Eternity

Seventy Nine

|Talon's POV|

"Autumn!" Amy demands as Autumn and I are here waiting for Anne to arrive, Any is having a hard time with the baby and is demanding we help or the very least Autumn. Anne wanted to talk to us in person about living arrangements since we're still teenagers and because my parents are paying for the wedding and honeymoon she wants to pay for where we want to live. I'm not telling her how my grandfather is offering to give us one of his homes, though it can always be a summer home.

Autumn merely flips through another magazine of wedding dresses, I don't know what her dress will be but she wants to see all the options there are and which ones she likes most. It'll help her with the final decision "John is your baby" Autumn reminds Amy "this is what we've been telling you, you need to learn to do these things on your own. We will help but you can't dump your baby on us every time he cries or you need to take a break whenever you feel like it"

Amy stomps her foot aggravated like a child then leaves, for the last two weeks Amy has been getting people to help her aka do her job for her when she should be learning to do this herself. After some time, we check the house and Amy left.

Autumn gets John while I texted Ricky to come over, he's been wanting to have more time with John and this is the best thing "I swear" Autumn shakes her head "Amy is unbelievable" when Ricky is here, she hands John to him and Ricky holds John rocking him in his arms. Her parents aka her dad is biased since he never wanted her son to be given up for adoption, he wants his family all under one roof.

After ten minutes Amy got back and sees Ricky "What are you doing here?"

"You left John by himself?" Ricky demands

"No" she scoffs "Autumn and Talon are here, that doesn't explain why your here"

"We called him" she looks our way "when we realized you left to have us take care of John, we called"

"That wasn't your decision!" Amy yells

"Oh?" Autumn scoffs "and it was your decision to just leave John on us?" Anne walks in then looking around "hey mom"

"Hey kids" she smiles "Hi Ricky, here to see John?"

"No" Amy looks at him ordering "he was just leaving"

"Actually" Autumn looks at her mom "I think you better find out what Amy did—Ricky, go see your son"

"No" I stop Amy when she went after Ricky, Autumn explains to her mom what happened.

Her mom groans "Amy!" She looks at her mom "We've been telling you to handle this on your own, that this is a responsibility you have. You can't just leave the house whenever it's convenient for you. Talon? Autumn? Just come back another time, Amy and I need to talk"

***

When I see Grace, she's in bed sobbing "Want some chocolate chip cookies?" Her dad died a few days ago, she apparently also had sex the same day so she's blaming herself. Mom went to see where he is and he's in hell.

"No" she shakes her head no, placing the cookies next to her beside I look around her room and it's very pink.

"There isn't really anything you can say or do" I say to Grace "to help the pain that is inside of you when your parent dies, when my dad died I didn't know how to feel. CeCe blamed our mom since he was on life support and could have had some more time but instead she took him off. My mom was pregnant with the twins and I knew it crushed her, she barely got out of bed or ate or did anything"

Grace turns her head looking my way "Isn't your dad alive?"

"My stepdad" I explain sitting on the floor so she doesn't have a back kink in her neck "but he was my dad, he was there before my dad now was—Grace? I'm going to tell, well show you something" after talking with my family they agreed that this was something that needs to be done "and you can't tell anyone, not a soul. Can you verbally promise?"

"I promise" she looks at me as I close locking the door, she looks my way and her eyes widen when my wings come out. She sits up and her mouth opens "Oh...my...god...You're an angel" she breathes out, bringing my wings back in looking at me. She then begins to cry "Are you here to smite me for"

"Grace" stopping her from thinking this "no angel cares if you've had sex before marriage, also I'm part angel"

Tears run down her face and I pull her into my embrace, she cries against my chest as she apologizes to me. I leave a note for Grace's mom while I carry Grace to grandpa and my uncle.

"Where are we?" Grace asks "Why are we at a Night Club?"

"Because my Uncle A" explaining to her "is also an angel along with my grandfather, they can explain how my great grandfather doesn't care if you've had sex or not" they look our way when we enter the penthouse.

"Talon!" Grandpa comes over and gives me a hug, I hug him back "Hello Grace, brother this is one of Talon's classmates"

"Grace" telling them what I did "I showed her my wings and she knows I'm part angel, she thinks because she had sex before marriage God is punishing her"

Grandpa bursts out laughing while Uncle A hits him upside the head "Lucifer, this isn't funny"

"Lucifer?" Grace asks "As in...your an angel and called him" she connects the devil and her face pales "Are you going to take me to Hell because I had sex before marriage?!" She then cries and grandpa gives her a look of pity.

"Grace?" Uncle A motions to sitting down "Why don't we sit down? My name is Amenadiel and I can assure you that sex before marriage? We don't care about" going over to the bar standing next to grandpa who hands me a drink.

"So why" Grandpa asks "does she think having sex means my dad cares?"

"She's a devoted Christian" explaining to him "and she had sex the day her dad told her not to, the same day her dad died in a plane crash"

"So" Grace asks us after talking to Uncle A for a bit "you don't go to Hell because of your sins but because of any regrets you have?"

"You humans send yourselves down there" grandpa explains "Grace if you continue to regret the sex and blame yourself you will end up in Hell, you need to live a life that you are proud of to enter Heaven"

"My dad?" She asks "Is he in heaven?"

"Not if he doesn't have regrets" grandpa hands her a drink and she shakes her head no "I don't lie Grace, I hate liars"

"How do I live without my dad?" She asks

"Taking it one step at a time" Uncle A says "living the life he would want you to live"

"Could I" she asks after some time "see your wings?" Grandpa rolls his eyes since he's annoyed he has them "you don't"

"It's alright" grandpa assured her "but I'd rather have my devil face than these" he shakes her his white angel wings, her eyes widen seeing them. This will be a long day, I just know it.