Chapter 1 the story
She knew he was perfect. Ever since that fateful moment she laid eyes on him she just knew that was it. Now, all these years later seeing him clarified things. All 3 failed marriages she had had she knew going into them that they wouldn't work out. She knew that no matter how many years ago things had happened and no matter how hard she tried she would always love him. Rufus Humphrey.
`"Rufus," I had said, " just stay out of my life." I said this knowing full well that it was only a matter of time before something happened. It was just how the universe worked we were in love and although she fought hard to be someone she wasn't the truth would eventually come out.
Then it happened. That one night at his concert, the night before my 4th wedding day in fact. I knew it would it was only a matter of time but like a fool I always fought it. We spent that night in the hotel I lived in and I'm sure you can guess the rest.
There I was getting ready to enter yet another marriage I knew would fail. He came to me that day and asked if I wanted to call off the wedding. "It's been 20 years and I really don't think this is the time to hash out the details," I said this yet again betraying my heart.
When my 4th marriage was falling apart he told me. He had said, " I let you go on your wedding day because I was afraid I couldn't give you what you wanted. I didn't know what I wanted,"
That's when I got that call. The one telling me my 4th husband had been killed in a car accident. He was there for me leaving messages and talking on the phone for hours. His son was there for my daughter when she needed support and I couldn't be much help. We went on a walk in the part the morning of the day the funeral was. " I'm waiting for you this time, 6 month 6 years, I'll be here," He always made me smile even in the worst of times and I really thought that we were going to have something real this time.
The funeral was emotional especially my late husband's son, Charles. He knew my secret and that could change everything. I asked my mother to pay to not have it come out but she didn't, instead she told Rufus. There I was waiting in the train station as he had waited for me excited we were starting a new chapter and working things out. All at once my expression changed. There he stood no bags, nothing. He asked just one question, " Tell me, was it a boy or a girl?"
To be continued...