Sorry, but don't get to used to this everyday posting on this story, I'll be leaving on vacation in a few days and won't have access to my laptop to type for you guys. If you have any suggestion or comments, please review or PM me I will have my phone, so I can see those. :)
Dear Blue Eyes,
I got your letter, it was all fantastic! I did see your name in the local newspaper here, I have a copy saved in my dresser to keep forever, I'm so proud of you, I told you you'd make it one day. I know you said not to write you, but I am, I won't send it though, I'll keep this letter and give it to you when I greet you on the dock the day you arrive here in America, but don't read it in front of me, or else I might die of embarrassment.
I have some news for you, Rick. I will tell you before you read this, on the dock or as we arrive back home, because I feel this is not something you should read in a letter, unless you have to. You better make it over here safe Richard Castle, because if you don't so help me God, I don't think I could go on without you. The wedding might be sooner than we hoped, because I'm pregnant. We are expecting a baby Rick, a doctor that Aunt Theresa referred me to confirmed it. As of today I'm sixteen weeks along, if you are as smart as I know you to be, then you will have already figured out that we have an engagement baby, that night when you proposed, and we broke a long standing tradition. I'm more than pleased, mother wasn't so happy when she first found out, but not even an hour passed and she was already making little outfits with the leftover fabric from my sewing. I can't wait to tell you in person, Rick. By the time you read this, hopefully you will already know and not be trying to sneak read it while I'm with you, and don't lie to me, I know you do, or at least try to. Allow yourself to be curious for a while, for me at least.
I know you will have a safer voyage than I did, but no matter, I need you here with me so be safe and stay out of trouble. You'll be proud of me, I have explored this wonderful city, I've made a few good friends. Jenny Duffy-O'Mally, she comes around Aunt Theresa's to clean on Saturdays, she has gotten me a few cleaning jobs here and there, she even buys some of the clothes I make. She introduced me to her best friend and beau of one year, a young man, Kevin Ryan, he asks everyone to call him Ryan, his grandparents moved to America during the Great Famine in Ireland, his father, born here, married his American mother. Ryan is only three years younger than I, a mere seventeen, but we get along. He introduced me to a man he works with, Javier Esposito, a Hispanic man who moved to New York, to be further away from his mysterious past, back in Florida, now God knows Rick that you are going to ask him repeatedly to tell you his story, please, once again, for me, just remain curious. Finally, for the friend I truly can't wait for you to meet, we became fast friends, after meeting while I was out shopping to restock our kitchen. Delanie Parish, she prefers to be called Lanie, her grandparents moved here from Spain, when her mother was only twelve, she is a born and raised American.
I'll see you soon, Rick. And don't forget I will always love you, my dear blue eyes.
Your always,
Kate