Chapter 2: Chapter 2 – Coming Home Part 2 – One Day
Stephanie's POV
It is late, it is after 2 AM, and I can't sleep. I've been amped up all day and I don't know why.
I hope Ranger is OK. I think I'd know if he wasn't. He's been in the wind for six months and all I need is to know he's alright.
That is a lie….I want more with Ranger, a lot more….and I'm done being in denial about it.
I get out of bed and go to the living room and turn on my CD player and put in my secret Ranger mix. I'm a child of the 80s and we make mixed tapes/CDs.
I danced my way through a couple of songs, when a song by Trading Yesterday started playing. I began to sway to the music and sing along.
One Day – Trading Yesterday
If I could change the currents of our lives, To make the river flow where it's run dry
To be a prodigal of father time, Then I would see you tonight.
If I could find the years that went away, Destroying all the cruelty of fate
I must believe that love will find a way, Tonight
Why did I spend so much time denying how I feel? I spent years going back and forth with Joe and I was never happy. He wanted to change me, and he never accepted me. I've lost so much time with someone who was safe because even though I love Joe, he didn't have my heart. There was never a chance for him to break it.
Lonely finds me, One day you will come
But I'll wait for love's sake, One day to me, love
If I could see beyond the here and now, If you could hear me calling you somehow
If I could know that love is reaching out, To find you with me tonight
Ranger has my heart and has almost since the day I met him. If he sticks to his "not the relationship type" crap, if he tells me no, it would destroy me.
Then hope could make these promises come true
Beyond what I could say, what love can do
With every moment leading me to you tonight
Lonely finds me, One day you will come
But I'll wait for love's sake, One day to me, love
I dance my way over to the window and hug myself as I gaze out. I catch a blur of a black car moving down the street and then I get a tingle at the base of my neck. I see a man looking up at my window. No, it couldn't be. I close my eyes and take a deep breath then I look back and there is no one there.
I've just been so amped up all day that now I'm seeing and feeling things because I desperately want to believe he's finally back. I desperately want today to be that day that he comes home to me.
I will stay forever here until that one day comes
Praying time will bring you near, I'll wait for your love
I would wait here forever for him. Please God, let him be alright.
If I could change the currents of our lives, To make the river flow where it's run dry
To be a prodigal of father time, Then I would see you tonight
Lonely finds me, One day you will come
But I'll wait for love's sake, One day to me, love
Lonely finds me, One day you will come
But I'll wait for love's sake,
One day to me, love, One day to me, love
One day to me, love
I will stay forever here. I'll wait for your love
"Someday," I sigh out loud when I get the tingle again. I reach up to rub the spot and gasp as someone grabs my hand and turns me around.
"You don't have to wait forever, Babe. I'm here and ready for that someday to start," Ranger whispers in my ear.
"I love you, Ranger."
"I love you too, Babe," Ranger whispers as he wraps me in his arms and kisses me with love and promise on his lips.
He scoops me up in his arms and says huskily, "Now, I'm going to show you how much, Babe."