I peer at him. Is he hiding secrets too? Does everyone take me for a fool? “Yes…” He bends his head, “I was married once before,” What… is he serious?
“I had two beautiful twins and one on the way…” He sniffs swiftly, “The day the outbreak started, they ordered us to evacuate, the plain took Rose, and my three children along with it, I never found them,”
“Oh, gosh Ethan… I-I don’t know what to say, I’m sorry,” He inhales again, looking at me this time, “When I lost them, I never thought I could love again… Issabella,”
I pull him into a hug. My watering pedals wobbles the pin I have on them, “I love you, Ethan, I’m sorry you had to suffer that,”
“Wait… Bells,” “I know, what’s making that noise?” Both of us jog toward the ladder, “I don’t want you up there,” “Ethan, I can do whatever you
