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Post by live.love.laugh on Jul 8, 2006 12:51:21 GMT -5
aw this is sad!! but awesome!! more please!
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Post by crazy4teddy15 on Jul 8, 2006 14:38:09 GMT -5
awww jamie is a good friend...this is good! more please?
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Post by Carie on Jul 8, 2006 15:41:28 GMT -5
more please
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Post by smile♥ on Jul 8, 2006 23:34:53 GMT -5
Jaimie forced me to buy several outfits that she knew I liked even though I acted like I didn't. I didn't even have anywhere to wear them anymore. Everytime I looked at them I thought about how much I missed going out with Chad on Saturday nights while the babysitter or Ted watched Rachel.
"You ok?" Jaimie asked as we sat at a table in Red Lobster.
"Huh?" I asked as she drew me out of my trance.
"You've been sitting there with that same look on your face for a while now. It's that happy but depressed look." She said. "You were thinking about him again?"
I nodded.
"I don't know what it's like, but I assume it's only natural for it.. like, you're supposed to feel that way. I don't know what I'd do.." She trailed off, not wanting to say the words.
"I never thought it would happen either." I smiled to myself as I wrapped my arms around myself. "He's was a very good man."
"That he was." Jaimie agreed and smiled as we payed for our food and headed home.
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That night was the best night of sleep I had gotten since everthing happened. I still hugged his pillow, but I didn't cry. It comforted me like it always had.
I saw him in my dreams also. I had small little flashbacks of the times we shared together like our one year anniversary and when Rachel was born and our wedding, and then the night he died, only it was different. After he died, he spoke to me.
"Rachel really does know what you're talking about." He smiled that same carefree smile he had always had. "She understands probably more than you do, but that's ok. You'll understand too. I'll always love you and I don't want to see you unhappy."
"I miss you," I smiled as I touched the side of his face. It felt so alive.
"I know, and I miss you." He smiled again. "I noticed you've held on to my pillow for a while. It makes you sad and I don't want you to be sad."
"I do it to remember how you smelled every night and how happy and calm it made me." I told him. "I love you."
"I love you and I always will." He said. "I have to go now, but I want you to know that you should listen to Ted. He knows what he's doing."
"I don't understand."
"I love you." He said as he vanished like that and I woke up to the sound of the doorbell ringing at eight o' clock the next morning.
Teddy stood at the door and smiled at me as I opened it. "Hey sweetie," He said as he gave me a hug and walked in. "So I thought about taking Rachel to the park today."
"Oh.." I said surprised. He thought he could just drive down here and say 'I'm taking Rachel to the park.' I didn't like that too well. "Well, what makes you think that's ok with me?"
He had a surprised look on his face. "She's my god-daughter and I was just wanting to spend some time with her." He said. "It's more than you've been doing."
"Excuse me?" I asked. "I hardly have time anymore between working and cleaning the house all by myself and having to do everything else. I barely have time for me anymore unless Jaimie comes over and says 'Ashton is watching the kids while we go out'."
"You could make time, Tay," He informed me.
"You could read to her at night for once. That's why she always wakes up everytime you tuck her in," He told me. "You never take time to tell her a story or sing to her."
"Don't tell me how to raise my own daughter!" I yelled at him. "You're not her dad!"
"Well I'm the closest thing she has, and I'm trying to be there for her but apparently that's not what you want. I'm sorry I even try for you anymore. Have fun telling her that her god father won't be spending time with her anymore because you said so." He said as he slammed the door behing him.
Oh my gosh. Chad had been right. Teddy knew what he was talking about. I don't ever spend time with her. I sighed to myself as I opened the door to find that Teddy had gotten as far as sitting down on the first step.
I walked out and sat next to him. I wrapped my arms around my knees and looked at him. "I.. am really sorry."
He looked at me out of the corner of his eye. "I meant what I said."
"I know." I smiled. "That's why all three of us are going to the park. But she can't play in the water. It's September."
He smiled. "But that's the best part."
I playfully punched his shoulder and rested my head on it. "You big goof."
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Jaimie, Ashton, and their children left later that morning, as Teddy, Rachel, and I headed to the park. It felt like we were a family, even though that wasn't exactly the picture. It was a nice picture in my mind, but I wasn't ready for that.
Teddy and I sat on a blanket as Rachel turned cartwheels in the field in front of us.
"So what is going on with you?" He asked curiously.
"Nothing really. I'm doing better." I told him. "I didn't cry at all last night."
