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The song ends and Cobb pulls out one of his AirPods, nodding at her to do the same.
"So, do you think we have a hit on our hands?" he asks, pulling her back to him so that they're still swaying together like two lovers on a dance floor, even though the music has stopped and all they can hear is the roar of the ocean in the distance.
She thinks about this. "Well, I have no idea if anyone else will love that song as much as I do, but I can tell you that I do love it. Deeply." Marigold looks into his eyes and in them she sees the majority of her life and her heart and her history. "And I think you might have struck creative gold by being here on Shipwreck Key, so let's not throw that away. I think you should stay here for a while and keep writing songs."
"And us?" Cobb asks, looking hopeful and uncertain as his heart beats against Marigold's chest.
Marigold shakes her head slowly, not tearing her eyes away from his face. "I don't think I want to throw that away, either," she says softly, standing up on tiptoes so that she can kiss him.
Cobb lets the hand that's on the small of her back drift lower as he pulls her close, parting her lips and kissing her with all the passion he has inside of him. Marigold can feel her body turn to molten lava at his touch; she can feel herself give way beneath Cobb's familiar kiss. And suddenly, there in his arms, she realizes that she's not caring for him in his time of need out of pity, and she's not dancing with him as a final goodbye--she's doing it all out of love. It's a love that's seen its fair share of ups and downs, and it's a love that has weathered some major storms, but it's real, and it's solid. It’s theirs.
"Mr. and Mrs. Hartley?" the young server asks, holding two plates in his hands as he stands in the doorway to the kitchen, the light from inside flooding out around him. "Should I bring out the first course now?"
Marigold looks at Cobb with laughter in her eyes. "It's been a long time since anyone called me Mrs. Hartley," she says, pulling away from Cobb and smiling at the young man in the apron. "But I've been called worse," she says with a wink, "so I'll take it."
