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She had grass, dirt and mud on her face.
And she was missing a front tooth.
There was also dirt and grass in her mouth.
“Why can’t you breathe?” I gasped.
She spit out the grass, dirt, and her tooth, twisting over onto her side to do it.
“I really, really hope that’s not a tooth,” Shayne whined.
“It’s a tooth.” Gable dropped to his knees. “But if that’s the worst thing that’s wrong after you fell out of the fuckin’ sky…”
I stood up, much to the dismay of Hollis and Ande.
“Sit the fuck down, right now,” Ande cried just as Hollis said, “Lay back down!”
I shot them both a look that clearly said what I thought about that. “Make me.”
“Stupid, dumb, barbaric…”
I was on the couch in my living room.
My entire body felt like a huge, pulsing bruise.
But I was alive.
I had no broken bones.
I didn’t even have a broken tooth.
I did, however, have bruising.
A lot of bruising.
It felt like I’d been hit by a truck.
But I was alive.
And more importantly, so was my wife.
After leaving the hospital where we both got a clean bill of health, I’d asked Shayne one very important question: Will you marry me right now?
At the time, all I’d been thinking about was how fucking lucky we were.
Now, after both of us had left the courthouse in our dirty, dingy clothes and made it home just in time to collapse onto the couch together, I was realizing that it might’ve been a little hasty.
“Do you think that people will comment about how I’m missing a front tooth in my wedding photos?” Shayne asked, her head in my lap.
The doctor had given her a clean bill of health, but they were also worried about all the trauma she’d suffered lately.
But her ribs had held up just fine. She had no broken bones, or as of right now, no bruising anywhere but on her face.
She had a scrape on the left side of her face where it had made contact with the ground, and there was the missing tooth.
But other than that…
“No,” Ande said as she stared at the two of us. She hadn’t taken a seat yet, and we’d been in my place for twenty minutes. “I think they’re going to be looking at the bruising on Quinn’s face, the sticks and dirt in your hair, and the way you were both holding yourselves awkwardly. Or, possibly, your lack of wedding dress. I don’t think they’ll notice your missing tooth.” She hesitated. “But you could’ve smiled without showing your teeth. That would’ve solved it all.”
