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Me and Millie never cheated, me and Ashley were never together, but some people don’t want to see that.
Eventually, question time is over for me and Stephen takes me in to the movie with him. We take our seats not far from Ashley and her boyfriend and wait for the film to start. During this period, Ashley leans across to me and waves her hand in front of my face in an attempt to get my attention.
“Hey, Lance, I just wanted to say sorry about the whole cheating assumptions. That really sucks, I hate that people still focus on that when it wasn’t true. I know that it’s my fault for starting that story in the first place. You know, the one about me and you. But they won’t drop it now. Even when I tell them it didn’t happen.”
I am grateful for the apology, but it doesn’t change much, does it? The damage has still been done. Still, I can’t change the past, I can only deal with how I cope in the future. How I cope with now and right now, I want to keep on good terms with Ashley because she did help me out in the end.
“Perhaps once we stop working together, they will let it go,” I reassure her. “This isn’t the sort of thing that they can harp on about forever. Luckily for me, it doesn’t affect Millie anyway. She doesn’t care.”
She’s been on the wrong side of the press one too many times, she knows what it’s like so doesn’t let any of it get to her anymore which is lucky because I’m sure that as long as I am in the public eye, it will continue to happen. But as long as I get my private life with her, I don’t mind anything.
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I’m exhausted as I walk through the front door to my home after the long night of the premier. Thankfully I didn’t have to attend the after party for a long time which is good because I couldn’t wait to get back here, to get back to the woman who I love who I know right now is curled up on the couch in her pajamas writing her next best seller. I can see it already and I’m not even in the room yet, which makes me smile widely.
“Honey, I’m home,” I call out in a sing song tone of voice. “Glad to be back I can tell you that.”
She rushes through the house to join me, in her pajamas as suspected, and beams happily at me. “How was the movie? I bet it was amazing, I bet you were incredible, oh God, I can’t wait to see it.”
She’s so happy for me that I don’t want to tell her about the awkward questions about us and the cheating allegations because it’s all just nonsense anyway. I focus on the good things. “It was awesome.”
“Well, I’m sorry that I wasn’t there with you. But I hope to see it soon. When it’s in the normal cinema.”
I hold her tight to my chest and let her listen to my racing heart before an idea comes to me. It’s one that I’ve been thinking of for a while, I have even planned out, I was just waiting for the perfect moment, but since everything about me and Millie has been perfectly imperfect in every single way, why not now?
It would be a symbol of us, wouldn’t it? This crazy, spur of the moment time.
“Hold on.” I break apart from her for just a moment, holding hard on to her shoulders. “Wait right there.”
“What are you doing?” Millie calls after me as I race up the stairs two at a time. “You’re nuts.”
That doesn’t stop me though, I keep on going, all the way until I reach the bedroom. That’s where I find the little secret box I have had hidden away for the last few months, just waiting… but now as I wrap my fingers around it, a warmth races through my body confirming that this is right.
“Yes, this is going to be amazing,” I gush to myself in excitement. “Oh God, I can’t wait.”
I’m most excited to see Millie’s face. The surprise and hopefully the joy when I finally get down on one knee and ask all the big question. The one that I am utterly sure of because I just know that it’s right. Me and Millie have always been perfect together. Ever since the day I first walked in to The Scarlet Longue and I first saw her there My life changed completely in that moment and it hasn’t gone back since, thank goodness.
Millie is waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs with confusion flooding her face as I run down to join her once more. She notices the big grin on my face but that doesn’t do anything to calm her down.
