words? I closed my eyes as I search within my mind for an answer.
I found myself not at our happy place but at another’s place. This place was a lovely place. “Where the moon dances on the water, where stars shine bright to many to count. A place you can hear the gentle lapping of the waves crashing against the shoreline.”
John stood at the shoreline with his back to me. I call out his name but he does not turn nor does he reply. A little girl with long blonde hair walks from the moon that sits on the water. She takes John’s hand into hers and together they walked onto the water. I scream for John to stop but he does not hear and together they walk until they both disappear into the moon as it sinks beneath the water. The vision slowly leaves my mind as a women’s gentle voice fills my ear. “Trust your heart Kay,” “Listen to no others,” “Listen to your heart and let it guide you as John lets his.”
John returns and he asked, “Kay who was you talking to?”
I looked to him as I replied, “You are not the only one who talks with Angels.”
Let me know if you are enjoying my story. Leave your comments, as I love to hear them. The next Chapter will be out soon and I believe it will have two guest authors as Cathy begins her story as from here on out our stories become combined as our life has.
Kay
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