The Eternity that Follows (30 page)

Once they were through eating, Joey ordered a slice of
vanilla bean cheesecake for him and Gabriella to share. He asked
the waiter to not bring it over until they had polished off the bottle
wine they were working on finishing. Joey also ordered two
cappuccino’s to accompany the cheesecake. When the cheesecake
came out, Joey fed Gabriella, even though they were given two
spoons. Gabriella didn't mind being fussed over, but it was then
she realized, how ready for children Joey came across as being.

When they were through, Joey stood up, and said ‘my lady,’
putting his hand out for Gabriella to leave with him. Gabriella felt
pure magic during the moment, and even let off a light blush.

When they left the restaurant, Joey took Gabriella to Lake
Romantica, leading her to a secluded spot in the clearing of the
woods on the lake grounds. He carried along a blanket, placing it
down for them to watch the sunset. Joey made sure not to bring
Gabriella anywhere near the home he was building on Lake
Romantica. He was still set on waiting for the house to be
completely built before Gabriella was able to see it. His intentions
of bringing her to lake Romantica was for Gabriella to fall in love
with the sunset over the lake, the same she had with Lake Mandala.
Gabriella had never seen Lake Romantica before, because it was
set back from the roadside. She found the lake to be magical upon
their arrival. Gabriella questioned Joey how he was able to buy
land on the lake, being she had once heard, the one who owned all
the property wasn’t looking to sell or build around it. Joey just
replied, ‘I know someone.’

When the sun began to set, Gabriella was marveled over
how beautiful the setting of the lake was. Since there weren't
many houses surrounding the lake, the sunset radiated more off of
the water then it did on Lake Mandala. Gabriella fell in love with
the lake after she realized, there was much more privacy then Lake
Mandala had to offer. Gabriella had always dreamed to live in a
house far away in the woods, far from any other house.

Joey and Gabriella stayed to watch the stars under the
bright moon light. Gabriella couldn’t believe how beautiful the
reflection of the sky was over Lake Romantica, considering there
was barley any lights surrounding.

Under the moonlight, Joey brought Gabriella and he into
the lake naked. Gabriella found Joey’s arms right away, asking
him not to go out to wear he couldn’t’ reach because she planned to
stay in his arms for a while. Joey held Gabriella up in the air as his
prized possession, holding her with grace, up over his head, as he
showed nature how beautiful she was. When he brought her back
down, Gabriella’s lips landed right on his. She slipped her tongue
into his mouth as he was taken back by how intimate her kiss was.
Joey held Gabriella in his arms as she wrapped her legs around his
back.
“You wanna race?” Joey asked.
“No silly.”
“Oh no?” Joey said, he thought racing would be fun. Gabriella
had once claimed to be a fast swimmer.
“My hearts racing.” Gabriella said, sharing with Joey how she was
feeling inside.

To calm her down, Joey dipped them down until their mid
necks were blanketed by water. He then swayed her in his arms
from side to side, slowly and gently. Joey then stopped swaying,
looking into Gabriella’s eyes, whose eyes were already centered on
his. “I love you, Joe.”
“I love you too, Gab.”
“Forever!” Gabriella said, as statement and then kissed Joey so he
would know she wasn’t questioning if he wanted forever. She
wanted him to know that forever is what she was feeling.
“Forever” Joey confirmed, after their kiss.
“The eternity that follows?” Gabriella asked, glaring at him with
one eye as though she was judging her trust, as the other eye was
lost inside of Joey.
“The eternity that follows.” Joey promised.

Joey lead Gabriella out of the water, then trying to cover
her with the blanket, but she told him to leave it on the ground, for
it was a warm night, and she wasn’t cold at all. Gabriella sat down
on the blanket and Joey followed.
“So you’re serious about keeping the house on Lake Romantica?”
Gabriella asked.
“Yes.”
“I’d love that.”

With that, Joey laid Gabriella onto her back, and with love
making, Joey captured all the feelings of romance that had been
passing through them throughout the night. Joey let his sexual
attraction for Gabriella slip from his mind, letting his soul control
his body. He elapsed thinking about trying to please either of them
sexually, as his heart took over. He made pure love to Gabriella,
using only his soul as his soul mated with hers, letting go of his
passion, and letting romance control his mind. Under the stars,
moon and the reflection casting over Lake Romantica, Joey
emptied his love inside of Gabriella, without either of them
realizing it was even happening.

