To Make Her Mine

Josh

I woke up and saw Eve lying on the bed beside me. She was still fast asleep. I kissed her and went to get freshen up.

Afterwards I came to the kitchen and made some pancakes. Getting two plates ready, I went to the bedroom and found Eve still asleep.

She looked so calm and Serene that I didn't want to wake up her, but pancakes.

I sat on the bed beside her and kissed her nose. Moving my fingers through her hair, I whispered, "Hey sleepyhead, wake-up."

She opened her eyes and smiled when she saw me.

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

"I made you some breakfast."

"Oh thank you."

I passed her the food tray. She smiled again and looked at the plate. Her face suddenly turned serious.

"Cherry, everything okay?"

She looked at me, her expressions not happy anymore.

"I just need to get freshen up."

"Oh okay. Do you want to have breakfast in kitchen then?"

"Yeah that would be great."

Once she went to the bathroom, I came to the kitchen with the plates. Something was off, I didn't know what.

She came back after a while and sat on the high chair near the breakfast counter. I passed her plate and looked at her face if I can read what was wrong.

"Eli made me heart shaped pancakes."

"Oh, I didn't know. I'm sorry."

"It's okay. How would you know?"

We ate silently. After the breakfast, we decided to go for a walk. Changing into our tracks and tees, we started going up the hill. It was sunny and warm outside. The tall trees covered most of the area surrounding the house.

"Tracy sure is loaded with money, this place must have costed a fortune."I said.

"She sure is. You remember we came here several times."

"Yeah with Richard and Bridget." And with Eli, I chose not to say his name aloud.

"Yeah Eli too. It used to be crammed in with five of us. Sometimes I did ask Aunt Tracy to build up few more rooms but she liked the idea of small place. Everyone sharing the room and all."

"And no privacy." There was no hint of sadness in her voice even after she mentioned Eli.

"She believed in being close together for a while. Anyways we had big places back home so it didn't matter. Yours was ridiculously big."

"Yeah. My father liked it big. Although we didn't really use half of it."

"Coz you were almost always in my house, dummy. You two even had seperate bedrooms. In my house. My parents sure spoiled you."

"But I was such a good kid. Who can blame them?"

"That you were." she said amusingly. We sat down on a big rock that overlooked beautiful view of the lake.

She was just like Richard and Bridget, always welcoming.

"Hey how are your parents? Did you tell them about... Well ...the marriage?"

I had called my mom and told her about the circumstances, she was glad I was marrying Eve but of course she couldn't make it not on such a short notice.