The Returned

1. The One That Got Away

" If roses were red and violets could be blue,

I'd take us away to a place just for two.You'd see my true colors and all that I felt.I'd see that you could love me and nobody else.We'd build ourselves a fortress where we'd run and play.You'd be mine and I'd be yours 'til our dying day.Then I wake and realize you were never here.It's all just my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes...But now it's only tears!"

-Kori Frias

Chapter One

"You are so beautiful Victoria, I love you, you are my world, without you I have no reasons to be alive" He said in a velvet tone, my eyes started to water when I realize his intentions.

"I promise that I will cherish you and be with you every step you make, when I first saw you in the middle of the dance floor all alone with your beautiful smile and your eyes I knew right there that you will be mine" he said as he got in his knees, he pulled a red velvet box, my tears at this point rolling down my cheeks "Will you do me the happiest man alive and be my wife for forever and a day?"

"Yes"

"Mommy! Mommy! Granma is here and she brought breakfast" I was waken from my dream by my 3 year old screaming at my ear and jumping on the bed.

"Noel Alexander, what have I tell you about screaming and waking mommy up" I reprimand him as I sit on the bed, As my eyes focus on my beautiful son I can see his smile and his dimple that never fail to remind me of his father.

"I am sorry mommy but Grammy brought breakfast and it is my faves" he says now in a more hushed tone, and I immediately forgive him, after all he is a mama's boy.

"It is okay baby boy, come here and give me a kiss and then you can go and eat your pancakes with your grammie" He jump on my arms and start giving me kisses on my cheeks, he looks so much like him and in a day like today I can help but give him extra love.

He gets out of my room and heads toward the kitchen where I suppose Sarah is, I get up and rub my eyes and sit on the edge on the bed my eyes immediately goes towards the pictures in my nightstands, photos of Noel and me, photos of him alone, but one picture catch my eyes I stretched my hand and reach the picture of Christian and me on our wedding day.

"Oh my love, how I miss you, today makes it officially three years since you left us and I am nowhere near getting over you, why did you have to leave?" I trace his beautiful smile with the tip of my fingers as a tear falls down on the glass, I kiss the picture and put it back in its place.

When Christian left us, Noel and Me, I was so devastated I didn't know how was l going to be able to continue without him, but then the doctor give me the news that noel was growing inside of me my mind made a complete turn. I will be honest when Christian died I consider multiple times ending my life but when I found out I was pregnant I couldn't get myself to do it, Noel has always been my motivation for everything and I had to be strong for him even if I was falling apart inside.

Flashback

"Okay Victoria, you got to this, it's necessary you can't just put this in the back of your head hoping it might go away, I mean it's not the end of the world if you are" I said in a shaky tone as I stare at the rectangular piece of plastic in my hands.

For weeks now I have been feeling sick to my stomach, constant headache and nightmares I have googled all of those symptoms and they all seem to said the same thing

I am pregnant.

But I can't be 100% sure if I don't do the test, but if I am our lives will completely change, it won't be the two of us anymore a little someone will be with us. Somehow the idea of a mini Christian running around the house doesn't sound so bad.