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“I love you and want you to be happy too,” Hannah said.
“I am happy,’ Jill said.
“No, you’re scared,” Hannah said.
“And worried,” Jess added.
Ginger and Nate sat behind them, and Jill couldn’t argue with her friends. She listened to them talk to Emma and Ted about babies, cribs, strollers, and all of the things it required to be a parents of a newborn.
Her chest squeezed, and her stomach twisted. “Maybe I am,” she conceded.
“Dallas said he’s okay,” Jess said quietly. She handed Jill her phone. “You can read our texts.”
Jill looked at the dark screen on the device. “I’m okay,” she said. “I’m glad Dallas and Luke were with him. Can you imagine what might’ve happened if they hadn’t been?” Jill’s gratitude reached a new level, and she thought of the conversation she’d had with her mother in the basement only a few hours ago.
She believed what her mom had said to her all those years ago, before the prom. Maybe she’d lost her way from time to time over the years. Maybe she’d been angry with the Lord a few months ago when she’d learned about her mother’s cancer. Maybe she struggled with her faith from time to time.
But it was still there. She still had it, and she clung to it now with every ounce of strength she had.
Lord, she thought.Only You know the whole picture. Only You know what I deserve, and what Slate deserves. I want us to deserve each other, just so You know. Please help me to accept whatever I have to…
She couldn’t continue, because she didn’t want to accept that she might not be able to have Slate in her life for good.
She had fallen in love with him, and she linked arms with Hannah and handed Jess’s phone back to her, the texts unread. She just had to wait until the boys got back, and then she’d see Slate for herself.
