A/N: YAY! A new chapter I was able to get up. I just moved the beginning of July and had to take the time to put everything away. I went to California for vacation and I got to meet George and Geoff Stults! Plus I got myself a brand new job at a credit union where I'm busily working 30-35 hours a week until I'm fully trained. So there is everything from the time that the last chapter was posted up until now. I don't start school until September 26th, 2005 so I'm going to try my hardest and write a new chapter for each story that I have placed on the back burner and that I haven't updated in a while either.
A/N: I also want to know as this story is slowly coming to an end if you'd guys like to see a sequeal? I promise this time that the chapters won't come out as slow as this one has. I'm actually in the process of writing the first chapter for the sequeal as I type. That way as soon as I'm done with this story I can post the next one.
A/N: I think this is the longest chapter that I have written in a long time. I hope you guys like it! I had my ideas all planned out and as soon as I went to go and write it well I lost them
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Two days later...
"I still can't believe you came." Kevin muttered to Lucy as he guided her through Buffalo International Airport.
"I still can't believe your carrying on like a baby" Lucy mocked.
"Who's picking us up?" Lucy asked.
"BEN!" Kevin motioned as he saw his brother ahead behind the security point.
Ben who hands were shoved in the front two pockets whipped around when he heard his name being called. He had Mindy's letter to Kevin stuck in his pocket. He started to reach for it when he froze and saw Lucy tagging along behind Kevin.
"Kevin! Wha—Lucy? I…I didn't know you were coming" he stuttered.
Lucy gave Ben a hug. "I didn't know I was coming eitheruntil I talked to my parents last night and they thought it'd be a good idea if I came out here and visited your mom"
Ben gave Lucy a half smile. "That's…erm…nice Luce" he replied giving Kevin a strange look. "Do you guys need to get any luggage?"
Kevin and Lucy shook their heads and both held up a carry on suitcase. "We're not taking any chances this time!" they both replied.
"You two make me sick" Ben muttered and his dodged his way through people towards the parking lot not caring if Lucy and Kevin were following.
Kevin and Lucy glanced at each other and quickly started to run after Ben. "Ben! Wait!" Lucy called after him.
Ben slowed down at the sound of his name and turned around. "What? I'm in a hurry can't you guys tell? I was supposed to meet Eryn an hour ago."
Lucy gave Ben a weird look as she set her carry on luggage down next to Kevin. "Sweetie, watch this for me. I need to use the bathroom" she told him walking away as Kevin just stared at Ben.
"What the hell is your problem? If I would have know you were suppose to meet Eryn I'd of called mom to pick us up"
Ben's face got red. He reached for his back pocket where the envelope was. "Here" he told Kevin throwing it at him. "You might want to read this"
Kevin picked the envelope up off the ground and turned it over. He turned pale as soon as he saw his name on the envelope. "What is this?"
Ben shrugged his shoulders. "Hell if I know. I was eating dinner with Eryn, thinking about what you said and next thing I know Mindy comes walking over like she hasn't seen me in years. Before I knew it I was practically dragging Eryn out of the restaurant with Mindy following us. She handed it to me and told me to give it to you"
Kevin rubbed the sides of his temples. This was not how he was planning his weekend to start out like. "What should I do—" he started to ask Ben when Lucy threw her arms around his waist.
"Miss me?" she asked.
Kevin smiled back and took a hold of both her arms and brought her closer to him. "You don't know how much" he replied kissing the top of her forehead.
Lucy frowned. "What's this?" she asked looking at the envelope in Kevin's hand. "Did your mom send you something?" she replied looking at the womanly hand writing.
"This? Oh no it's just some paperwork for the uhh...uhh...a house that I invested in and the owners are going to sell it and they needed me to sign off on it " Kevin stammered shoving it in his backpack that he had brought along on the trip.
"Okay, well if you guys are finally ready to go I'd like that" Ben told them both turning back and around and heading towards the parking garage with Kevin and Lucy practically running behind him to catch up.
Ben dropped Kevin and Lucy off at the house and honked the horn before he left when Karen walked out onto the porch.
"Kevin! Lucy" Karen exclaimed, walking down the porch steps and gave Kevin a hug and put her arm around Lucy's shoulder.