"That's an improvement." He said.
"I'm also late. It's been like a month and a half since.. you know." I told him, feeling comfortable talking about that kind of thing with him.
He didn't say anything for a minute. "Hmm."
"Yeah. It makes me kind of depressed, because it's kind of at a really bad timing.. you know, if I am, but at the same time it makes me happy because during lunch that day he had said that he had wanted to start trying for another one." I revealed to Teddy, who sat there listening just like an old friend.
"You'll always have me. You always have had me," he smiled at me. "Don't worry about it."
He seemed kind of sad about things, but I didn't question it. I knew exactly what it was about without him having to tell me.
I smiled as I layed back on the blanket and layed my hand on my stomach. What if I really was about to start raising two kids on my own?
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Post by [.j.a.i.m.i.e.] on Jul 9, 2006 9:40:21 GMT -5
Teddy won't leave! he'll raise them with her....he still loves her && she still loves him!
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Post by crazy4teddy15 on Jul 9, 2006 13:34:35 GMT -5
aww how cute! teddy will take care of her and the kid(s)...
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Post by smile♥ on Jul 10, 2006 13:44:26 GMT -5
One year later, and I now have two kids. Hayden Chad was born on the same day as his Dad. It made me sad, but also kid of happy at the same time. I could always tell him that he was special because he had the same birthday as his Dad.
I sat at a fancy restaraunt table looking at Teddy and wondered what made him wait around for me after all these years. We had started a relationship about a month ago, which meant he was around more often to help with the kids and he didn't stay in the quest room anymore.
My phone rang and I picked it up to find that it was Lea. She had agreed to watch the kids while Teddy took me out to eat. "Yes Lea.. that's why the food is there.. you CAN eat it.." I rolled my eyes at Teddy who laughed. I hung up as he began to say something. He didn't get it out, though because my phone began to ring. I mouthed a sorry as he nodded and began pulling a pen out of his jacket pocket.
"Yes Jaimie, we're coming up there for his birthday." I laughed. "Ok.. what would you like me to bring?" He reached for my hand and began writing something on it as he slipped something in my hand and balled my hand into a fist around it.
I pulled my hand closer and read what it said and then opened my head. "Umm.. Jaimie... I- I uh.. need to call you back." I hung up on her.
Teddy had written 'Will you marry me?' across my palm and stuck the ring there also.
"Are you... like.. for real?" I asked, shocked and he nodded and smiled shyly.
"Yeah. I really am." He said. "I won't take no for an answer this time either. I'm not walking away without you." I didn't know what to say to this. "I promise that I will never try to take the place of Rachel and Hayden's father.. in fact, I plan on telling Hayden how great of a person Chad was. I've just wanted to be with you for ever. I didn't care if we were old and grey when we married, I wanted to be able to wake up next to you and say 'Good morning Mrs. Geiger.' and make you breakfast in bed and sleep in late on Saturdays with you... I just want you."
I smiled this time. I remembered six years ago when I turned him down, and thought about how this time was much different. I had always loved him, and I would always love Chad. I knew, though, that I was supposed to be with Teddy. I had always knew it, but I was afraid of everything. I was a silly little kid who needed to get her head straight.
"I'll understand if you say it's too soon," He said, "It can be more of a promise ring then.. "
"Yes." I cut him off and he gave me a surprised look.
"Yes.. it's a promise ring.. or yes as in 'Yes, Teddy I want to wake up to you're face every morning?' " He laughed, as did I.
"The second one," I smiled.
Everyone around us had begun to clap. I hadn't realized that we had had such an audience. Apparently the restaraunt was normally quite quiet, and if you listened you could hear everyone's conversations.
We both looked at the people around us and laughed. "Thanks.." Teddy said as his cheeks began to turn red and the waiter brought our food.
- - - - - - - - - -
"Oh... wow." Lea said as we came home that night and she saw the ring I was now wearing. "That is very.. pretty. You're good Tedster.."
"Thanks," He said. "It was the only one that I thought was good enough." He told her about the square diamond set on the silver band. It was simple, but very elegant at the same time.
"Well, Hayden said Cha-cha tonight," Lea informed me.
"He's been saying that," I laughed.
"Well.. goodnight," Lea said sleepily as she walked up the staircase of my house. She was so goofy.
"Goodnight to you too," I laughed as Teddy grabbed me around the waist and planted a kiss on my lips as he walked me to the bedroom.
