Epilogue
Steven
It had been nine months since I told Allie that I wanted to be a couple. Nine months of going to bed happy, waking up excited to kiss her, and feeling grateful for what I had and had nearly lost.
I stared at the ring pinched between my thumb and forefinger. I knew she would love it. It had a sparkling band of diamonds and one round halo diamond in the middle. The band had an elegant twist in it that made it stand out to me when I saw it in the display case.
I sighed and put it back in the ring box, and then tucked it into my pocket. My stomach was a tight knot of nerves. I had been waiting for this day for a while, and now that the time was nearly upon me, I felt like I might throw up.
Melissa appeared with Chance by her side. The two of them had been seeing each other for the last two months—something Allie and I loved to joke about. “Okay, Steven,” she said, “everything is all set to go. The band has the song. The dancers are all in place at their tables. They’ll make sure the floor is open when the song is about to start.”
“Okay,” I said, rubbing my hands together. “I think I’m ready. She just needs to get here.”
“She’s punctual. She should be here any minute. Chance and I are going to go sit at our table out of sight. We don’t want to risk her seeing us too early. It could blow the whole thing,” Melissa said.
“Right,” I said. “Thanks again for all of this. I couldn’t have pulled it off without you.”
“I know,” Melissa said with a smile and small shrug. “You’re welcome. Don’t mess it up!”
“I’ll try,” I mumbled as Melissa and Chance left me on my own to take their seats. I went to my table. It was right up along the dance floor so that Allie would have a front row seat to the show.
In less than half an hour, I was going to propose to my girlfriend. In less than half an hour, I could have a fiancée.
Allie arrived looking as beautiful as ever. She was wearing a floor length summer dress and a cardigan. Her hair was curled and half up. Her lips were pink, and her eyes were lined. She smiled when she saw me and kissed me before sitting down across from me.
“I never knew this place was here,” she said, looking around and taking in the cool little Greek tavern.
The ceiling was decorated with plants that were so dense you couldn’t see through them. The plants hosted hundreds of colorful lights that gave the place a warm, cozy glow. The tables each had mismatching lace tablecloths draped across them. A single candle burned on each surface. The band in the corner started playing an instrumental romance ballad.
“It’s nice. Do you like it?” I asked, glad she was happy about the location. I didn’t want to propose in a place she didn’t like.
“Yeah. I hope the food is good,” she said, looking down at the menu.
“I’m sure it is. I’ve only heard good things about it.”
“Great, what are you going to order?” she asked, pointing at the menu. “The pasta sounds good—”
She was cut off when the band switched to a livelier song. Allie blinked and looked up, startled by how loud the music had suddenly become.
An older couple stood from their seats and went to the middle of the dance floor. Allie watched in rapture as they started to tango. She clapped her hands together and looked at me excitedly. “This place is awesome!”
I grinned.
Another couple got up to join the first. They walked the same steps. Allie was in awe that they knew the same dance. When three more couples got up and started dancing, she was enthralled.
Then the music changed. Allie looked around as more people got out of their seats. Suddenly the dance floor was nearly full, and everyone on it was performing the same routine.
Allie kicked my shin under the table and leaned over. “I bet someone is about to get proposed to!” she cried. “Let’s try to guess who it is!” Then she spotted Chance and Melissa at the back of the dance floor. “Hang on, is that Melissa?”
I stood up.
Allie’s eyes followed me as I stepped onto the dance floor. Her seat was only four feet away from me. I stood there like an idiot for a minute until one of the dancers tapped me on the shoulder. Then, all at once, I jumped into the routine. Allie watched me with her mouth hanging open as I danced.
The song was close to ending. The big moment was only thirty seconds away. I could feel the weight of the ring box in my pocket like it weighed fifty pounds. I was aware of Allie’s eyes on me as she pieced together what was happening. Once the shock wore off, she started smiling. She pressed her hands to her cheeks as she laughed and watched the routine.
Fifteen more seconds.
Allie was clapping her hands and tapping her feet to the rhythm of the music. More people were getting out of their chairs to join the dance for the grand finale. I thought I saw the hint of a tear in the corner of her eye.
She was a smart girl. She probably knew what was coming.
Five more seconds.
Allie’s eyes were on me. I mouthed that I loved her. She mouthed it back.
The song ended. I went to my knee in front of her. The whole place lapsed into complete silence.
“Allie Wright, you are and always have been the girl of my dreams,” I said. Allie was already crying. Her nose was pink. Her bottom lip was trembling. Her hands were shaking. I kept going, afraid that if I stopped, I would never get through it. “The last nine months have been the best months of my life. I want every day to be a day I wake up to you. I want to spend my life with you. I want to prove to you each and every day how special you are if you’ll let me. Allie, will you marry me?” As I popped the question, I pulled the ring box out of pocket and popped it open. The diamond caught the colorful lights above and seemed to glow within the box.
Allie launched herself out of her chair and threw her arms around me. “Yes, Steven, of course!” She sobbed into my shoulder. “I can’t believe this! This was magical. The dancing—how did you know?” She pulled away, and I pulled her down to sit on my knee.
The crowd around us was cheering and clapping. The band started to play their music again in celebration. “I know everything about you,” I said as I took the ring out the box and held it out. Allie gave me her hand. I slid it onto her finger.
“Oh, it’s beautiful,” Allie said over the noise in the restaurant. “It’s perfect.” She admired the ring and then looked up at me. Her mascara was running. She was still gorgeous. “I love you so much.”
“I love you, too,” I said, kissing her. More cheering erupted around us.
