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“What was yours about?” She asked.
“Our honeymoon,” I said.
“Mine too.”
Why I was surprised by this, I don’t know. I had gotten used to things being unusual between us, I just hadn’t expected this was all.
“Amazing,” I said.
She told me all about her dream. It was almost identical to mine but with a slight twist. She said she kept trying to talk to me but I wouldn’t answer her and all she was able to do was touch me and smile at me.
“Amazing,” I repeated.
I held on to her for a very long time. I cupped her face in my hands and stared into her eyes. Every now and then I would softly kiss her chin, cheek, forehead, or lips. I was passionately in love with Jules and I could see in her eyes and feel through her touch that she was too.
“I’m so in love with you Jules,” I said.
“And I with you, my love,” she answered.
“I don’t think I can wait to belong to you any longer. Please marry me after graduation Jules?”
Desperate.
“We can’t my love. We’ll need to wait just a little bit longer. What is four years in the scheme of things?”
“But why?”
“Because I promised your mother you’d become the man you wanted to be and I wouldn’t hinder that for anything in the world. I like to keep my promises.”
“Oh, mom can just mind her own business!” I said roughly.
“Elliott,” she sang, “we can do this. We can wait and we will be all the more in love because of it. Waiting is one of those things that test your character dear and I have a feeling that eventually we’ll be two of the most satiated characters that ever walked God’s earth.
“One of the greatest thing about character is its peculiar after effect. It naturally molds you into the person that you are meant to be. Many who suffer the pains of instant gratification suffer their characters because of it and never get to discover all that they could be. It’s tragic. Elliott, you and I were meant to wait. I feel it in my bones. Waiting is one of the variables of our fated formula.” She placed both her hands on my forearms and reached to lean closely into my ear. “And its results? Will be astounding,” she promised and sweetly kissed my cheek.
I looked on her gratefully.
“I’m afraid I’ve botched any chance of a romantic proposal,” I admitted.
“That’s not true,” she said. “What could be more romantic than a man so desperate to marry you he would ask a thousand times? No, there is nothing more romantic.”
“You’re a clever girl Jules.”
“No, not clever, truthful.”
“Then, both.”
I kissed her again, this time more melodiously.
“Eventually,” I taunted.
“Eventually.”
We let go of one another at the sound of Jules’ father coming down the staircase.
“What in the heck are you two doing up?” He asked. His eyes became large, “You two aren’t just getting in are you?”
“No Mr. Jacobs. We rode with everyone else last night. Jules and I were just the earliest risers this morning,” I said.
