When Josh finished I just got up and curled into a ball in the corner. How could I have not noticed the signs? They knew we like each other and pushed us together until like turned into love. Then they bring this new dilemma. It hurt us both. We couldn't look at each other without sadness. They left us together for what seemed like an eternity. Finally josh said.
"If we cooperated we will get to live in the outside world. The child will know something other than the grey walls. If we don't cooperate you could become another experiment."
It was decided. We were transported separately. We woke up together in a house. The house was three stories. With the house came time. I had lost my sense of time in that grey dungeon. The best thing was TV and the radio. I learned that I had been living in that grey for four years. I had to teach Josh about the things that I had missed so much. He had never seen anything outside a lab, classroom or the grey. the government didn't pressure us at all.
Josh after watching a show on TV, bent on one knee and asked me to marry him. Then he slid a ring made out of grass, and a flower. The purple was so pretty I cried and said yes. Eventually we grew into a comfortable state and forgot all about the government. That changed when my stomach grew. At that time any thought of the government was pushed far back into our minds. We were enjoying ourselves.
Our rude awakening was when the twins were born. Of course they were birth in a government facility. They didn't exist to anyone of the outside world. Looking down at my children I realized that we were not truly outside. We were still in the center of the governments' control. Josh and I began planning our escape.
A moonless knight we disappeared with our twins. I remember making it passed miles of government regulated lands. Then there is a blank period. We reached a road and hitched a ride with a trucker praying it was not the government. Then there is a blank period. For two months we completely dropped off the map by living as a homeless family. Then there is a blank period. Slowly we made our way to California where I had a friend who could help. We managed to kill Lanes' security system and he almost blew when he found us on his patio in the morning. When all was revealed we carefully planned our move from there.
The car pulls into the driveway of a huge mansion. Jamie pay the driver and then turns to look at the huge house.
"I love South America, their houses are so beautiful." She whispers.
Maids meet her at the front door. She greets them. It has been a while since she last saw them. She is too tired to eat so she just sleeps to kill time.
Someone is shaking her shoulder. She rises up and looks around the empty grey room. She yawns and stretches. She blinks. Familiar grey eyes stare happily into her sleepy blue ones. They embrace and Josh points to the crib behind him Jamie gets up and looks down at the little brunette toddler. Jamie kisses the baby and then heads back to her own bed still tired. Josh climbs in after her and they fall asleep holding each other.
For a few days it is quiet. Josh and Jamie relax by the pull and enjoy the garden. Most of their time is spent in their library for recreational reading. Two weeks after they arrive they find them selves sunning by the pool. The sliding door opens and a swarm of kids run out and jump into the pool ending the peace. Josh gets up and Jamie looks down at the brunette toddler tugging at her shirt.
"Hey Lani. How was Hawaii with the kids?" Josh says shaking Lanes' hand
"It was a hand full but I survived." Just as he finished two black haired children ran pass his legs.
"Oh and here they are the starts of this show. Those two are partners in crime. Just think of how it will be when little Aden joins them. My wife will be here this evening. She took Molly shopping."
Josh chuckled.
"I can't imagine our kids as teenagers." Josh looks over at his three kids swarming over their mother.
"Aziza, Razi do you want to feel your new baby sister." Says Jamie
They answer yes in unison and rub Jamies' swollen belly. After a while of probing their mothers belly. A kid from the pool calls to them and they join the other children. Lani and Josh sit next to Jamie and laugh at their kids enjoying them while they are young.
Aziza and Razi are six now. Their names together mean Beloved Secret. Aden is three and there is another on the way. My wife can keep saying it's a girl but I just know it's a boy. I don't know if the government has really lost us. Sometimes I think this is one of their big experiments. That they watching us this very moment. I don't think about it or at least I try not to. We still have to be cautious. Where we'll be further down the line I don't know. The only way to survive is to trust your own logic. All I know is that right now, we're all happy.