"Goodnight, sweetie," He told me as he buried himself under the covers in almost the same fashion as Chad had once done.
I smiled as I turned out my light and dug my face in my pillow to take in the calming smell of the pillow that Chad had once used. I still couldn't let go of that. It was what had helped me sleep all those years, but I knew I would have to get rid of it some day.
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"So when are you two getting married?" Jaimie asked curiously as we sat in plastic lawn chairs for Teddy's birthday.
"Well, we've decided to get married here in New York and they're going to start moving in next week. She got a job here with a Crime Scene Investigation unit.. doing the interrogation stuff.." He explained.
"The date, Teddy.. The date," Jaimie reminded him as he began rambling.
"Oh yeah.. January twenty-fourth."
"Nice. That only gives you guys a few months to plan stuff." Ashton said as he sat down next to Jaimie.
"Yeah. But I already have this little white dress from Camille's wedding back in Boston, and I'm just going to wear that, and I have most of the plans already worked out. I've even sent all the invitations." I told her.
"Wow. Congrats to you Miss Overacheiver.." Jaimie joked as we all laughed at Hayden as he let out a joyful scream from his carrier.
This was going to be fun.
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Post by [.j.a.i.m.i.e.] on Jul 10, 2006 15:19:56 GMT -5
yay! it's about time lol Teddy is such a cutie...
''I wanted to be able to wake up next to you and say 'Good morning Mrs. Geiger.' and make you breakfast in bed and sleep in late on Saturdays with you... I just want you."
ohh goodness! can't wait!
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Post by smile♥ on Jul 10, 2006 21:57:19 GMT -5
“So this is your house?” I asked Teddy curiously
“Yeah.”
“And you live in it alone?” I asked again.
“Well, Diablo lives here too.”
“A Hispanic devil lives here with you?” I joked.
“No.” He laughed at me as he unlocked the front door. “It’s my black lab. He’s the best dog anybody could ever have. He’ll love you.”
As soon as we stepped into the foyer, Diablo came running around the corner and began sniffing up and down my legs. He licked my shoes, before looking at Teddy and giving a small bark, which I assumed was a sign of approval.
Teddy bent down to Rachel’s level. “Come on Rachie, I’ll show you where your room is going to be, ok?” She nodded and he grabbed her hand and led her up the stairs to a room that was on the far right end of the house. It was already painted a pink color with light yellow, vertical stripes.
“I had someone paint this after we got engaged, and I told them I wanted something cute and girly that could last a girl a long time,” He said. “I hope you guys like it.”
“It’s very cute.” I told him. “Thank you. Rachel tell Teddy thank you.”
“Thank you Teddy. I love you.” She said excitedly as she walked around her room, which was quite bare at the moment, but as soon as the movers arrived would be filled, with her bed and toys and everything else that had been crammed into her old room.
He grabbed my hand this time. “Come on. I’ll show you the kitchen.” He whispered in my ear as he led me to a kitchen that had beautiful wood cabinets and a stainless steel stove against a wall with brick that had been painted a green color that looked somewhat retro. There was an island in the middle with the same black marble counter top that covered all the other counters in the kitchen.
“Very nice.” I told him. “I like the green.”
“Yeah. I picked it out, just because the old brick had been painted this boring white color and I thought that one made it much more warm.” He sounded like a designer.
“Oh really?” I laughed at him as he took Hayden from me and walked me to the living room that was painted a dark brown with a big, maroon colored, suede couch and a big black recliner that matched my much smaller couch perfectly.
“I figured we could use your couch as a loveseat kind of thing on that short wall right there.” He pointed and I nodded. “Come on, there’s still more.”
He led me to the bedroom, which was very bare compared to the rest of the house. All that was in it was a twin sized bed and a small dresser that matched. “I haven’t exactly got to decorate this room yet,” He smiled.
“We can use my stuff,” I said. “Actually. We I saw this awesome comforter at the mall that I would love to use and we could put my old comforter on Rachel’s bed.” I referred to the black and white flowered covering that had covered my bed in Boston.
He nodded. “Sounds good to me. I’ll let you do all the decorating that’s left,” He smiled at me and kissed my cheek just as Hayden began singing his little cha-cha-cha song he had made up.
“That’s right, little boy,” Teddy said in a baby voice. “Cha-cha-cha-cha..”
Nothing could’ve made me happier.
