Then There Was You

Chapter 1: Fate, Plane, Wife?

I really don't want to deal with this right now. Lord give me energy. Sighing deeply looking back down to her phone reading the text only for the phone to ring after much debate to finally accept the call. 'Big Bobs whore house you got the dough I got the hoe.' 'Really Arabella? Is that how you really going to answer the phone for your mother.' 'I thought it was funny.' She heard her dad say laughing softly in the background. 'Yeah you would. When are you coming home? You do remember you got to go back to work right you said you'd only be gone a week it's been two. You need to get home and let the healing begin.' 'You know what mom I am working on a flight out and I will be at the airport tonight to get the first flight out. I know I stayed longer and don't worry about work because my boss said he doesn't care see I think we both didn't realize that there was a time limit to grieve the loss of a friend mom. Don't worry though I will get my ass back home as soon as I can and I will text you when I get back to my place good bye mom.' 'Wait Ari I didn't mean.' It was already too late and she hung up on her mother.

Looking up to grab her cold blended mocha. Glancing down to see apology texts from both her mom and father. Understanding she didn't need to be so short with them but this was one of her best friends who she just loss a good friend. Brently Brown. Brently was a physical therapist in the same practice Arabella Alderman worked for they went and got through school together being each other's rock for those long nights yes she still had her best friends and they did do a service for him back at home in Alton. But she made a promise to him long time ago to bring him home to his city to be spread where his grandparents were spread in the cabin in the woods she decided to stay in the cabin she would hang with him and his family in summers gone by there was no one left of his blood line now that he was gone.

Brently just left his shift with her from the hospital it was about 2 in the afternoon when a drunk-on wine middle aged soccer mom van slammed into him as he was stopped at a red light on his motorcycle waiting for it to go green. He was only seven minutes from his home. The Drunk woman named Carol hit him so hard he flew off his bike straight into the air. Only to get slammed by a big rig coming in from the right side of him he slammed through the truck to get flung to the other side of oncoming traffic. The preceded to get hit one more time by another van who his body dropped on top of. He bled out from eternal bleeding on the way to the hospital. That was the last time and day she spoke to him. They were just laughing and then he was no longer breathing.

She kept her word when she got his ashes and their boss understood how important it was to both of them to move on and grant his last wishes. It shocked her even more to know that he left her that cabin. After finally being able to piece herself back together she could still feel their last conversation of how she needed to branch out and get herself a man and start living life instead of just working and running. Brently was loved by all who knew him he just had a little problem of getting a good woman to stay with him. He was the perfect guy great personality, great job, great body, great credit score. Full of tattoos, owned his own place had no debt treated every girl like a queen no matter what though they would always run around behind his back. Brently being a great guy he never let him get him down he always kept being him always kept putting himself out there to try and find the happiness they both dreamed of, except he was the only one out their trying while she put herself on a bench.

Her last boyfriend was great. He was in the business world as a famous young lawyer. He also had a great body they met bumping into each other while jogging. They were together for three great years both families loved the other. They were living together living in pure happiness until she found out he didn't believe in marriage and never wanted kids. Hell he wouldn't even let her have a dog. After putting a lot of thought into what their futures could and would look like. She decided to leave believing both wanted different things. No matter how much Vincent argued with her about that wasn't true in the end she proved to him it was. She wanted to devote herself heart and soul in front of God and her family and friends pledge herself to only one person to the rest of her life no matter how Vincent tried to prove they could do that without a piece of paper, he couldn't understand how it meant more than that too her.