A promise made

As she was focused on her homework, Nerissa heard a rock hitting her window. She felt scared at first, but then as she looked down the window she saw him standing there with a big smile on his face. It was unusual for Robert to come see her at this time of the night. She waved at him and immediately walked downstairs to meet him in the backyard. She run to him and hugged him as if he had been gone for a long time. Tess and Jerome were not home as they had gone on a 4 hour trip to visit Tess sister who was sick. And since it was school days Nerissa had to stay, something she didn’t really mind. Taking advantage of being home alone she asked Robert to come inside with her and he did. As she closed the front door and they were inside, she hugged him and kissed his lips. She knew that opportunities like that to be alone with him were so rare.

“So what are you doing here?” She smiled and looked him in the eyes.

“Well I came to say good night to you” He said.

“You could’ve call” She jokingly said.

“Yes that’s truth but, I couldn’t kiss you like this and hug you like this thru the phone could I?” He asked.

She loved when he would act as sweet and nice as that, maybe he was changing his personality little by little but he just didn’t notice it. She did and she wouldn’t tell him only to keep watching him turn into a very different person for being in love.

But the reason why Robert was there was not exactly to wish her sweet dreams. He had bought something really especial for her and was so eager to see her reaction. But at the same time he was really nervous like he had never been in his whole life. He had bought her a beautiful promise ring, which had a very special meaning.

“Nerissa the reason I came here is because I’ve been wanting to give you something really especial” He said making his voice reveal how nervous he really was.

“Wow, thanks. What is it?” She said very excited about it”

Robert then took out of his pocket the little ring and showed it to her.

“This” He said.

As soon as she saw it, her eyes filled up with tears and she smiled at the same time. It was without doubt a very especial moment in their lives. Robert kneels down and looked at her with a big smile on his face, and his eyes looked as he almost wanted to cry from emotion.

“Nerissa, I really wish I could give you all the things you deserve and I know I can’t do that right now, but that’s why I’m giving you this ring, to promise you that as soon as I can, I will do everything I can to make you the happiest girl in the world and I promise you we will always be together no matter what others say, I have come to know that my place in life is by your side and If I don’t have that then I don’t know what my purpose is anymore, please take this  ring and take my promise, because no matter how long it takes I will fulfill it you can be sure of that” His eyes were shining like never before as he told her those words, his heart was racing inside him and so was Nerissa’s. Despite their young age, their love was real and pure and that was something they both could feel deep inside them.

As he placed the ring on her finger the emotion invaded them and they started to cry a little. Something really strange to Robert, there has been few the times he had cry from happiness. Of course she hugged him after that and kissed his lips.

They were so focused on that magic moment that they didn’t noticed the storm that was happening outside.

“Oh my god it’s raining!” Nerissa said as she looked out the window.

“It is, and very hard!” Robert said. Then he looked at her and by the way she was looking at him, she knew that there was something going on his mind.

“What?” She asked.

He took her hand and walked to the back door.

“Robert, wait, what are you doing? Where are we going?”

“Well you once told me you wanted to get wet in the rain in a summer night right?”

“Yes, but!”

“Well, this is your chance” He said carrying her outside.

“Robert wait! It’s so cold!” She shouted.

He carefully spins around with her on his arms and she was laughing about it.

“You like it?” He asked

“Yeah!” She shouted smiling and looking at the sky.

He then kissed her as he stopped spinning around.

“I love you so much” He told her.

“I love you back” She said smiling at him.

But as the rain started to fall harder, they ran inside the house.

“Oh my god that was so funny!” She said.

“Look at us we are soaked!” He said looking at his clothes.

Nerissa got closer to him and kissed his lips. He kissed her back and carried her upstairs to her room.

“Maybe we should dry our clothes before we catch a cold” Nerissa said.

She unbuttons his shirt and took it off as Robert gave her a suggestive kind of smile.

“I’m gonna take it to the dryer” She said looking at him and getting a little intimidated by the way he was looking at her.

But Robert grabbed her by the waist and kissed her softly, something she could not resist. They continued kissing and as Nerissa lay down in the bed, Robert lay on top of her. But Nerissa got a little nervous and she stopped kissing him.

“Robert, what are we doing?” She asked as her heart was already beating faster already.

“I don’t know, but it feels so right” He said as he starts kissing her neck.

They were just carried away by the moment and continued kissing and expressing their love in a new form. That night they made love without planning it, without thinking about it, which was just what they were feeling at the moment and the way they have feel for a long time. They didn’t think about anything else, or about the trouble they could get on. That was a moment that was going to be especially marked in their lives, forever.