After Eternity

Chapter 53

I.

The car rolled smoothly on the asphalt on an early December day with the fragrance of humid earth perfuming the air. Diana looked outside watching the meadows disappear in the far horizon in tones of light green and yellow. Above them, a vivid blue sky with a few cotton white clouds scattered here and there. She would never get tired of that landscape. It didn't matter how many times she had seen it. It would always amaze her. As much as the sea amazed her. The flat meadows were like a sea of grass or wheat, depending on the time of the year and season. That time of the year, entering winter, it was a sea of wild grass that grew disorderly and had different colors which attributed them patterns only possible by the hands of nature. Still a beautiful painting by Mother Earth herself.

"You seem a little absent." James commented as he took a glance at her.

Diana turned her face to look at him and shot him a shy smile.

"I am a little nervous. That is all." She told him.

James chuckled." You have been to Morgan's before." He said slightly glancing at her for her was driving and paying attention to the road.

"Yeah..." She affirmed. "...but never pregnant!"

"Fact." He told her with a huge grin across his face.

Diana took a few moments to admire his figure that late Sunday morning. He had sprayed his hair with a bit of gel, leaving it all disorganized but enhancing his bleached highlights. His torso and arms shaped under the tight black sweater shirt he was wearing and that cheeky smile of his. No one smiled like he did. Diana never met a more beautiful smile than his. James smiled with his soul and that was so rare in people.

"You look so great." She ended up saying after a few minutes of silence, putting her thought into words.

James stopped at a red light as he entered Morgan's neighborhood and looked at her. He couldn't avoid the shy smirk as he heard her words.

"I am happy." He told her as if that would explain his looks.

Diana smiled and shook her head, crossing her arms around her chest and looking outside, but not responding anything to his comment. He would never be conscious of how good looking and sexy he really was. James had no idea how attractive he really was at all. He watched her reaction for a while and curled an eyebrow at her.

"What? What's with that gesture?" He teased her by pinching her arm.

"Because you have no idea how hot you are!" She laughed and tapped his hand.

James chuckled. "Is that the explanation you are going to give my mother?" He teased her again. "He is really hot so this pregnancy happened...." He laughed loud in the end which caused her to laugh too.

"Stop that!" She tapped his leg while he began to drive again. "Don't leave me more nervous! She is going to give us hell... not just to me... to you too..."

"I had my share." He said as he turned the wheel. "Now you're there, my hopes are that she just picks on you." He continued.

"I doubt it." Diana shot. "You are her son... she will never lose the opportunity..."

James turned to Morgan's street and her house appeared a few meters ahead. As usual, Morgan was on the porch waiting for them. She was sitting on her white wooden rocking chair dressed in a marine blue dress and a white wool jacket over it. Her hands were resting on her lap and she looked really relaxed as the chair rocked back and forward. Morgan looked calm and peaceful and her hair perfectly combed as always. She had dyed it recently to cover her whites, which made her look younger.