cutest voice she could muster, as
she leaned over and kissed him softly on the lips.

What
started as a mere kiss quickly escalated. The pink and orange sun
draping their smooth, wet skin in a dance of shadows and hues. After
the sun had completely set, they made their way back to their quiet
home. Chuckling quietly and grinning like idiots when they would
catch each other's eyes while they dressed.

Outside
of their deck, with their cat, Monty, watching them, Sean tugged on
Stacey's hand and bent, drawing a lopsided heart in the sand with
his thick finger and then writing "S&S 4ever" inside of it.

Stacey
smiled a mile wide and crouched down to kiss him.

We
were walking 'long the ocean

Together
hand in hand

When
I stopped to write "I love you" in the sand

And
when I looked up you were standing

Ten
miles outat sea

And
in a sweat

I
woke up from that crazy dream

As
I reached to hold you in the morning light

It
was just your pillow

I
clung to so tight

Sean
jerked awake so quick he almost fell off of the bed. It was the
middle of summer and at least 85 degrees outside, but he was
freezing. Literally shivering in his now sweat soaked bed. Monty
hopped up beside him and mewed softly, Sean looking over and
scratching him behind his ears as his vision started to blur.

It
had been 2 years since he had lost everything. In less than 2 minutes
his world had ended that night. And there hadn't been a night since
that he had slept through. Nightmares plagued him. Some of them
flashbacks of the picture of her bleeding to death in their bed, some
of the carnage he had seen