We didn’t get back to my house until late that night. We stumbled down the hall, tripping over some of Allie’s moving boxes. Within another week or so she would officially be moved in. The house smelled good all the time now. My fridge was full. My bed was always warm. Living with Allie was going to be such an awesome adventure.
I took her into the bedroom. We undressed. Then I wrapped my arm around her and lowered her down onto the bed beneath me. We kissed every part of each other. She held onto my wrists and spread her legs. She wrapped them around my waist, and I rose to the occasion. I pressed into her.
She moaned into my mouth. I silenced her by sealing my lips over hers.
I held her face in my hands and stared down at her as I moved inside her pussy. She closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip.
I rocked against her and held her in my arms. She clung to me. I felt like I couldn’t get as close to her as I wanted even though I was inside her. The desperation in the way she held me made me think she felt the same way.
“I love you,” I told her as I continued to bury my cock in her.
“I love you, too,” she half-whispered half-moaned.
I straightened above her. She unwrapped her legs from my waist and let me push her legs back so that I could get deeper inside her. She moaned as I rested her ankles on my shoulders and fucked her hard and deep.
Her fingers curled in the sheets. She couldn’t keep her eyes closed. Each breath was sharp and desperate. She was going to come.
I wanted to feel her tighten around my cock. I wanted to feel her get wetter. I pushed her legs back farther and slid myself deep into her pussy. She moaned and whispered my name.
My name on her lips drove me wild. I began thrusting harder and faster. She cried out my name this time. I grabbed her shoulders to hold her in place as my cock thrust into her. Then, all at once, we both came. I filled her pussy, and she held my wrists as her body shook with her orgasm.
We moved apart, and I flopped down on the bed beside her. She looked over at me with a smile playing on her lips.
Then she sat up and leaned across me, reaching for the nightstand on her side of my bed.
“What are you doing?” I asked, not that I minded the way she was squishing her tits against my chest.
She opened the drawer and pulled something out. Then she crossed her legs and sat beside me. She held up what she had grabbed: a pen and a little yellow book. Her diary.
I crossed my arms behind my head, and she opened the diary and set it on my stomach to use me as a table. I rested a hand on her knee as she leaned over to write. But I couldn’t keep my hand there. The way she was sitting was just begging for me to touch her. So I trailed my hand up the inside of her thigh and began playing with her clit while she tried to write.
“Steven.” She giggled, pretending to put up a fight. “Let me write this quickly.”
“What? You can’t write while I play with you?”
“No. I don’t know.”
“Try it,” I encouraged.
She scowled playfully at me and leaned over the book, the pen poised above the paper. When she pressed the tip of it to the page, I slipped a finger into her. She moaned but didn’t stop writing. Her hand moved quickly, frantically, as I fucked her with my fingers. I could tell that she was struggling to keep it together.
When she was done she fell back, my fingers still in her pussy. Her diary fell closed on my stomach, and the pen rolled off the edge of the bed. I picked up the book with my free hand and pulled my finger out of her to rub her clit once more. “Can I read what you wrote?” I asked.
“Of course,” she said breathlessly.
I opened to the most recent page. There was no heading like all her other entries, and she had written right smack in the middle of the page rather than starting at the top like she always did. The entry was short:
Dear Diary,
There’s something you need to know. Something that will make all the other pages a thing of the past: They lived happily ever after.
I smiled at her words.
“Happily ever after sounds pretty damn good,” I said.
“Doesn’t it?” she said, sitting up and leaning over me. I played with her clit some more as she kissed me. Then she lay on her side beside me, and I hugged her to me.
I ran my fingers over her hip. She pressed her ass up against my crotch. My dick was hard. I slipped it between her legs. It slid easily into her wet pussy. She clutched her pillow and arched her back so that I could get deeper inside her.
I worked her over slowly. She rotated her hips against me in an even rhythm. I loved the way it felt when she ground on me like that. She turned her face to me, and we kissed. I sucked on her bottom lip. She let out a whispering moan.
“Fuck me as hard as you can, fiancé,” she said playfully.
I lifted her leg in the air. She rubbed her clit. I did as she said.
I fucked her as hard as I could. She threw her head back and nearly screamed with pleasure. I kissed her shoulder and held her to me, burying my cock deeper and deeper inside her with every thrust. She rubbed herself faster.
We both climaxed together. Then we stayed like that, joined together until I forced myself to get up and clean off. Allie did the same.
We got back into bed. Allie cozied up tight to my side and rested her cheek on my chest. I could feel her warm breath on my skin.
“So,” she said softly. “When do we want to get married?”
“Whenever you want,” I said. “You’ve wanted a fall wedding since you were in high school, haven’t you?”
“Yes. The autumn colors are beautiful.”
“Fall it is,” I said, kissing the top of her head. “What kind of dress do you want?”
“I don’t know,” she whispered. I felt her eyelashes on my chest as she closed her eyes. “I guess I’ll have to try a bunch on.”
“I bet you’ll love that.”
“I will,” she said happily. “Married. We’re getting married. I’m so happy, Steven.”
“Me too,” I said, rubbing her shoulder with my thumb. “I can’t wait to marry you. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me, Allie Wright. The best thing.”
She curled up closer to me. The scent of her coconut shampoo filled the air. I was so looking forward to breathing that in every night and every morning for the rest of my life.
I sighed. So this is what people had seen all these years that I had been blind to. Allie and me. Soul mates—two people who were meant to be together.
I was glad they had all been right.
The End
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