Chapter 10
Meeting the parents made it official.
Jake’s parents came and spoke to my parents
about their life.
My parents were worried when they heard
about Jake.
Jake was extremely understanding and wanted to protect me.
I learned the truth about who Jake was. My
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Tamily wasn t used to being around people like him. I’m sure they had some doubts.
“I can’t imagine that I get to spend my life with someone like you,” I said.
“After years of hard work, the person I’ve been waiting to meet is you.” said Jake.
He transferred everything to me and promised he wouldn’t change my life.
That night, snuggled up with Jake, I asked why he loved me so much. He said, “It took a lot of work to get you. I was afraid to go on without knowing if you would still be there. I knew that it was going to take a lot of work to gain your love again. Then I realized that it didn’t matter how much I did, I just wanted to be able to hold
you in my arms again.”
I nudged him. “Getting kind of sappy.”
He smiled and held me close
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He smiled and held me close.
“Olivia.”
“Olivia,” Jake said to me over the phone one
day.
“What’s mine is yours, and what’s yours is
yours.”
The End.
Bonus
After the marriage, I didn’t slow down.
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My mother–in–law understood and wished she
could.
We were thirty, and no one was pressuring us
to have children.
One day, Jake came to visit, and I got pregnant.
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Our son was born ten months later.
We named him Jacob, Little Jake.
At two, I did a show.
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I wanted to stir the pot, so I talked about calling Jake.
He was supposed to say, “Are you making a record?”
I called Jake, but Jake and my son picked up.
“Mommy!” he said.
Then I heard Jake: “Give me back my wife’s
phone!”
The set was silent. Everyone complained about
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Lockod loko if I could sing
I asked Jake if I could sing.
He told me how great I was and was too
nervous to say what I wanted. He did say he
loved me, and it was my choice, whatever I did.
I didn’t complete the assignment.
But that night, Jake and I trended.
When Little Jake was five, I had our daughter,
Lily.
Since then, Jake and I were happy.
The End!
