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We walk into the nightclub we met at three years ago. The memories swim around my mind. Her dancing, looking at me. Her hair all around her, as everyone in the room looked at her, but she only had eyes for me.
My heart pumps at the beat of the music, and a wide smile stretches across my face. Jensen runs past us, rubbing my buzzed head, as his boyfriend tries to catch up. Mats waves at us from one of the booths, surrounded by a bunch of guys, and girls, trying to buy her a drink.
Ronan turns to look at me and lifts an eyebrow. I shrug. That’s our Matilda. People fall at her feet anywhere she goes. Maria jumps out behind Mats and I see Ronan’s face burn with happiness in the bright neon lights. She didn’t expect her to be here, but I know for a fact that she would have loved to share this night with her too. Tiana and her man stand in the furthest corner of the booth. She’s looking at us with a huge smile on her face, whilst his full attention is on her. It means the world to me that she is here, supporting me.
We climb up a few stairs and enter the booth right after Corey and Jensen, who are already grinding on each other. Is it weird that I don’t mind my younger brother's relationship with a thirty-something year-old? I notice Mats looking at them from the corner of my eye. Pink neon lights aren’t doing much to hide the longing on her face. I guess she actually craves love just as much as me.
A tiny black box in my pocket is burning a hole in my jeans. It came in May, a bit later than promised, but I wasn’t in a hurry, and I spent each day since then moving the box around the apartment, trying to find the best way to hide it from Ronan. It was really hard, since Ronanofficiallymoved in with me on Women’s Independence day, just a couple of months before.
She jumps up happily and kisses me.
“Thank you for organizing this night for me! It’s the best anniversary ever!” She smiles at me widely.
“It was the least I could do.” I bend down to kiss her, wrapping my hand around her waist.
We sing and dance, and even grind. Club music could be called bedroom music as far as I’m concerned. Ronan turns her back to me, and before she manages to lean into me, I take the box out of the pocket, before she even notices. I throw it back at Jensen after taking the ring out.
He laughs and throws double thumbs up at me, and the rest of our party joins him, showing me support.
One of the slower songs blares from the speakers and I take it as a sign to hug Ronan closer into my body and whisper into her ear.
“The moment I saw you here, I knew you were it for me. I felt so much towards you, Ljubavi, from just that one look. You had me in a chokehold from the get go.” Fuck my throat is dry. “I love you more than anything in this world, Ronan. I was ready to storm hell for you and break open the gates to heaven, if you wanted me to. So the question is, do you?”
I lift her hand up in front of our faces, still hugging her back, and lift my other one, holding the ring.
“Will you marry me?” I ask, and she spins around so quickly it almost knocks the ring out of my hand.
“Say it again!” she commands with tears in her eyes and her chin shaking.
“Will you marry me, Ljubavi?”
“YES! Fuck yes!” She smashes our lips together after I put a ring on her finger.
The group of people behind us erupts in ‘woohoos’, and whistles, as Ronan looks up at me with so much love I feel like I might die.
With a ring on her finger, she sneaks her hand to the back of my neck and pulls my lips down to hers once more.
“Volim te,” she whispers, and there is nothing else I want to do more than hear her repeat those words to me again and again.
EPILOGUE 2
If You Seek Amy - Britney Spears
Ronan
-July, the evening after the engagement-
The bell above the door to Corey’s studio jingles as we enter. Noah looks confident enough to go to war, but I know that will soon be annihilated.
“We are here!” I yell, knowing that Corey must be in the back.
“Coming!”
I push Noah into a lying position after helping him take his shirt off. Just as he lays his head down on a pillow, Corey walks in.
“Man, I have no idea how she put you up to this, but consider this my engagement present!” he says, getting all of the supplies needed out to the sterile surface.
“I mean, I have a Jacob's ladder, it can’t be worse than that.”
