Free Trusting Fate by H. M. Waitrovich Page B

face as she got up and ran down the hall in tears. I thought that she would be relieved to finally know the truth. I know that she has been really hard on herself over her past but I am grateful to her for giving me a son and happy that it ’ s with her. I got up to go and try to find her. I walked around the halls and walked right past the stairwell when I heard some faint whimpers. I knew it was her. I would know that voice anywhere. I slowly walked down the stairwell until I could I see her long hair cascading down her back. She had her head in her hands and she was sobbing. It was the kind of crying that only happened when you had really reached your mental limit. Gabby had every reason to be crying like this but all I wanted to do was reach and grab her and hold her for as long as it took to make her life better.
    “ Gabby hey, I ’ m truly sorry for all of this. I wish I could this all better for you, ” I said stroking her face gently.
    She looked up and her face was tear stained but she never looked more beautiful to me. “ I … I ’ m so sorry Jace. It is me who should be apologizing. I wanted so badly to turn back time and do things the right way, of course then I wouldn ’ t have had Theo but I longed to know who the father of my son is. I guess just hearing it for the first time really did a number on me. I didn ’ t meant to scare you and freak out, ” she said smiling slightly.
    “ Gabby I understand, believe me. I am so thrilled to learn that Theo is my son and I know that I have missed so much but just to know you both now is more than enough for me. I want so much to be in your lives and watch him grow up, ” I said.
    She sighed heavily, and I wasn ’ t sure if it was good or bad.
    “ Jace how can we make this work? Theo has asked about his father before. He is in daycare and when the other Dad ’ s come to get their kids he has asked me if those were their grandpa ’ s or friends. It breaks my heart every time. I have never really had a good explanation for him so believe me when I say I am relieved to have found you and also confused at how it ’ s such a small world. I am not proud of who I used to be. I was young and really stupid, I am so sorry that I do not remember our night together. I am sure that I wasn ’ t much company considering I used to black out early on in the night, ” she said and her eyes were blurry with tears again.
    “ Gabby you cannot change who you were in another life, and that is what it was another life. I met this vibrant and full of life young woman that night. I had to know more about you and everything I learned I loved. I knew that you had probably had way too much to drink but you were good at hiding it for the most part. So yes I was shocked when you didn ’ t recognize me but it was also only one night and it was 4 years ago. You are still that same full of life person that I met that night … you just lived a different lifestyle then. Do not be ashamed of who you once were, its ok, ” I said trying to reassure her.
    “ So where do we go from here then? I am sorry that I pushed you away, I was falling pretty hard for you when all of this happened and I freaked out. I ’ m so sorry, ” she confessed.
    I could not believe my ears, did she just say that she had fallen for me? Was I really that lucky bastard who she fell in love with?
    “ Well I guess we can do whatever you want. I mean I would like to get the bone marrow transplant done and see how he does, but I really think from what the doctors say and how successful they seem that this will work out and Theo will be back to his old self in not time. Not that this has changed him anyway at all, I have never seen someone receiving chemo to smile as much as him. Especially after my brother … losing him gutted me, I watch him slowly slip away and there was nothing that I could do to fix it, I just want to be able to be in my son ’ s life. Wow that feels great to say … My son, ” I said