Emmi: Saying Yes

I sit and hold the papers. Everything going around in my head. They have all admitted they love me. They are trying to make me see that.

“Do you love me, though?” I look up and watch their shocked looks. “I was forced on you guys. You had no choice.” I walked away and came back, but they didn’t get a choice.

“Emmi! We are here. We love you. We let you go because we loved you. We aren’t you. We couldn’t come back to prove it. Us showing you we loved you was us letting you go. We love you and want you by choice, not because you were placed here.” Zane’s words make me smile.

Glancing down, I look at the papers. I know they want me to say it, but saying it scares the fucking shit out of me.

“You’re our family, Emmi, because we want you to be,” Dante says.

I open the pages and stare at it: a house. So beautiful, it is big, with gardens. This place doesn’t have gardens, and I miss that. I have missed having the garden to escape to. The house looks fantastic, or it will once it is done nicel