Mr Malloy: A BWWM Teacher-Student Romance (9 page)

THE FINAL CHAPTER

It was a long and anxious wait in the tedious grey offices of the immigration department once more, on the day they had both been waiting so long for. Amara gripped Jason's hand snugly in hers and looked up at his tight-lipped pale face as he stared at the door with a fear that matched her own. Amara looked down at their hands joined together and knew that no matter what happened to them, Jason loved her and she loved him and that made everything alright.

Harold Davies was the first to exit the room where the decision had been made and he threw the couple a contemptuous glance as he stormed away down the corridor of the offices with his papers under his arm. Several more immigration agents passed by next with kind smiles at the couple as they left, and finally, Sam was the last to step out of the room. He smiled at them widely and handed Amara a document stating that her application for citizenship had been approved.

"Congratulations." Sam grinned. "You're official. Welcome to the United States."

Jason's eyes grew wide as he realized that they were free and he laughed with wild excitement, looking from the papers to Amara to Sam and back again.

"What happened?" he said at last. "It seemed that Mr. Davies hated us. We were convinced that they were going to send Amara away!"

"He tried." Sam told them. "He told them that Amara was planning some big divorce scheme to take all your money and run off with some South African man, but the evidence didn't support it. When I found out what he was going to say, I got a statement from Matthieu, saying that you had absolutely no plans to be married and that you had met to discuss how you were both going to tell your parents that you wouldn't accept an arranged marriage. I got new statements from both your parents too, Amara.

Your mother said that you were a headstrong girl who knew her own mind and would marry for nothing but love. Your father said that he hoped your new husband could handle you, because you were going to be a lawyer and that any man you married would have to accept that. I told them all about every date you'd been on and your living situation and I gathered statements from all kinds of students and staff and everyone says the same thing: there is no way that those two are anything but madly in love.

I could see it and so could they."

Sam smiled at them warmly once again. "Harold sets out to find the frauds,” he told them. "But I set out to find the real thing. When a married couple is faking their union, there is no one that can stop Harold, but when two people are really in love, there is no one who can stop me. We won't be watching you anymore. Go and enjoy the rest of your lives."

The young agent gave them one final smile of encouragement and set off down that same corridor after the senior agent, but he wore a smile on his face and he had a spring in his step, because he had protected another case of true love.

Jason and Amara turned to each other and matching grins broke out on their young, enamored faces. Jason stood up and pulled his wife into his arms and spinning her in circles in celebration and joy as they kissed passionately in giddy excitement that everything had come together and now they would spend the rest of their lives with one another.

*

There was a moment of fear when Jason was summoned once more into the Dean's office. The elderly man was sitting once more at his desk and he gestured for Jason to sit down.

"The university received word today that a certain student of ours has been approved for citizenship and that she will be here next semester." he told him. "Does this mean that we are out of hot water?”

"The immigration department has validated our marriage." Jason told him. "Amara is legally my wife and soon to be an official American citizen."

The Dean smiled. He was happy for Jason and although he was surprised that they had managed to get through the whole thing without any attention from the press, he was grateful that it meant that there was no reason to terminate Jason's employment.

"Keep your head down, Jason." he advised. "Get Amara through her studies and please don't get into any more trouble. We barely scraped by this time."

Jason grinned widely. "Thank you, Percy." he said gratefully. "I won't cause trouble again, I promise."

"Don't make promises you can't keep, Jason." Percy chuckled. "I still haven't forgotten about those statues." His expression melted into a warmer smile. "Congratulations."

*

With the approval of the immigration department and the head of the university, Amara and Jason's worries were slowly slipping away leaving nothing but a loving and supportive relationship underneath. It felt so good for everything that had been hidden and put on show in turn to finally be reaching its natural state of easy romance and genuine affection.

They had a good life together when the drama had subsided. Amara would go to her classes and try to pay attention, despite the way she kept managing to catch her professor's eyed.  Jason would try to grade papers with his wife sitting on the edge of his desk and they would go home together at the end of the day to talk about law and life, curled up in each other's arms with the cat purring somewhere nearby.

