Ace ✔️

Nursery

"It's 2 against one" he says proudly with Scarlett by his side

All of a sudden, Scarlett splashes Ace with her bucket getting him all wet and runs to me

"I'm on mommy's side!" she laughs

"That's my girl!" I high five her as she helps me

Running around the beach with my beautiful family, I couldn't  help but wonder, Why did life seem so perfect?
Everything felt like as it should be. Happiness, that was the perfect feeling....
Running to the ocean to fill up my bucket with more water, I hear Scarlett start to cry out in panic and in fear

"Mommy! Don't leave me!"

"Mommy!" She cries out again, this time more worried and starts to cry when I don't immediately turn around.

"Scarlett honey, I'm not going too far. I'm right here" I say without turning back to her, I continue walking towards the ocean

"Mommy please come back" she cries out again

It breaks my heart hearing her cry. All I wanted was to turn back around and run to her, holding her tightly in my arms but my body kept walking forward, as if I had no control over it.

"Baby it's gonna be alright" I say

"Mommy give me your hand" she says

I finally reach the water, then I turn around and see her holding her hand out for me, far away

"I will always be beside you" I whisper with a smile

"Mommy don't go, I need you" she cries with tears streaming down her face

All of a sudden, she starts to move farther away from me which is when I begin to worry

"Scarlett?" I yell out and run towards her

"Mommy don't leave me alone!"

"SCARLETT!"

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I jolt out of bed feeling my heart jump out of my chest. Opening my eyes, I'm met with the familiar surroundings of our bedroom and take a deep breath when realizing it was just a dream.

Putting my head back down on my pillow, I try to remember last nights events. After a few seconds, I start to reconnect my thoughts from last night and the long Conversation Ace and I had. Last I remember was falling asleep in Ace's arms last night on the floor against the wall. I'm not sure how l exactly ended up on the bed. I must have gotten up in the middle of the night.

Feeling fully awake, I look over at the empty spot beside me on the bed. Ace must have gotten up already. Last nights conversation was rough but it was needed. I feel an overwhelming amount of pain as I remember parts from last night. It broke my heart to realize how much pain I was putting Ace through. I hadn't realized that my cancer wasn't only effecting me but it was effecting Ace in a way too.

Deciding to get out of bed, I walk to the bathroom and start to freshen up. Stepping into the shower, I couldn't help but think of my dream. It felt a little hazy as I couldn't exactly remember each detail but I remember the good feeling at the beginning of it. Replaying the beautiful beginning part of my dream through my head, I think about how simple and lovely life could be. Oh how I wish it could be like that. However all good things must come to anend like in my dream which started to become a nightmare. My heart sinks into my chest thinking about my baby girl.

She's never going to know the real me. Who I was and all the things I would have told her growing up. She wasn't going to have me around for long and that broke a part of me inside. There were so many things I wanted to tell her, wanted her to know about me. 

Which is when I get an idea...

It was time to finally start moving forward. We all knew what was to lay ahead in the next coming  months and we simply don't have much time to waste. I wanted to make these last couple months really count and getting everything done in time, for my baby girl.

Pulling my hair up into a bun, I change into my messy sweats that still had paint marks on them from before. I wanted to finish painting the nursery and finally get it all together by the end of today. I kind of got off track with the painting and it was time to finally finish it. 

Walking out of the bedroom and towards the nursery, I notice the door faintly open with music being played.

Pushing the door more open, I see Ace up on the ladder already painting away. 

He was jamming with the music and was slightly swaying his hips to the beat. I try to hold in my laugh which results in a huge smile forming on my lips

Knocking on the door to get his attention, I grab a clean brush as he turns to me

"Need some help?" I question 

He immediately turns to me and a smile forms on his face. Climbing down his ladder, he lowers the music and walks towards me

"You're up? Good morning" he says placing a kiss on my forehead

"I thought it was about time I finished painting this nursery" he says with a soft smile

"That was exactly what I had in mind" I say placing my arms around his neck and pulling him closer to me

We didn't need to speak words. Looking into each other's eyes, we both already knew what we meant. It was like I had finally accepted it. Ace had finally accepted it too. And it was finally time for both of us to move forward and work together to ensure that the priority was our baby girl. 

Which is exactly what we did.

I place a kiss on his lips, savouring the moment. The perfect and light moment where only him and I existed in this empty room. This feeling I always had with him that I never wanted to end. I loved this feeling. I loved him.

All of a sudden, he brings the paint brush that he was holding in his hand up to my face and brushes it against my nose, getting paint all over

Opening my eyes, I raise an eyebrow at him as he can't help but let out a huge grin

"Did you just get paint on my nose?" 

"Yes I did, and you look so adorable" He says as he paints my nose again

I turn around and dip my hands in the paint, then I turn back towards him, cupping his cheeks

Placing another quick peck on his lips, I pull away hands away leaving the painted hand marks all over his face

"Now you're even more adorable" I tease 

Squinting his eyes at the mess I just made all over his face, I can't help but let out a laugh

I turn to an unpainted wall and place my hands on it, imprinting my hand prints. Then I feel Ace quickly place his hands onto my ass, grabbing it

"You did not..." I start to say

"Of course I did" he smirks as I turn to face him

I immediately  push him gently on his chest, getting even more paint on what used to be  his white t-shirt

Oh boy this is about to get messy...

Let's just say that we had a very painting-full morning ;)

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