Kim Ann sat curled up in the wicker chair that sat facing the ocean. She was wearing Nick's faded, flannel drawstring pajama bottoms and his favourite Tampa Bay Buckaneers sweatshirt. The calm night was soothing her torn and weak spirit and the lull of the ocean seemed to wash her troubles out to sea. She had been sitting there, staring out at the ocean and the dark night sky since her daughter had made the confession that she felt Molly and AJ's presence. Not a day had gone by since the twins were born that Kim Ann had not stopped and offered a prayer of thanks to her two deceased friends for sending to earth her beacons in the storm. Not a day went by that Kim Ann did not talk to her friends and ask them their opinion before she made a decision. Sometimes if Kim Ann sat still and silent she could hear Molly's infectious laugh, she could hear AJ's raspy voice and she could feel their love. Sometimes when Alex was talking to his sister, Kim Ann could picture AJ soothing Molly while she was sick. She was beginning to see that her children had much more then just her friend's names, they had their souls. While the twins were a combination of hers' and Nick's looks and personalities, their souls were undoubtly shared with the two people they were named after.
"Molly why is it that whenever I am down I can feel you beside me? Why is it that whenever I am feeling low a memory of you and AJ fills my senses and makes me smile?" Kim Ann talked aloud to the wind, knowing that her two friends could hear her. "I know you can see the twins but I wish you were here, in person, to be able to see their beautiful and mischievious grins, to hear their giggles and to witness how close heaven feels when they wrap their tiny arms around your neck and hug you. I miss you both so much." Kim Ann picked up her half drank mug of tea and walked back into the house. She lit the pillar candles that stood on the oak coffee table and she turned on her Sarah McLaughlin cd. She reached under the sofa where her memory book was and as she opened it all of the happy memories flew back to her. She smiled at the picture of all of them at the Grammys, the night that AJ had proposed to Molly and the night that Kevin had announced to the world that Skylar was pregnant with Aiden. She turned to the final night that the friends had spent together on the beach. She cried as she looked at how happy AJ and Molly were wrapped in a blanket in front of the bonfire. AJ's evil grin as he handed Molly a charred marshmellow. Kim Ann wiped the tears that were painting her face and closed the book.
"Why did it all have to change? Why couldn't we all have lived forever" Kim
Ann whispered. She fell asleep clutching the memory book to her chest.
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