Hey. Oh I've been gone for a while. Sorry :( but I'm back! I hit a bit of a wall and then wrote my little mini Judd/Vicki story called "I Will Wait, I Will Wait for You." Which you can check out if you are in that way inclined. But if you do read it you will notice it is SAD, so I had to update here so we can all be HAPPY. Go!
It was a relaxed and quiet afternoon in the Thompson household. Winter was coming and Vicki was beginning to really show. She was huddled under a blanket, drinking a cup of tea on the sofa, doing some bible study on her laptop when an interesting looking email came through. She furrowed her brow and opened it.
"Dear Vicki B. My name is Alex Davis. I'm 23 and live in Sydney, Australia. Me and my husband Joel lead a church in the city here that we started during the Tribulation as a training centre for young new Christians but since the beginning of the Millennium has flourished into a fairly large house of worship where thousands of people come to praise, worship, pray and learn more. I first became a Christian at the beginning of the Tribulation and was frequently learning from your posts on theunderground-online and I even got to see your broadcast during the gala and it inspired me so much. I know this is out of the blue, but Joel and I are organising a Marriage Seminar for our church in January and I really wanted to invite a really influential young married couple to come and speak to us. I feel like God told me to contact you, which is really weird because I don't even know if you're even married. I know this is a strange email but I hope you get back to me. Love and blessings, your sister in Christ, Alex."
"Honey," Vicki called out to Judd, "Can you come here for a second?"
He popped his head in the room a few seconds later, "Everything ok?"
"Come have a look at this." She pointed at the computer and Judd read the email over her shoulder. When he'd finished he let out a laugh.
"What's so funny?" Vicki asked.
"She wants a "really influential young married couple". Who would have thought seven years ago that people would consider us an influential married couple."
Vicki chuckled, "What do you think?"
"No harm in replying."
"She left a number to video call her on."
"Maybe email her back and see when is a good time to call."
Vicki shot back a quick email, "Hi Alex. It's wonderful to hear from you. As it turns out, I'm actually Vicki T now, as I am in fact married. I'd love to video call you and your husband and have a talk about this. Let me know when there is a good time for you guys. Blessings, Vicki."
After she hit send, she shut down the computer and yawned, rubbing her baby bump.
"How's bub today?" Judd asked, kneeling down beside her and planting a kiss on her stomach.
"He/she's good." She smiled, "He/she's making me very tired though."
"Well maybe you should take a nap. We have your sonagram this afternoon and they might be able to tell us it's sex so we don't have to keep calling it he/she."
Vicki laughed as she yawned again, "Ok. I'll go have a nana nap. Wake me at 2?"
"Sure." He said helping her to her feet and pecking her on the forehead, "Now go rest."
"So you've decided on a date for the wedding?" Pastor Bruce Barnes asked as he sat in his office with Shelly and Conrad.
"August 12th next year." Shelly said.
"That's a while away." Bruce commented.
"Well we want to make sure that we have everything we need to go into married life strong. We want to be stable and secure in every area." Conrad explained.
"That's good." Said Bruce. "I'm glad you've decided to be wise."
"I know you didn't really know me very long and you only met Conrad at the start of the Millennium, but it would really mean a lot to us if you would marry us." Shelly said.
"It would be an honour." Bruce smiled as he leant on his desk.
"That's it babe." Conrad smiled pulling Shelly to his side as they walked back to Shelly's house. They both had a spring in their step. "Date is set."
He smacked a kiss on the side of her head.
"I'm so excited!" Shelly beamed, "I can't believe we're doing it!"
"You're going to be Mrs Graham in nine months." Conrad smirked.
"Ew." Shelly pulled a face. "Mrs sounds old."
"Shelly Graham sounds good though." Conrad mused, "Perfect actually."
"You're perfect, actually." Shelly shot back.
"I wish my brother was here." Conrad said suddenly in a sombre tone. "Sorry. I don't want to be a bummer."
"No, it's okay." Shelly said, wrapping an arm around Conrad, "I wish my mom was here."
Conrad noticed out of the corner of his eye, a tear roll down Shelly's cheek.
"Do ever think about them?" Shelly asked. "About the one's who were lost."
Conrad sighed, "I do. Sometimes. I guess it's just human. Sometimes, I really miss Taylor and I get mad at God for what happened to him but then I remember that he had every opportunity to find God for himself. It was a blessing that he met Judd, it's a shame that he didn't believe, but he heard. And he chose."
"Sometimes I remember something that happened during the Tribulation like the locusts, or the horseman, and I get shivers." Shelly said. "Sometimes I feel like those seven years never actually happened and it was all a horrible nightmare. And sometimes I feel like this is all a dream and I'll wake up tomorrow huddled in a shelter or running from the GC."
Conrad didn't know what so say so he just stopped and hugged her to his chest.
"I wouldn't want it any other way though." Shelly said.
"What do you mean?"
"If I had to, I'd do it all again." Shelly smiled up at him, "It's how I met you after all."
Conrad laughed and kissed her frozen nose, "At least we'll have a good story to tell our kids when they ask how we met."
Shelly grinned, "Our kids?"
"Yeah." Conrad smiled, "I think we'll have super adorable kids."
Shelly laughed, "You think so?"
"Oh super adorable." Conrad said with a look of mock arrogance.
Conrad pulled Shelly to his side and they happy couple continued down the road.
So there you go. Hopefully more soon.
Peace xo