Epilogue : Six Months Later

Epilogue : Six Months Later

« Cassie, the shop is open ! »

And once again, Annie reminded me of what I had to do for today.

I mean, I'm not gonna complain : since our shop was created, everyone in town knows us, and we even sometimes get very prestigious clients from Miami. Bankers, even ; the utter irony when my girlfriend – now fiancée – used to work for some of them.

Paintings are usually ordered online or bought right away at the shop ; people obviously love my creations, but we mostly get orders for a specific item, a little help for their home, and we help them design their house via the Internet, but I'm not gonna lie, we'll have to expand somehow.

We thought about travelling a lot recently, to meet our customers' demands, but we still don't have the money to satisfy all of them, so we just tell them that we can only offer a little help via the website, but they'll have to do the rest of the work themselves.

But mostly, we are happy with what we've done. Our two cats, Snow and Ginger (wow, so awesome, they've been named litterally after their colour), are pacing around, sometimes snuggling up against some customer's legs, which would make them usually happy. When you don't count that old lady who threw a tantrum at them and almost hit them with her cane. What a bitch.

Anyways, our life has never been so happy than right now ; to counteract my proposal to Annie, she also bought me an engagement ring two weeks after the restaurant dinner, to make things equal she said. And then she had come back with the most beautiful diamond ring of all creation. And I couldn't thank her enough for it.

About my memories since the accident, I now have almost all of them ; still a little blurry about the last five years – almost six, oh my god – but it doesn't matter anymore. I mean, I have Annie, and she has me. And this is all that matters.

We have decided to marry next spring, probably in March or April ; Annie says she'd like to have some cherry flowers all over the place, but it's a little bit too hot to have this kind of tree here, in Florida. She just replies with something along the lines of yeah, we'll go to Japan then, and our parents will be there. I don't want to have a big ceremony, though ; just a couple of friends and our families. No more than that. I don't want fake people from our old life coming back like dirt on our shoes. Whatever. She's pulling the pants in our couple anyways, so I guess I'll just have to do with it. I love the idea too, after all.

Alongside with our new cats we adopted a couple of months ago, we decided to go even faster and try to regain the lost time when we used to fight against each other in order to start the procedures to adopt a child. We know it will probably be long, but we're willing to wait for it. And we seriously hope that our little child is ready to do the same for us.

For now, our eyes are settled on a little girl called Alice. Red hair, green eyes, she seems very interested and we've already met her twice. She doesn't bother having two moms, she says, and that's a very comforthing thought. She says she likes drawing and she already even gave us a couple of her masterpieces that we're now hanging on the door of our fridge. As if we were already moms.

When I see children nowadays being more acceptant than the old decrepit people we have in our political system, I wonder why these kids aren't elected instead of an 80-year-old grump who blatters his opinion when he's just spilling hatred and shit right of his mouth with the very pitiful excuse of using the First Amendment, freedom of speech, to justify what they're saying. And I believe that it's the worst way to shit on the actual policital fight that our ancestors had to go through to be free from censorship and political abuse.

But I guess these people are just plain stupid, and always missing when it comes to having a brain. They never had one, don't have one, and they'll never have one, I guess.

The day finally ends up with more sales than we could hope for. Customers served, we got some new clients in the online server, and we even did a little bit of promotion on social media. Annie closes the shop at five, closing everything behind her, checking what we had left and all the orders that would be sent tomorrow, before going to see me in the back of the place to ask if I want to order food tonight.

« Why ? There's nothing to do today. I can cook, I answer with a little moan.

• Don't you remember, Cassie ? We have an appointment with the judge at six today for him to declare us capable of adopting. Where are the papers ?
• On the drawer, where you left them this morning. Hey ! » I interrupt her as she's leaving in a hurry. « Are you a little bit nervous or what ?
• A little, but it'll go fine. So, Chinese or Indian ?
• Indian, I answer while taking my purse, I'd like to have this... curry we at the other day, remember it...
• Yeah, I'd like to have that too. I'll just order a big pot for two and tell them to serve us around eight tonight. ID ?
• What ?
• Your ID, do you have it ? In your purse ?
• Yeah, I do. Hey... », I add while putting my hands on her shoulders. « I'm pretty convinced we'll be fantastic parents. We already love Alice, and she loves us. Nothing can go wrong now.
• I guess it's just a little bit of apprehension towards being a mother... I mean, it's gonna be a lot of responsabilities, right there.
• That's why we'll be two to take care of her... Come on. Let's go, or we'll be late ! For Alice !
• For Alice ! », my fiancée blurted out, and we left the shop to go to the court of Miami.

Towards new horizons. A wedding, a daughter... and so much more.

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