The New Beginning (Sequel to Split H.S.)

I woke up to still laying on Eli. I laid my head back down and sighed. "Can we go to my moms today"? I asked Eli. "Yeah we can". He said nodding. I got up and started getting ready. Once I was done Elijah and I drove too my parents place. When we got in there my mom was looking at a bunch of pictures in a box pulled out of her attic. "Maddie, come look at these. You were so young"! She said, "I am good, I don't want to" I said. "Hey Eli"! My parents said to him he nodded back. "Oh Harry look at this one, your mom must have taken it"! My mom said. "Maddie, look. There's a story along with it. So I was pregnant with your sister Evelyn, and you were a calm baby you didn't really kick a whole lot. But Eve was kicking & wouldn't stop. I was in pain. So your dad laid me down on his mums couch, and put some pillows under me. He sat down on the floor next to me, his hand resting on my stomach. Then he started talking to her, I was almost crying. If I remember correctly later that week was when I gave birth to her"! She told me the whole story. I nodded along. I pulled Eli up off the couch with me and we walked upstairs together. Once we were in my room I shut the door. "Eli can I ask you something"? I slowly walked into his strong arms, it was one of those nights that I felt lonely and needed to feel loved again, I know Eli does but I just need to feel it again. Elijah slowly wraps his around me and holds me against his shirtless body. "Sure, sweetheart". He smiles softly as he allows me to ask my question. "How do you love me"? I whispered, he chuckles at my simple question. He gently runs his hand through my hair "it's so easy. The way I love you is not is not able to see but eyes, or be said by words or not even be touched my hands because eyes might make a mistake, hands might get tired, and words can end, the way I love you is by my heart, it won't stop like my heart, if it does I'll die, you know baby I'd even save my last breath to tell you that I love you". He keeps on caressing my hair answering my question, assuring me that I'm the one for him. Tears of happiness fill my eyes "I always thought people cry because they're sad but you.. Showed me tears don't always mean sadness but happiness can be a reason of it". I smile of happiness, and blush somehow on that subject he easily made me feel like I'm so special. "Baby I just love you". He makes me look directly at him as he runs his hands on my cheeks, leans and kisses me softly, causing me to feel butterflies in my stomach, I kiss him back as he pulls me closer by the waist, I shiver as he makes the kiss deeper, making me feel special and worthy. As I pulled away, I smiled and looked into his eyes. "I love you" he said. "I love you more". I said back quietly. I pulled away from his grip and went to my bed, he went to the other side. I pulled out my gigantic notebooks and textbooks, along with my computer. "What's that for"? He asked questioning all my stuff. "Oh I forgot. I'm taking college courses for being a forensic pathologist". I said smiling. "How many years"? He asked. I laughed a bit before telling him. "13". "Holy shit" he said. "Yeah I'm in my 6th year" I said smiling. "So what exactly do you do"? He asked questioning this whole thing.
"Forensic pathology is pathology that focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse. A post mortem is performed by a medical examiner, usually during the investigation of criminal law cases and civil law cases in some jurisdictions". I told him. "So you like? Look at dead bodies"? I nodded. He looked surprised.

"In a simple explanation, someone dies from let's say.. Being stabbed. I can take that corpse and examine different types of things and I can figure out, if the killer was left or right handed. That's where the criminal investigators come in. They help out and find things at the crime scene to help me figure these things out". He still looked confused. As I finished up my homework, Eli laid his head on my shoulder. He soon fell asleep. I got a quiet knock at my door, and after a second they walked in. It was my dad. He saw Eli sleeping, and me doing my school work. "What's up" I said not looking up from my computer still writing stuff down. "I was just checking on you two. You guys didn't come back downstairs". I nodded. "I've been doing work all night. He's been sleeping for a bit". I told him. "How long have you been working". He asked me "I don't know, since about 6:00". It was 10:48 now. "You should take a break. It'll stress you out if you work too much". My dad said bending down and kissing the top of my head. "Night love you" he said. "Love you too". I smiled. I sighed looking over at Elijah sleeping. I shut my computer off and put away my books underneath my bed. I walked into my bathroom, and did my business. When I walked back out, Elijah sprawled out even more talking up my entire bed. I walked over to him and whispered in his ear. "Babe, get up". He stirred around and looked at me with tired eyes. "Hmm what's up"? He asked stretching. "Nothing it's 11 o'clock now, and I had no room on my bed. So I woke you up"! I said he sighed moving over, as I got underneath the covers, he kept his distance a bit as we were taking our time with things. I kept tossing and turning throughout the night. I couldn't sleep. Elijah finally pulled me into his arms and I felt safe. I actually fell asleep a bit later, as we curled up together.