See You Around~ Grester (completed)

Chapter Forty-Seven

Chester's POV

I used to have a picture of a rocket on my bedroom wall, with an infinity of stars surrounding it. I used to stare at it for hours and every night before I went to bed I would promise myself that one day I would be in that rocket- flying to another world.

It seemed so far away, an impossible mission. I don't know if when I was eight years old I meant it in the literal sense but I sure as hell know I wanted to reach the stars.

When I was young it seemed so easy to get to the moon but as I grew up I realised the truth; that stars are far away for a reason.

My optimism was deflated by the factual evidence that stars weren't really stars. They were just shiny atoms. My eight year old self didn't take that too well. So when I was sixteen I studied astronomy and the way planets survived in the galaxy, trying to figure out why every child was so fascinated by the world we could never get to. I never found my answer. Until today.

When I woke up to find Grace asleep next to me, her wedding ring drawing my attention. See, I may have never found my answer when I was little but I have come to the conclusion that that was only because I wasn't in love.

We dream of a life so far away because it's a goal, it's unknown and as a small child it's in our nature to explore, when I was eight I didn't have a reason to stay on the ground. But now, I have every reason to stay here and yet somehow I am not.

I feel like Grace is one of them stars, a million miles away yet if you hold your hand out to the sky you can almost touch her. She's shining above everyone and is the reason for a million smiles. But there will always be one person who will eventually reach that star; when I was eight it was an astronaut but now I am educated and grown up I realise it was me all along.

Grace is my star and now I'm living in this magical world far from anyone's destruction. You don't need your rocket to get you places, if you hold onto someone's hand, if you reach up high enough, they can pull you up and you'll join them. The world at your feet.

This is the only way I can fathom my current thoughts, through metaphorical stars. Grace leans into me, hiding herself in my chest. I'm eight years old again, looking at the stars; and suddenly they don't seem so far away.

"Thank you." I whispered into her head.

Grace's POV

I woke up in his arms, his muscles wrapped around my shoulder, pulling me tightly against him; as if he was never going to let go.

"Good morning Mrs See." He smirked as I arose, my eyes registering to the light. I liked the sound of my name, I liked how now everyone could know that this was real.

"Good morning." I replied sleepily, kissing Chester.

We laid between the sheets, our bare skin touching. The four-poster bed held us both as I moved closer into Chester, reminiscing on yesterday's events.

It all seemed like a dream, when we had said those words, made our commitment. It all seemed so surreal and I kept twisting my ring round my finger to try and believe that it actually happened. I hadn't realised how much I had wanted to get married until yesterday, when it was staring me in the face.

This was more than just a signed piece of paper, more than just a legal agreement. This was a commitment that meant the world to me, this was something that was never going to break.

I guess before I met Chester I only ever saw the literal sense of marriage and the ceremonies; never taking notice of the symbolism of any of it. I guess now the tables have turned, all I see when I look at Chester is love and all I see when I look at the gold bands that connect us, is eternity.

We did nothing all morning, relaxing before we headed off on our honeymoon. I wanted to stay in this moment forever, our hands intertwined. I could feel his ring beneath my fingers, the feel of it making me smile. I felt like I was in some sort of fairytale, my Prince Charming standing next to me. I was whisked away to my own magical kingdom and I never wanted to leave.

When I thought these last couple of days couldn't get any better, when everything seemed too good to be true, it just got a thousand times better.

We were laying on the hotel bed, reliving everything when I got the call. My phone's ringtone breaking the comfortable silence, I unwrapped myself from Chester's muscular embrace before picking up the phone and waiting for a response.

"Hello?" I asked, fear travelling through my voice.

"Hello Miss Helbig, we received your test results back earlier."

I mouthed 'hospital' to Chester as he sat up on the bed, holding out a hand as I shakily stood, in fear of what the they had to say. My mind raced to the worse possible outcomes, I didn't need this, not today.

I stood in shock as the doctor spoke, only picking up certain words in her sentences. I turned to Chester, he was waiting nervously on the edge of the bed- tapping his hand on his leg rhythmically. I put my hand on his, stopping the noise. I hung up the phone, having heard everything I needed to. I stared into Chester's eyes, they were full of confusion.

"It's gone." I said, a smile creeping onto my lips. "The cancer- it's gone!" I was jumping up and down now, grinning as Chester's face lit up.

"No way...Grace, Grace this is incredible!" I could see a layer of water running across his eyes. He picked me up, spinning me around. I tilted my head back as we laughed excitably together. He stopped moving, slowly pulling me down his body. I could feel his breathe on my neck, the feeling making shivers run down my spine.

"I love you." He whispered into my neck, I could feel his smile on my skin.

"I love you." I said back, kissing him passionately.

Everything in my life was just where I wanted it to be, everything in place where it belonged. I was healthy and safe, enveloped in Chester's arms. I was where I wanted to be, the place I had dreamed about for all of my childhood years. And now that I was really here, it was even more magical than ever.