Restoring Eternity

Chapter 12 + Epilouge

Just short chapters, summing everything up. I had fun writing this story. I hope you had just as much fun reading it. Feel free to critique or leave comments. Thanks! -Cat

Austin’s POV

The cops got here and we told them what happened. Scott was going back to jail, thank god. Kidnapping, attempted rape, and a whole lotta other stuff. Gielle checked into rehab a few days after getting her highlights redone by Riley. We were all friends with her now. I was so glad she’d changed her ways.

            We went back to Gielle’s house to get Blakely, who had been left in Mason’s care. He gladly handed her off to us, clearly not fond of kids.

            “Thank you so much, Mason,” Gielle said. “I owe you.” She handed Mason three hundred bucks and his eyes nearly popped out of his head.

            “What happened to her?” he exclaimed. “Did she actually say thank you? Or was it my imagination. It had to be my imagination.”

            We all laughed at him and wished him a good day before leaving.

Riley, Blakely, Drew, and I all went back to the house to enjoy a night full of junk food, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

            These people were my real friends. I could never find a girlfriend or a friend as great as them. I would hold onto them for as long as I can. I could tell we would have a long, happy relationship with one another.

Epilogue

            “Are you excited or what?” Drew Carlile asked her twins, Catherine and Connor. They were jumping up and down backstage, their brown curls bouncing atop their heads.

            “I think they’re pretty excited, babe,” Austin Carlile said, kissing his wife on her forehead. “I’m nervous, though. They might get scared with all the noise.”

            “I know,” Drew said with a concerned glance at the two children. “We’ll just have to see. Maybe they’ll be fine.”

            “Austin, onstage in thirty seconds,” the stage manager told him.

            “Shit,” Austin said, then quickly kissed Drew again and went over to his children, kissing each of their little hands. They clapped.

            “Yay, daddy!”

            He smiled and went onstage with his band, Of Mice and Men. The twins were doing fine so far, even though it was super noisy in the auditorium as they started playing.

Second and Sebring, Drew thought. She knew the song by heart already. When it came to Austin’s part and he yelled out the first bars, the grins dropped off Catherine and Connor’s faces.

            “Mommy, daddy sounds scary,” they said, whimpering and hiding behind their mother.

Austin saw them from offstage and frowned, but kept singing. Drew patted her children’s heads, trying to calm them down as Austin finished the first song and jogged backstage.

            “Hey, guys,” he said, kneeling down to their level, but they shied away from him.

            “Daddy,  you sounded scary,” Catherine whispered, playing with her dress and looking at the floor. “Yeah,” Connor said. “Like a monster. Like you were angry.”

            “It’s okay,” Austin said, soothing them. “Daddy’s not angry, I promise. It’s just the way I sing.” The twins came closer to their father.

            “Are you sure?” Catherine asked hesitantly. Austin laughed, and nodded.

            “Don’t be scared,” he said. “It’s just me. Just daddy.”

They smiled, and Austin looked at Drew in relief. She smiled at him as he went back onstage to do the second song. This time, the twins copied the audience and bobbed their heads up and down, enjoying the music.

            Drew smiled. They were going to grow up as punk rockers for sure.

            “Mama, can we go see Blakely tomorrow?” Connor asked. “And Uncle Alex and Uncle Riley?”

            “Sure,” Drew said absentmindedly, staring at her husband onstage, doing the thing he loved the most. His passion and emotion he put into every lyric gave her the chills. It always did, every concert she went to. She kneeled down and kissed her children, happy to have such a perfect family, and such a perfect life.