Well, looks like I'm going to end up adding a 7th part to this series as well. I think "Redemption" will be the final installment, but then again I said the same thing about "Reunion." LOL…guess we'll just wait and see!!
1) Reflections – complete
2) Recession – complete
3) Regret – complete
4) Rapture – complete
5) Revenge – in progress
6) Reunion – coming soon
7) Redemption – coming soon
Rapture
I remember the first time that I saw her, she took my breath away.
We were both taking a literature class in college. The only problem was that she was a freshman and I was a senior. (I kind of blew off most of the literature courses until my last year). She sat in front of me on the first day of class. Her smile was radiant. It lit up the whole room. Little did I know that that same smile would soon light up my life as well.
After the first couple weeks of classes, I noticed that she was struggling to keep up. So, naturally, I offered to tutor her. Her eyes sparkled as she told me how grateful she was for my help. My heart skipped at least one beat. There was just something about her…
First semester flew by faster than we thought humanly possible. We began dating and fell more and more in love with one another. We dated for four years and the day after she graduated, we eloped. We didn't have a lot of money, but we were happy. We had each other and that was all that mattered to us.
She got a job as an accountant for a local corporation. I, however, had a harder time finding a job. Then I got an offer from the armed forces. It was an offer that I could not refuse. I came home that night and tried to explain to Pam the importance of this job. She cried. She did not want us to be separated, but at the same time she knew we needed the money.
So I headed out for basic training and passed with flying colors. I was deployed almost immediately. I moved up through the ranks and finally joined the Gulf One Special Ops. However, it soon became too much for either of us to bear. I was gone for over half the time and Pam desperately wanted a baby. So I left and set my sights on the Federal Bureau of Investigation and becoming a father.
The day I was hired as a Special Agent was the same day that Pam told me she was pregnant. It was, by far, the happiest day of my life. A few months later, I found myself rushing to the hospital from work. Pam had gone into labor. Luckily, her best friend was with her at the time and drove her safely to the hospital. An hour after I ran into her room, she gave birth to our beautiful son, Cameron.
For the next five years we lived happy and comfortable lives. We had a healthy marriage and a wonderful son. Now I look back on those days and wonder why I cannot just push rewind and relive them all over again. If I could, I would change so many things. Like all those times I would lose my temper and make her cry. But most of all I would change what happened that fateful day when I cornered Oscar Shales. Then everything would be the way it was always meant to be:
A life of never-ending rapture in the arms of my family.