"I didn't know you were coming Lucy"
Lucy gave a sheepish look to Kevin and then back to Karen "I didn't know I was coming either. I talked to my parents about it and hey thought it was a good idea to come and see you before the wedding and all." she admitted.
Karen gave Lucy a quick squeeze and walked up the porch stairs with both of them and opened the front door. "Lucy, why don't you take Patty-Mary's old room and Kevin can have his?"
Lucy nodded. "Sounds great!" her stomach growled after she spoke and looked up in embarrassment. "I guess I'm hungry too" she laughed stepping inside the house.
Kevin entered the house behind his mom and Lucy and shut the door. He put their suitcases down and glanced at the grandfather clock. "Well it's almost 3, if you can wait another couple of hours or so we could go out for dinner" he suggested.
Lucy's face lit up with a smile. "That's great! I'll go upstairs and take a shower and get ready. Airplanes make me feel dirty" she told them squinting her nose in disgust. "Want me to take the suitcases up there?" she offered.
Kevin shook his head. "No, I can get them later."
"Are you sure?"
Kevin nodded. "Yeah, if you want while you're in the shower I'll bring up your suitcase and mine at the same time.
Lucy smiled and picked up the backpack that was on the floor and her purse and gave Kevin a soft kiss on the cheek. "Thanks" and climbed up the stairs.
Kevin watched until she disappeared into the hallway and turned his attention towards his mom.
"Did you have a chance to call Sharon yet?" he asked, referring to his mother's friend who did real estate.
Karen nodded. "I did and she said that she started to look for some people she knew who were interested in purchasing a home"
"Any luck?"
Karen shook her head. "No, no one has put in a bid yet. Are you sure you want to sell this house? I mean it's the house that you have always dreamed of owning one day"
Kevin sighed. "I wanted this house because I needed to move on with my life. Lucy wasn't a part of it when I bought it and now she is" he replied walking into the kitchen.
Karen followed Kevin's lead and pulled out a chair from the table and sat down. "You've made so many sacrifices Kevin to be with her. Why can't she make a sacrifice and move here with you? So that way you don't have to sell the house?"
Kevin opened the cupboard and pulled out two mugs and set them down on the counter. "How could I ask her to make sacrifices? She already has made a few of her own. Besides she's in the middle of a semester and it wouldn't be fair for me to move out here and for her to live out there once we got married" he pointed out as he poured two cups of steaming hot coffee into the mugs and walked over to join Karen at the table and handed her a mug.
Karen sighed. "I just hope your right. Have you started to look for a house out in Glenoak?"
"No" Kevin replied taking a drink of his coffee.
"Why not? You guys are getting married in less than 20 days and you don't have a place to live yet."
Kevin shrugged his shoulders. "Lucy and I talked to Reverend Camden and Mrs. Camden before we got here. Mrs. Camden told us that we could live in the garage apartment for a while until we found a home that we agreed on. Lucy and I talked it over and thought that it would be the best idea because we could save some more money, plus the money that we would have for this house for a house that we both want"
Karen nodded her head. "That sounds like a good idea to me" she replied taking a sip of her coffee.
"I wonder what's taking Lucy so long" Kevin questioned, just now noticing that the water from the upstairs bathroom hadn't started to run.
Lucy threw the backpack and her purse onto Kevin's twin bed and flopped down besides them and groaned.
She was so tired from the trip that all she really wanted to do was to change into her pajamas and go to sleep. She reached over to her purse and knocked over the backpack.
"Damn it" she muttered as she pulled the backpack up by the handles not noticing the envelope that Kevin had shoved into the pocket had fallen out. She threw the backpack back onto the bed and stood up, stretching real high trying to get the kinks of out her body she bent down to touch her toes and noticed the envelope.
She picked it up and flipped it over. Sure enough it said Kevin's name on it. It looked like the exact same letter that Kevin had shoved into the backpack's pocket.
Biting her lip Lucy toyed with her emotions. Should she read the letter? Or should she pretend she never saw it? Oh how those were both hard decisions and eventually curiosity out won trust.
She walked over to the door and peeked out into the hallway and listened to see if anyone was on the second floor, she heard Kevin and Karen's voice downstairs towards the kitchen and locked and closed the door.
