Beautiful End

Grace

Elvis put his arms around me to steady my steps, today, he had brought me along with him to his secret spot at the park where he mostly came to have his solitude .

I was surprised when he asked me to come along with him.
As we got to the bench,he asked if I wanted to go get ice cream,I replied in the affirmative,so we went after the ice cream van and got two large ice creams with sprinkles on it.

We licked our ice-creams in silence while we sat on the bench not saying a word and just cherishing the moment.
After sometime, Elvis spoke.

He spoke about how he misses her, he spoke about how everyday he wishes for her to come back, he spoke about how he wishes there was something he could do to bring her back and he spoke until he could find no words to describe how he felt about loosing her.

Tears welled up in my eyes as I watched him shed tears upon tears.
I pulled him close and hugged him as he cried,he erupted into uncontrollable tears but I didn't mind holding him, I just hugged him through it all.

After sometime, he got up, completely embarrassed and apologetic for been a bother, but I assured him it was OK and that I was fine.
We sat there for sometime, each person to his own thought until he moved and he erupted into another fit of tears,I held him again while  I wiped away his tears with the handkerchief I had in my hand,let me tell you this,I am not very good at comforting people when they cry, but at that moment, I was suddenly overwhelmed when I gazed down upon his soft pink lips,I looked up to see him gazing at me too,the moment was charged with sparks and feelings,feelings that each of us had experienced before,the feeling of loss,and something else.

At that moment,he lowered his lips on mine  and the whole world ceased for the both of us.
I felt myself flying as each breath took me farther away from the world ,it was like I was in space.

As the kiss proceeded, things got more intense,and soon I was huggling for his clothes but ofcourse he been the gentleman he was stopped everything before it excalated to something else. 'Sorry I don't want to take advantage of you at this moment, let us come back to this when we are both rational and not reeking of hormones',he said as he got up and used his hands to pull  his hair back,I understood him at that moment, but that guy could take you up and bring you down within seconds. 

Suddenly my phone  rang startling the both of us, I picked up the phone and and smiled when I  heard my Dad's voice at the other end, "You and Elvis should come home for dinner will Ya? ",the voice said before the line went totally dead.
I  smiled as Elvis looked at me expecting an explanation ,"your mom wants us to come down for dinner",I said as he began packing stuff into his  bag, soon we were headed home.

While Elvis and his mom were busily talking, Dad and I also got into a conversation.
It's been sometime since Dad returned from surgery and he was doing better than I ever thought he would be. Sometimes when Elvis went of to work, I would go to the park with Dad and we would hangout till evening and then come back home to relax, those times  did us  some bonding good.

I had quit my previous job after I moved in with Elvis and I was working on getting one sooner.
After supper,I rushed off to my room after making sure Dad had retired to his and all the dishes had been washed and the kitchen cleaned.
An hour later I was still wide awake still struggling to fall asleep.
I picked up Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare  and began reading ,halfway through the book,I fell asleep.

There was loud whistling of the wind ,which made the tree I sat under sway from one end to the other, Elvis stood a step beside me looking off into the distance, I turned the book I was reading to the next page while Elvis stole glances at me now and then,suddenly,he turned and swept  me off my feet ,I felt my heart racing and my eyes widen as he lowered his lips onto mine.

"I have waited for this moment for ages  he said as he crushed my lips into another frenzy kiss.
Suddenly, there was a shriek as we both pulled apart ,there was darkness everywhere, and then I felt him drifting of ,I struggled to hold on to him but to no avail.  I cried, I screamed for him to hold on but it was like he was been taken away from me, then as suddenly as the darkness had come, it drifted of leaving me alone with Elvis no where to be found.

I woke up not able to apprehend the whole dream,I checked the time 2:30 am,who even wakes up at 2:30 am on a Friday? ,I snuggled deeper and got the covers over my head ,soon  sleep took over again.
I opened my eyes to blinding light in my room,the curtains were tied,and blinds open,strange!, because I was sure I shut them before I went to bed, I checked the time on my phone and realised it was 9:45 in the morning, I had really slept long.

I went to the bathroom and washed up,heading downstairs immediately I was done.
Shit! ,breakfast was over.
Elvis sat at the table,legs crossed and looking sexy as hell.
"Shut up inner self",I said to myself as I greeted him and then joined him at the table.
"You are up late,which is so unlike you", he said as he pulled a chair for me to sit on.

We spoke about random things,and then he told me about how my Dad had gone out with his mom to the department store where Dad had been offered a job.
I for once was happy when I got to know Dad would be working again not alone but this time alongside Elvis's mom,at least that would take both their minds away from the people they had lost.

We spoke some more about random things and then he told me about the job vacancy  at his place of work ,according to him, he had submitted some applications out to some group of companies, and gladly they had picked it up, three of them, he had gone for the interview and he chose one out of the lot and the he was due to start work the next week, meaning he had to leave his previous work behind, he had spoken to the manager and since he was very close to him,he had agreed to hire me.

He asked if I was interested and before he could finish his sentence, I was up hugging him.
He went stiff at first contact, but he relaxed and hugged me back rounding his arms around me, we stayed like that for some couple of minutes ,then we pulled apart as he cleared his throat.
I thanked him so much for been so considerate and then I excused myself and headed upstairs my cheeks all blazing red.