Through it all
Part 49
*Justin's POV*
"Justin, it's been too long dear. We miss you."
"I miss you guys too. The kids miss you as well. You guys need to come around more often," I sighed into the phone resting back on the sofa in the house all by myself.
It was early in the morning but the kids were both off at school and Selena was off at work today. Things were finally becoming normal again. However, I still wasn't allowed to go back to work yet.
"Let's have lunch today to catch up. Richard and I would just love that," Carin said eagerly into the phone hoping I would agree.
"I would love to but I have a doctors appointment at noon," I sighed. "They are supposed to tell me wether or not I can go back to work soon. I sure hope so because I miss work. I hate sitting home all day doing nothing. I just end up thinking all day and that's never good."
"Would you mind if we came? I would love to go with you," Aubrey's mom asked. "We could check and see how you're doing and then go to lunch after."
"Mom, are sure about that? I'm sure it's going to be boring. Would you guys really want to sit through that?"
"Of course we would! It's your health, Justin. You're the father of my daughter's children. You're our son, even if Aubrey is no longer with us," she sighed sadly.
"Of course you can come mom. Speaking of, we need to have a family dinner some time. My mom is dying to see you again."
"We would love that, wouldn't we Richard?" In the background you could hear him faintly agree which made me laugh in response.
"Okay, okay. We will work all the details out over lunch. I'll pick you up at your house say around 11:15?"
"Sounds good. We will see you then. Love you," she replied reminding me of her amazing daughter.
"Love you too mom," I spoke softly before hanging up.
On my way up to the bedroom I stopped at one of the ways we had that had many family pictures. Pictures from Aubrey and I holding both of our children after she just given birth to them in the hospital to big family barbecues with both side of the family. We had pictures of our own little family Christmas to the big ones we had with both Mimi and Bopa and Nana and Pop. It was memories like this that made me smile. I would give just about anything to have one more memory of her and the kids to put up on this wall.
I softly ran my hand along one of the photos of just Aubrey and me before taking a long deep breath and going into the bedroom. Unfortunately, for me, this bedroom had just as many memories as that wall.
Although none of our children were made in this room, due to the fact that Aubrey and I couldn't afford this house in our first few years of marriage. When we first got married we ended up living with Aubrey and her parents because we were so young we couldn't get an apartment even if we wanted to, which of course we did. I worked as hard as possible and saved up enough money to finally get a small place of our own. It was only a one bedroom place that they three of us had to live in but it was our own. Aubrey adored the place. We lived there for almost 2 years before we could finally afford the house we had. Aubrey would have been perfectly content living in that tiny apartment for the rest of our lives, which was one of the many reasons I loved her, however Kayden was getting too old and too big for 3 people to live all in the same room. The moment we found out Aubrey was pregnant we went out and bought the house that we currently lived in.
When my mind finally got back to the real world, I wiped the few tears that had fallen, the. I realized it was just about time for me to go and pick up Aubrey's parents. I sighed softly to myself as I got dressed. Before my little flash back I wasn't at all concerned with seeing Aub's parents but I was sort of afraid now that I might break down when I saw them.
