Black Woman {COMPLETED}

Hawaii

8 years later.
So this is now. Hudson, Matteo, Maliah, Monica, Tyrone, Gemma and I all live in a six room beach house right in front of the ocean that we swim in almost every day. Matteo who's 12 now in the seventh grade, dreams of being a lifeguard and a teacher. He has a girlfriend named Liza, who I think Gemma is jealous of.

But speaking of Gemma, who is really tiny for her eight year old age, wants to be what every little girl dreams to be, an astronaut. She and Maliah are two of the smartest yet smallest in their class. But Gemma is still smaller than Maliah.

Maliah is stuck between playing football and being a model, and I tell her she can do both. My little angels are the highlight of my life and the reason I gave up being a DJ and went back to school to be a neurosurgeon. I want to help people and save lives, just like my family saved mine.

Maliah: Momma, can me and Gemma go down to the beach?
Me:. If Matteo goes with you.
Maliah: Okay. Matteo!
Matteo came jogging downstairs and walked up to me and Maliah.
Matteo: Yeah little sis?
Maliah: Momma said you have to take me and Gemma to the beach.
He looked back and forth at me and Maliah.
Matteo: Okay. Can Liza come?
I nodded and he grabbed his phone out of his pocket and texted Liza. After they left and went down to the beach I sat down on our porch swing with Monica.
Me: We're 29 years old. Married, mother's, employed. It's everything we wanted back when we were 18.
Monica: Yeah. It's like it was our destiny to fight on the day you had Matteo. I can't believe he's twelve now. And the little knucklehead has a girlfriend.
Me: Our life now is just what I wanted when I was a kid. Being raped, befriending an enemy and meeting Hudson was never part of the plan, but it all made me stronger.
Monica: I know. This is unrealistic, I mean this view is just ideal.
Me: Let's go for a swim.
Monica: Sure.
We put on our bathing suits and went to surf with the kids. Monica and Gemma went around under water trying to find seashells. Monica and I are good moms. We look out for our own and each other's kids. I watched my best friend come back up from under water and push her blonde hair back.

I rushed out to shore and I went up behind Matteo and I dunked him under. When he came back up laughing he splashed me and everyone kept splashing each other. This is the most fun I've ever had. My life with Hudson, Matteo and Maliah is perfect, plus I live with my best friend, her husband and their child. We swam and surfed all day until 6:45 then we walked down to the local diner. We ate dinner and went back home and watched the sunset from the balcony. Hudson pit his arm around my waist and kissed my neck.
Hudson: I love you so much .
Me: I love you to.
And this was the answer to my life long question. It was love, not lust. I was married with children and I was in love. Not just with Hudson. But I also loved my children, my goddaughter Gemma, my best friend that was like my sister, and my best friend's husband that was like my brother. I couldn't ask for anything else other than living in this beach house in Hawaii with my family, filled with love, for the rest of my life. If you haven't found love yet, don't move to fast, but try, because love is good. Love is like the one present that makes it like Christmas all year around, once you find it. And I found my love.

Thank you...

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