Wait For Me

I do

A/N - Final part guyssss 😬😶 Thank you for all the lovely reviews and reads 🙈 I'll have something new soon hopefully, but it might be slow updates in between all the uni deadlines for a while! 😊 Hope you like this final chapter 🙊

Everything seemed to flash before his eyes, he knew in that moment that nothing would ever be the same again... Running down the hill he spotted her, no sound, no movement, nothing. The world around him stood still and every muscle in his body began to tense.

Weeks went by so slowly and she withdrew further and further, he watched his future slipping away piece by piece. The girl laying in the bed a far cry from the excitable teen she had been such a short time ago...

"She's out with a friend, but you're welcome to sit with her if you like? I'm sure she wouldn't mind..." The nerves that ran through him pushing the door to her silent room open, the pain at knowing where her mother really was pushed aside. The soft toy in his grasp being the only thing grounding him in that moment.

The bright beaming smile he'd missed so much, the chattering he had become accustomed to returning more and more. The laughter and the love falling back into place, the tears she cried becoming less as she got her little girl back. The life she once had...

His world continued on, side by side with the one he constantly watched over. The nights he spent checking on them unnoticed, the days he spent doing what he could. Remembering the way she started to look at him again, how with each hour spent together he could recall every reason he had fallen for her at the start.

His heart shattered as she said the words he had feared for so long, the literal life they had lost and never truly been able to mourn. The long nights spent crying, wondering if things would ever be right again. The fake smile that told him she was okay, the pain she tried so hard to hide reminding him of how badly he had failed...

Everything dragged, nothing made sense. Why did everything have to happen to him? If there was a god what was his plan? Wasn't everyone meant to be happy? The cracks showed to more people than ever, the proof that she really wasn't okay.

Piece by piece, day by day building herself back up, beginning to open up. The smile he saw a glimmer of, the woman she always had been when with him. The life they wanted together an arm's reach away but neither of them were confident enough to grasp it. More days and nights separated, wishing to be beside the other.

The first time he kissed her, the feeling of how it felt to be so close to her. The touch of her hands on his skin, the smell of her perfume and the way her hair felt between his fingers. The truth that nothing else mattered to him. The final push for everything...

All the tears she cried, the way she sat on the docks, the long dress falling into the edge of the water. Her hair blowing back in the wind as he rushed to sit beside her, the knot in his stomach at what he was finally ready to say. The four words that could change his life...

The natural glow that surrounded her as weeks went by, the smile and the laughter that he'd fought so hard for. The home that they had both worked for. The way she ran around the garden as though nothing had happened all those months before.

Those bright green eyes, staring up at him as she grasped hold of his finger tightly. The beautiful baby held within her arms, how natural it all looked. "Everyone, meet Charlotte Elizabeth Lisa Masters... I don't say it enough, but thank you..." As though all the months of pain had never happened to them. Everything he had experienced, irrelevant because now he finally had his family.

The daydream he had found himself coming to a sudden halt as his attention was snapped up as the music shifted and everyone around him stood up. Standing up he pulled on his suit before walking forwards, taking a deep breath shutting his eyes as he waited looking to the front.