We have reached a momentus ocation in this little adventure, i am offically one quarter done with it! YAY! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed and read this story. you have no idea how good it makes me feel to know that people are actually reading this and liking it. Now, this chapter is a little shorter than previous ones, but i liked writing it :) So enjoy! And as always, reviews are appreciated.
Disclamour- They aren't mine I swear!
April 2014
"What would you say to moving back to Chicago?" Doug asked me.
I laughed. "What made you think of that?"
He shuts the photo album on his lap then looks at me.
"I don't know, looking at these old photos, the kids growing up. I've been thinking about Mark a lot lately." His gave drops and his voice lowers to almost a whisper. "I miss him," he says.
"Me too," I say leaning into his shoulder. And I do. He was my best friend. I could tell him anything. He was there for me when no one else was. Eleven years later and I still think about him every single day.
"Would you have stayed?" I ask after a while breaking the silence.
"Hmm?"
"If you could go back, would you have stayed? In Chicago?"
"I don't know. I mean I love living here, with you and our kids. Of course I wondered what it would have been like to raise Tess and Kate in Chicago, to still work at County, to still be with my friends. But if I had the choice, I wouldn't change a thing. I'm happy that things worked out the way they did." He grabs my hands and pulls me to my feet. His fingers curl into mine and we make our way downstairs. The house is eerily quiet, but in a good way.
He pours me a glass of wine and grabs himself a beer. We sit in the kitchen, enjoying the silence and enjoying our drinks.
That is until the front door crashes open.
"Mom your daughter is insane"
Yup wouldn't change a thing.