Welcome to Harmony

As the car edged forward on the long stretched road, the visible sign "Welcome to Harmony," was spotted by her 10 year old daughter.

"Are we back home, mama?" The little girl asked from the back seat. Smiling in the rearview mirror, the mother nodded. "Yes, baby, we're home."

"I liked our old house better." Her 17 year old son grumbled from the front seat. Giving him a stern look, the mother patted his knee softly. "We had to come back home. Abuela is sick. Don't you want to see her?"

"Yes, but I don't want to see HIM!"

She needed no reminder of who he was. He was the man that she loved with her whole heart. He was the man she married, and had these children with. He was also the man who she found cheating on her with his ex-wife. The pain of that betrayal wracked through her body at that moment. Taking a deep breath, she sighed, and focused her energy on her children.

"You won't have to see him. It'll be alright."

"It's never going to be alright as long as I know he's my father."

"You have to be strong, mi hijo. You have to see that things will work out."

"How can you be so sure, mom?"

Sighing wistfully, the mother reached over and took her son's hand in her own. "I once believed in the notion that fate would take care of anything that came my way."

"And now?"

Smiling softly at her two children, she continued, "Fate brought me you and your sister, and for that, I'll forever be grateful." As she continued on the drive, a distant flashback came to the front and center of her mind.

Flashback

"Do you believe in Fate, Ethan?"

"I'd have to seeing that it brought me you. I love you, Theresa."

End Flashback

"You said you loved me, and yet you hurt me." Theresa mumbled under her breath.

"What did you say, mom?" Her son asked.

Smiling at her son, Theresa shook her head. "Nothing, Ethan Martin, nothing." Finally reaching their destination, Theresa parked the car, and watched as her daughter Gracie and son Ethan Martin ran up to their grandmother's home. Getting out of the car, Theresa looked around at her childhood home.

"Welcome home, Theresa." She said to herself as she began to go inside. May Ethan never find out I am here…

Coming Up

Will Ethan find out Theresa is home?