The Promise Ring

After a while of shopping we decided to go to the food court and get some lunch. We both decided to go to Subway. We got our food and sat down at the nearest table. “Today has been fun so far.” I said. “Yeah it has been. I’ve got something for you. I know it’s early in our relationship, but uh, here.” he said and got out a small dark blue velvet case form one of my bags. He handed it to me and I opened it. “Oh my…Oh, wow. This is beautiful.” I said as I saw the amazing gold ring with a white diamond in the middle. “It’s a promise ring.” he said sweetly. “I got it when I told that I was going to the bathroom.” he explained. I placed the ring on my right hand ring finger and looked at it. “I love it, thank you.”
I leaned over the table and kissed him softly. “Lacie?” I heard a voice say and I sat down. I looked over to where the voice was coming from. “Kelsey? What are you doing here?” I asked. Oh no, I was caught. “Where you just kissing Justin?” she asked putting most emphasis on the word kissing. “Now Kelsey, calm down.” Justin said trying to keep her from making a scene. “I will not calm down. Lacie you knew that I liked him.” Oh no here we go. This can‘t be happening. “You knew that I was going to ask him out.” she said. I’m not going to make the mistake of saying what I did in my dream. “I was going to say no anyways.” Justin said. No, this is all going wrong. “I’m sorry Kelsey. I wanted to tell you but I was afraid that you’d act like this.” I explained. “So you lied me instead.” she said angrily. “I didn’t lie to you. I wouldn’t lie to you.” I said. “Oh, so you just didn’t tell me the truth?” she replied coldly and walked away.
I felt tears building up in my eyes and then blinked, accidentally letting one fall to my cheek. Justin put his arms around me to comfort me. I cried into his shoulder and he rubbed my back to calm me down. “It’s ok, Lace. It’s going to be ok.” he said trying to make me feel better. I had already gotten a lot of clothes for school so I asked Justin if we could go to his house. He agreed and walked me to his jeep. I was still really upset when we arrived there.
His house was white like mine and a little bit bigger. There was a large front yard that led to the dark wooden front door. He un-locked the door and led me into the living room. It had tan walls and wooden floor, which were beautiful. There was a dark tan couch that stretched along the farthest wall. A large flat screen TV sat on and even larger burgundy colored entertainment center across from the couch. A light wooden coffee table sat in front of the couch. I followed him up the wooden stairs into his room. His room was nice and it was clean. The dark blue carpet was soft under my feet when I took my shoes off. Justin shut his door and said, “So do you want to watch a movie?” I shook my head yes and he walked over to his DVD player under his medium sized flat screen TV.
He put in another one of my favorite movies which was Phantom of the Opera. I sat on his bed and he turned the light off and closed the blinds so that it was dark. The movie started and he sat next to me placing one arm around my shoulders while the other hand was placed in mine. I barely paid any attention to the movie while I thought about what happened today and another tear fell from my eyes. It dripped from my cheek to Justin’s forearm. He lifted my chin up for me to see his face and he saw that I was crying again. He pulled me close to his chest and hugged me tightly.
“Kelsey will calm down. Don’t worry. I promise that everything will be ok.” he said. “Don’t make promises that you cant keep.” I whispered. I turned towards him and lifted myself up to kiss his lips. “Thanks for trying to make me feel better, but I just lost my best friend. I don’t want her to hate me.” I said. “She’s going to find someone and forget about the while thing. Just let her cool down for a bit.” he said. I shook my head and rested it on his chest. Crying made me so tired and Justin was so comfortable to lay on. I glanced up at his TV to see the movie but my eyes didn’t want to stay open anymore. I relaxed and listed to Justin’s heart beat and fell asleep.
Justin’s Pov
I looked down at Lacie to find her asleep upon my chest. I didn’t want to move her because she looked to angelic. I pulled my covers up over her and continued to watch the movie. After it was over I decided to call Kelsey to straighten things out. I first lifted Lacie’s head off of me and slid my legs out. Then I got the rest of my body out from under her. I rested her head on my pillow and covered her up.
I walked out of my room and shut the door to go downstairs. I grabbed the phone that was on the coffee table in the living room. I sat on the couch and dialed Kelsey’s number. The phone rang and she finally picked up. “What do you want?” she asked. “I want to talk to you. Please listen.” I pleaded. She sighed and said, “You have three minutes.” “I was the one to make the first move on Lacie. She ended up liking me back. She was so confused when Cody kissed her, so she was going to meet him at the California Café. I stopped her before she left and kissed her, then thing took off from there. Cody was furious at her rejection to him. He followed her into an alley and was beating her up. I jumped to save her and he put his hands where her head was cut open. He said he sint finished with us. Please forgive Lacie. She is so scared right now. She need you.” I said. There was silence for a while. “Please Kelsey, you don’t need to forgive me, but please forgive her.” I repeated.
“I don’t know if I can. You guys hurt me bad.” she said. “I’m sorry, we didn’t want you to find out like that. We were going to tell you but we didn’t want you to find out like that. Someday you will find someone that likes you for you.” I said. “I’ll think about it but no guarantees.” she said and hung up on me. I shut my phone and went into the kitchen to grab two vaults from the refrigerator. I went up to my room where Lacie was still sleeping