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I stopped talking long enough to pull the box out of my pocket "I don’t knohat the future holds for us, if anything at all, but I want you to have so to reasp for air as I opened the top and pulled out the contents "I tried giving you this bracelet once before, but it didn’t make it home with you I think part of the reason was because it was incomplete I hope now, it’s perfect Here, take a look"

She took the bracelet froan to exa for as different She went through each of the dangling charel wings, and then she saw it I wish I could describe the look on her face as she held the butterfly charers The tears were streaest smile on her face Then she turned it over and read the inscription on the back ~ "Psyche"

She flew into htly as possibly could without hurting her "I know that you’ll always be his butterfly, and I never want you to forget that either He and I were both lucky enough to be loved by soel You no that you don’t need either of the wings that we adorned you with to fly on your own, but they’re always here for you to remind you how much we both love you"

EPILOGUE ~ SIX YEARS LATER

Come to Me ~ Goo Goo Dolls

SCARLETT

One thing that I’ve learned about life into getting up each tiet knocked down more than others, but in er in the end

After Ash died, I truly thought that I’d never love anyone again Even after I had coan to love myself for me, I didn’t think that I could ain But when Mase showed up on , all of that went out theI realized that loving yourself is vital because only then do you realize that you deserve the love of another

I’d love to say that he walked in that day, swept ain, and we rode off into the sunset happily ever after, but that isn’t reality, and actually it isn’t even the ending of most books anymore

"Moet hts

I turned around to seein the doorway, dressed in her light pink sundress and flip flops Laughing, I walked over to her and picked her up "Did Auntie Andi say that you can get rin on her face "Well, in that case, I’ my flip flops too You don’t think Daddy will mind do you?"

"No, Daddy and Everett have on their new black chucks He said you’d like thele

I rolled round "I don’t care what they wear, as long as we all get to get o tell Auntie Andi that mommy will be there in five minutes"

As she took off down the hallway, I turned around to look at myself one last tiet to this point the conventional way, and I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to anyone else, but it was how our book had to be written in order to get the ending just right God really doesn’t give us anything we can’t handle, and what he takes away, he repays tenfold Not a year after Mase and I rekindled our relationship, I ended up pregnant with twins Even though no one or nothing could ever replace Evie and Ash, I was gifted two beautiful souls that taught me about even a different kind of love than I had already experienced Now, finally, after three world tours and two babies, Mase and I, along ith Ashlynn and Everett, were going to be one co cere she had to pee in the middle of the vows, and the reception was even better I couldn’t stop s, and having an overall great tirabbed ot a surprise for you"

He led uests outside, then walked over to the event coordinator and whispered so to me, he stood behindh the outside speakers and he started singing lowly into my ear, then all of a sudden, the sky filled with butterflies… thousands of the up into the heavens as the beautiful creatures blanketed the sky He continued his serenade "Coain…" When the song was over, he turned me around in his arms and pressed his forehead to mine "Scarlett Alexandria Templeton, I have finally found s to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay" ~Dalai Lama

The End