Epilogue
EPILOGUE
JASPER
What a way to celebrate Jimmy’s memory. It’s been a full year since he passed away. Here we are, mountain climbing on his behalf. The man had a lot of plans for us. Don’t ask me why I thought mountain climbing with two babies would be easy.
Well, for the most part it is. They are wrapped up in their snuggly wraps deep in their mom’s breasts. When they wake up and want some food, their food’s right in front of them.
Holding Kaloosh’s hand, I look between the two women in our lives, smiling. “You know, this would have never happened if Jimmy didn’t know everything about the two of us.”
My realization strikes us all at once. Aneko holds her hands up defensively, saying, “I didn’t tell him all that much. I told him about our high school tryst, about the time we spent in a cabin, and about the prom.”
“Did you tell him that we got married?”
“Tell him? I didn’t even know till I saw you two here together. I really didn’t keep track of any of it.” As she says this, her wrap moves as little Eugene adjusts, drinking away at her breast.
“So, how’d he know?” Kaloosh asks.
“I really don’t understand how that man knew all these things. All I know is that I’m happy he pushed us together.” I put my arms around Aneko as she leans back into me. “Did you know that he was absolutely perfect when you met him?” When she shakes her head no, I laugh. “Well then, lets honor his last wish.”
Kaloosh takes out the urn, ready to toss the ashes over the mountains. Jimmy’s last wish was to be spread over the mountains exactly a year after his death. The four of us stand in awe as the dust that was once one of the best humans to have walked this earth, drifts down the snowy caps of the mountains. We made it almost all the way to the top before stopping to admire the beauty and give him his last wish.
None of us says a thing as we stand there, letting the little babies nurse, Eugene on Aneko, and Gage on Morina. Eugene is all Jimmy, looks exactly like is dad once did. Gage on the other hand, looks a heck of a lot like me. Kaloosh would never admit it, to them, but he wanted to know who the dad of Gage was.
Morina didn’t want to know, so I convinced him to not worry about it. Now, if something medical comes up, that’s a different story. Watching Kaloosh treating both of these boys as his has me gushing over my love all over again.
I knew from our second year in high school that the two of us were always meant to be together. I knew that Aneko leaving us would only be temporary, and I knew that the way we would come together again would be epic.
The wonderful surprise was Morina. Now we have four strong people in this relationship. Who could ask for more? Yes, Kaloosh and I are still married, Aneko and Morina also got married. By the time we got to NC, we had decided how this would all go. We would be two married couples living together as four in one marriage.
It sounds confusing, right? But we aren’t confused, not even a little. The four of us have come together in this little town of Brevard, in the little county of Transylvania, to throw the tiny community for a loop.
Yes, in most circles we are the talk of the town, but we don’t care what anyone else thinks of us. We have always been meant to come together as one. The babies we are raising is just more solid proof of it.
Just as these thoughts are passing through my mind, I hear both Morina and Aneko speak at the same time. “I’m pregnant.”
And just like that we let out screams of joy. The four of us are howling at the top of our lungs, knowing full well that these babies are just going to grow our happy family. Our happy family who lives in a small mountain town in the small county that sounds like it’s straight out of a kid’s cartoon (no, we don’t have vampires here…)
As we make our way down the mountain and to our home, we start to make guesses as to if we will have boys, girls, or one of each this time. Every step brings us closer to the reality that is now our lives. Every moment has my heart bursting with more love than I ever imagined possible.
Getting home, has me so ready to climb another type of mountain, if you know what I mean. Once the boys are asleep, I quietly signal to Morina to grab the baby monitor, and we all make our way up to our room. We have a double California king bed, waiting for us up there.
Quickly, so as to get our fun time out before a baby needs us again, we strip down to nothing and start kissing on each other. We all kiss, mingling our saliva and our touches with each other. The moment we get our bodies on the bed and start having sex, we give in, tuning out the rest of the world.
This is our us time. In twenty minutes, we will be back to taking care of our little ones. But right now, we are nothing but each other’s other parts. The four of us blend together in our bed, letting all our worries go out the window for now.