*Three months later*
Laughter echoed through the small coffee shop as Josie spent time with the people whom she cared about the most.
Jake had been telling jokes, and Josie couldn't help but laugh at her husband's childish sense of humor. Danielle quickly joined in, and now the three friends were all bursting with laughter. Josie's side hurt from it all, and tears were welling up in her eyes, but it was the best kind of pain, in her opinion.
She'd rather get hurt from enjoying her life than from being too scared to live.
As the laughter subsided, Josie wiped the tears from her eyes as Jake and Danielle began their friendly banter once more.
"Okay, okay," Danielle wheezed, "I yield, Jake, you win. If I laugh any harder I'm going to be so exhausted I'll take a nap!"
"That's just because you're old, Danielle," Jake quipped back. "It's that one year that does you in, you know."
Danielle made a face as Josie grinned. Ever since she had come out to Danielle, Josie had felt their friend group of three begin to repair itself. She hadn't felt so connected and loved since the days before she'd confronted the truth about herself.
"If it's the one year," Danielle retorted, "then just think about it, Jake; you're going to be old pretty soon, huh?"
"Maybe so," Jake replied with a goofy expression on his face. "But that doesn't make you young! All that'll change next year is that both of us will be oldies, and Josie will still have to wait to catch up to our advanced years."
Josie held back a snicker as Jake and Danielle continued to banter, but she stopped paying attention to them. She was too caught up in the memories of the past few months. Ever since she'd told Danielle about herself, everything had been made better. Parties, coffee runs, and girls' night were all things that she would have never experienced had she still been too scared to be around her old best friend.
Josie reveled in the peace that she felt. She knew that it wouldn't always be around, and she may end up in tears of hurt and sadness, rather than joy and laughter, but Josie had her husband and her best friend by her side. She could make it through anything, as long as she had them to remind her of the truth.
As Jake cracked another joke, their table once again disintegrated into laughter, Josie couldn't help but feel incredibly lucky to have lived these past three months. She'd truly taken the reins, and rewritten her life-- her story.
It was hers to tell, and she finally knew that it would have a happy ending.
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A Life Rewritten
RandomJosie is haunted by her past, and the memory of a boy she used to know. Jake is scared for his wife, trying his best to help her through the painful memories that have forced their way back to the surface. Danielle wants closure, after the mysteriou...
