The Answer to Forever
I found the next morning it seemed hard to adapt back from my date with Jack. I found it the rest of the week hard to adapt from my fate with Jack. Everything was making sense, and then nothing was...It made sense that Jack and I spent all of our time at the bar now, but it didn't make sense that I was still working there for Griffin. I love Griffin, really I do. But I had rather wanted to be with Jack then working there.
But my calls to loneliness were answered that day. The day that started forever.
I remember it very much so, and I remember it very fondly. Jack had come in the beginning of the morning, as soon as the Bar opened as a matter of fact. He seemed to have been waiting for a long time and Griffin decided to start work early. I was still in the back and just enjoying watching more snow fall out of the window in Griffins' room. I heard the door open and Jack came in a blue feather in clear sight. He came up to me, very close.
"Will you marry me Muffy?"
And without hesitation:
"I don't understand. You want to marry me? Oh, I accept!" I said finally. Jack smiled at me happily and I did too enjoying what time I had left for this moment to last. I looked at him with tears in my eyes and fell onto him with a grasping feeling of love.
I had known. I had really known. I knew he loved me and I had known that I loved him. It was only appropriate. Now, I knew who was the one I could and will spend forever with because I'd been asked to.
The four days left until the wedding were filled with tours of the farm with me ending up sleeping there, visits to the bar where Jack would come the second it opened and leave an hour after it was supposed to close.
We decided that telling everyone about how the blue feather came to be would be an acceptable thing to do instead of having a wedding in town. (Though I wanted everything in the world to show my old friends what had become of me.) Nina and Galen were probably the most gracious when they listened to the story, because of how long they had been married and how it really happened. Griffin was sad to see me leave, but he accepted it. I ended our conversation, which sadly was going to be our last conversation with telling him that I thought of him as a father.
"I'll go on with life telling myself that." Griffin assured me, then turning to Jack he cleared his throat. "Please don't let Muffy come back here ever again."
But why would he say that? I frowned as we traveled up to Romana's Villa, then back down to Vesta's farm and in between. Though, I saw a sight that made me want to cry.
"It was nice while it lasted Ruby. Thanks." Came the sigh from a familiar voice. "I have to leave now."
"Nami, you're leaving? Now?"
"There's no point in staying here Muffy. It's been nice, but yeah..."
"Good-bye Nami." Jack said solemnly.
"Just...take care of Muffy. I may come back someday." Nami said.
"I will." Jack said. "And I hope you do.
Nami walked off into the distance right past all of us and I had a sudden feeling that that hint would become true. Nami loved Ruby's cooking, so...maybe she'd come back for that reason.
We greeted Celia, Marlin and Vesta soon after Nami's good-bye and they just basically gave their regards. Jack and I walked back quickly to our new home where we were met by Takakura. He didn't say much except congratulations and for some reason, he followed Jack and I into our new home. Then he asked what I should call Jack.
I looked down and laughed. "I'd have to call him my hero."
And that's what I did.
I found the next morning it seemed hard to adapt back from my date with Jack. I found it the rest of the week hard to adapt from my fate with Jack. Everything was making sense, and then nothing was...It made sense that Jack and I spent all of our time at the bar now, but it didn't make sense that I was still working there for Griffin. I love Griffin, really I do. But I had rather wanted to be with Jack then working there.
But my calls to loneliness were answered that day. The day that started forever.
I remember it very much so, and I remember it very fondly. Jack had come in the beginning of the morning, as soon as the Bar opened as a matter of fact. He seemed to have been waiting for a long time and Griffin decided to start work early. I was still in the back and just enjoying watching more snow fall out of the window in Griffins' room. I heard the door open and Jack came in a blue feather in clear sight. He came up to me, very close.
"Will you marry me Muffy?"
And without hesitation:
"I don't understand. You want to marry me? Oh, I accept!" I said finally. Jack smiled at me happily and I did too enjoying what time I had left for this moment to last. I looked at him with tears in my eyes and fell onto him with a grasping feeling of love.
I had known. I had really known. I knew he loved me and I had known that I loved him. It was only appropriate. Now, I knew who was the one I could and will spend forever with because I'd been asked to.
The four days left until the wedding were filled with tours of the farm with me ending up sleeping there, visits to the bar where Jack would come the second it opened and leave an hour after it was supposed to close.
We decided that telling everyone about how the blue feather came to be would be an acceptable thing to do instead of having a wedding in town. (Though I wanted everything in the world to show my old friends what had become of me.) Nina and Galen were probably the most gracious when they listened to the story, because of how long they had been married and how it really happened. Griffin was sad to see me leave, but he accepted it. I ended our conversation, which sadly was going to be our last conversation with telling him that I thought of him as a father.
"I'll go on with life telling myself that." Griffin assured me, then turning to Jack he cleared his throat. "Please don't let Muffy come back here ever again."
But why would he say that? I frowned as we traveled up to Romana's Villa, then back down to Vesta's farm and in between. Though, I saw a sight that made me want to cry.
"It was nice while it lasted Ruby. Thanks." Came the sigh from a familiar voice. "I have to leave now."
"Nami, you're leaving? Now?"
"There's no point in staying here Muffy. It's been nice, but yeah..."
"Good-bye Nami." Jack said solemnly.
"Just...take care of Muffy. I may come back someday." Nami said.
"I will." Jack said. "And I hope you do.
Nami walked off into the distance right past all of us and I had a sudden feeling that that hint would become true. Nami loved Ruby's cooking, so...maybe she'd come back for that reason.
We greeted Celia, Marlin and Vesta soon after Nami's good-bye and they just basically gave their regards. Jack and I walked back quickly to our new home where we were met by Takakura. He didn't say much except congratulations and for some reason, he followed Jack and I into our new home. Then he asked what I should call Jack.
I looked down and laughed. "I'd have to call him my hero."
And that's what I did.