Infinity Chapter 149 - 10 years

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Chapter 149 –   10 years

POV:  Zac / Emily

Word count: 1292

March 20, 2020

I woke up to the sound of the ocean crashing against the beach outside, I blinked a moment and smiled because Emily was still asleep beside me. We’d been in Cancun for a few days now, we were flying back to reality Monday. Having six children was not easy, it was chaotic at best but neither of us would change anything. The last year with them had been a blessing.

When we decided to do something big for our 10^th anniversary I proposed coming back here where I had  asked her to be my wife. The same little cabin with the private beach and the private area, it was perfect.

We even renewed our wedding vows, Emily managed to wear the same wedding dress for the renewal, she only had to have the top modified because otherwise she’d have cleavage for miles. This time Ace and Nathaniel walked her down the aisle and she got her father daughter dance with them. It was a nice way to start off celebrating ten years of being married. Savannah was at our house with the children who we left at home. Brooklyn and Juliet were now over a year old and their personalities were so much like their mothers. Gabriel and Nathaniel were now three and they were certainly showing it. Isabella would be turning six this year and she was so smart and gorgeous, just like her mother. Alexander would be 8 this year, I couldn’t believe my oldest child was 8 already, he was now in a public school with Isabella, it meant that she and they couldn’t travel as much, but they needed stability now and that was more important. Emily had did most of the pre-K and Kindergarten things and then for 1^st grade we did public school. I rather missed him being so young though.

Emily turned over about 7:45 and settled back down and I admired the newest tattoo she had gotten. She wanted something that represented her love for music and her love for us and for our children. Her solution was to get a set of drumsticks, because all six of them liked the drums to some degree, on top of that she got a heart made from the tremble and bass clef notes, they formed a heart. Surrounding that she did two quaver notes above the hearts, one blue with Alexander’s initials in the bubble and one pink with Isabella’s. Under the heart shape she got two ti-ti’s or beam notes, one blue and each of the bubbles had the boys initials, and one pink which had the girls initials. Ivy had done a great job and I loved it. Fans had seen it but it didn’t matter, they knew the base meaning of it.

I traced my fingers over the edges and smiled. Had anyone told me in 2006 while I was stuck at home sick as hell that the girl I’d fallen in love with in 2003 was going to waltz into my life, turn it upside down and then fix everything I’d have said they were insane. I thought I was stuck with a woman who didn’t love me, stuck in a boring life that had no meaning to it. Emily had walked back into my life and gave me a purpose and a reason, through the last 13 years she’d been patient, compassionate, understanding, and above all faithful.

We’d survived my stupid moments there at the beginning, we’d survived stalkers and insane men who felt that we didn’t need to be together, we’d survived the loss of our first baby, who would have been nine this year. We’d survived being kidnapped by insane people, survived Ian’s attempt to get me to believe she didn’t love me, and we’d survived against everything. If that wasn’t a sign that we should be together, I don’t know what was.

I loved Emily and I always would, it was just a fact. I continued to lay here beside the love of my life and I let the soft sounds of the waves outside lulled me back to sleep.

-Emily-

I woke up about 8:30 and heard the waves, had been lulled to sleep by those same waves the night before. Zac had woken up, but clearly he was still tired. Freedom from pregnancy was a glorious thing in my opinion. We wouldn’t trade having six children though. Watching them get older was amazing, seeing how Alexander actually assisted us in potty training Gabriel and Nathaniel, means they were both out of diapers before they turned 3, he was such a good helper and so was Isabella. She was still group shy but she was improving and the past year Disney had gone so well with her, just Brooklyn and Juliet were not too keen on the loudness.
Family wise we were so much closer now than we were thirteen years ago and we even have Eliza who was actually due with their son next month, they were naming him Marco Ryan. Casey and Robert had adjusted very well to three children, Spender was such a happy child it was amazing sometimes. Jennifer and James were very happy too. Although, I think my side was pretty much done with children, everyone was over thirty and most of us had two at least, Zac still had four younger siblings but I was thinking Taylor and Isaac were also done.

I shifted some and laid my hand on his chest, everyone had seen my tattoo last year, I’d worn a spaghetti strap and at the island this year I’d worn a bathing suit, which showed it all. But, what fans didn’t know was the personal meanings behind them. Zac and I had designed the tattoo to represent ourselves and our children. I let my fingers trace over the lines of his, which he’d opted to put on the right side of his chest, over his heart. The heart made of the two clef notes on his had our wedding date inside, something he’d wanted personally.

I sometimes still couldn’t believe that at the age of thirteen I had fallen in love with this quirky little boy in a band, a love that my brothers felt was temporary. A love that kept growing, in 2003 when I saw him I had been terrified to approach him, ultimately saving him for last and failing to even say Hi. When I saw the ad for 3CG I knew it was my second chance, a chance I couldn’t pass up.
Did I want to ruin his marriage? No. But, it was clear that our destiny was to be with each other. We have survived 13 years. We’ve had ups, down, turns, and twists but in the end we were always there for one another. I highly doubted that Kate would have survived Ian, he would have taken her in and spit her out. He’d tried with me, but failed.

His arm tightened around me and I snuggled more. I had to be real too, if Zac had chosen Kate then Adam would have won. I wouldn’t have had anyone that was willing to stand up and make him leave me alone, to eventually kill him to make sure I was safe. I would have been dead, because I just didn’t think I could bring a child into this world with him as a father.

I traced the lines a few more times, we weren’t perfect and we never would be. But, I loved Zachary with every fiber of my being and I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to be with anyone else for the rest of my life. I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else in the world, other than beside him.

*** The tattoo they got.***
The children's initials would be in the bubble part. :)