Carefully opening the flap of the envelope she pulled out a couple of pages of notebook paper and started to read.
Dear Kevin,
I have written this letter so many times that I practically know all the words by heart. I wanted to apologize for my actions for the last two years. I read about the accident that your friend was in and I felt awful. I'm sorry for kissing you like that but my emotions were so strong for you at that moment I just wasn't thinking.
Lucy skimmed down the pages until she came to another spot.
I went to see your mom the other day at her law firm to see how everyone was. She told me that you had moved to Glenoak to be with someone you cared about. I asked her if you were planning on getting married and she shrugged her shoulders. She told me you and Lucy (is that her name?) had been in love for a long time but you guys just now finally had the chance to get together. I'm so happy for you Kevin! I've been married since August of '02 and I'm happy as well. I told your mom I'd send you a copy of our divorce papers in the mail when I came back from my vacation. That way if you and Lucy do get engaged and you need proof that you were legally divorced you'll have them.
I'm sorry for lying to you back in high school Kevin, I really am. I should have known better than to lie about a pregnancy that hadn't even happened. I do hope that one day you will forgive me.
Lots of Love,
Mindy
Lucy gasped. Kevin had been married before? How come he never told her?
She could feel her blood start to boil. Her entire relationship with Kevin had always been built on trust, understanding and everything else that you had when you were in a committed relationship and now all of that was slowly breaking away.
How many other times had he lied to her? Not told her the truth?
She started to feel sick. Oh God what have I done? She thought racing to bathroom before she got sick to her stomach.
Kevin had been walking up the stairs to check on Lucy to make sure everything was all right when saw Lucy rush to the bathroom. He'd never seen her run like that so he followed her into the bathroom.
"Luce?" he asked with concern "Are you ok?"
Lucy lifted her head out of the toilet and glared at him. "Go away"
"Luce—" Kevin started to say before Lucy wiped the sides of her mouth and stood up.
"I said go away! What don't you understand?" she snapped at him her eyes flashing with anger.
Kevin held his hands up in defeat "Ok, Ok. I'll be outside the door if you need me"
"I won't ever need you" she muttered slamming the door in his face.
Running his fingers through his hair Kevin sighed in defeat and retreated back to his old bedroom.
He opened the door and took a look around trying to remember what it was like to have lived here for only a short time during his junior high and high school years. He grabbed Lucy's suitcase so he could move it into Patty-Mary's bedroom when he caught sight of the envelope that Ben had given to him back at the airport.
"What the--?" he questioned when he picked it up and saw that it was empty and turned around.
The rest of what was in the envelope was lying on his bed. Spread out all over as if someone had read it.
He quickly dropped Lucy's suitcase on the floor and grabbed one of the first sheets that were available to him and quickly skimmed it.
I went to see your mom the other day at her law firm to see how everyone was. She told me that you had moved to Glenoak to be with someone you cared about. I asked her if you were planning on getting married and she shrugged her shoulders. She told me you and Lucy (is that her name?) had been in love for a long time but you guys just now finally had the chance to get together. I'm so happy for you Kevin! I've been married since August of '02 and I'm happy as well. I told your mom I'd send you a copy of our divorce papers in the mail when I came back from my vacation. That way if you and Lucy do get engaged and you need proof that you were legally divorced you'll have them.
I'm sorry for lying to you back in high school Kevin, I really am. I should have known better than to lie about a pregnancy that hadn't even happened. I do hope that one day you will forgive me.
"Shit" he muttered.
"What's wrong? Making sure that your story is the same one as hers?" he heard someone say as he whipped around and came face to face with Lucy.
"No, this is the first time that I've read this letter. MY letter that is" he stated clearly picking up the other three pieces of notebook paper.
"Sure"
"Luce, really it is. I know you saw Ben give it to me when we got to the airport"
Lucy just glared at him her hands folded across her chest. "When were you going to tell me about her?"
Kevin gulped. This wasn't anywhere near the way he had planned to tell Lucy. In fact he hadn't planned to tell her at all unless someone in his family, Matt, or Rev. Camden brought it up.
"Soon"
"Soon? Does that mean like after we have been married for 50 years or the day before the wedding?"