Joey wasn’t through making love to Gabriella though, and
Gabriella had the same romance take a hold of her as they made
love through the night. Gabriella lost her sense of being, forgetting
where she was, who she was. The only thing Gabriella was able to
remember through the love they were making, was that her soul
was mating with another soul. Gabriella believed strongly in soul
mates, and felt throughout the night, no two souls were ever able to
mate with another soul, after they had been matched by god to
their soul mate. When Gabriella awoke to who she was, and found
Joey was inside of her, she felt her soul leave her and Joey’s enter
into her.

Their love making stopped in the early morning just as the
sun was rising. Joey held Gabriella tightly from behind while they
sat and watched the sun wake up. Joey covered Gabriella’s breast
with his hands while he held from behind., for they were his and
no other eyes were to dare to see them. There had been no words
spoken between them since before their love making began. Joey
and Gabriella were nothing but two souls expressing their love for
each other, throughout the entire magical night they shared.

When Joey and Gabriella got back to the house, they both
threw their clothes off and laid down in bed. They found each
others arms as legs were thrown over others, and stomachs were
brought close together. They feel asleep and slept the whole day
away.

When Gabriella awoke it was already six o’clock at night.
She started to panic over Joey’s love making, and hit Joey over the
head with her pillow to wake him up.
“What was that for?” Joey asked, sitting up in bed. “Ouch.”
“For trying to get me pregnant.”
“Gabriella. I was not trying to get you pregnant.” Joey said,
remembering the magic that over took him last night.

Gabriella gave Joey a face of, ‘I don’t believe you.’
“Gabriella, I swear I wasn’t trying to. It just happened.” Joey
said, as he wondered if this was the same girl he had completely
lost himself to last night.

Gabriella gave him another look. ‘Okay, maybe but give me
more.’ “I love you. I didn’t get carried away. It’s not that I wasn’t
able to help myself, but it was natural.” Joey said, as the word
natural gave him a warm and peaceful feeling.
“Natural?”
“Yes, natural.” Joey said, and then kissed her hand to rekindle the
romance linking them last night.
“Okay.”

Gabriella felt she couldn’t argue with Joey over his actions.
She was after all there last night and knew what he meant by
natural. Joey thought to offer more of what he was feeling from
the magic of last night.
“I was mating with you. I felt my soul mating with yours. It was
just natural. It happened naturally. I didn’t cause it to happen.”
Joey said, remembering how he let the need for sexual pleasure
leave his mind as he made love. “The desire of sexual pleasure
completely left me.”
“So you felt no sexual pleasure from last night?”
“I felt pure romance.” Joey said, then bringing Gabriella into his
arms. “And yes it felt wonderful.”
“Well, I was lost.”
“Oh lost, how?”
“Inside of you.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I lost who I was, where I was. The only thing I knew is that
I loved the soul making love to me, and I trusted it.” Gabriella
said, kindly.

Joey kissed Gabriella on the forehead and suggested with
body language, she should get comfortable. She became cozy in
his arms as they cuddled for a few minutes. Joey then laid on his
side as Gabriella followed, doing the same. They laid there for
over an hour, gazing into each other’s eyes, looking down to each
other’s souls. Gabriella never wanted to leave Joey’s eyes, and
broke their stare. “Do you think that’s what heaven is?”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you think heaven is just two souls staring at each other?”
“You think that’s all heaven is?”
“Well no. I mean, they say we’re just a soul in heaven. I always
thought we were a soul but with an image of our faces and bodies
too.”
“How so?”
“I don’t know. You know how I believe the meaning of life is for
man to be with woman. Well, that’s the same meaning heaven has
to me. So when I say an image of face and body, I mean that
they’re just resting together for infinity and in doing so, they look
in each other’s eyes for all of eternity.”
“Okay. I get what your saying. I even see the point in having an
image of face and body, but the soul’s eyes never leave each other?
What about the souls children?”
“You know how I think that the only reason there is children on
earth is because Eve ate the apple?”
“Yes.” Joey said, recalling the first day he was at Gabriella’s
house when she told him, she felt when god told Eve she would
bleed and live a life of crawling, it meant she was going to have a
baby.

