Significance of You

XI

The children's home in my city was a dark place for me. I was thirteen the first time I went there. I was terrified beyond reason. I didn't know anybody and it was cold and I hadn't come out of my shell yet. The first night there was the most terrifying. I couldn't sleep so I had to go and get up at three in the morning to use the restroom. On my way there, I bumped into her. At three in the morning, I met the one person who made me feel okay and safe again when all I could think of was how scared I was.

She was scared too. She just didn't show it as much as I did. She was pregnant and she had just ran away from her home. I didn't know it at the time but her ocean blue eyes would become something I'd grow to love and found comfort in. I didn't know, but she was pregnant with my niece. I was very quiet and I didn't want to share anything the next day but I shared with her. She told me her story and I told her mine. We grew close to one another.

Having met her at one of the darkest points in my life, as it was for her, I didn't know if I would ever see her again after we left the children's home. Yet years later, she is one of my closest friends and I consider her family. I consider her daughters my nieces and her son my nephew. They've become a part of me and there's no denying that. I love that family to death and I would do just about anything for them. They're amazing, goofy, and a beautiful family overall. They give me hope that one day I will have that.

She would pray with me when I needed her to. She helped me renew my faith. That's always something we bonded over. We knew that God would have our backs through any issues we could run into. I've prayed for her and her family multiple times and I'm sure she's prayed for me many times as well. A part of the love I have for her, comes from the fact that I believe she's a blessing that God sent my way when I needed her the most. I believe we didn't meet by chance.

Meeting her was fate. Becoming her brother was fate. Nothing happens by coincidence and this was, in my opinion, played out by God himself. She's an amazing woman who I've seen grow. She is no longer that scared, pregnant sixteen year old that I met in the children's home. She is a grown woman with her own house and three children who love her with all of their little hearts. She has a husband now. He's the father of all three children and he loves them all as much as she does. She humbles me when she reminds me of the circumstances of our meeting.