Open Window

That smile was always beautiful, absolute perfection, but in that moment perfection was a complete understatement. It was magical, beautiful. It was right. It was the happiest I had ever seen him.

His hands encased my face and he kissed me gently on the lips, barely able to stop smiling long enough to make it a proper kiss. My entire body was filled with fluttering butterflies. "You're my first," I whispered.

Epilogue

The hotshot lawyer was almost as good as he said he was. James Sterling the man that killed Damien's mother was sentenced to fifteen years with the chance of parole after ten. He was originally facing 25 years. His family was outraged and just like they said they did file a civil suit for pain and suffering after all the heartache the Hawkins boys had caused their family. But those troublesome Hawkins boys filed a wrongful death case and were awarded over five million dollars. You would think with all that money the Hawkins boys would split up and go on and live their lives but they didn't. Instead they sold their mother's house anxious to be out of that god forsaken neighborhood. They bought a house that could accommodate all of us with more than enough hot water. Moving had been easy. I didn't have anything worth packing and I didn't even tell my parents I was leaving I don't think they would even notice. And David only packed their mother's pictures.

"Davey are you sure Damien and I can have the master bedroom?" He reached over to rub my belly.

"I'm sure you can have the master bedroom and if you decide to share with Damien that's your business. You need room for the baby."

I can't believe that less than a year after I decided to go through that window again everything could be so different. I was finally with Damien and we were going to have a baby. Condoms weren't on our list of things to do that first time and by the time we thought about it we were too late. Initially, I was worried how that was going to work out I was leaning towards not having the baby. But once I told Damien and he told David and Darren they decided that not having the baby wasn't even an option even before the lawsuit. David teased Damien without mercy shocked that he was capable of reproducing.

"See Damien I told you I was settling."