Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“If she’ll let you,”
his mother muttered.
“After all you’ve done, Calvin, and her not recalling anything, I doubt you’ll win her back.”
“I can only hope that in time, mother. I will be able to.”
Calvin nodded.
“It has to be all on her terms, because if not, she could well vanish into thin air once more. She has the means to do so… and”
he muttered,
“has already bought a new house, to do so as well. It’s here in Montana, actually.”
“Are you still bloody stalking her?”
his father asked, frowning deeply at him now.
“No, actually she has a phone with a live tracking app. To keep tabs on me. She gets my weekly schedule every Monday morning. I’m technically allowing her to actively stalk me at will. The phone I purchased for her to do that with, it stays in her home, she’s not required to take it anywhere. When she leaves the house, it generally stays in the same location all the time.”
He answered the question.
“So, she can see if you’re about to suddenly appear at her place,”
his mother huffed.
“Yes, and she’s alerted every time I leave the state of Texas as well.”
Calvin nodded.
“I’m trying to show her that I’m abiding by the court??ppointed order to stay away from her, building the first steps of trust, I hope.”
“Are we allowed to send a Christmas card or gift to our grandchildren that we’ve known nothing about for the past seven years?”
his mother sighed
“And I want photos of them for the mantle. Preferably one with their mother as well.”
“I’d have to ask permission for a photo like that. Maybe I might be able to get one of the three of them if she allows me to go there for Christmas. The present? I’ve not even brought them anything yet. Because I don’t know if Marilyn will allow it. So, I’ll get back to you on that,”
he stated it was all he could do.
“I don’t see a problem in you sharing photos with us, to display in my house. I treated Marrin as if she was my own daughter. We got along famously. So I don’t think Marilyn would object to the boys’ grandmother having pictures of them either. I’m certain she would understand as a mother that grandparents like having pictures of their grandchildren around them.”
“I’ll ask.”
He stated he couldn’t just agree, it wasn’t his place.
“I’m not going to just give you anything, it’ll likely be seen as me overstepping her boundaries.”
“Ask now son.”
She stated, tapping his phone.
“We are two hours behind where she is,”
he answered and looked at his watch.
“It’s 8pm here, so 10pm there, and from my understanding, the twins have the phone in their room of a night. It’s not with Marilyn.”
“First thing in the morning then, and maybe Calvin, send the boys a picture of all of us, so they can start to recognise their own family, before they are allowed to meet us.”
He nodded.
“Again I will ask Marilyn, if that is something she will let me do.”
He watched his family pretty much just get up and walk away from the table, leaving him with only his mother and father. They were going through that file, and she saw his mother cover her mouth with a hand as she looked at the pictures of Marilyn injured in the hospital and her eyes met his, tears filling them.
“I know.”
He murmured.
“It was really bad, they didn’t even know if she would make it.”
he sighed and hated knowing that himself. Hated knowing that what he’d thought that day, of the plane crash, would actually have been her last thoughts as well. That he didn’t love her, and she was all alone in the world.
If she’d died that day, there would have been no one to claim her body, no one to bury her or cremate her, she’d have been buried in a potter’s field. He really did hate that thought, it would never happen now, he wouldn’t let it.
Marilyn
The boys loved having the new pinboard in the alcove, and she’d hooked that phone up to the house’s printer as well as bought photo??uality paper for it. So that they could print out and pin up the pictures they’d gotten of their grandparents and their aunts and uncles, their three cousins.
Each one of those photos that had been sent already had the names of whom the people in it were on them. Edited by Calvin himself she could only presume, seeing as all of his family were now in the know. The boys liked having all the pictures on that pinboard, liked knowing they had a family outside herself.
They’d asked Calvin a bunch of questions about having cousins and would they meet their grandparents, to which he’d stated
“In due time, if your mother approves, of course.”
And that had brought them to her to explain what in due time meant.
She set that meeting up with Wil for her and the twins on the 20th so they could meet their father, though she had told Wil not to tell Calvin the twins would be there. The boys wanted it to be a surprise, and he’d told her he was all good with that. He thought it was nice of her and the boys to want to surprise Calvin like that..
Calvin and Wil had arrived on Friday evening and the boys had hovered over that phone and app all afternoon watching the plane arrive and then Calvin and Wil making their way to the hotel in Roanoke. She could see the anxious excitement in both the boys, and they found it harder to sit still than normal, once he was there at the hotel.
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