Kevin shook his head and tried to think. What was his reason for not telling Lucy about Mindy?
"Hello? I'm talking to you!" Lucy snapped standing in front of the door with her hands on her hips.
"I was going to tell you" Kevin replied quietly sitting on his old bed.
"When?"
Kevin rubbed his face. "Soon"
"What the hell does soon mean?" she demanded. "Why won't you tell me now?
Kevin looked up "Fine. You want me to tell you now I will"
Lucy looked smugly at him and folded her arms. "I'm listening"
Kevin took a deep and long drawn out breath. "When we moved to Buffalo after my dad died I met Mindy my freshman year of high school in Mr. Hopkins third period English class. She and I were assigned to each other as partners for some dumb writing assignment. One day she came over to my house to type up our assignment and we bumped heads. That was the start of our relationship" Kevin paused and looked to see Lucy's reaction.
Lucy realigned her jaw and sat down at the end of the bed. "Is that it?" she prompted him.
Kevin shook his head and continued on. "One night after Prom we went to my friend Kyle's house and had a few drinks.We then thought it wasbetter if she just stayed at my house instead of driving home drunk. So we took the limo home and from there it was pretty self explanatory. A few months later she claimed that she was pregnant. Our parents made us get married before she had made a doctors appointment to make sure it was all legit. I kept questioning her about it after we had been married for a month or so and she kept telling me she was just too busy and hadn't had time. I grew suspicious and told my mom. She went ahead and made an appointment with her friend Dr. O'Neil. Mindy started to object but for some reason she just went along with it. The day of the appointment Mindy kept asking me if I was really interested in going. It surprised me that she thought I wouldn't want to see the ultrasound but I shrugged it off as a first time mother's thing. I went with her and we sat inside the room waiting. The nurses came in and drew blood and asked some other questions. We probably waited about 45 minutes when Dr. O'Neil came in and asked me to step outside while he did a routine examination. I realized I had forgotten my insurance card and ran out to the car to grab it. When I came back in Dr. O'Neil was outside the door telling her that she had better make a decision or he'd make it for her"
Lucy looked confused. "What do you mean make a decision? It's her body isn't it?"
Kevin nodded. "It's not what you think. Anyways I panicked thinking that something had happened to the baby or something was wrong with Mindy and I ran into the room and I saw her crying. She wouldn't talk to me while she got dressed and we exited the building and she told me that we needed to talk. At first I was confused and thought maybe she wanted to tell me about the baby or that there was something wrong with her that would change everything about us, our marriage and the baby. She sat me down and told me that she loved me. She loved me so much that she felt like she had to do stupid things to keep me from leaving her. I asked her what she meant. She pretty much started to cry right there. It was the third time that I had ever seen her cry besides when she told me that she was pregnant. I started to freak out. I didn't know what to think. Finally after about 10 minutes she told me the whole truth. She wasn't pregnant. She had seen me talking to my new cousin Allie. Her mom was my dad's sister and just married Allie's dad Jason. They had just moved to the area and she was asking me some questions about the school. Well Mindy got really possessive and tried to figure out how she would be able to keep other girls away from me. So she faked her pregnancy. I told her as soon as she told me that I wanted a divorce. She really freaked out then. She wanted to know why I'd want to leave her."
"What did you tell her?"
"I told her that I couldn't be married to a woman who was insecure, and who had to go to great lengths to keep me. I didn't want to be married to a liar my entire life."
Lucy put her head down in shame. Or Kevin had thought so. When she looked up her eyes had totally turned a different color.
"Why didn't you tell me this before?" she asked him, her voice barely above a whisper.
Kevin shrugged his shoulders. "There was never a right moment. We were always with your parents, or I was here and you were back at home. Plus I didn't want your dad and brother to hear me tell you. I'm sure they would have been mad at me for that."
"You still could have found a way to tell me"
"I was sure your dad or Matt would havetold you by now" the words flew out of his mouth before he could stop them.
