Just a note, I was kinda out of it when I wrote my note, I spell Fay FAE.
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Crickets chirped in the distance, and the fire crackled in the fireplace across the room. Jason reached over and pulled Fae into his arms.
"So how about it?"
"About what?"
"Let's get married."
"What?"
"Oh for goodness sake. I never want to be with anyone else for the rest of my life."
"Oh, well- Oh! I suppose."
"I knew you'd say yes."
"Oh, hush, you."
Jason and Fae loveingly undressed each other, while on the other side of the small clearing something else entirely was going on.
Jacob Carter had fallen asleep hours ago. The untouched nature of the old cottage that was his new home did not seem to bother him. It did bother someone else. Esme sat up for the forth time and this time she pulled herself up off the bench.
She wandered out the door, shutting it carefully behind her. Esme could never sleep at this time of the month. It was not the pain that disturbed her, but the fact that once again, for another month, she had failed to become pregnant. She stood and looked up at the moon gazing at it's soft white glow.
Someone tapped her on the shoulder. She gasped, and turned around. An old women was standing there, also in her nightdress.
"Sorry to startle you. I was told you were coming. Its Esme, isn't it?"
"Oh er, yes. What- What are you doing out here?"
"Sometimes I just need some air."
"Ah."
"I'm Freya by the way. My dautgher lives in one of the other cottages."
"I see."
"Well I should get inside before I catch cold. I suggest you do the same."
With a final tiny smile, Freya turned and left. Leaving Esme alone with her despair.
In the morning Freya wandered into Fae's cottage to find Jason lying on the bed fully dressed and Fae fast asleep.
Jason jumped up when he saw her, and a wide grin spread onto her face.
"Well?" Freya inquired. "What did she say?"
Jason made no sound but grinned even further. "You were right!"
"I knew she'd say yes." Freya replied. Jason said nothing else but pulled freya into a hug.
"Now you better go tell James, I'll wait for Fae to get up." Jason raced off to his father in law-to-be's cottage, and Freya sat down on a stool by the door.
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Just three months after Fae and Jason were wed, the happy news that she would soon have a child was annonced. Already, under her apron, a bump was starting to show. Again for Esme her body had told her that no baby was on its way, and Esme hearing that Fae was going to recieve what she could not have, felt like tourture as if her world was collasping around her. Two weeks after the news she could stand it no longer.
She wept uncontrollably, over and over asking to die. No one could console her. To make things worse, in the week that followed she grew further and further away from Jacob. At last, as they lay in bed one night, he could stand it no longer.
He wanted so much to be able to cheer his wife up, to give her the child that she prayed for day and night.
She was staring straight ahead, expressionless, as a tear began to well up in her eye however, he knew what she was dreaming of. He made no sound, but instead reached over and pulled her into his arms.
Then he kissed her with all the love he had to give.
In the weeks that followed, Esme devoted her time to books,
and Fae devoted hers to family.
Of course, Jason still kept her busy.
"Oh!" Fae's voice rang out through the cottage.
Jason pulled back quickly. "What happened?"
"The baby, it kicked!" Fae's voice was ecstatic.
Jason was overjoyed.
Shortly after Esme annonced That she was pregnant, Fae gave birth. Her labour was short but painfull,
and soon they were parents of a new baby girl.
Fae named her Autumn, Because she was born in october and because fall was her favourite season. Autumn was beautiful, she had her father's eyes, and her mother's beautiful creamy complexion.
Then things took a turn for the worse. The days grew colder, and Fae's father died.
Fae trudged back home, crawled into bed, and cried herself to sleep, dreaming of a future better than the present.
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I leave you with this. I will post chapter two...after I sleep for several days.
