আপনি started walking towards him, your nerves coming through. “What if he doesn’t remember me?” আপনি thought. But he couldn’t. আপনি used to be best friends.
আপনি walk up behind him, he was talking to that Johnny kid that আপনি sometimes hung out with. He was also with Two-Bit.
“Still trying to grease that hair, hood?” আপনি laugh from behind him.
He whirls around. “(Y/N)?”
আপনি smile at him. He runs toward আপনি a scoops আপনি up into a big ভালুক hug.
“Oh my god I missed you.” He muttered as he set আপনি down, and began stroking your hair. Well that was… Different.
“Missed আপনি too.” আপনি squeezed him.
“Well look at what we’ve got here… Damn আপনি were like, nine the last time we saw you? নমস্কার Ponyboy…She’s really uh ‘grown up’, hasn’t she?” Two-Bit laughs.
“Shut up,” Ponyboy mutters. But he was looking at you.
And আপনি locked eyes.
Ad everything changed.
“Dad, why does যীশু have a scary beard?” My eight বছর old Rhett whispers.
“I don’t know…Maybe they couldn’t shave back then.” I whisper back.
“Oh,” he nods. It seemed to make sense to him.
Twelve বছর old Scarlett looked over at us, trying to see what all the whispering was about. I waved my hand at her to tell her it wasn’t important.
Charlie had crawled into my lap halfway through the sermon. He was five now, but still my little man. He was half asleep দ্বারা now.
(Y/N) was at home, on বিছানা rest. Ella অথবা Robert could be born any দিন now. I would be a dad to four. That would be scary. Horrifying.
But I was happy.