The Wards: Barnacle Bay(part 8)

Miles wakes up a few hours later with cramps in his back and a crook in his neck.

Miles decides that he is tired of his own foolishness. He is going to get in the bed with his wife.

He is happy to see that he has not caused her to loose sleep. She actually looks pretty peaceful as he carefully climbs into

bed next to her.

He is careful not to wake her, but is relieved to be in his own bed, next to his wife.

He’s not sure how Sephora will feel about him in the morning, but at least for now they can sleep in peace together. Even if

that peace only lasts til morning.

Miles slips into a dream. He dreams that Sephora goes into labor while he is not around. Her pain in the dream is so real,

that Miles can almost feel it himself.

When the baby is delivered, he discovers that it’s a little girl. The little girl is gorgeous, just like her mother. The thing is,

the little baby can already talk & walk.

The baby walks towards Sephora. Miles is suddenly in the dream standing between this beautiful child and his wife. However, when the baby passes to

get to Sephora, she passes through him. He realizes that he isn’t really there.

‘Where’s my daddy?’ The baby asks Sephora. ‘He left us. He left us because he never wanted to know you,’ Sephora answers. Suddenly the dream skips to Miles standing on stage at the theater playing his guitar.

The thing is, every time he tries to play a chord, the sound is not like that of a guitar, but of a baby wailing and wailing, screaming ‘daddy, daddy!’ The dream

fades as Miles is stirred by Sephora waking up and rising from bed.

Sephora is relieved to wake and find Miles sleeping next to her.

Sephora watches his face and notices that his sleep seems to be disturbed by a dream of some type. She carefully makes

the bed.

Sephora prays that things will be better between them when he wakes up.

Sephora goes out to her garden. It is a beautiful peaceful day. She hopes that her relationship follows suit.

Miles wakes up and hurries putting his clothes on. He rushes out to find Sephora in her garden.

Miles just stands and stares at his lovely wife. He is slightly amused that she is ignoring him; pretending not to see him.

Miles reflects on the dream that he had last night of Sephora trying to console his child, alone.

He could not bear putting Sephora through that and he definitely could not imagine his life without her.

Miles calls her over, but just cannot seem to come up with any words to excuse his sorry behavior regarding the pregnancy.

All Miles can manage to do is pull her close and whisper in her ear, “til death do us part…I’ll never leave you, just as I

promised.”

Miles silently prays that Sephora can feel the meaning in his words…

…and this beautiful angel pulls him close and he knows that he is forgiven.

Miles just cannot figure out what he has done right in his life to deserve a woman like he has in Sephora. Sephora is

thinking the same thing about him.

“You look beautiful babe.”

Miles reaches out to touch Sephora’s tummy, but stops and looks up at her as if asking her permission. “Go ahead, this is

your child too,” she says with a smile.

“My goodness, look how much you’ve grown,” Miles says half to Sephora and half to his unborn child as his hand makes

contact.

Miles feels the need to explain why he got home so late last night. He tells about the overtime. Sephora tells him that she

thought that he was gone for good.

Miles explains that he was stressed out and not ready to face her. He admits to being afraid.

“That’s ok babe,” Sephora answers, “although we were apart, we were sharing the same feelings.”

Miles could never stop loving Sephora.

Miles picks up his guitar and starts playing and Sephora picks up her sculpturing tools. Once again, Sephora and Miles are

side-by-side doing what they love.