A couple of days later still walking on air, Rose answered her phone just as she drove in to work her shift at the restaurant. She'd written Vincent a ten-page letter explaining everything she'd gone through in the past year and how she'd made the whole boyfriend thing up to get Grace off her back. She also made sure she told him she loved him over and over again and that she'd wait for him as long as she had to. After the year she had, she knew now without a doubt she'd much rather deal with waiting and know she'd be with him again someday, than attempt to live life without him forever. That she obviously couldn't deal with.
“Hey, Ben," she said as she finished parking.
“Hey, Rose. Listen I'm gonna be gone all next week. I'm going hunting up north with my old man and my brother."
Rose
