On a cool Christmas Eve night I sat on the porch of I and Mark's home. I need
sometime to myself and tears were going down my face. "I miss you Mark" I
whispered to myself. Memories of the car accident that killed him on Christina's
seventh birthday and how the WWF superstars were there with me as the doctors
told me the bad news.
"Anne Anne Anne" A voice whispered in my ear.
"Who's there?" I asked softly.
"Me" A voice said softly.
I turned around to find Mark standing before me with smile on his face and I ran
to him. As he held me in his arms I cried.
"SSHHH It's ok" Mark whispered in my ear.
"No it's not ok Mark" I said to him.
"Why isnt it Anne?" Mark asked me.
I couldn't answer him and I knew I couldn't tell him the truth...
"Anne I know why you can't tell me the truth" Mark said to me.
"I know you do my love" I said to him.
"Look at me" Mark said to me.
Mark pulled back from inches from me and I was looking into the eyes of my dead
husband. This brought tears to my eyes again and all the pain resurfaced I felt
those few months ago came back. I fought with great strength not to cry but it
was so hard and Mark ran his hand down my face. I hesitantly reached out to
touch his hand and when I touched his hand it felt so warm against my face.
"Mark I, Christina, Michelle, Glen, Alexandria have missed you so much and it's
being so hard on me to move on with my life" I said to him.
"I can see it in your eyes Anne and your heart doesn't want to move on" Mark
said to me.
"Anne I need to talk to you about" Michelle said to me walking out onto to the
deck.
I saw Michelle stop dead in her tracks and drop her cup of hot chocolate unto
the deck. All the color just drained out from her face. Michelle raised her hand
to her lips and I took a deep breath before speaking to her. "Michelle it's
Mark" I said to her.
"It can't be he's" Michelle said.
"Dead" Mark said finishing Michelle's sentence.
"Glen, Christina, Alexandria need to ya'll to come out here for second please"
Michelle yelled.
"Coming" Glen said in response.
Glen, Christina, Alexandria stopped dead on their tracks and I saw Christina's
eyes light up.
"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" Christina said running to Mark.
"Uncle Mark, Uncle Mark" Alexandria said happily.
"My God it's Mark" Glen said.
Mark knelt down and Christina ran into his arms. I saw tears of joy were running
down Christina's face as she hugged her father for dear life and I saw Glen,
Michelle and Alexandria with tears of joy. I smiled down at my husband and my
daughter.
"I missed you daddy" Christina said.
"I missed you my angel" Mark said to her.
When Mark looked back up at me I saw tears of joy running down his face and then
I looked into his eyes I saw great sadness in them as well. That's when I knew
the truth why Mark came back. This brought more sorrow upon my heart and I kept
this to myself.
"Shall we go in?" Michelle asked the group.
"Yes" Glen said to Michelle.
Glen lend Michelle and Alexandria and Mark let go of your daughter. He looked
into her eyes and wiped away her tears. "Go with your uncle Christina I need to
talk with your mother for few minutes" Mark said to her.
"Ok daddy" Christina said to him.
Christina gave Mark a kiss on his right check and followed behind her uncle
Glen, aunt Michelle, her cousin Alexandria into the house. Michelle shut the
door behind them so they couldn't hear what we were going to talk about now.
Mark stood up to his full height and walked over to me.
"Mark I know why you came back and it's brought a smile upon Christina's face" I
said to him.
"Anne Im so sorry for making you more upset" Mark said to me.
"Mark it's not that at all and it's been a living hell living without you these
past four months" I said to him.
"I know Anne and it's not going to last forever" Mark said to me.
"Mark I wish I could turn back the hands of time and take back all the hateful
words I said to you that day" I said to him.
"I know Anne but what is done is done and it cannot be reversed" Mark said to
me.
I turned to face him and Mark held out his hand to me. I accepted his hand and
we disappeared into thin air.
"Mark where are we?" I asked him.
"A wishing well" Mark said to me.
"A wishing well?" I said
"You can make a wish that is pure of heart" Mark said to me.
"My wish isn't pure of heart then" I said to him.
"I know I can see in your heart and your mind is telling you another thing" Mark
said to me.
I was shocked to hear Mark say that he could read both my mind and heart at the
same time. I took a deep breath before speaking again. "There's a song going
through my mind now by Celine Dion" I said to him.
"The song is It's All Coming Back To Me Now off her cd called Falling Into You"
Mark said to me.
