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The setting was perfect. Candlelight, polished cutlery and a single rose set in a delicate vase at each table. "Or was it?" I spoke to myself whiles trying to pull myself together. I left the fire-fly lit riverside and wheeled my blind folded wife from the house to the setting.

"Where are we going Lucas?" my angel giggled nervously.

"Shhh. Some place nice and quiet." I sarcastically whispered.
"Voila!" I exclaimed as I carried her from her wheel chair to the mini tables on the grass.

"What is- wow Luc. Aww. You didn't." She blushed.

"Happy anniversary mon amour." I said and kissed her wide smile.

We sat on the grass watching the stars and their variant fire flies, talking about our high school memories. We laughed and joked and ate the little food I prepared for us.

"Remember how you were crying when I was walking down the aisle last year?" she asked intentionally.

"Ugh. Caroline. Not again." I rolled my eyes as she laughed crying.

"Your face looked like spongebob wailing!" She barely laughed out. "I would have cried to. But then your face before you wipe those tears. Was it so much to hold back?"

I glanced at her as silence filled the atmosphere. Then suddenly, we both burst into laughter.

"I could not help it. We had just been through so much and you... You looked soooo beautiful." I said romantically as our laughs died down.

"All I could think of back then, was you and our kids as a family. And now..." Caroline whispered as tears begin to fill her eyes.

"Hey, hey, hey. It's okay. We're okay. I love you no matter what." I said to her, holding my tears back I she cried on my chest.

"Just promise me something love. Promise me you would find love again and start a real family." she desperately said whiles glancing into my teary eyes.

"Carol. You are my real family. I dont think I-I..." I said looking away as a tear slipped out but interrupted by her weeping.

"Please! Please Lucas. That's what I want from you when I'm gone." she balled.

"Carol... please stop." I cried.

"Lucas I'm begging you."

After a while of letting a few tears out, I reluctantly nodded, "Okay my love. Alright."

"I love you." she whinced whiles sniffing her red nose.

"I love you." I replied in pain and with love.

I held until her tight, knowing that she couldn't win the fight with cancer. I can't let her go. Not when we still have a whole life ahead of us. I can't live without her. I knew we're not promised tomorrow so I held on to her as long as the night could go.





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