Sparks Reignited (The Extended Hobson Family Trilogy: book 2)

God Still Performs Miracles

 The service has just ended and Dylan approaches me. I have a feeling that he's going to deny the invitation given to him earlier to come over for lunch, so I decide to speak first. "You're coming over for lunch, plain and simple Dylan."

 "What?"

 "That is what you were going to tell me, that you didn't want to come over, right?" Dylan laughs.

 "Um, no. I was just going to ask if I could give you a ride home so we could talk, privately."

 "Oh. Well, I was way off beat there. I would love to ride home with you to talk. Just let me tell Andy and we can leave." I quickly tell Andy where I'm going and meet Dylan out by his Jeep. Dylan helps me in and we take off towards my house, about a 15-minute drive.

 "Meli, I'm sorry." Dylan says.

 "For what? For telling me to be with someone else?"

 "No, I know that it's not me you're supposed to be with. I'm sorry for leading you on like I did. I'm sorry for proposing to you when I knew God didn't want me to. It was wrong of me to do that. I'm sorry for overstepping my bounds too after I first got here. I never should have gotten in the way of your relationship with Danny like I did. I realize now that I did just that."

 "Dylan, don't worry about it, it's in the past." 

 "No, I need to say this Meli. It's been bugging me since last night and I jut need to apologize. When Danny and you were on your first date at the cafe, I should have done the right thing and just stayed away. I bought you that drink, hoping maybe it would get your attention. I did the same when I returned the jacket. I was jealous to see you with another guy. I loved you then, and I tried to force you to love me back. I know it was wrong of me. I knew you loved Danny, even while you and I were dating. I just wanted you to myself. I should have listened to what God wanted and not what I wanted. I love you like a friend, like family."

 "Dylan, I don't know what to say."

 "I still had more to say, but would you forgive me?"

"Yes. I meant to say that already."

"Thanks you. Do you remember that box of the things that reminded you of me?"

"I did till you mentioned it just now. What about it?"

"Last week, Andy showed it to me. I know it was personal, and I shouldn't have done it, but I read your journal."

"It's alright, really. It wasn't that personal."

"I think you're missing a few entries, so I kind of updated it a little bit for you. It's from me of course, but I'm pretty sure you can relate. It's in the glove compartment if you want to look at it."

I quickly open the glove compartment and grab my journal out. I flip through it till I find Dylan's entry, on the last page.

"Why did you write it on the last page, not just the next blank one?"

"If I would have written it on the next blank page, that would still leave room for something more to happen between us. By putting it on the last page, I know nothing more can happen between us than us being friends."

I turn my attention to the text on the page.

I don't know if you'll ever read this, but if you do, I hope you and Danny have a great life together. A lot has happened since I returned after six years of not letting you know I was alive. You and I gave the relationship thing a go, but in the end it's not what God wanted. It took getting engaged to you for a week to figure out that we are meant to be nothing more than friends. Today, I'm going to tell you to choose Danny, not me. You two love each other, I can see it in the way you two interact. You two are a pretty amazing couple if I do say so myself. You two compliment each other much more than you and I ever did. I want for us to stay friends, but I know anything more than that isn't what God wants us to be. I don't mean for this to make you sad, but to make you happy to know that I will be okay. I know that God has another girl out there for me that will compliment me the same way Danny does you. She could be here in Hobson for all I know.