To Gabriella that meant God only intend for two people to
be on earth until the apple was eaten and the first sin committed.
“So then in heaven, your only looking into your soul mates eyes.”
“So I won’t see my children in heaven?”
“Well think about it this way. Think about the amount of children
just my body is capable of creating. There are billions of men on
earth, and if you count those that are dead too, if we took my DNA
and mixed it with every man there ever was on earth, we would be
a close to infinite amounts of possible children created. And
considering you can make more then one child with the same man,
well that’s a lot of different combination of DNA, and that’s just
with me. If you take into account the amount of women on earth
too...”
“Okay. So what’s your final conclusion?” Joey asked, feeling
boggled for a moment.
“That the same person can be born with different sets of parental
DNA. I think there is a definite amount of people in a completed
population in heaven. Therefore, I believe that there is a definite
amount of people that can be born on earth too. I also believe we
keep living again, take that into account too, remember our
bloodline conversation”
“Okay, so your trying to tell me that the babies you and I will make
can be made by two other people on earth?” Joey asked, not
seeing how that was possible.
“No. I’m trying to say that there is a definite amount of possible
combinations of DNA. That was just a theory in my explanation.”
“Well you really do have to take into account the years that people
are born in, how many generation’s one’s blood line is. I’m sure
some are longer then others. You also need to account for how
special making a baby is. Why a mother with children from
several different fathers’ must really bother your mind, soul mate.”
“Sort of.” Gabriella admitted. “Not really though, because if
someone was born then their soul mate was born too. Where all
suppose to be in heaven, remember?”
“So if I had died before we met?”
“I would be alone and lonely my whole life waiting to die to be
with you.”
“It really must bother you that people have sex outside of
marriage.”
“It sure does.”
“Why are we supposed to all be in heaven again?”
“Because there is a definite amount of people in heaven, and we
weren’t suppose to be on earth, remember Adam and Eve. The
earth was only for them.” Gabriella said, frustrated Joey wasn’t
able to piece her theories together.

Joey laughed to Gabriella's frustrations, he already
understood her theory, but wanted Gabriella to spell it out for him,
being he was having such a nice time talking to her.
“So you think in heaven you and I will stare into each other’s eyes
for eternity while our bodies rest together. And our children, we
won’t see them, they’ll be looking into their soul mate’s eyes for
eternity and we will have had no part in their souls being created
just have been the ones to bring them to earth to meet their soul
mates? When you put it like that we should just kill all babies that
are born and let the population die out.”
“Well now you forget judgment day.”
“But you said everyone goes to heaven, or had God already
planned out who makes it to heaven and who doesn't before they
live? Oh, another time my dear, I’m starving, I’d love to talk about
this, I have a ton of thoughts going on in my head, but I’m too
hungry to carry on.”
“Does that mean I should get my big butt down in the kitchen and
cook?”
“No, that means get dressed and don’t bother showering. We’re
getting McDonald’s and going to see a movie.” Joey said, getting
out what he had just planed in his head.
“That’s perfect.” Gabriella beamed.

Joey and Gabriella were out of the movies by twelve-thirty,
and Joey was aware Gabriella wanted to go home and shower. He
wouldn’t let her before they left the house, even though they, ‘went
swimming in a lake’ as Gabriella had protested. Gabriella was
wearing a pair of sweat shorts and a tank top, but Joey preferred
her naked and couldn’t wait to get her home.

When they got back to the bedroom, Gabriella ran the
water for the hot tub. Joey was surprised when he walked into the
bathroom, he thought she would have been in the shower by then.
Gabriella thought they had enough romance for a lifetime last
night, so held off on lighting candles, thinking it would be an
overkill. Instead, she turned on the lights above the hot tube that
beamed down a dark pink color over the water. Joey laughed as he
hadn’t seen them turned on before. Gabriella was overloading the
bubbles as the water was still running, when Joey hoped into the
tub before it was filled, giving Gabriella a ‘what?’ look. He
wanted a front row seat to watch Gabriella take her clothes off.