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“They aren’t as lucky as us,” he said, smiling.
“No,” she said. “But it’s not the same thing either. Love has to be strong enough on both sides. My father had it for years, my mother not even close. She needs to get better and just focus on her. My father has moved on. Not with someone else, but with the acceptance that he can’t have what he thought he did.”
“I’m sorry for them,” he said. “That they can’t find what I did. What I know I’ve got with you.” He stopped pacing and was looking at her and then just dropped to one knee. “I know this might seem early, but we aren’t getting any younger. I don’t want to wait. I don’t want to even think of losing you again either. Will you marry me, Liz?”
She was just staring at him. She never expected this to happen and rather than fear creeping up her back, excitement was dancing in her belly.
“Yes!” she said, moving closer to him. “There is no timetable on love. It’s only what we feel for each other.”
He took the diamond ring that was in his hand. She hadn’t even looked at it and now realized it wasn’t a single diamond. Not like she had before and sold. This was a thick band with three diamonds of the same size in it. She was guessing they were a carat apiece and now she was afraid to wear it.
He slid it on her finger though. A perfect fit. Just like them.
“I know you’re nervous about this ring. Get it out of your head. It’s a symbol of our love. I needed them to be the same size. It’s our past that brought us to our present and we will create our future. Each one equally represents the other regardless of the time we spent there.”
She looked down at the ring, then she kissed him hard on the lips. “I don’t think I have ever heard anything as beautiful and as well said as that.”
“Somehow I pulled that out of a hat and it worked,” he said, laughing.
“It did work. Unless you planned it and have been stressing over it?” she asked.
“You know me,” he said. “I don’t plan for anything because I can’t control it. The only plan I had was to do this tonight and that’s because the ring was finished two days ago. Well, I planned on you saying yes too.”
“That’s good. Because I’ve been doing some planning of my own,” she said, looking down at the ring. “I was just thinking that when you sell your house that you should move in here. I was trying to figure out the best time to tell you. Now you just made it easy. I can tell you now. Might as well move into the house you always wanted.”
“I got the girl and the house in the end. Notice I said the girl first.”
“You did,” she said. “Good job!”
The End!
