A woman named Lizzy Sheppard is forced to endure a very hard situation with the untimely death of her husband, having to accept the 'till death do us part' portion of their union earlier than anticipated. While trying to cope with her loss, Lizzy un...
It was starting to get cold in the city, which meant there was another holiday season on the horizon. Lizzy couldn't believe it was going to be the second time since his passing that she would be alone for the holidays. Well, she never really was alone. The Sheppard family always had a place at their table for Lizzy, as did her own family. Even Shannon and her better half went out of their way to make a place for her to spend time with them and Damon. She really did appreciate the out pour of affection but it never made the holiday easier for her, at least not this early. She still missed the man who married her, and it would take more than a few seasons to get over him. Lizzy sat there by her window, watching the snow come down and back at the list that was in her hands. There were only two items left on the list. Funny thing was, she already had a plan in action to take care of the last one in a way that she knew would make Hayden proud. The problem was she had to take care of the second last first, which was as cryptic as ever. It was obvious Hayden had hurt someone, much more than the whole stolen teddy bear incident, and he wanted to seek that person's forgiveness at one point or another. The problem facing Lizzy as how she was going to find out the name of this person and what Hayden had done to he, she or them.
At first Lizzy tried to find the answer simply by looking for it. She did online searches to see if he had any online blogs that she wasn't aware of. No dice, she thought to herself, Hayden was the online journal kind of person. Ditto for writing them, as Lizzy spent three days looking through the house for some kind of journal that might have the answers she sought. No such thing existed, and thus she had no way to find out who he had hurt the most. Lizzy had considered talking to friends and family to see if they could come up with something that could help, but with the holidays coming up it wasn't such a pleasant idea to make everyone thing of something negative about Hayden when they should be happy and merry with their friends and family. It didn't seem very fair, and it was the last thing she wanted to do to the people she loved during the holidays. She wasn't the only one that missed Hayden, and to try to bring up all this wasn't what she wanted to do them. Lizzy was starting to think it was time to put the list on hold, maybe until after Christmas. She moved to the couch and petted Wyatt who jumped into her lap for his own nap, and watched the snow fall until she dozed of herself.
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There wasn't that much snow that winter, and Hayden didn't care as long as there was a game to watch on TV. He sat down in his green chair, wearing his lucky football jersey that was so rugged it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. It was possible but not something that Lizzy wanted to think about. He was sitting on the couch, antsy because it was halftime and that was usually when Lizzy would try to pick a conversation to pass the time. She usually asked something stupid but for some reason that day, Lizzy asked him something rather deep. "Do you have regrets?"
"Regrets?" Hayden asked as he put down his football. "You mean like decisions where I turned left when I should have turned right?"
"I don't know; things you've done that you wish you could go back and change." Lizzy said, "Things you did before that you would never do today."
