~Chapter 9~
Pilar got home and went over to the four candles she had. Four now she thought. Why does God keep taking the ones I love away. She lit each of the candles one by one. "Martin, Antonio, Paloma, Theresa." She said as she lit them. She knelt down. "Please jeep my children safe and my husband and let Theresa be happy in heaven. Padre nuestro…." She started praying Our Father and tears where starting to fall down her face. When she tasted the salty tears, she started to blubber. "Why did you have to take my daughter and my husband away! Why!" She sank to the floor. Lindsey came up behind and ran to her. "Don't cry. Please stop crying. Mama." Pilar looked up at her and Lindsey just nodded. Pilar smiled and kissed her. Then she laid her head in Lindsey lap. Lindsey patted her head. "It's my turn to comfort you." She started to sing "Ave Maria" and Pilar started to remember singing to Theresa when she came into her's and Martin's room scared because of a nightmare she had and they had sung it at her funeral. But neither one of them noticed that Beth was watching them.
Ethan bent down and laid a rose on the grave. He started to weep. He ran his hand across the words: Theresa Lopiz-Fitgerald Bennett-Crane, a loving daughter, sister, wife and mother who always had fate on her side. Her lover will never be forgotten. "Fate on her side." He laughed and thought back to what Theresa had told him two days before the wedding. ~ Ethan walked into their bedroom and smiled. Theresa was dancing around the room doing the waltz. He walked up behind her and squeezed her waist. She jumped and turned around and faced him. "Don't scare me like that!" She yelled and then kissed him. "What were you doing?" He asked. "Practicing for our reception." He smiled. "Why?" "Because if fate got me this far the least I could do is be read for it." He cracked up laughing. "You still think that fate put us together?" "Of course. Why are you laughed." He laid on his bed still laughing. "I just think that's crazy because I would like to think that we had something to do with it." She punched him softly in the stomach and laid down next to him. "I know it sounds crazy but how do you explain it?" "I try not to." "Well I can explain it in one word." "And what's that?" "Serendipity." Ethan started laughing again and then hugged her. "That strangely enough id one of the reason I love you so much." ~ "And Theresa I'm sorry to say but I have to go after another women. But I still love you and always will." He looked at his ring. "I know this sounds strange but I feel like I'm falling in love with you all over again, and I hate it!" He took his ring of and threw it at the grave. As soon as he realized what he had done, he ran over, picked it up, and put it back on. "I'm so sorry honey. I did not mean to. Forgive me." He got up and kissed the grave and he walked off looking for Lindsey. He did not realize that he passed Beth.
As Lindsey was walking home, she passed Beth. "So you are Theresa. I knew it." She was smiling. Lindsey turned around and faced her not smiling. "Look! I never said I was Theresa and just because I went to see the one lady means nothing." "Then why did you do it?" "Like I had a choice. You won't have followed me if I had a choice." Beth smiled. "You're smarter then you seem to be." "I've always been this smart but you won't ever know that because you don't know me and have never me before." Beth laughed. "Sure. Play that game, Theresa. I've just go one question why were you crying?"
~end of chapter 9~