- - - - - - - - - -
I invited probably almost everyone Teddy and I had known in our whole life. Kristen and Ashley were both there. Kristen was married to Josh and had a daughter who was six. Ashley was dating a guy who looked like he thought he was god’s gift to women. I think his name was Adam.
Auburn and Lea, Jaimie and Ashton, and Kristen and Josh were all in the wedding. It was slightly informal, the guys just wore black suits and the girls wore knee-length halter-top dresses that were a very light green color. It was my new favorite color.
It was in a church this time, though. I wanted a church wedding now that I had already had an outdoor one. It just seemed right to have it in a church.
“It was a great wedding,” Teddy’s parents told me.
“I always knew that one day you two would be together,” His Dad said. “I’ve always wanted it that way. You’re the only girl who makes Teddy crazy. I’ve never seen him act like this for anyone.”
I smiled. “Well thanks for your approval. I’m glad he was still willing to be with me after everything.”
“I think everything happens for a reason,” His Mom told me. “It was like everything lead up to this. Everything that happened was meant to be, and were like little stepping stones to here.”
I nodded as Teddy came up behind me and wrapped his arm around me. “Hey Mom. Hey Dad.”
“Hey sweetie.” His Mom said as she kissed his cheek. “You look very nice tonight.”
“Thanks Mom.” He said as Kristen and Josh came over to us.
“Hey, Man.” Josh greeted. “We’re going to head out. We have to get to work in the morning. I’m glad I got to see you guys again. I am really sorry about that whole fight thing we had… I’ve felt bad about it everyday since then.”
“Don’t worry about it, man. I probably would’ve done the same.”
“I guess our daughters will see each other in class tomorrow,” Kristen laughed as she gave me a hug. “It was really good to finally see you again. You have two beautiful kids.” She smiled. She was always so sweet.
“Thank you. Your little girl is really pretty too,” I told her. “She’s got your hair.”
“Yeah. Well, I guess I’ll see you later.”
“Bye.” I waved as Jaimie whispered that it was time for Teddy and I to get going so they could clean up and get everyone else out.
“Ok, Mom,” Teddy said. “I guess I won’t be stopping by as often to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
“It’s ok.” She told him. “I’ve still got the youngest. They’re not going anywhere for a while.” She winked. “I love you.”
He gave her a hug as we started to walk off.
“I love you Ted,” She said again.
“Love you as well, Mother.” I laughed and told everyone goodbye before going home to sleep.
I changed out of my dress into a pair of short shorts and a tank top before walking into the room to study the painting job I had done. The comforter we had bought was a bunch of squares in different shades of blue that repeated in a random pattern. I had painted the walls a slate blue. It was the only color Teddy and I could both agree on.
“So Mrs. Geiger,” He smiled at me. “What are we going to do since both of us are most likely still on a sugar high from the cake and slightly intoxicated from the wine?”
I laughed at him. “What did you have in mind?” I smiled mischievously as I climbed onto the bed and laid next to him under the covers.
"Let's talk about the future," He said as he tucked my hair behind my ear. "I want two kids of our own."
"Oh?" I asked. "What if I only want one?"
"Well.. I guess I'll have to settle for that." He smiled at me. "If it's a girl, I want to name it Madison.. and if it's a boy I like the name Tyler."
"Oh? I don't get any say in any of this?" I joked.
"Nope!" He laughed as he began kissing my neck.
I was more than excited to begin a new chapter with him. I had even washed that old pillow case and left all the major things that I had held on to.
"I love you," I whispered and smiled as I thought about our future together.
OK!!! That's the end! There isn't anymore!! Let me know what you think..
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Post by live.love.laugh on Jul 10, 2006 22:10:54 GMT -5
ahhhhhhhh! that was soo good!!! best way to end it too!!! love it!!
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Post by crazy4teddy15 on Jul 10, 2006 22:20:05 GMT -5
ahh so cute!! nicely done! hahaha i love the "love you as well mother"
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Cristina
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Post by Cristina on Jul 10, 2006 23:05:20 GMT -5
that was amazing...perfect ending! haha "love you as well mother"...i love it!
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Post by smile♥ on Jul 11, 2006 9:19:05 GMT -5
^^ i took that from that day in the life of teddy geiger thing... yeah.. i just wanted to use it.. lol
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Post by [.j.a.i.m.i.e.] on Jul 11, 2006 11:29:12 GMT -5
ohh i loved it! PERFECT ending
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Post by ohhh ashley on Jul 11, 2006 12:54:32 GMT -5
This was amazinggg.
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