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“What is it?”
I hand her the picture, and she squeals.
“A new one?!”
She brings the picture close to her face and studies it. We had to point out what she was looking at for the first few pictures, but now she knows what to look for.
“Can’t you have him already? I don’t want to wait anymore.”
Chandler laughs, and I try not to, so she doesn’t think we are laughing at her.
“Not yet, sweetheart. He or she has some more cooking to do before it’s safe for them to be here.”
She heaves a heavy sigh. “Fine.”
I snort as she sets the picture carefully on her lap and starts the movie. It’s a movie that we’ve seen countless times. I watch Sophia and Chandler through the whole film and just enjoy watching them laugh at whatever is on the screen.
For the rest of Sophia’s school year, I work on coming up with a business plan for the charity work I want to do. I get together with Chandler’s mom, and she helps me come up with a list of people who are big supporters of education. She’s a big help throughout the entire process, and I learn a lot from her about what it takes to start, run, and keep going a charity.
I don’t think I would have been able to do it if it wasn’t for her help. We developed a bond during the process, and I’ve never felt closer to her. Before the accident, I wasn’t even sure if she liked me, and now we talk on the phone almost daily.
If you would have told me a year ago this is where my life would end up, I would think you were crazy, but here we are. I’m engaged to the love of my life. We have a beautiful daughter with another baby on the way, and I’m starting a charity that will hopefully turn into a successful one to help kids in all walks of life with their education.
I don’t know what I did in another life to get where I am, but I wouldn’t change anything about it. Even the accident and the nine years where I didn’t remember Chandler. To me, it made us stronger and got us to where we are now.
I was worried about being in this world. About raising children in this world, but I’m so glad that I took that leap of faith with Chandler. I’m so glad that I didn’t let all of this go because of my fear. It took a little while, but eventually, I came to forgive Chandler; I hadn’t even realized that I needed to until the moment I did. I didn’t realize how important it was for us both for me to forgive him and for him to forgive me.
It still makes me nervous to have to deal with the paparazzi and having to worry about them around my children, but I know that in the long run, everything will work out. Chandler will never let anything bad happen to us, and now that I trust that, it’s easier to deal with everything.
We’ve decided to have our wedding on the one-year anniversary of when Chandler found us. It felt right to us both to become one on the day that everything came together. It was a nice way to bring that chapter of our lives to an end and start the next one. It was going to be a small wedding, just his parents and some close friends of his. Kayla will be there as my maid of honor, and if they pull their heads out of their asses, Josh will be there as Chandler’s best man.
We are going to have it in Willow Creek in the middle of town, and Chandler is already setting up security so that we don’t have to worry about anyone showing up who isn’t supposed to. We have been trying to come up with plans on how to handle the press, and Jillian has been a godsend with that. She is going to handle everything to do with the press for us with the wedding and the baby’s birth.
“Hey, you.”
I turn away from my computer and find Chandler leaning against the doorframe of our room at the cabin. I smile at him from my spot in the middle of the bed and hold my hand out for him to join me. He slides into the bed behind me and looks around me at the computer showing my business plan for the charity.
“You’ve been busy. This looks great.”
“Thank you.”
He reads what I have on the screen, his arm wrapped around my body so his hand can rest on our baby. I feel a kick, and when his whole body jerks, I know he felt it too.
“Was that a kick?!”
He jumps up and gently pushes me to lie back on the bed, kneeling over me, with one hand holding himself up on the bed and the other on my belly. He leans down so his mouth is on my stomach too, and I can’t help but laugh.
“Was that you, little man? Do it again for Daddy. Kick so I can feel you.”
His whole body freezes so he can focus on my stomach, and when another kick comes right under his hand, his face lights up as he looks up at me with tears in his eyes.
“God, I love you.”
I laugh as tears fill my eyes and bring his face to mine for a kiss.
“I love you too, so much.”
It’s a peaceful moment between us. We’ve been having more and more of them lately, and there’s a piece of me that still worries it’s not going to last. I have this feeling deep in my gut that everything is going to change.
