Someone Like You by Marie Force

Author:Marie Force [Force, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952793288
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.

15

Roni

I make the call, and she answers on the first ring. “What’s wrong?”

“Ugh, nothing. It’s just that I’ve made a new friend, I have no idea what any of it means, and I’m spinning.”

“Is it Derek?”

I’m dumbfounded. “How do you know that?”

“A few of us noticed a spark or two flying between you guys.”

“No! There’re no sparks flying.”

“None at all?”

“Iris!”

She laughs. “What?”

“I can’t have sparks with another guy so soon after losing the love of my life.”

“You ready for some tough love?”

“I’m not sure…”

“Well, here it is anyway. Have you considered the possibility that Patrick might be your first love and that you haven’t met the love of your life yet? Or you’ve met him, and you don’t know yet that he’s going to be your great love?”

“Stop. I can’t hear that. Patrick was my great love.”

“Patrick is gone, sweetie.” She says that in the gentlest possible tone, but it’s devastating nonetheless. “And you’ve got a great big, long life to live without him.”

“I don’t want to live without him.”

“I know.” After a long pause, she says, “If I can just add… I’ve gotten to know Derek fairly well, and he’s a truly wonderful man, not to mention handsome as can be.”

“Is he? I hadn’t noticed that.”

Iris howls with laughter. “Now you’re just lying, girl.”

“Is it weird that I have no problem telling you about this… whatever it is… with Derek, but I’d be mortified to tell my family or friends out of fear they wouldn’t understand it?”

“It’s not weird at all. You’re telling someone who’s been where you are and who truly gets the conflict that comes with developing feelings for someone who isn’t your late spouse.”

“I don’t have feelings for him. I just like being with him.”

“Isn’t that how these things begin?”

“Are you trying to piss me off?”

“Nope,” she says, laughing again. “I’m just trying to make you see that whatever you’re feeling is normal. You may not be ready to see that yet, but it is normal.”

“Nothing is normal anymore.”

“It’s the new normal.”

“I don’t like the new normal.”

“None of us do, sweetie. But what choice do we have but to embrace what is while honoring what was?”

The question is so profoundly moving that it takes my breath away for a full minute.

“Roni? Are you there?”

“I’m here. What you said…”

“It’s the crux of our dilemma as widows.”

“I’m going to write that down.”

“I’m honored that you want to remember something I said.”

“I do want to remember it.”

“While you’re busy remembering it, how about you live it, too? Embrace whatever this is with Derek while continuing to honor Patrick with every breath you take.”

“You’re like a widow whisperer.”

“Haha, whatever you say. I’m all about every one of us doing whatever we can to move forward with hope and optimism.”

“I want to do that. I really do.”

“Then do it, Roni. Do it with your whole heart and soul and with your arms wide open to anything that might come your way. Anyone who matters knows you would’ve been with Patrick for the rest of your life if he hadn’t been so cruelly taken from you.

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