Part 5: Twas 2 nights before Christmas
Okay so quick note. So if you read it Seth says it's been 2 days without any interaction this is the missing part I wanted to get the last chapter out for Christmas. Hope everyone enjoys and once again as always thanks for reading!!
Me, Zachary, and Lawrence had a very special woman in our home tonight.
Mrs. Leslie Maldonado.
Zachary's wonderful mother who had become a mother to us.
This woman was literally an angel to me and I could never repay her for saving my life not so long ago.
We're talking and talking about the good time's and walking down memory lane of the past when my phone begins to ring and Seth's name pops up signaling I have a message.
My mind begins to wander to him and I can't bring myself to let him go.
Missing him and him haunting my dreams are what get me through my lonely night's.
I gaze up back at the woman who has become a mother to me and see her staring at me adoringly with love in her eyes and i can't help but wish my mother would look at me like that.
"Where is your heart at my darling?" I continue to look down at my phone than press the button on the side making the screen go black than I take her hands in mine.
"Here with you." She begins laughing and gently slaps my arm.
Don't lie to your mother you little shit." We all begin to laugh.
"Who is he?"
"My boss." I whisper waiting to gauge her reaction.
"Geez Quinney you always have a way of getting yourself in to sticky situations."
We begin to laugh and I think she sees how I'm really struggling with this man.
"What happened?"
I open my mouth but than close it again and for some reason it stuck on how he makes me feel, on how to explain him.
"I have no idea.. I'm not a people type of person. I sit there and I study them and memorize them and I can figure them out sometimes. And when I think I have his next move figured out he takes a completely different turn. And he makes me feel like he keeps me at a distance and than he gets mad when I'm not near him... I don't know what he wants from me."
I do my best to make her understand but feel like I'm getting nowhere when without warning she takes my hand.
"Quinn life is to short to be kept at a distance in the dark. You like him I can tell and it's not that you don't know him and what he wants it's that you do and what he wants scares you. He's telling you loud and clear that all he wants is you. Don't be scared Quinn someone loving you is the best feeling in the world."
I take her hand and notice tears falling from her eyes and I recognize something.
Something I've seen before and the darkness begins to creep in and I feel it in the middle of my chest.
"Please... oh no... god no..."
"Mom what is it?" Zachary coos to her
"The cancers back and this time it's spread to my lungs and the doctor's have said there's nothing more we can do."
She pauses as if carefully choosing her next words I feel a huge lump in my throat and tears welling up in my eyes but quickly and forcefully push them back.
"I've accepted this already and I know it's hard and may not seem fair but my journeys coming to an end soon and I just want to be with the ones I love from this day on.
