What It Is by Burleton Sarah

Author:Burleton, Sarah [Burleton, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The Other Side

“I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride.”

Aron pulled me to him and kissed me on the mouth. “I’m so happy,” he whispered into my ear. I threw my arms around his neck, looked out at the ocean waves breaking on the beach, and wondered if life could get any more perfect.

After eight years together living in bliss as boyfriend and girlfriend, Aron surprised me on Christmas Eve with a beautiful platinum diamond engagement ring that he had designed and made himself. “I know you never wanted to get married because of your past, because you come from such a broken family,” he said to me as he slipped the ring on my finger, “but believe me when I say I will never hurt you and I will spend the rest of my life doing whatever I have to do to make you happy.”

I broke down into tears. “Yes! Yes!” I sobbed. I had known for a long time that I would spend the rest of my life with Aron and the ring just made it official.

Aron and I decided to elope to the little island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. We discussed having a traditional wedding, but I realized that wouldn’t be able to handle looking out into church pews and seeing Aron’s side filled up with family and friends and my side of the church void of anyone who cared about me. I also didn’t want a big, fancy, expensive wedding with caterers and a DJ because things like that weren’t important to me; all that was important was expressing my love to Aron. Sam and Carol accompanied us on our trip to Tortola, and after a week of snorkeling, hiking, and swimming Aron and I exchanged our vows on the beach of Long Bay Beach Resort at sunset with Sam and Carol as our witnesses. It was one the most beautiful moments of my life.

Soon after we arrived back in the States, Aron and I bought our first home together. We were anxious to move out of our little apartment and “grow up,” so to speak. We were also anxious to go back to court and either increase our visitation with Aron’s son Ryan or gain shared custody, and we thought that if we had a real home our chances of getting Ryan more often would be greater.

Over the years since I had been with Aron his ex, Vicki, had become more and more vindictive when it came to Ryan. When I first met Aron, Vicki wouldn’t even allow Aron to see Ryan on a weekly basis, and if she did, it came with a hundred-dollar price tag. When we went to court and obtained the right to weekly visitation, during our visitations with Ryan Vicki would make it a habit to call over and over again, leaving messages filled with hateful threats and screaming that Ryan was her son, not mine. On more than one occasion, Aron and I drove to her apartment to pick Ryan up for visitation and she wasn’t there.

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