Sweater Paws {michael clifford}{completed}

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After the service at the church they headed to the graveyard. Story sighed and she stood, ready to give her speech, as Michael had asked her too. Not that she wouldn't have if he didn't. "Here is Michael's wife, Story." The preacher man said a few seconds later. She stood at the podium and gave a thin smile. "No one knew Michael as well as I did, except for maybe Calum. No one knew how much he cried when he found out that he was going to leave us. You see, a few years back, it was me who was told she was going to die, not him. We got married in a rush, but it was the best decision I've ever made, next to having my beautiful son, Luke." Story said lightly smiling at him, who was in Calum's lap. "Michael had a dream, you see, the wanted to be remembered by everyone he met. He never told me why he wanted that, but I was thinking about him, as I always am, and I realized why he wanted to be remembered. Michael was insecure and unhappy, most days I knew him. He told me that he wasn't sure why God put him on this earth if he didn't have a purpose." Story felt tears well up in her eyes as she remembered him saying he wanted to die. "He couldn't understand why he was breathing... but when I was lying in the hospital just after I was told I wouldn't live to see my 21st birthday, he told me he loved me. And that was why God put him here. He would whisper to me while he thought I was asleep, and tell me of his life before me, and how he beat his cancer for a few years, and how he felt it would come back right when he knew he wanted to live. I used to think he was crazy and paranoid, but I realized he wasn't so crazy after all. And this speech is going no where." She laughed slightly blinking away her tears. "Michael was the love of my life, and I don't think I'll ever love anyone as much as him. He wanted to be remembered, and he will be. Maybe in a few years all of you may not remember him, but I will. His family will, and his son will. Michael Gordon Clifford will be remembered for as long as I live, and hopefully even longer than that."