Lucy's head snapped up. "What do you mean my dad and Matt? YOU TOLD THEM AND NEVER TOLD ME?" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "WE ARE GETTING MARRIED IN LESS THAN A MONTH KEVIN KINKIRK AND YOU NEVER TOLD ME!" She rushed from his old bedroom and ran to the bathroom and slammed the door. Kevin tried to chase after her but she was too quick. By the time he had gotten to the bathroom she had already locked the door. He pressed his ear up to the door and could hear her sobbing softly.
He let go of the door knob and walked quietly towards the stairs. He knew his mother had probably been listening and he figured he might as well tell her what just went on.
Lucy waited until she heard Kevin go downstairs before she left the bathroom. Her face was still red even after she had splashed ice cold water on her face. She peaked around the corner to make sure no one was around while she sneaked out of the bathroom into Kevin's old room where her suitcase was. She closed the door softly and rummaged around his room for her purse. She spotted it on the floor next to the nightstand and grabbed it. She hastily unzipped a side compartment and took out a credit card that her mom had given her in case of an emergency. To her a one-way ticket back to Glenoak was an emergency.
Lucy dialed Northwest Airlines 800 number that she had memorized and went through each prompt. Finally she got a hold of a live agent and booked a one way ticket back to Glenoak. She wiped the tears that had been streaking down her face the entire time she had been making the purchase. It was his fault that she was doing this. Leaving without telling anyone. She grabbed a piece of unused notebook paper and wrote a quick note.
Kevin,
I went home.
---Lucy---
She creased the notebook paper and placed it on top of the pillows that aligned the bed. She figured she had better call a taxi to meet her at the end of the street. She concentrated back towards the phone, picking it up and dialed 411. After she gave a city and a state she asked for a taxi service and got connected to Buffalo Taxi service and booked a taxi to arrive at the end of Potter and Brooks in 15 minutes.
She pressed her ear towards the door and she heard Karen and Kevin arguing about some house Kevin had purchased along time ago and then she heard her name thrown in the converstaion. Normally, she would have wanted to know what was going on and why her name was being mentioned but this time he had pissed her off and she really didn't care what problem was going on with him at the time. She listened for a few minutes and finally realized that they were in such a heated discussion they wouldn't realize that she had left.
She picked up her purse and suitcase and quietly sauntered over towards the door and opened it up quietly. She waited until she heard Kevin and Karen pick up their argument again before she slowly started to walk down the stairs. She would pause every few steps listen to make sure that both Kevin and Karen were still in their heated argument and quickly she scuttled down the last of the stairs and out the front door without either of the two adults hearing the door closing.
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE DOING THIS KEVIN!" Karen shrieked loudly at her eldest son. "You have given up so much for her why can't she do the same for you? What's wrong with living in Buffalo? Have I gotten to be such a bitch that neither her nor you can stand to be around?"
"Mom…it's….it's not like that I swear to you" Kevin mumbled shoving his hands deep into his pockets. "It's just that…she's still going to college and I'm starting at the Glenoak PD and we don't want to have to start all over again. Plus we are just now starting to get our lives back on track after all these years and trying to mesh two different life styles into one in less than 21 days isn't exactly working out the way we planned" he tried to explain.
"I guess I don't see what the big deal is if she went to school here or if she went to school in Glenoak. They are the same schools for her major are they not?"
Kevin nodded. "They are but she won't go to Cobell Seminary. I've talked to her about it she won't say why she just changes the subject. So if she won't go then I'll go to her. It's plain and simple"
Karen went to open her mouth but the sound of the front door opening and closing got the attention of both of them. "What was that?"
Kevin shrugged his shoulders. "How should I know?"
Karen gaped at her son. "Do you think Lucy heard us arguing about her?"
Again, Kevin shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. She isn't talking to me at the moment anyways so I don't really care"
Karen glared at her son. "You and she are either really in love or always fighting. Why can't you two just get along these days? Your wedding isin less than21 days away and you still haven't decided where you want to go on your honey moon?"
She moved around the kitchen and searched through a few cupboards until she found the strongest coffee grinds that she usually hid for special "in case of emergency" coffee fixations.
Kevin rolled his eyes. "I'm not going to get into that argument. We'll go where we go and if we decided to take a road trip and drive up and down the California coast so be it. So if we go to Hawaii that's our choice as well. Now if you don't mind I need to go check in on Lucy and find out if she wants to talk" he told her sauntering out of the kitchen and headed towards the stairs.
