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We usually try to get together with everyone at least twice a year at least, but this last year has been crazy for everyone. But now everyone is going to be here, plus everyone’s kids and grandkids. For two weeks. I get my family for two weeks. I couldn’t be more excited than I am at this moment.
The sound of multiple cars pulling up the driveway had me running toward the front door. I wanted my family and I wanted them with me now. I needed to feel the love that only they can give me. I wanted to hug Sarah, and listen to her filthy mouth as she explained everything that has happened over the past year. Over fifty years I had her in my life and I couldn’t have asked for anything better.
I knew it was her by the obscenely high heeled shoe that planted itself on the driveway. Even at her age she wore the highest heel she could find. She was so much shorter than all of us that she did whatever she could to get close to our height. Suddenly, those shoes were being kicked off and she was running towards me. I could hear Tyler and Decker laughing as the two of us embraced and squealed like a bunch of teenagers. Soon Maggie and Chelsea were there and the four of us were hugging. This is it this is my family and we are together again!
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“It’s not Wendy’s, but it’s the best I can do for fast food,” I said as I put down the take out containers from the local sports bar.
Sarah peeled back the container’s lid and inhaled deeply, “This smells better than anything we could ever get from Wendy’s.” She shoved a handful of fries in her mouth and hummed. “Taste better to,” she said around the fries.
It was our first midnight gathering in over a year. Nothing changed when it came to us, except where we did them now. We were no longer sharing an apartment building, so whenever we had our midnight gatherings it was always where one of us was living.
Now we sat on my back patio with the ocean waves crashing behind us, it’s too dark to actually see the waves, but the smell of the salt water is just as relaxing as being with my friends. There’s a reason that I’ve gathered everyone. There’s a reason I wanted everyone here and it wasn’t because my youngest was having a birthday tomorrow.
Sarah reached down to the ground and pulled a bottle up and placed it on the table. Vodka. Oh my best friend in the whole world. Yeah right. This was going to be a night that would have me waking up and hugging the toilet in the middle of the night.
“Darlin’” Tyler rasped as I climbed into bed later. “Oh Darlin’, you’ve been hitting the hard stuff. Sarah is such a bad influence on you.”
I giggled as he wrapped his arms around me. There’s a bottle of water on the nightstand, my toothbrush and toothpaste are sitting on top of a towel on the sink and the bathroom light was left on with the door opened a crack so when I woke in the middle of the night I could find it.
After all this time, after all the times I’ve spent throwing up in the middle of the night, you think I would have learned. You think I would tell Sarah ‘no, I can’t drink the hard stuff.’ But no, I drink right along with her. Matching glass for glass, shot for shot. Drinking more than I should, but I loved my time with Sarah, Maggie and Chelsea.
I sighed as I snuggled into my husband’s arms. Twenty years we’ve been married. Has it always been good? No. Has it always been easy? No. But we did it together. We raised ten kids together. We managed his baseball career and traveling with the team together. We moved to a new country together. We fought some good fights together. But we always made up together. As long as we had each other it didn’t matter what obstacle we came up against. We made a life with each other. And I was still in love with Tyler today as much as I was the first time I met him.
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It’s been three days since everyone showed up. We’re all gathered on the back patio. Our kids and grandkids are either swimming in the pool or the ocean. It was just us adults, well not really all the adults since the kids are now adults, but all us original adults, were sitting on the patio with glasses full of wine and food scattered around the table.
“Chrissy and I want to thank you all for coming to stay with us for the next two weeks,” Tyler said as he took my hand and kissed my knuckles. “There is a reason why we gathered everyone. And no it wasn’t because of Bronx’s birthday,” everyone chuckled.
“Tyler and I are celebrating twenty years next week,” I smiled up at him. “You all were a part of our first wedding…”
“Second!” Sarah interrupted me.
“First wedding. We don’t count getting married in Vegas. We celebrate our wedding in February. The day we got married with all of you,” I smiled at Sarah and she smiled back. “We want to renew our vows and we want you all a part of it. I want you girls to stand with me like we did all those years ago and Tyler wants you boys to do the same.”
Sarah looked around at the girls and a smile lit up all their faces. They were in, they wanted to plan this with me.
Tyler crawled on top of me as we got ready for bed later that night. “You know how much I love you right?” He asked as he laid kisses along my neck. “I couldn’t imagine having spent these past years without. I can’t imagine living the next part of our lives without you. I want to grow older with you. I want to sit on the back porch and yell at teenagers as they venture onto our private beach. If I had the energy I would adopt another ten kids with you.”
“I love our kids, but no more. It’s never been just you and me and I’m so ready for just you and me. I’m so ready for alone time.”
“Whatever you want darlin’” Tyler rasped as he shoved inside me.
We still had a healthy sex life for our age. While we weren’t moving furniture across the floor any more, we still know how to get it on pretty good. Tyler could still bring me to a screaming orgasm.
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“Do you have a dress?” Sarah asked as she did my hair.
“Come with me,” I said as I pulled her into the closet of one of the guest rooms. I moved a box and pressed on the wall that led to the small storage attic.
Sarah laughed behind me as we walked up the stairs, “It’s like a secret room in the princess’s castle.”
“I never thought of it that way,” I laughed with her. As we reached the top of the steps I walked over to the bag hanging on a nail sticking out from a beam. I unzipped the bag and hanging on the hanger was my wedding dress from twenty years ago. “I tried it on the other day. Still fits after all these years. I had it dry cleaned, so it’s fresh to go. Can you help me into it again?”
I watched as a tear rolled down her face and a smile spread across her mouth. “I wouldn’t want to help you into any other dress.”
Maggie and Chelsea walked into the room and I watched as their eyes misted over. The three of us stood there in a group circle hugging, just like we did twenty years ago. The click of a camera had us turning toward the door, standing there was Felicity, smiling at the little picture screen. She walked over and showed us the picture. I had almost the exact same picture hanging on the wall in my office. It was taken on the day of my wedding, the four of us hugging right before we left the room so I could walk down the aisle. I’ll now have to make a side by side picture of both this picture and the one from twenty years ago.
Soon I was walking down my patio and onto the beach where our friends and family were waiting for us. I saw the smile spread across Tyler’s face as he took in my dress. I’m not sure if he realized I had saved it all these years but I had and today I wore it for him. And as I got closer to him and saw the love shining from his eyes, hell his whole body, I knew. I knew I was where I belonged. I knew I was loved and I was complete.
The End
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