Healing Hearts

I was at OUR spot. The place where we had our first date a couple weeks after our one year anniversary. Our spot was any Zaxby’s near Gilbert, South Carolina. I’m here alone today. In the background of the restaurant's sounds was Safe & Sound by Taylor Swift (feat. The Civil Wars). You’re probably wondering who I and the other part of ‘our’ is. That's me and my fiancé we’re both eighteen years old.

We’re supposed to be married on the twenty sixth of September in the year of 2025 just before my nineteenth birthday. Just two hours ago I was still at my house when the hospital called me, and told me he got in a bad car wreck and died shortly after they got there and he was able to tell them to give me his phone. When they told me; my heart felt like it was literally breaking. My chest hurt and it felt tight. My legs became weak like a very wobbly jello, making me fall to my knees clutching my chest.

The tears ran down my face at a rapid pace, sounds of pain that I never thought I could make were erupting from my throat and making me aware that I had my mouth hanging open and couldn’t close it because of how hard and uncontrollably my body was shaking from the crying. The two male cops standing before me said “We’re so sorry for your loss ma’am, have a good day.” They then left me to cry on the floor of my house. I moved over and then shut my door and laid flat on my back on the floor right there. I called my twin brother Warren about it first. He asked me if he needed to come by the house. I told him he didn’t need to, and then he said “Okay, Darce.” At Zaxby’s I just got a vanilla root beer and sat in sad silence in a two person booth.

I was looking down at my drink just thinking about all the times I’d had with Xander, and how he’s dead now and I didn’t even get to say goodbye. He was the love of my life. I thought. And I didn’t even get to say goodbye. I’ve had this same burning thought for the two hours that I’ve been here.

All of a sudden I hear the faux leather seat in front of me make the squeaking noise it makes when someone sits down. I look up to see a unfamiliar but familiar face… it’s Remington Leith Kropp. “Bonjour, Ma Chérie.” Remington greeted me in FRENCH. He was wearing an old timey suit with these boots that match the old timey aesthetic he has going on, it made him look like a vampire since he’s also fairly pale. His blond hair reached to his shoulders and he had sorta had some bangs his hair looks soft but like it has a little bit for product in it to keep it in place. His eyes were a gorgeous honey-chocolate brown. His lips were plump and pinkish-red. He looks so gorgeous.

“Uh.. Hello.” I said shyly. Remington chuckled. “Why are you sitting all alone, my dear?”
“Because I was told that my fiancé is dead, he died today, in a car crash.” I said quietly.
“I’m so sorry to hear that, Ma Chérie.”
“I would say it’s fine, but it’s not fine, ya know?”
“Yeah- well not really because I’ve never even had a fiancé.”
“I understand what you mean.”
“But anyway, would you like to come sit with me and my brothers instead of being alone over here?” Remington pointed over to a semi circle shaped booth in the back.
“Yeah, sure. That’d be nice.”

Remington came over to my side of the two person booth and he took my hand in his and escorted me to his and his two brothers’ table. When we were approaching the table his brothers got up and stood in front of the table. The taller one has a mullet but it looks good on him. He was also wearing an old timey outfit but he looks more like a gentleman than just simply old timey if that makes sense. He has a white dress up shirt underneath his formal jacket that is like a very old military jacket or a marching jacket, and its silvery and black with very beautiful silver designs on the sleeves on the tops of his forearms. His eyes are slightly darker than Remington’s, and his jawline is VERY defined.
The shorter one he also had an old timey outfit on, but he looks like he’s a pirate just there is no eye patch or fake limb. Its just the way he dresses. He has a hat its like a floppy fedora looking hat with a pink-ish orange-ish colored ribbon or scarf around the top. It also has a hole on the (his)right side. He has a black dress up shirt underneath his formal jacket that is like a very old military jacket or a marching jacket and its black and gold with very beautiful gold designs on the sleeves on the tops of his forearms.