EPILOGUE
Miles's POV
Everything feels so euphoric, the sun has set down, creating a white all around us; a fog that I could stare at forever.
And knowing that Madison and Becky are asleep in the semi-small cottage slash beach house I rented last minute.
I set up outside and feel the surprisingly cold air. I inhale it into my lungs and feel as though I've become a part of it.
I stare at the silver ring on my thumb. It's the one that matched hers, I'm not going to wear it yet, the idea still frightens me but I want to keep it close, and I want her; I want this.
Everything happened so suddenly, so quick, so fucking flash fast. but somehow it all made sense along the way; somehow I've found myself in the process, somehow she is the me that I truly am. Somehow she's more me than I am.
The summer is coming to an end, and so is WSU for us. We're moving on, changing, and graduating.
And now we have Becky, and as we're expecting a second baby I know that I'm ready. I'm ready to be a dad and I'm ready for Madison to be the mother of my children. This is my family now, it's everything I've hoped for and yet nothing.
I fling myself on the thin light-wood porch as I sit there, staring at the silver band on my thumb, watching the white sky and white-blue ocean in front of me. No one else is here, or there, it's all empty, everything around me is just me; the way it used to be.
I hear the door behind me creek the way it only does when MAdison steps outside but I don't turn my head. I don't know if I'm hallucinating.
I feel her hand on my shoulder, on my back, on me.
And then she walks closer, finding a way to sit on the wooden fence on the porch beside me, and as we both stare at the ocean, we don't speak; we don't have to. We know this is big, we know what we're both feeling without communicating, not even a single word is needed with her because she's my forever.
I finally turn to her and the way her stomach is swollen, the way I know she's watching the ocean.
I turn to her as she slowly turns to me, our eyes meeting the way they did first; so raw, so true and so genuine.
"I want this," I speak and a faint smile slowly appears on her lips as I watch them.
"I know," she speaks.
Somehow this ending for me became beautiful
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The Perfect Storm 3
RomanceAfter tragedy has struck Madison and Miles in more ways than one, things start to change and so do their lives. New York and Santa Monica seem to be oceans apart and when new people start entering their lives, threatening to tear the little hope the...
