Chapter Four: The Encounter “Ma’am… Ma’am, you dropped your wallet!” said Ben. Delilah suddenly flips around and sees Ben’s face. She couldn’t believe her eyes and neither could he. They two both just stood there in shock, but suddenly Delilah ran up to ben and hugged him, all the feelings were flooding back. Their past wounds were reopening. Delilah was glad to see him just as Ben was glad to see Delilah when he first saw her on the night the two parted. “How are you?!” Delilah asked as she slowly let go of him.
“I’m good Delilah, it has been a long time since we... uh… last saw each other.”
“We need to catch up. I want to hear your life story.” Delilah was trying to get him to talk, but she was the one who couldn’t stop talking as she …show more content…
His wife has been dead for two years and he knew deep down that she would never want him to continue being miserable and would want him to open his heart and mind to new possibilities. A couple of days had passed. There in that time, Ben started to reminisce about all the times he had spent with Delilah. Their first date, her silly laugh, their meaningless fights, and the list goes on. He realized he still has feelings for her. As strange as it was, there was still that fondness for her inside of him. His phone rang, it was Delilah. He immediately picked up and Delilah asked if he would be willing to go to dinner with her that saturday, he said yes. The phone call ended and now it was time to prepare the …show more content…
As the near was coming for the both of them, Ben remembered his past wife Emily had made this scrapbook. It was based on their life story that they shared/had apart. When he went to his portion of the book it was filled with photos of his early life, his time with Emily, and lastly, his time with Delilah. Page after page, were candid photos of the two and their beautiful life together. He came to an empty page where he realized one thing was missing; He took a photo of him and Delilah that captured the true essence of their love, slid it into the plastic where the photograph belongs, and above it he wrote, We Meet
“I’m good Delilah, it has been a long time since we... uh… last saw each other.”
“We need to catch up. I want to hear your life story.” Delilah was trying to get him to talk, but she was the one who couldn’t stop talking as she …show more content…
His wife has been dead for two years and he knew deep down that she would never want him to continue being miserable and would want him to open his heart and mind to new possibilities. A couple of days had passed. There in that time, Ben started to reminisce about all the times he had spent with Delilah. Their first date, her silly laugh, their meaningless fights, and the list goes on. He realized he still has feelings for her. As strange as it was, there was still that fondness for her inside of him. His phone rang, it was Delilah. He immediately picked up and Delilah asked if he would be willing to go to dinner with her that saturday, he said yes. The phone call ended and now it was time to prepare the …show more content…
As the near was coming for the both of them, Ben remembered his past wife Emily had made this scrapbook. It was based on their life story that they shared/had apart. When he went to his portion of the book it was filled with photos of his early life, his time with Emily, and lastly, his time with Delilah. Page after page, were candid photos of the two and their beautiful life together. He came to an empty page where he realized one thing was missing; He took a photo of him and Delilah that captured the true essence of their love, slid it into the plastic where the photograph belongs, and above it he wrote, We Meet