Come Closer

“Khloe where are you.”

Today was the day, my plane leaves for Pittsburgh in about 3 hours and I was getting Khloe to drive me to the airport.

“I’m pulling up to your driveway Meg, calm down…you are not going to miss your flight.”

I walked through the house that I purchased 5 years ago.

The room where I slept, the kitchen where I cooked so many meals for my family and the team, and most importantly the backyard which I worked so hard on. I had so many parties back there, even James came to a few when he was home and I wasn’t in Europe, the love between of us never really left, I just never thought I would be selling it and moving down to Pittsburgh to be with him.

“So many good times back here.” Khloe came and stood beside me.

“That’s for sure.” I had tears in my eyes.

“Just think, there will be so many good times in Pittsburgh.” She turned and hugged me. “Marriage…some little babies, in the future!”

“Speaking of marriage and weddings, will you be my maid of honour? Your my best friend and you have always been there for me.” Smiling at her crying.

“I would be more than happy!” she was also crying. “WOO WEDDING!”

“And you know what…I think Paul might be his best man.” I told her as she was putting my bags into the car. “Just please no sex in the coat room.”

“I can’t make any promises!” she said as we drove to the airport.
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“Here let me get that for you.”

A flight attendant came over to me and took my carry-on suit case from the overhead bin.
“Omg…look at that ring! Amanda come look at this ring.” The other flight attendant came over and they both stared at it. “Absolutely beautiful.”

“Thanks ladies! But I have to go, thanks for the amazing flight.” I grabbed my bag and walked off the plane.

I walked through the sliding doors and there James was, looking so happy to see me.

“Where does it hurt?” He asked before hugging me.

“My left side is sore, anywhere else you can have!”

He pulled me in gently, being careful not to hurt me anywhere. He kissed me and I whispered in his ear.

“Baby, take me home.”
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I got into the house and there was a pile of flattened boxes by the garage door.
“Did you unpack all my stuff.” I walked up to him.

“I did” he said putting my bags down. “I found something pretty interesting though.”

“What?”

He pulled out his World Junior gold medal from one of the boxes that wasn’t quite unpacked.

“You still have this?” James came over and kissed me.

“What did you think I did with it…pawn it?” I kissed him back. “I keep it in a box with all the items that mean the most to me.”

Putting the medal down, James carefully pulled me in close and kissed me hard. Unknowingly, he ran his hand down the scar that was forming right under my jaw line. It made my flinch.

“Sorry.” James said and backed up.

I sat down and started to cry.

“James, I’m sorry.” I could feel him sit down next to me. “I want to make love to you so bad but I can’t move without something hurting…Why did this have to happen to me.”

“I will take care of you Meghan for as long as it takes, everything will be fine.” He lifted my head to look at him and kissed me.

“You got wine?” He laughed.

“Woodbridge?”

“You know me to well!” James grabbed my good arm and pulled me up.

“Before you do that babe can you go into by bag and get the bag with my pills in it?”

“I suppose” winking at me.

After taking my pills with some water and getting myself a glass of wine. James said he has a surprise for me.

He came down the stairs with one of his ties and wrapped it around my head covering my eyes. I put my glass of wine down and followed him up the stairs.

“Are you ready?” he said as we stopped.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.”

He took the tie of my head and I saw an expansion on James’ closet. I saw all my clothes hanging sorted by color and style, my jewelry nicely displayed so it would be easy for me to get to them. And my shoes, displayed so beautifully. My boots on the bottom, flats and sandals on the lower shelves and my heels on the top shelves.

“Omg…James. This is amazing, when did you do this?” I turned and hugged him.

“The moment you left, I hired some people to make an expansion and I think it turned out pretty good!”

“Good? James it’s amazing.”
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James leaves to go on a road trip tomorrow so we decided to go out for dinner, since I was way too tired to make anything and James is a hot mess in the kitchen.

“Mom told me that you two were talking about the wedding.” James said after our drinks arrived.

“Yeah, she came over after I got home from the hospital and we just talked about it a little.”

Taking a sip from my glass of wine since I never got to finish mine at home.

“What did you say?”

“I just told her that we are probably going to have a destination wedding…my mom hates the idea.”

“Why?”

“She just started saying that not everyone can fly down south to go to a wedding, so she thinks we should have it in Whitby so that everyone can come.”

“And what did you say?” looking at me a little concerned.

“I said that we could always have a party back home after the wedding, have like a mock wedding or something; there is just no pleasing her.”

“Honestly, at the end of the day, it is our decision and it’s our wedding. I want only our close friends and family there, not 3rd cousins that you haven’t seen in 20 years.” James finished saying as our food arrived.

“Babe, we still have tons of time till the wedding…stop stressing.”

“You know what, when you come home from your road trip on Friday, we are going to see Stephanie and book the wedding venue.” I said as I stabbed the chicken with my fork. “How does that sound?”

“Sounds perfect.” and James kissed me across the table.

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