Freddy walked up to her door and couldn't think. He had planned what he was going to say over and over again in his mind, but somehow now that he was at her front door, he couldn't remember them. It took him almost 5 minutes before he finally mustered up the courage to ring the doorbell.
Katie jumped when the doorbell rang, it was time. She ran to the door but slowly opened it. "Hey, Freddy. Come on in."
He walked in, looking at everything around him nervously. Katie came up behind him. When she started to speak his heart jumped 10 feet in his chest. "We can go in the living room. My father isn't home from work yet."
Freddy made his way to the couch. This was the moment of truth. "Katie, I have to tell you something. It's something that's been on my mind for some time now. I just don't think that I can hold it in much longer," he grabbed her hand, "I think I love you."
She sat there in complete and total shock, but soon a smile crept across her face. She immersed him in a hug. "Freddy St. Louis Jones, I can't believe what I'm hearing. I was going to tell you the same exact thing."
Soon a smile crept across Freddy's face. He breathed a sigh of relief. "That was easy." He grabbed her hand again, "Katie, ever since your mother died I couldn't think of anything but taking care of you. Even at the funeral, the only thing I could think about was how I wanted to take care of you. I don't believe I've ever felt like this before. Well, no, I haven't felt like this before. Hey, look, don't cry."
Katie's eyes were welling with tears. Hearing him talking about her mother made her heart hurt. She missed her mother far too much, and knowing that Freddy wanted to shield her from it made that pang of hurt show up. "Freddy, I don't know how I can thank you. You were the one who helped me get through her dea..I mean." Katie started to cry again.
Freddy grabbed her and held her for over an hour brushing her hair away from her face and listening to her cry. This is how he wanted it to be forever. Him and her together, solving each others problems, and comforting each other when things went sour. He believed they could get through anything, just them. Wild horses couldn't keep him away from her.
"Katie, look at me." Freddy brought her face up from his lap so he could look into her eyes. The gold specks in her eyes flickered with the tears still there. "Everything's going to be okay. I'm here." With that last statement, he kissed her. Softly at first just to make sure she was okay with it. Then, when she kissed back, his breath was already gone.
"Yeah", he thought, "everything's going to be alright."