The Custodian (Revised)

Chapter 38

Wide eyed.

Lips parted.

And in incomplete shock.

Elzie is still holding her...

His love... His only love, and her legs are still clamped around his waist. They're starring at each other.

She...

In disbelief, of something that is so great that she instantly doubts herself for something that is more.

And much believable than the term...

Ever. That is...

Elzie rubs the side of his face onto hers, then he swipes his lips across her earlobe. The electricity poured down her spine causing the pours on her arms and legs to create great amounts of goose bumps.

"Say something..."He whispered.

"Where do we start?"

Lucy whispers back. Her eyes are questioning him. She doesn't know how to grasp what she'd heard. Elzie's looking for marriage, and she's stunned and non-reactive as of now.

She gently loosens her legs from around his waist, signaling him to put her down.

And he did...

But he still has her cupped in his arms.

She looks him directly into his eyes.

"What's the ultimatum?" She asks.

She busted him! Red handed. This is what she'd been waiting for.

He's assertive.

His expression doesn't say that he's worried that she'd turn them down, He showed sufficient courage. He was about to confront her.

"I want you to stop all of this, and let me take care of you." He says.

She nicks away from him, and skimmed at his face before she endeavors to storm off.

He trots behind her and grab her waist.

"You are not walking away from this. We, like you and I,

We are going to get to the bottom of all of this... Together!" He yells.

She tries to fight him off, but he's not going for it. He lifts her up, carry her into her bedroom, and closes the door. While he's standing in front of it he yells.

"Listen up, if you can get passed this door with me standing here, I will leave, I will fucking leave, and I will never come back!" He scoffs.

He lied.

He knew that she wouldn't be able to get through that door, she wouldn't even come close to reaching it because Elzie would just lift her up again, but what he needed from her, is a mutual understanding.

Yet, Lucy's soul demolishes at the thought of him never coming back to her. It destroys her all over again.

"Don't you ever say that again!" Her eyes flood with tears. It drives him crazy to see her cry. It knocks the wind out of him every time.

But this time, he has to make her listen.

"Lucille, I will help you." He says while studying her.

"I don't need your help Elzie, this is me! This is all I have. This is all I know"! She says between sobbing.

"No, this is not you. This is a choice. You love to help people, you're a great person Lu...You make people smile, you make people happy..."

"You make me happy, and you fixed me!" He says with compassion, and she finally looks at him. He opens his arms to her, and she rejects his welcome to finally open up.

"I lost myself as a teenager. I've been far too gone since back to back deaths in my family.

I've lost my friends, I've been betrayed...over and over, and that feeling is worse than losing someone to death.

I don't trust anyone Elzie, this is all I know. Money, my wealth is buried into my every being"

He cuts her off.

"You love Tahvi..."

The air leaves her mouth, she's drowning in silence because he's right.

"You care about all of them, but you love Tahvi. Like she's someone you've been missing apart from you. We can try to make them good, because you weren't always bad..."

Lucy yells...

"People! PEOPLE! PEOPLE made me into this monster! Why should I apologize, or change when nobody never apologized for making me this way!" She yells.

"I am sorry for everyone who's ever hurt you, betrayed you and for every fucking person who fucked up your mentality, I am sorry.

But I can't walk away, I am in love with you, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to make us better people..."

Lucy runs into his arms, and at that moment, he embraced her with all that he had.

"We're going to be together, forever, through tough times. I'll sleep on the couch, but I will never leave you again, ever! I love you, I love you, I love you!"

And as he went on, she nodded her head in agreement. Do to her profoundly bawling, she couldn't talk at the moment.

She's just as much in love as Elzie is, and together...

They will remain...

Forever!