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I can’t believe he did this for me and my brother.
“The van wasn’t the only thing he left you,” he wipes my tears away, “He left you endless memories and the story he dreamt to imprint on his skin.”
I look at him through teary eyes.
“Beside all the memories you collected together. Now you have another part of him.” He finishes, and quickly kisses my salty lips.
“It’s everything.” I sniffle. The black outlines and the sprayed areas are perfect. The pink, blue, purple, and yellow hues mesh beautifully and create this mesmerizing jellyfish. Jamey was jellyfish-obsessed. Patches of the ocean peek between green seaweeds and seashells, creating the shape of a van.
He made it so delicate to fit me.
“He would’ve loved it.”
“His might have looked different but I would’ve gotten it right for him too.” I interlace our fingers and kiss his neck—inhaling his aromatic scent into my lungs.
He released me from the invisible chains I carried for years.
Epilogue
Nine months later
Theconceptoffallingin love always seemed like a bit of a stretch to me. Can someone love a person for the rest of their lives? Only this one individual amongst the seven seas. They sure can appreciate the efforts but will they maintain the same flames holding them captive?
When I was younger and burned by it, I lost my ability to fully comprehend the loose definition and terminology of love. Or anything related to the matter. I was delirious of my toxicity. Feeding myself poison about not wanting to become my parents when in reality, I had the same addictions and issues not as unhealthy as theirs but not far off the scale of self-suppressing.
But then I watched my friends fall in love, starting families and bringing children into the world, surrounded by it all, I fell in love with the feeling again. It was real. True. And healthy. It wasn’t far-fetched. I could grasp that forsaken dream and hope that one day I would call a woman my significant other.
I couldn’t predict it would be pink hair, tattoos, and an adventurous personality but she is everything to me.
She is love.
My love.
She silences the demons surrounding me, and I want to be as close to her as possible. Never away.
I don’t have the urge to pack a bag and seek a getaway.
I just want to be with Lenny.
Myaquatic creature.
Frustrated with the little fur stealing my woman’s attention all the time, I cross the front porch leading to our garage. The harsh rays of July scorch our backs as Lenny follows my trail.
“Damn cat,” I grunt.
“Watch your mouth he’s part of the family now.” She loves him like a child and I love her so fucking much for it. Her emotional intelligence is endless.
I swear, the mocking faces he makes when he looks at me sometimes as if he enjoys the fact she has to share her time between us is infuriating.
Well technically… he did hit on her first, thelittle fucker.
I twitch the side of my mouth and shake my head sideways.
Her relationship with the cat pisses me off on more than one occasion, although, I like the fucker; he’s a dirty bastard who’s watching us all the time and I like the audience—didn’t know exhibitionism was my thing but I guess it is.
“Stop being so jealous of him,” Lenny reprimands me. “He chose you as his owner a long time ago.”
I’ll reprimand her ass for that later.
