A Lost Hope

Chapter 5

We sit in the living room watching TV one lazy Friday evening.

Jacoby and I watch my little sister play with Jake's old toy cars. It was funny to watch her sit there and just roll them across the floor. She could sit there for hours at a time and play with those cars. Nothing else could she do that with. She hated to sit and play with barbie dolls. All she wanted was those cars. 

I look over at Jacoby and he looks back at me. 

He smiles. "What is it baby?" 

I shrug my shoulders and grab his hand playing with his fingers. 

He looks down at our hands mingle together. 

"I'm blessed to have you Serena. I hope you know that I couldn't be more happy to be with anyone else. I knew from the moment I meet you on the plane you were gonna be mine. And no one is going to change that. I will love you for the rest of my life." He says.

"No. Love me for the rest of mine." I say. 

"What if I live longer?" he ask. 

"If you do live longer than me then I hope god blesses you with another beautiful woman and you can be happy again." I explain. "You deserve to be happy forever."

He looks me in the eyes and shakes his head. 

"I will be happy for the rest of my life. Even if you die before me, which won't happen, I will still be happy with you for the rest of my life. Finding someone else won't change that. It wouldn't be fair for me to find someone else when I won't love them they way I love you. I won't find someone else I can love the way I love you. I don't even know why we are talking about this." he says looking down.

"I'm sorry. We don't have to talk about this. Sorry I said anything." I said.

He shakes his. "Its okay baby. I love you."

"I love you." I say back.

All of sudden my mom starts rushing down the stairs calling my name. "Serena! Serena!" She yells. "Turn on the news now." I look at her and see how frightened she looks as she makes her way to the living room. I grab the remote off the coffee table set in front of me. I turn the tv and turn it to the news channel. We see a red strip bar at the bottom pop up and see we have a hurricane heading our way. Expected to hit us by Sunday. So in 2 days basically. I feel my heart sink into my stomach and immediately my hand places itself to my stomach. I see Jacoby look at me out of the corner of my eye.

"Mom?" I say feeling like I'm about to cry.

"Honey it's okay." she says coming to sit beside me. "Relax."

Jacoby gets up and walks out the front door.

Now I feel hurt. He just gets up and walks out on me.

"What are we gonna do?" I ask my mom.

"We are gonna stay safe. We will be okay. Just, I don't know. We will keep an eye on the hurricane and make sure we plan. We need to go to the store and get plenty of water and easy to make food just incase we lose power." She says.

The front door opens and I see Jacoby walk back in. I feel relief in my heart.

I stood up and met him halfway. "I thought you had left."

"Why would I leave you." He asks.

I shrug my shoulders. "I don't know." I say placing my hands on my stomach. He places his hands over mine.

"We will be okay." He says, kissing my forehead.

My dad and my brothers walk down the stairs so now everyone is in the living room.