"Correct" I said to him
It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Celine Dion
Album: Falling Into You
There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed
If I just listened to it right outside the window
There were days when the sun was so cruel
That all the tears turned to dust
And I just knew my eyes were drying up forever
I finished crying in the instant that you left
And I can't remember where or when or how
And I banished every memory you and I had ever made
But when you touch me like this
And you hold you like that
I just have to admit that it's all coming back to me
When I touch you like this
And I hold you like that
It's so hard to believe but it's all coming back to me
1-It's all coming back
It's all coming back to me now
There were moments of gold
And there were flashes of light
There were things I'd never do again
But then, they'd always seemed right
There were nights of endless pleasures
It was more than any laws allow
Baby, baby
If I kiss you like this, and if you whisper like that
It was lost long ago, but it's all coming back to me
If you want me like this and you need me like that
It was dead long ago, but it's all coming back to me
It's so hard to resist, and it's all coming back to me
I can barely recall, but it's all coming back to me now
But you were history with the slamming of the door
And I made myself so strong again somehow
And I never wasted any of my time on you since then
But if I touch you like this
And if you kiss me like that
It was so long ago
But it's all coming back to me
If you touch me like this, and if I kiss you like that
It was gone with the wind, but it's all coming back to me
(repeat 1)
Baby, baby, baby...
When you touch me like this
And whe you hold me like that
It was gone with the wind
But it's all coming back to me
When you see me like this
And when I see you like that
Then we see what we want to see
All coming back to me
The flesh and the fantasies
All coming back to me
I can barely recall, but it's all coming back to me now
If you forgive me all this
If I forgive you all that
We forgive and forget
And it's all coming back to me now
It's all coming back to me now
And when I touch you like that
It's all coming back to me now
If you do it like this
It's all coming back to me now
And if we...
"Here's my wish this Christmas Eve night" I said to him.
"What's your wish my angel of the night" Mark said to me.
"That every family would find the real meaning of Christmas and never take the
ones you love for granted" I said to him with tears.
"Your wish shall be granted" Mark said to me.
Then a blinding light surrounded the well and us for that matter. I covered my
eyes from the light and that was it...
'Where am I?' I asked myself. I moved slightly and got out of bed. I walked over
the currents and pushed them aside. I saw snow all over the ground and it was
still snowing like crazy .I smiled warmly at Glen, Michelle, Alexandria,
Christina, and another man with them helping build a snowman. Then this man
turned around and looked at me. This man wore a black hat with dead on it and
that red hair color caught my eyes. Also he wore a black sweat set with black
boots, black gloves and his green eyes held me captive. I knew right then who
that was and it was Mark. 'Oh My God It's Mark' I said to myself. Without making
any second thoughts about what I was wearing at the time I just ran out of the
room. I ran thought the living room and out the front door of the house. I
almost fell on my ass while running down the hill towards Glen, Michelle,
Christina, Alexandria, and Mark. My heart was beating out of my chest and Mark
met me halfway. Mark opened his arms around me and as I wrapped my arms around
his neck. I didn't care who saw me in my nightgown just having his arms around
was all I cared about at this point.
"I missed you Mark" I said to him.
"I missed you too my angel of the night" Mark said to me.
"How is it that you're alive and not dead" I said to him.
"By you're wish was pure of heart and that your wish was one that wasn't for
your own pleasures" Mark said to me.
All this was too much for me and I started to cry again. I unwrapped my arms
from around his neck and Mark unwrapped his arms from around me. He titled my
chin to look into his eyes and with his left finger he wiped away from my tears.
"Also I wiped all the memories of my death and Im alive just like everyone else
is but my death never happened at all" Mark said to me.
"You mean you're death never happened and can you please erase my memory of your
death then" I said to him.
"I already did my angel" Mark said to me.
"You did?" I said to him.
"Yes after your wish was granted and I erased any memory of my death from
everyone's mind including everyone who lives in our home" Mark said to me.
I smiled with joy and he lowered his lips to mine. As we kissed a thought came
to my mind and I knew this was the real meaning of Christmas. 'Christmas is
about spending time with the loves you love and never take them for granted
because you're never when they might die or something very terrible will happen
to them you're regret for the rest of your life' I thought to myself.
After our kiss we pulled part and I saw that the snowman was finished. "Merry
Christmas Mark" I said to him wrapped my arm around his waist.
"Merry Christmas Anne" Mark said to me wrapping his arm around my waist.
We walked into the house and did our own Christmas celebration which involved
mistletoe hung around certain parts of the human body. After during our
celebration we laid there in each other arms and with four words on our lips.
"I Love You and Merry Christmas We said to each other before we went to sleep
that Christmas Day.