MOTHER’S APPROVAL

*Audra's POV, Past*

I said my goodbyes to Claire and then I found a bench near the school's doors.

I had decided to stay back and wait for Chris as there were only twenty more minutes of training to go, and, well, I was kinda looking forward to having some time alone with him before we went home.

My mind went back to this morning and over the last few hours. It had been an eventful day, to say the least, especially compared with how ordinary my day-to-day usually was.

It felt so silly that I had been feeling so conflicted these past weeks when everything seemed so simple now. 

I thought I was happy with my life until Chris came along, and I wasn't unhappy, now happiness wouldn't be the word I'd use to describe it; comfortable in my own bubble, satisfied, somehow...

But these past few months I have felt truly happy, and well, today was a whole new level.