Chapter 5
Every year, Charles Town put on a Christmas parade that drew in crowds from all over, and this year’s festivities were no different. As she stood on the corner next to Reid and Michael, who was sitting on his father’s shoulders, she remembered the year before. After the parade, she and Reid had gone to the diner. It was one of the first opportunities they’d had to spend any time together without Michael, who’d gone home with Melody’s mother, and she remembered thinking that night how she’d love to spend the next eighty years or so huddled up close to this man watching the parade go by. She tried to concentrate on the joy around her and not on the stresses of the wedding as the first marching band began to wind its way toward them.
“Here they come!” Michael shouted, clapping his
