Family Matters

Chapter 28

Weeks Later

Chris and I ended up getting married in my parents church. It was a private, personal, celebration of love. There was not a dry eye in the entire room when Jamie walked me down the aisle.

The adoption would take some time to go through but the last name change was simple. He was now James Lucas Keller. He even started calling Chris dad. Which was a decision he made on his own.

As for the twins. I was right by Chris's side when he explained to the now 5 year old children that he was their dad and once he and I got married i would become their mom.

The reception went off without anything going wrong. It lasted for hours. In a span of a few hours. I had a new family. A husband two new step children. My son at last had the father he deserved.

We took a week long honeymoon at a well known celebrity hotel. Once we returned. The changes of life truly began.

Chris and I bought a bigger home to that would help fit all the kids that were now living under one roof.

I told Jamie once that i had faith and hope. That doctors didn't know it all in terms of sickness and how long people would live.

I guess someone out there heard me and granted us a miracle of some kind because. Jamie beat the odds. Going against every statistic a doctor ever set.

The years just flew by. 13, 14, 15, 16. By this time we had settled into a rountine and a dynamic in our home. Mathew and Marcia were 9 years old. They had grown and flourished. Truly seeing me as their mother. Building a strong bond with their father and a close relationship with their big brother Jamie.

Jamie's health improved to the point where he was begging me to allow him to return to school. Turning newly 16. His uncle Lucas had gifted him with a car. Most of all he was eager to enjoy a more normal life, friends, activities. After discussing it with Chris and Jamie's team of doctor's i agreed.

I'll forget how tightly he hugged me will thanked me and raced upstairs to double check the supplies in his backpack and pick out his outfit for school in the morning.

It seemed too good to be true. But i silenced that doubt filled voice inside my head and allowed us all to dream.

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