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Levi steps back, keeps a watchful eye on all the movements around my bed, and as soon as he’s given the clearance, is right back holding my hand and brushing my oily hair off of my forehead.
“Where?” I whisper.
“Well, let me see, we’re no longer in the store. We’re in a large tent that was set up at the University.”
“How long?” I ask as I point to the water.
“Almost a month. The vaccine took a little longer on you to work. I have been up and running now for almost two weeks. How do you feel?” He asks.
I move my hand up, slowly and move from side to side in the “so-so” motion.
“Like you got ran over by a truck?” He asks.
I nod slowly.
“I can’t tell you how happy I am that you are up. And I told myself, that as soon as you did, I wouldn’t hold back anything from you.”
What is he talking about? Did something happen during all this?
“Kendall, I love you. I freaking love you and I don’t care if we barely know one another or if we know one another in only one situation, but I fucking love you and I just needed you to know that.”
Tears fall from my eyes and I can feel my lips tremble. My hand clutches onto him and I pull him into me. Before my face hits his shoulder, I whisper the same words to him, and boy, it couldn’t be truer.
Epilogue
Kendall
“You’ve got to be kidding me! I can’t go outside of the house looking like this? Are you high or something?”
“I promised that I have not smoked today, and I think that you look absolutely stunning.” He smiles.
“Daddy, this dress is something straight out of the seventies, I mean come on, look at these shoulder pads, look at the sequins.”
“Your mother looked breath-taking in this dress if I remember correctly. She looked not so shabby with it on the floor too, if I remember right.”
“Ew, Dad, that’s just wrong.”
“Seriously, Mr. J., you cannot say things like that.” Janelle laughs walking in the room with my bouquet. “I think there’s something that I can do here, do you trust me?” my best friend asks.
“I think that’s the stupidest question that you’ve ever asked me.” I laugh.
“Alright Mr. J. I’m sorry for what I’m about to do, but Kendall is not a seventies chick, but a modern kick ass gal, who defiantly should be looking hot as sin on her wedding day.”
“Do what you need to do kiddo,” my dad waves her on as he leaves the bedroom.
Twenty minutes later, the dress is no longer as hideous, and Janelle worked her magic with making my mother’s wedding dress look like a whole new one.
I stand in the mirror and run my hands down the front, over sequins that no longer bother me. The dress is now strapless, and you wouldn’t even be able to see that minutes ago there was some damn scary looking shoulder pads.
I turn to face Janelle and smile. “Thank you.”
“Now, let’s go get you married.”
* * *
One year ago, today, Levi and I sat in a hospital tent and said that we loved one another. During that time, I moved from Phoenix to New Mexico and also set my father up at a new complex here as well. So I can have everyone that I love close to me. While living in New Mexico was never one of my intentions, it’s where so much has happened to me, that I couldn’t overlook that maybe it was supposed to be where I ended up.
It took the nation, almost this entire time to regain stabilization, and as soon as it did, Levi and I made the promise that we would get married. So, here we are today, in the backyard of our home with twenty of our closest friends about to exchange our ‘I do’s’.
