The Letter Series (Three In One)

LTH-Epilogue

Epilogue

Shawn's POV

I smile at the beautiful sight that is being played right in front of my eyes. The love of my life is playing around and feeding my first child.

I quickly grab my phone and turn on the camera. Just before I take the photo, I quickly turn off the flash, and then take the photo.

I quickly save it as my background and then get up to take the dishes back ino the kitchen.

By the time I am done emptying all the dishes and setting them into the dishwasher, Madison has gone and taken Rosie into her room to sleep.

I walk into the loungeroom and decide to set up the place with pillows and blankets.
Once I was done, I started walking up to Rosie's room, only to bump into you at the stairs.

We both start laughing at this. We finally stop laughing after nearly five minutes of non stop laughter.

We then walk towards the loungeroom, where Madison runs and jumps onto the pile of blankets and pillows.

"What do you want to watch?"

She looks deep in thought for at least a couple of minutes.

"What do you want to watch?" She asks back. I start to laugh along with her.

"You can't just ask me my own questions. Anyways I asked first, so what do you want to watch?"

"How about The Vow?"

I nod and then get up to grab the DVD. No matter how much times we have already watched The Vow, I will watch it a million times more if it makes Madison happy.

I play the movie and then get back under the pile of blankets and pillows. Madison immediately gets comfortable into the side of my body, and I wrap my arm around her body, trying to bring her closer to me.

This, just laying here with the love of my life in my arms, is probably the best thing ever and I am so grateful to have this for the rest of my life.

Ever since she has waken up at the hospital, I have known that we will have to sit down and talk about all of the problems, however I didn't realise it will be so soon.

So when she had turned to me the second the ending credits rolled, I was kinda shocked.

"Shawn, we really need to talk"

"Now?"

She nods, so I get up and turn the tv off. I then turn on the lights and get back onto the sofa.

"So, talk now"

I say after nearly ten minutes of me staring at Madison while she plays with her fingers.

"Well,I guess I will start with what happened that night"

I nod, urging her to continue.

"Well, it was straight after I left the office. It was getting dark and I thought of calling you but then you would have had to bring Rosie as well so I decided on just walking home. I was just by the park when a bunch of guys just grabbed me and pinned me to the floor. I tried yelling but they quickly covered my mouth. At first I thought they were going to kidnap me but then-"

She broke down in tears. I quickly grab her and pull her into a hug, rubbing her back comfortably.

"You don't have to continue"

She looks at me and then shakes her head.

"No, if I don't now, then when will I. It is best for me to say it now"

I nod and kiss her forehead.

"It was terrible. They all took turns. Around six or seven men. All of them. I was trying to yell for help, trying to rim away but I couldn't. I don't know how long it was for, but it felt hours. They eventually left and then I ran to the toilet trying to get myself cleaned"

"Eventually I got home, I wanted to tell you but what was I meant to say to you. Hey Shawn, I just got raped by at least seven men. That's when I had decided I could just write letters. Not actually give them to you, but just write a letter explaining my feelings to you. It helped a lot"

I hug her tighter, feeling tears in my own eyes.

"It was terrible. Waking up everyday feeling dirty, going to sleep feeling terrible. I then started cutting, it helped a lot. It made me stop thinking about the rape for at least ten minutes but then eventually it all got too much and I had to end it all.

"Madison, I am so sorry. You had to go through all this and I wasn't there for you at all. But it was terrible for me too. I had to face the guilt when you had attempted. I felt like everything was my fault. And I started writing letters. I used your method and it worked. I felt so much better after I wrote letters to you"

By now both of us had tears streaming down my face.

After at least twenty minutes of us in each others arms crying, Madison suddenly stood up.

"Where are the letters?" I look at her confused. "In the study" She then wipes her tears away and smiles. "Just wait one second I will be back"

She then runs upstairs. While waiting for her to come back, I wipe away my tears and clean up.

Madison then comes running back into the room this time with a box and a stack of letters in her hand.

"Today, we are going to lock away these letters and never look back again. From today we will be telling each other everything from the littlest thing to the biggest. We have to learn to tell each other everything and not keep everything inside or else that will lead to problems"

I nod and she places both hers and my letters in the box and then she locks it.

She places it onto the table and then jumps onto my lap.

"I love you"

I smile and then flip us around so I am the one on her. 

"No I love you more"

She shakes her head so I quickly start tickling her. I stop as I stare her. She looks so beautiful laughing and I am so lucky to have her as my wife. 

"I love you more than life" I lean down and close the gap between our lips.