It's low-key and intimate, just a bunch of friends eating and drinking together in the stretch of grass behind their little house, just the way it should be. I've got my shirtsleeves rolled up, but there's a chill in the air and I'm thinking about going to look for my jacket, wherever the hell I put it last.
Somewhere nearby, the girls are laughing and Mike's never too far away. Sometimes it hits me, this family we've created, not just the four of us but... all these people's lives who are tangled up with ours. And after so many years, watching Dean find people only to lose them again, wanting him to find happiness for once in his fuckin' life, and now... Now it's almost too good to be true. Trusting that it'll last, that it'll stay good, is one of the reasons I know they were both so hesitant. It's always a risk, I know it as well as anyone.
I've got a beer, my second or third, and I'm standing off to the side, just sort of watching, for now. This feels like it was all a long time coming. Finally is the word that comes to mind.
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Date: 2014-10-07 10:54 pm (UTC)Somewhere nearby, the girls are laughing and Mike's never too far away. Sometimes it hits me, this family we've created, not just the four of us but... all these people's lives who are tangled up with ours. And after so many years, watching Dean find people only to lose them again, wanting him to find happiness for once in his fuckin' life, and now... Now it's almost too good to be true. Trusting that it'll last, that it'll stay good, is one of the reasons I know they were both so hesitant. It's always a risk, I know it as well as anyone.
I've got a beer, my second or third, and I'm standing off to the side, just sort of watching, for now. This feels like it was all a long time coming. Finally is the word that comes to mind.