Amara didn't know that a woman could be this happy and Jason, whose life had come to seem so inconsequential in comparison to all of his successful friends, came to find out that he didn't need to be a great man to feel content, because he was able to love a great woman. The two had a way of building each other up to be the best that they could be, and this provided each of them with a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment that they had both been searching for.

A year passed and then two, and suddenly Amara was a lawyer, graduating in her black gown while a certain professor tried not to seem too much more pleased for one of his students than for all the others. Her graduation was a victory for them both. It marked not only all that Amara had accomplished alone, but all that they had accomplished together. It showed two idealistic young people that dreams could come true and that fighting for their dreams and hopes could make a lifelong difference.

Old Mr. Finchley was even there in attendance for the graduation ceremony, as he was every year, to see the new faces of law that would be shaping the world. He cheered loudest for Amara when she received her degree, and she waved to him as she descended the platform.

To be standing at Jason's side in a photograph after having accepted her degree from the Dean, Amara already felt that she had everything she had ever wanted, but, when she saw a familiar face among the crowds timidly watching her from a distance, she was overwhelmed with emotion. She rushed to her, and her mother approached her with tears in her eyes.

"I hope you don't mind that I came." she said, choked by emotion. "I couldn't let my baby girl graduate without her mother there to see her."

Amara immediately burst into tears and launched herself into her mother's arms. She didn't care about all that had been said and done before. Her mother was there for her on the biggest day of her life and that was all that mattered.

"I'm such a proud mother." Amara's mother told her tearfully. "I'm sorry for everything that happened with your father and with Matthieu, but I have always loved you. I have always admired you for being strong the way you are and I am so glad that you did what you had to do to accomplish your dreams."

She looked up then and smiled happily, “Is this the man? Is this my son-in-law?" Amara's mother, Mariah, gazed up at Jason with thankful eyes, then said, "You are a good man," she told him. "You married my daughter for who she is. I wish I had encouraged both my daughters to find the same. Welcome to the family."

"Where is Pa?" Amara asked her desperately, her eyes scanning the crowd. "Did he come?"

Mariah shook her head. "I am sorry, Amara. He is angry still."

"At least you're here." Amara smiled joyfully.

"My daughter taught me how to stand up to a man." Mariah told her tenderly. "Nothing could have kept me away."

Mariah stayed with them for a few days after the graduation and Jason was able to spend some time with Amara's mother. Over the long days, he came to know what it was like to be a husband tuning out as his wife became engrossed in conversation with his mother-in-law, but Mariah liked him very much and went back to South Africa to report that her youngest daughter was a lawyer and the wife of a good man.

Her report must have had an impact, because when Jason and Amara renewed their vows six months after her graduation so that they could have a real wedding surrounded by all of Jason's family and the friends that they had gathered over time, Mariah was not alone on Amara's side of the church. No, this time her father walked her down the aisle.

Amara could tell that he was still affronted by her decision to turn her back on the plans he'd had for her, but the years apart from his youngest daughter whom he loved had softened him and he had come to terms with the fact that his youngest little girl was one he could not control. He had decided to let go of his mandates and just love her anyway. Now all his attentions were turned to her younger brothers, who had to find a way to live up to the standards set by their industrious older sister who'd shown them how to be determined and tenacious.

As the years passed, it became clear that neither of the pair had underestimated Amara. She became a lawyer defending the rights of asylum seekers in the country and, just as Sam had once done for her, Amara too looked for the good in people who had been brave enough to search for a better life.

She hadn't thought it was possible, but somehow Amara managed to have everything that she wanted in life: a career, family, friends and a husband who loved and respected her. Jason too, found that there was nothing missing now that Amara was by his side. He taught with as much passion and commitment as before, but now had a loving wife to return to each night to ease the loneliness of a dedicated teacher.

The years went on and they shared their life together as honestly and completely as two lovers ever had and far from anyone ever doubting their feelings for one another ever again. People who knew them well would tell their single friends not to settle until they found their Jason or their Amara, and loved as well as those two loved each other.

 
THE END

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