The Date

I guess I must have fallen asleep because the doorbell startled me awake and I look at the clock. Crap! It's 12:30! I hurry up and answer the doorbell seeing it's the mailman with a package. It takes me a moment to realize that it's the the package I ordered for Gabe and I perk up, "I can't believe it's finally here!" I sign the paper and tip the mailman walking back in the house. I open the box and take out the custom picture frame I designed and ordered to give to him as a just because present. It has pictures of us from random dates as the border and I smile remembering each one. i love him. I put the picture frame down and happily dance around the room.

I rush to the closet and grab the box of pictures I kept. I sit on the ground and look through them finding the picture of us from our first date that I had enlarged and run back to the kitchen putting the picture in the frame. Then I wrap it up and smile to myself. I hope he likes it. I sit on the couch and watch tv to wait for Gabe to come home from shopping.

Two hours later...

I hear Gabe's car pull up and I run to the door throwing it open. "Welcome back!" I smile trying not to squirm with excitement now that I can finally give him his gift. What I see when the door opens is a scantily dressed woman talking to him. He has a huge grin on his face and my heart sinks as I see that he doesn't have grocery bags. He doesn't see me so I quietly close the door and go back to the front room to sit on the couch. He's cheating on me? I wait for him to come inside and look at his empty hands. I say in a soft voice, "I thought you were going shopping. Where are the bags?"

He gets a panicked look on his face then hides it with a smile, "Oh I ran into one of my old friends and completely forgot about it." My heart rips apart as I see that he's lying.

"Oh okay." I force a smile. "Well I should go and get ready for out date." I get up and go to our room. I pull out a cute black top and jeans changing into them then I come out and we go to the car. We drive to the movie theater in a tense nervous silence. I can't believe he's cheating on me...

We get there and I see the same lady that was outside my house standing near the ticket stand and he turns to me, "Hey baby I'll go buy the tickets. Go ahead and go into the room." Then he hurries off towards the lady making my heart crack more. After this I'm leaving him.

I go into the room and sit in the first seat I see open. Fifteen minutes later the lady walks in and tells me, "You aren't suppose to sit there." She points to a seat at the front of the theater. "Your seat is there."  don't want to deal with her so I go to the seat sitting in it depressed. Then Gabe comes in and stands right in front of me causing me to look at him in confusion. Then the screen turns white like the blank page of a document with the line blinking on it. Then the words: Rose, will you marry me? get written onto it and I freeze watching Gabe get down on one knee.

"Rose I know I'm not the best or most attractive guy in the world. I also know that I can get on your nerves and I do things that aggravate you. But if you're willing to look past that and marry me I'll love you more than anyone else has... So what do you say?" He looks at me hopefully holding an open box with a ring in it.

I stare at him wide eyes. Wait what?! "Y yes." I manage to stutter out and blush. He grins and slides the ring on my finger. Everybody arounds up starts clapping and I look up to see the lady grinning happily and she walks towards us.

"That was beautiful Gabe!" She throws her arms around him and I stare at her stunned. She turns to me and offers her hand, "Hi. I'm Gabe's cousin Roxy. It's nice to finally meet you Rose." I just stare at there dumbfounded. Cousin?

I slowly take her hand. "It's nice to meet you too..." I can't believe she's his cousin... I can't believe I thought he was cheating on me. Guilt washes over me and I look at Gabe who's still smiling. He pulls me to him and kisses me in front of everyone causing me to blush and giggle.

He stares into my eyes with an intensity that takes my breath away and says in a soft voice so only I can hear, "I love you and I promise to cherish you forever."