"Are y'all ready to go back to work?" I ask. "Yeah, I really enjoyed this break, but I'm going to miss bringing you coffee," Chloe said with a sad smile. "Who keeps calling your phone?" Cooper asks as my phone rings for the third time. "Can you go see?" I ask my husband as he swims towards my phone, drying his hands off before picking it up. The face he makes only made me worry. "Darling, it's Lara," he says as he jumps back into the pool. "Bring me my phone."
"Grandma," I say slowly, hoping that her and grandpa finally came to an agreement to support me. "Hey Freya baby, you might want to come back home.
Your grandfather passed away," she said as her voice cracked. "What?" I ask. "That's not possible, grandma. I don't understand," I say as my vision gets blurry. "He didn't want to tell you. I'll explain everything later. See you when you get here, love you, sweetie."
Everyone looked at my face for answers, but I don't know anything except that my grandpa Roy just died, and he was disappointed in me so I stopped visiting them because he didn't support me. Now I'm regretting every day that I let go. "What's wrong?" Cooper asked as I snapped out of my thoughts. It felt like I was hit with a wave of pain. "My grandpa is dead," I said out loud to everyone. "He's dead," I repeated, not believing my own words.
I could no longer control the tears that slid down my face. "Let's take you inside," my husband said to me. And just like that, I was inside the house with dry clothes. "I should have visited them more," I said out loud, not knowing who all was in the room because my puffy eyes only looked one way.
"Don't you dare blame yourself," a dark voice spoke. "Stop making yourself the bad person in everyone's story," he said as he wiped my tears. Seeing her like this made me sick because I couldn't do anything but be there for her. I was born into death so it never bothered me. But things like this don't happen in normal people's lives every day.
"Do you know when his funeral is?" I asked. "My grandma said he didn't want one," she said with a sob. "I don't mean any disrespect when I say this, but darling, if she waited this long to tell you, why couldn't she have waited until after your honeymoon?" I asked. "I don't know," she answered me sadly. "How about we fly her down here instead?" I suggested as I rubbed circles on her back. "That's a good idea. That way she can try to enjoy herself as well," Freya said with a half-smile.
Seeing my grandma Lara laugh at my husband's silly jokes brings closure to my heart. This is all I've been trying to ask for. I wish things had been different with my grandpa, God bless his soul, would have given Cooper a chance to prove himself. However, I live by the saying that everything happens for a reason. I know Grandpa Roy taught me that God makes no mistakes, but I just wish I could go back in time to when I gave them a hard time by sneaking out and going to parties with June.
I wasn't always like this; my love for partying was discovered after my parents died. No 15-year-old girl wants to hear that God has a plan for her life after taking away the very last thing she had. But I wish I had listened to my Grandpa Roy and stayed in church. God never left me, and in times of trouble, I would run back to Him, and He welcomed me every time. I want to make my grandpa proud and teach my daughter what he taught me.
"Dr. Orion told me to take it easy," I said as my grandma touched my baby bump. "Do you know the gender yet?" she asked, and I looked up at Cooper. He nodded his head "Yes, it's a girl," I said with a smile. "Oh God, I thank You," she exclaimed, and Cooper and I exchanged confused glances. "You all don't understand how good God is. We prayed that He would send you someone you could raise and be an example for, so you could do the right thing for them."
"Yeah, we haven't told anybody yet. We plan to at dinner," I said, glancing at Freya and Grandma Lara. "Don't worry, your secret is safe with me," Ms. Lara joked before taking her shopping bags upstairs. I waited until she reached her room before pulling Freya into my arms. "You need to control yourself; my grandma is upstairs," Freya said with a smile.
"We can go outside?" I suggested playfully.
"Cooper!" she called my name in a frustrated tone as she tried to pull away.
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Nobody Told Me
RomanceI can't say the signs wasn't there, but his love made me blind and the people around me were lying. I was only a freshman in college with no parents to tell me they were proud of me. But unlike most stories, this one doesn't start from the beginning...
