October Road...Simple...
The sun beamed through a small number of clouds on a very hot summer afternoon It was easy to see a few birds flying overhead in a circular pattern, their loud chirps were hard to hear against all the laughing and splashing going on in a backyard below.
A tall man with a nice build, probably in his late thirties, was about to run down a very large blowup slide. Grinning fiercely, his determination noticeable, he charged for the entrance, which to probably anyone else was not the type of slide a man his age should be sliding down, clearly, this slide was for the young ones. However, it was clear that this particular man didn't let that bother him.
As he jumped in the air and came crashing down with a loud amount of laughter, two young ones, a girl and a boy stared at him in amazement. When he landed, they ran over to him with two big smiles, almost too big for their faces.
"Daddy, do it again!" The boy yelled as he stood their watching him get up, his hands covering his mouth, all excited.
"I don't think so bud; mommy will get mad at daddy if he does that again."
"No she won't, I promise!" The girl explained, her brown curls bouncing as she walked over to her father.
"Daddy, I wanna go in the pool!" The boy told him, "Please?" A decent size baby pool came into view suddenly, a good amount of water inside.
"Okay, go ahead buddy, I'll sit with mommy and watch you."
He didn't even answer, already running the short distance to the pool, the girl not too far behind.
As the man sat down on his chair, he winced.
"You know, I'm not gonna rub your back for you later, I told you not to go down that thing."
"I'm sorry, isn't that the purpose of a slide, to slide down it?"
"We got it for the kids, Ryan won't even set foot on it."
"Julie will!" The man protested.
"Yes, but Julie is older, and besides, she doesn't go on unless your holding her hand or on your lap."
"That's the whole point of me going on it then, to show them not to be afraid."
The woman considered this as she looked down at the newborn in her arms, sound asleep. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
The man nodded his head in satisfaction. "How's our little man?"
"Good, I just gave him a bottle; he fell asleep a few minutes ago."
He pulled his chair closer, eyes never leaving the sleeping baby, he looked so peaceful.
"He looks just like his daddy, you know." She awed unexpectedly.
"No he doesn't he looks like you, he has your face."
"Oh I beg to differ," she began, but was interrupted by a sweet kiss. "What was that for?"
"I don't know." He replied with a shrug, a bright grin flashing.
"Well you better know, because Conner doesn't like it when his daddy kisses his mommy without a reason."
"Well Con, you better tell your mommy that I kissed her because I can." He whispered to the baby.
The woman smiled slightly, looking over to her other two children playing in the pool, and she thought back to years earlier, when life wasn't always so simple.
"Thank you…" the woman said barely above a whisper.
"For what Janet?"
"For everything you've given me." The man smiled.
"You're wel—"
"Well good morning handsome, that must have been one good dream."
"Oh yeah, how would you know?"
"Well because, as you're wife, it's important for me to know you're emotions, and well…I'm sorry to report that while you were sleeping you couldn't take that goofy grin off your face." She pointed to his mouth, her wedding band dancing in the light from the window.
"Oh, is that right?"
"Yep." She stated matter-of-factly as she leaned in to kiss him.
For some reason, Eddie decided not to tell Janet about the dream…he found comfort in keeping it to himself, it was after all just a dream, a dream that really did seem real.
Little did he know that in two days he would find Janet on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night, clutching a pink strip in her hands, crying tears of joy.
Little did he realize that Janet's grandparents would soon pass away, leaving them both enough money to move into a new four-bedroom house. Eddie would get to work right away, painting the room closest to the master bedroom a pale yellow.
Eddie realized how much he wanted to be that family man right then. He wanted Janet to have everything she ever wanted, because everyone deserved to have their fairy tale ending, even the captain of the football team and the local barkeep.
So was it possible for a dream to actually become reality? Is it really true that when one door closes, two others open? Is it possible to gain everything you ever wanted and more? These questions always hung in the air for Eddie, until Janet showed him the real meaning of love, and life.
Things would become simple in time, being simple or having a simple life is actually not simple at all, because it takes time and struggle to have everything eventually become easy, like so much else, nothing is ever certain.
Eddie would soon learn that anything and everything, even what seems like a corny dream, could actually exist, even for a person like him.
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