Loving the Campus Monster

Chapter 34 (Everything is Better)

 Laura

A week latter.....

We sat on the back porch enjoying the sunlight as it bathed over us, listening to the bird's tweet in the distance. There were signs of spring coming early as the cold wind was dying down and the bright sunlight flooding the air. Ross sits in a deep Adirondack chair, and I perched on the wide armrest at his side, his arm around my waist for support.

This became something that we do every morning on the weekends since Ross and I don't have school and he doesn't have any hockey practice on the weekends. I loved spending my Saturday's and Sundays with him. He would usually cook breakfast and after we would eat and clean up, we would sit out here and talk and just enjoy the view. It was just like it was before and I am so happy how easy it is for us to slide back into the same routine as before.

Everything in my life seemed to be going great again. Even my friends and family are doing better.

Cory was back with Katie, and they were completely happy again. It took a while for them to get back to where they were before, but after a lot of groveling on Cory's part, Katie decided to forgive him and take him back. It wasn't easy for Cory to work though his feelings at first, but he told me that after some deep thinking, he had finally decided to stay with his girlfriend. He told me a few days after I came back that it took him almost losing her to see how much he loved her, and that no matter what he might have felt for Mel, it didn't compare to what he felt for Katie.

As for Mel, she is working through the rejection well. She's a little heartbroken but she's not letting that get in the way of her friendship with them, even though at first Katie was still a little piffed that Mel had kissed her boyfriend. But after a lot of talking, she eventually forgave her. They went back to being the best of friends again, which I am so happy and thankful for. I would have hated to see their friendship end over something as trivia as a guy.

As for Holly, she is still working through her grief but at least she has Rony there to help her get through it. I don't worry as much for her now as I would have before since I know she's in good hands with Rony. He has been like a rock for her through this whole ordeal by trying his very best to keep her together whenever she falls apart, which has been a lot. But he also pushes her to get out and do things again whenever she gets too absorbed in her grief and slowly but surely, she has been. Each day she's getting better and it's all thanks to Rony's loving care and support of her. And I am forever thankful that she found someone like him. He's everything she's ever needed and deserved in a guy, especially after all the jerks she has been with in the past.

She really did find her true love.

Like I did.

Ross has been wonderful. I never thought I would find someone like him or that he would turn out to be someone I want and need in my life, but he is, and I'm so glad I have him in it. He may have turned out to be the monster from my past, but over time of getting to know him, has become my savior who's always been there to protect and care for me, even through my worse, like now. Over the past week I have been trying to work through my grief of losing my father and he has been there for me every step of the way. It's been hard still, but with Ross it's getting better. I still feel unbearable sadness at my father's death, like there's a void inside of me that I feel nothing can fill, but each day the pain has been lessening. It makes me hope that the pain inside will, maybe not disappear, but lessen to the point where I could think about my father without crying.

Our mother seems to be bouncing back from our father's death a lot faster than I thought she would. But then again, I guess it kind of makes sense for her too since she's been mourning my father for years before this. In a sense she must have felt like she lost him years ago instead of just a few weeks ago.