From the taxi cab Lucy cried herself to the verge of exhaustion. She was sick and tired of arguing with Kevin, sick and tired of having to defend herself to her mother and she was just sick and tired of everyone talking about her wedding.
All she wanted to do was grab Kevin pack two overnight bags and run to the airport and grab the first flight available and head straight towards Las Vegas and not turn around.
But as of now…that wasn't possible. The wedding was off and it was all his fault. She wondered if he knew she was gone by now. He would have had to know once he realized that she no longer occupied the bathroom and all of her luggage was gone. But then again, knowing Kevin he didn't pay attention and needed to get away for a while probably left his house and went somewhere trying to figure out how he was going to explain him, and the stupid line of bullshit he tried to feed her.
"Miss?" the cabbie tried to get her attention.
Lucy snapped back to reality. "Yes?" she replied. That's when she noticed that they were in front of Buffalo International Airport. She got out of the cab and waited for him to get her luggage from the back and when he did she rummaged around her purse trying to gather enough for the 10 mile fare. After finding a 20.00 she handed it to him and he thanked her and escorted her to the curb and retreated back to his cab and drove off.
Lucy walked into Buffalo International Airport and headed for the Northwest Airline ticket counter and stood in line. She was starting to get impatient when she was called next. Five minutes later she had checked in her bag, gotten her ticket and was standing in the security line that was 2 miles long wondering if she was making a mistake.
Kevin was climbing the stairs two by two hoping that Lucy had clamed down enough to talk to him at a decent level instead of just yelling at him. His foot touched the landing and he knew something was wrong. It was too quiet upstairs. He looked towards his left into the bathroom and noticed that the door was open which meant Lucy had finally unlocked herself from in there. His next step went into Patty-Mary's room but Lucy wasn't in there either. His last movement was to his old bedroom, praying that Lucy was there.
When he knocked softly and didn't hear anything he opened the door and could tell that she had left. Her luggage was gone and so was she. He sat down on the bed and tried to struggle with the thought that their engagement could possible be over because of his childhood mistakes. He wanted to cry but he knew he couldn't. He needed to find Lucy…except it was starting to feel like deja vu all over again.
He searched the bedroom for some sort of a note to explain were Lucy had gone. He was just about to give up when he saw the piece of notebook paper on the floor next to the nightstand. He picked it up and saw Lucy's handwriting.
Kevin,
I went home
---Lucy----
Kevin crumpled up the paper and raced out of the room and headed down the stairs.
"Kevin! Would you stop making so much noise?" His mother yelled to him as he raced into the kitchen to grab his old truck keys. "I gotta go" he told her breathlessly running out of the back door and hopping into his old, trusty pick up truck. He hoped he wasn't too late like he was a year ago when Lucy got into that horrible accident. It seemed like every time that their relationship was ruined Mindy always had something to do with it. But this time he wasn't going to let her ruin what he had right now.
Racing down the road he weaved in and out of traffic. He blew through yellow lights that turned red and didn't stop at stop signs. He needed to get to her before she left him like this.
"Last call for flight NWA689" the PA announced overhead. With Lucy in line waiting she wondered if Kevin and found out she had left yet. Moving slowly she handed the flight attendant her ticket, who promptly scanned it and handed back to her.
She walked down the terminal and into the cockpit. She walked past first class and into the cabin and looked for row 15 in the 747. She sat down and hoped that she didn't have a seat mate. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to be left alone.
She watched as the other passengers bordered the plane and watched as the flight attendants shut the door and announce that the plane was leaving the gate and they would be on their way to Glenoak California in 3 hours and 30 minutes. She thought about calling her parents when she got home to let them know she was there but she really didn't feel like answering any questions so she decided that she'd just take a cab home from the airport and deal with the 300 questions later.
She watched as the airplane started to back up and head down the runway. A few minutes later she heard the all clear signal and watched as the plane shot down the runway and pretty soon was in the air.
Kevin arrived at the airport 45 minutes later. He had almost gotten stop by three cops but luckily enough he managed to slow down himself down and drive at a normal speed in time for them to not try and ticket him. He threw his car into park and ran down the stairs as fast as he could. His first stop was Delta Airlines to see if she had gotten a ticket from there. When they told him no he went out to Southwest, U.S Airways and then Northwest Airlines.
