Chapter Nine:

 

       Chance invited his mother over to talk. He always felt conformable talking to his mother about things.

       “So how are you with all of this,” Chance’s mother asked.

       “I am okay with it. I am not sad, I am glad that I had the chance to love again,” Chance said.

       “Well it sure was lovely to see her again. You know I always thought she was the one for you,” Chance’s mother said with a smile.

       “So do you think you ever will marry?” Chance’s mother asked. This shocked Chance.

       “I don’t know if I could ever move on.”

       “Well why not Chance? Isn’t this what Samantha would have wanted?”

       “I don’t know it just feels……. Wrong” Chance said.

       “Well I think that you will find someone. You just have to give it time honey, you will find a girl,” Chance’s mother said with a smile. She always said the right things to make him feel better. Chance doubted that he would ever find someone else. Sam, was everything to him.

 

 

       Chance had some things that he needed to take care of. Things that he had wanted to do since Sam passed. Things like making a trip to see Sam’s kids. He promised them. The kids are still very fond of him. Ali mostly enjoyed Chance’s company very much so.

       Chance drove miles and miles. He had a lot of time to think as he was doing this. He thought a lot: He thought a lot of Sam, her children, how they must feel.

       To lose a mother at their age must be traumatic. Chance can relate, on account that his father died when he was just twenty years old. Chance wasn’t even in the country when his father died of a heart attack. Chance was still in the army at the time, fighting in Germany. Chance got the news Via telegram.

       His mother sent a telegram and it said:

       I am sorry to tell you this dear but, your father has suffered from a fatal heart attack. I have spoken to your general and, they have agreed to allow you to come back to the states on leave. Only enough time to take care of a few things. Love your dear mother.

       That is all he had. There have been few times when Chance’s world has been shuddered: When Sam and he broke up that summer, when his father died, and when he heard that Sam had passed. Not a lot got to Chance. Chance was a very independent and, strong person. He didn’t need a lot. He was not very codependent on anyone.

       Chance drove in front of an address. It was where Sam’s children where living. It was Tommy’s house of course. The children had nowhere else to go, Chance felt bad for them. Sam was really everything to them and, now all they had was Tommy. Although Chance’s opinion of Tommy was not very high, he had to admit that Tommy was a good father.

       “Chance,” two small voices shouted in joy. Chance knew exactly who it was. It was the two boys.

       They where overly excited to see Chance, it had been about near five months since they saw him.

       “Hey,” Chance looked at the two boys just as excited as they were to see him. He hugged both of them with enthusiasm.

       “How have you been,” Chance asked with curiousity.

       “We are good, we have missed you,” Billie said.

       Chance gave them both a gift that was wrapped up. They took it and, ran off. Chance looked around and saw that Ali was standing in front of him. In her arms she held a pink box marked “Final Wishes.”

       “Mom left this for you. She said to make sure that you get this,” Ali said.

       “What is it?”

       “I have no idea she said not to look it ever” Ali said. “She spent all her time putting things into it the week fefore she passed. It’s yours now Chance,” Ali said. She handed it to Chance and he set it into the bed of her pick-up truck.

       “She loved you Chance,” Ali said. “My father never knew of you until a few months ago. Her and I had conversations about her teenage love that summer. I know she loved you, and she always did,” Ali said.

       This surprised him very much. He didn’t know what to think about what she had said.

       “I know, and I always have loved her,” Chance said. “And I haven’t stopped, I never will,” Chance said.

 

       So that is how it happened. A teenage love that lasted a life time, a summer kiss in the middle of summer, two hearts where bound together forever.