"Hunter? You know him?" Evie asked.

Darkness took over Doug. Of course he remembered Hunter. That stupid, dumb ass, idiot. He ruined Doug's life. The kids lives. He killed Evie's life. He took her away too soon. It was not her time to go yet. "Hunter." He muttered darkly.

"Doug, be nice." Evie said. "I need you to forgive him."

"WHAT!?" Doug hollered at the top of his lungs. Maybe he heard wrong. He prayed he heard wrong.

"Forgive Hunter." Evie repeated.

"H-how...what?"

"Doug, please listen."

"No! I don't want too!" Doug said as if he were a child being told he had to go to the dentist. Or the doctors. Or kiss his aunt that looked like a clown (how in the hell Uncle Sneezy liked that woman was beyond the boy)

"Dougie, please." Evie said in a plea tone. Doug knew that tone, he had to shut up and listen. "Once you have forgiven him for the accident than everything will roll out in it's own time."

"Evie, how...how WILD can you be to even think that!?" Doug yelled. He rarely yelled this much. "How can I do that?"

"Well—"

"No! I can't do that! How can you say that to me!? Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to just even get over the fact!"

"What fact?"

"YOU KNOW WHICH FACT!"

"Doug, if you keep yelling at me like this I'm just going to go." Evie said. Hands on her hips and her foot tapping the grass.

Doug kept silent, but his blood kept boiling very high.

Evie continued. "Doug I realize all the pain that Hunter has caused you. But you have to know this in order to forgive him."

"What is it?"

"Hunter feels guilty."

"He should."

"Douglas!"

"Sorry, I'll listen."

"Hunter feels guilty. Every single second of his day in that jail cell he feels guilty. He feels terrible that he took away a life, almost two lives in one night. He plays the memory over and over again of the police coming to his house and charging him with my hit-and-run accident, then being charged with killing me. When he was in that court room and the lawyer pulled up pictures of the children; William, Marco and newborn Dasha, I know you didn't see it but Hunter let out a few tears. His lullaby every night since the accident has been his sobbing and asking me for forgiveness for his drunk driving killing me. Doug, there had been times when Hunter has been able to get drugs given to him and he's overdosed. They've saved him, but the next time he tries it he'll end up on medical watch for a couple of months, but he'll act it out that he's fine and then the next time he overdoses he won't be lucky."

Doug listened to her words. He knew that Hunter had to have some guilt in him, but the thought of Hunter attempting to take his own life never crossed Doug's mind. He never thought how angry, depressed and guilty Hunter was at himself for taking Evie out of this world.

"You have to forgive him. I've already forgiven him. It took about a week, but I forgave him." She smiled sweetly.

"Wow, a week?"

"You learn a lot about forgiveness when you die. You see an overview of your life growing up and learn a lot about forgiveness." Evie told him. "I know it's going to be super tough but after the first step, it'll get so much easier."

"I-I don't know if I can."

Evie eyeballed him up and down, studying him, and then smiled. "Doug, I forgive you."

"Huh?"

"I forgive you. I forgive you for being so angry at me." She explained.

Doug stared at her with wide eyes. "I'm not angry with you."

Evie grinned but rolled her eyes. "You're not angry with me for getting up in the middle of the night to take a walk and maybe stop by the store down the street?"

"No." He replied rapidly.

Evie let out a small laugh. "Doug, don't lie to me. I know you were angry with me."

"I wasn't—"

Evie then, magically changing her voice to sound like Doug, said, "Damn it Evie! I told you HUNDREDS of time that if you need something from the store at one in the morning, I will go get it! I will drive to the store and go get it!" She said. Then, in her normal voice she said, "You were telling me that when I was in the hospital bed, just minutes after the doctor announced that I was brain dead."

Doug stood in surprise. No, Evie was dead. There was no way she could know his exact words. Then again, she was an angel at that point. "I-I was upset. But I-"

"You were angry. I know. I was angry at myself too for not listening to you. I did that throughout all my pregnancies—waking up in the middle of the night and walking to the store to get ice cream or whatever. I was angry at myself and I'm still angry with myself for doing that. I mean, out of all the times I did that, this one time I did it again and this happened? It's wild and seems only like a movie.

"But Doug, I'm not mad at you any more. I know you were just very upset about it all and I know that you'll forgive me one day."

"Evie-"

"You're just annoyed now." She said. "I know that too. Don't worry, I'm fine with you being annoyed."

"No! I forgive you! I mean, yes, there are a few days when I'm annoyed and a few days when I'm just...so pissed at you. But I know that you've done that throughout all your pregnancies. But I forgive you. I really do."

Evie smiled at him.

"Evie, what's that got to do with forgiveness to Hunter?"

"Was it easy to forgive me at first?"

"No."

"But you eventually did, right"

"Um...yes?"

"Was it hard to forgive me?"

"Uh...yes."

"But after you did, it was easy?"

"Yes."

"Same thing with having to forgive Hunter. It'll be hard but once it's done with, than everything will fall into place of happiness. Hunter will feel less guilty and you will be able to move on."

"But I can't—"

Evie took hands with Doug. "Doug, please do this for me." She gave him large, puppy eyes. "I know this is going to be tough but please do this." She looked straight into his eyes. "Do you trust me?"

"More than anything." Doug replied, staring directly back into her brown eyes.

"Trust me on this then." She said. "Forgive Hunter."

Doug sighed. But he trusted Evie with his life. Doug looked into her eyes and smiled. "Okay," He said. "I'll forgive him."

"Good." Evie laughed. "Come here."

Evie pulled Doug into a kiss, which Doug took in quickly. Evie kept her arms wrapped around his back and Doug had one hand on her waist and the other brushing her blue-black hair down. They kissed for a long time before Evie pulled out, but Doug kept their faces close.

"I love you Doug."

"I love you, Evie."