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When I look back, on the day I die,
I want to say, I truly lived every moment
with you by my side.
She buried her face in his chest and clung to him. She could feel his heart thundering under her cheek. When the song finally ended, she looked up at him with tears in her eyes. “Thank you. That was beautiful.”
“I’m not great with fancy words, you know that. I figured that song could tell you so much better than I could put it myself.”
She reached up to touch his cheek. “I don’t need fancy words; I just want you.”
He grinned, and her heart leapt into her mouth as he got down on one knee in front of her. “Good, because I don’t really have any. All I can do is echo what Clay already said; when I die, I want to be able to look back on my life and be able to say that I truly lived every moment with you by my side.” He gave her a rueful smile. “What I’m trying to say is, will you marry me? Will you be my wife? I love you, sprite. I want to spend the rest of my days loving you. I want to share all the moments with you – the good ones and the bad. I know that we can face anything together. What do you say?”
She sank down to her knees before him and cupped his face between her hands. “Yes! I say yes, Xander. I want to marry you. I want you to be my husband and me to be your wife. I want to share it all with you.”
He shoved his hand into his pocket and smiled. “It wasn’t a nervous mannerism that I’d developed. I’ve been carrying this thing around for a while now, waiting for the right moment.” He pulled out a small velvet box and flipped it open.
Her hands flew up to cover her mouth. “Oh my gosh, Xander! It’s beautiful!”
“You like it?”
She shook her head. “I don’t just like it, I love it.”
She held her hand out, and he slid the ring on. It was the most beautiful ring that she’d ever seen. It was a huge, oval cut diamond, surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds, set in a simple, yellow gold band.
She looked down at it and then up at him. “I love it! I love you!”
He chuckled. “I love you, too, sprite. Remember when we saw the chapel and I asked you to give me a little bit of time?”
She nodded.
“I wanted to ask you right then and there, but I’d been such a dumbass. At first, it didn’t even occur to me that asking you – actually proposing to you – was a huge part of the whole deal. Then, when it finally hit me, I needed to get the ring, and then I needed to ask your folks for their blessing. That’s the only reason that I didn’t ask you then.”
She leaned in to kiss him. When they finally broke apart, she rested her hand over his heart. “It’s okay. None of it matters. For a little while, when we first talked about being married, I was disappointed because I thought that you weren’t going to propose; like it was just something that we’d agreed on – and that would have been fine.”
He shook his head. “No. It wouldn’t have been fine. You wanted the whole deal – and you deserve to have it. I’m just sorry that it took me a while to catch on.”
She shook her head happily. “I’m glad that you didn’t figure it out sooner.” She looked around. “This way, I didn’t just get my handsome prince, I got my castle and my fairytale turret.”
He chuckled. “Yeah, I guess you did.”
“Most important of all, is that we made it. I finally found the place I belong – with you.”
He wrapped his arms around her and sat back on his butt, pulling her onto his lap. He reached for their drinks, handing her a glass before getting his own.
“Here’s to us, sprite. To you and me and the life that we’re going to build here.”
She clinked her glass against his. “To us.” She laughed. “Here’s to us living a long and happy life together in our lovely new home. Here’s to being surrounded by our friends and family, and living in this awesome little town and …” She ran out of steam but still felt like there was more to say. “And to … What else?”
Xander clinked his glass against hers. “And to vodka and Violets.”