Tina, the women in charge of tickets clicked away on the keyboard. "Hmm… It looks like I have a ticket registered to a Lucy Camden and it was for flight NWA689 that left 45 minutes ago" she told him sympathetically.
Kevin slammed his fists down on the counter "Damn" he muttered.
"Is there something that I could possibly help you with sir?" Tina asked him hoping that she could be some kind of assistance to him. Kevin just shook his head and started to walk back to his car. He started to rack his brain trying to figure out if there was a way he could talk to her. The he remembered Matt was in town for the weekend with Sarah celebrating her parents 25th wedding anniversary. He grabbed his cell phone from his back pocket and dialed Matt's cell phone number. He heard someone pick up and he took a deep breath. "Matt? It's Kevin…I need your help"
4 Hours Later…
Lucy's flight had arrived at Glenoak Airport and she had slept the entire flight and was still exhausted. She had cried in her sleep and she knew it by the way her clothes where soaked. She grabbed her carry on and walked off the plane barely saying good bye to the pilot and the flight attendants and headed straight for her luggage at the luggage carousel.
Just as she was coming out of the terminal and through the roped off section she saw Matt waiting for her with her luggage in tow.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him suspiciously.
"I came to pick my little sister up from the airport is that a problem?" he asked trying to look innocent but with Matt well you understand that with the way he looked innocent always meant he was up to no good.
"Kevin sent you didn't he?" she asked him out flatly.
Matt nodded. "It's only because he cares for you Lucy."
Lucy rolled her eyes. "I don't care if he cares for me he shouldn't have lied to me like that." She told him starting to feel the tears coming again.
Matt put his arm around her and squeezed her shoulders. "But Luce, he didn't exactly lie to you. He just never told you and you never knew about it." He explained guiding her to one of the tables and chairs that were scattered around the Glenoak Airport.
"Why didn't he tell me about her? Why didn't he tell me that he was married before?" she hicciuped letting the tears fall freely. "I just wanted him to be honest Matt and then I got all mad. I didn't mean to. I just wanted him to tell me" she cried harder burying her face into her older brothers shoulder.
"Luce, he didn't tell because it was such a long time ago. It was something that he never wanted anyone to know because he was to ashamed of it. You were to young back then to even understand what was going on. You were like what? Thirteen? Fourteen? You were to young to know that at 18 Kevin had made what he thinks to his day the biggest mistake of his life. You shouldn't penalize him for that. He loves you. He always has and always will why can't you ever accept that?" Matt told her.
"I…I don't know" Lucy hiccupped again. "Maybe I'm scared. I'm scared because I love him so much and I don't want anything to happen to him. I don't want to be one of those women that only get a few months with their husbands when they are killed on duty. I want him to come home everyday so we can rock in the swing that'll be on our front porch and watch the sun set every night. I want him to be there when we have our first baby…I just don't want to lose him" she exclaimed wiping her tears onto her sleeve.
"Lucy, that's part of his job. He became a police offer because he wanted to serve and protect the public just like his dad did. He knows the dangers of his job. Believe me. It took him years to convince me that you and him belong together. I seriously wanted to kill him that day he told me you and him kissed at your prom. I wanted to hit him hard but you know what he said to me when you guys got engaged? He told me that when he told you he loved you he meant it…if he hadn't meant it he never would of said that to you. So I know that he loves you. I just don't know how to convince you anymore that he does" Matt told her looking helpless.
Lucy hiccupped one more time before she started to think about what Matt said. It was true. Kevin did love her and he told her that all the time when he was leaving to go to work, when he was on his way home and even when he went to bed every night. It was like his way of saying "If I don't come back you'll always know that I love you". Lucy shook her head. She didn't want to think of anything tragic happening to him right now.
"Hand me your phone. I need to call him" she demanded.
"He won't answer his phone" Matt replied simply.
Lucy tapped her foot in irritation. "Why not?" she asked him.
"Because he's on his way to Glenoak as we speak" he replied.
Lucy got a small smile on her face. "Good" she replied. "I can't wait to tell him how much I love him"