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Authors: Shirley Hunt
person.
“Would you believe I’ve been here but have never stopped to pay attention to it?” Blake asked.
“Perhaps you never had the right person with you,” I replied. I still had my back to Blake as we spoke. Because of this I could not see what he had planned.
I did not see him reach into his pocket and pull out a small jewelry box. I did not see him open the box and get down on one knee until I turned around.
The moment I saw that I gasped. A proposal! Blake was proposing to me of all people! It was all so soon and so sudden!
I could feel my heart stop for a moment. It really was like the movies when the handsome hero gets down on one knee.
“Will you marry me Amanda?” Blake asked hopefully. In his hands he held a blue ring box with a diamond engagement ring. I didn’t know if Blake chose a diamond because it was traditional or because he knew it was also my birth stone? At the moment it didn’t really matter as to me it was the most romantic gesture a person could possibly do.
At first the words hitched in my throat as I struggled to say them. Suddenly I blurted out “Yes! Yes I will!”
I truly did want to marry him and had never imagined my proposal would go like this.
Getting up off his knees Blake seized me in a hug and kissed me.
I felt like the luckiest woman alive.
Chapter Three
Our last day in Italy seemed to go by too quickly for my liking. Before I knew it we were back on a plane and going back to the States. I was still riding a wave of giddiness and practically felt hyper. You know that hyper giddy feeling you get where it feels like you’re going to start climbing up the walls? I was firmly in that camp. I imagine it would only become frightening if my head somehow found a way to do a near complete three hundred and sixty degree turn.
When we reached home reality began to set in a bit more than I would have liked it to. It was a bit early for us to become engaged. Didn’t most couples wait a year or so before becoming engaged? Were we making the right decision?
Blake was as happy as a clam sucking sand. I wish I was so easily comforted as I began to wonder these things. What was the right decision? I had never thought my life would turn out like this. I never thought I’d be accepting a marriage proposal so quickly.
Which then brought us to the question of what about the wedding? Would it also be a quick wedding? When we needed time it never seemed to be around!
“Permit me to be cliché but I’ve never felt anything so strongly as I do this. Perhaps this is why I trust it,” Blake said.
“Do all the men in your family ask women to marry them right away?” I joked to try to make myself feel calmer.
Blake grinned, “No, I’m the first. I suppose I’m a rebel that way.”
“Oh, a trouble maker then?”
“Well, I did once take apart my mother’s favorite chair…”
“Someone sure likes to live dangerously!”
“I think I was. Mom did say something about maternal instinct is why mothers didn’t eat their young.”
Despite the joking banter between us I still felt a bit anxious. Our brief conversation made me think about just how little I knew about Blake. We had always had a professional attitude between us and this was all so sudden. I didn’t even know he had real feelings for me until fairly recently!
There was so much we didn’t know about one another. We didn’t know the other’s values, where we wanted to go in life, children, and other things. We were from two entirely different worlds. Blake could enter mine but it would be more difficult for me to enter his let alone be accepted into the fold.
The announcement over what movie would be playing on the trip back was heard. At least it was some mindless comedy. I could use some humor that I did not have to think about. It
“Would you believe I’ve been here but have never stopped to pay attention to it?” Blake asked.
“Perhaps you never had the right person with you,” I replied. I still had my back to Blake as we spoke. Because of this I could not see what he had planned.
I did not see him reach into his pocket and pull out a small jewelry box. I did not see him open the box and get down on one knee until I turned around.
The moment I saw that I gasped. A proposal! Blake was proposing to me of all people! It was all so soon and so sudden!
I could feel my heart stop for a moment. It really was like the movies when the handsome hero gets down on one knee.
“Will you marry me Amanda?” Blake asked hopefully. In his hands he held a blue ring box with a diamond engagement ring. I didn’t know if Blake chose a diamond because it was traditional or because he knew it was also my birth stone? At the moment it didn’t really matter as to me it was the most romantic gesture a person could possibly do.
At first the words hitched in my throat as I struggled to say them. Suddenly I blurted out “Yes! Yes I will!”
I truly did want to marry him and had never imagined my proposal would go like this.
Getting up off his knees Blake seized me in a hug and kissed me.
I felt like the luckiest woman alive.
Chapter Three
Our last day in Italy seemed to go by too quickly for my liking. Before I knew it we were back on a plane and going back to the States. I was still riding a wave of giddiness and practically felt hyper. You know that hyper giddy feeling you get where it feels like you’re going to start climbing up the walls? I was firmly in that camp. I imagine it would only become frightening if my head somehow found a way to do a near complete three hundred and sixty degree turn.
When we reached home reality began to set in a bit more than I would have liked it to. It was a bit early for us to become engaged. Didn’t most couples wait a year or so before becoming engaged? Were we making the right decision?
Blake was as happy as a clam sucking sand. I wish I was so easily comforted as I began to wonder these things. What was the right decision? I had never thought my life would turn out like this. I never thought I’d be accepting a marriage proposal so quickly.
Which then brought us to the question of what about the wedding? Would it also be a quick wedding? When we needed time it never seemed to be around!
“Permit me to be cliché but I’ve never felt anything so strongly as I do this. Perhaps this is why I trust it,” Blake said.
“Do all the men in your family ask women to marry them right away?” I joked to try to make myself feel calmer.
Blake grinned, “No, I’m the first. I suppose I’m a rebel that way.”
“Oh, a trouble maker then?”
“Well, I did once take apart my mother’s favorite chair…”
“Someone sure likes to live dangerously!”
“I think I was. Mom did say something about maternal instinct is why mothers didn’t eat their young.”
Despite the joking banter between us I still felt a bit anxious. Our brief conversation made me think about just how little I knew about Blake. We had always had a professional attitude between us and this was all so sudden. I didn’t even know he had real feelings for me until fairly recently!
There was so much we didn’t know about one another. We didn’t know the other’s values, where we wanted to go in life, children, and other things. We were from two entirely different worlds. Blake could enter mine but it would be more difficult for me to enter his let alone be accepted into the fold.
The announcement over what movie would be playing on the trip back was heard. At least it was some mindless comedy. I could use some humor that I did not have to think about. It
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