Chapter 21
“Tis the season”
Dylan
We’re all decorated and ready for our first Christmas together. Over all we put up three trees throughout the house, plus we decorated outside so much that people drive by and take pictures. Lilly’s only condition to my mass obsession with giving her a perfect holiday was for the Christmas lights not to flicker, and I’m perfectly okay with that. As of right now Lilly is out shopping with Jen and Everly and she seems like her old self again, mostly. She laughs again, she tells me she loves me every day, and she can’t keep her hands off me. I love every minute of it.
Since she moved in with me life has felt perfect. Just to have her with me most of the time is something I never want to live without. Sometimes we wake up at two in the morning and just talk, or sometimes we just never go to sleep till early hours in the morning. The thought alone makes me smile.
Her stuff is now mixed with mine throughout the house and it actually feels like a home because of it. Lilly tells me stories of her parents and things she remembers, it’s truly heartbreaking what happened to them. One night after she moved in we sat by the fireplace and she told me the whole story of how they died. Who would have thought that an innocent cruise to celebrate an anniversary would end up with them missing off the coast of an island and then found dead weeks later? It’s sad that she had to go through that, but Lilly tries to push past it as she chooses to live with the good memories instead.
As for Jessa, well she woke up three weeks ago and after a few days she finally was able to talk. The sad part is that she remembers everything; the only good thing to come out of it is that she claims she heard Lilly’s voice telling her that it’s all over now. Needless to say Lilly was ecstatic that she woke up, and she visits her all the time. When the doctors say she is able to travel again Jessa will be going back home to live with her parents in Florida, and I’m pretty sure it’s for the best.
As for the apartment building, tragedy hit and the place burned to the ground. I made sure to take the marshmallows and watch that sucker fall. It was hard for Lilly to even look in that direction when we passed two streets over, and now she can actually breathe knowing it’s all gone, erased. I asked her if she wanted to move, I told her she could pick where ever it was she wanted to look, but she told me no. Little does she know I have something else to ask her tonight. Originally I was going to wait until Christmas morning but I can’t hold out any longer. What can I say; this thing has been burning a hole in my pocket ever since I bought it. I was just trying to hold out until I knew she was ready. If it were up to me, the whole thing would be finalized and she would have my last name already, but I told myself to take it slow.
I hear the truck pull in the drive way then the beep of the horn as Jen pulls out. When I open the door to help her Jen waives and Lilly hands me an arm load of bags. “Here, take these, but don’t peek in those ones there. In fact give those ones back and I’ll take them and hide them.” She says with a smile and a red nose while I laugh and place a kiss right on the cold. “Hey, you don’t trust me?” I tease and she looks at me for a second with one raised eye brow and then she shakes her head. “With my life yes, but with your presents, no.” She takes the bags and goes inside and kicks her shoes off. She knows me so well, but I still can’t help the fact that I was never one for waiting.
Inside she races off to our bedroom and I chase her just to hear her giggle and laugh. “Dylan, for real don’t peek!” I tickle her and pretend like I’m going to grab the bag and she squeals in laughter, my favorite sound in the world. When I stop and the laughter dies she looks up at me and goes up on her tippy toes with her hands on both sides of my face and she kisses me. Bags get tossed to the way side and clothes begin to come off. In seconds we are naked and crawling into bed and under the covers. I slide into her and she gasps like she always does as she adjusts. This time I have to go slow, but her beautiful blonde hair is splayed out and her bright eyes make it hard to take my time. “Do you remember when we met and you said that your type was like a bad ass prince charming?” I ask and she smiles. “Yeah, but he had to have tattoos.” She replies. “Well, I’m pretty sure I fit that image to a fucking T baby.” I tell her as I keep my pace nice and so painfully slow and her hand traces the outline of the tattoo on my shoulder. “I have one question though Lils.” I pause my movements and feel my heart hammer at my chest. She looks at me curiously as if something is wrong. “Yeah…?” I sit up and reach over to the night stand as she scoots up to the headboard taking the covers with her. “Do you want to be my bad ass princess?” I ask as I try not to shake while handing her the box. She is stunned as she looks from it then to me and back again. “What?” She whispers and I feel the need to clarify. “I want to know if you’ll marry me Lilly.” Her hand goes up to cover her mouth as I take the box and open it for her.
Shining bright is a one and a half carat diamond ring fitted in white gold and surrounded by smaller diamonds. She gasps again and I smile at the look on her face. “Well?” I ask nervously. “Oh my lord, Dylan…it’s amazing. You’re amazing…YES…YES, I would love to marry you!” we get the ring on and she stares at it as she looks down at her hand with it on. “I can’t believe it!” She grins from ear to ear and I feel like I can finally let out the breath I was holding. “Can we seal the deal with continuing where we left off?” I ask hopefully because the weight has finally been lifted. Then she looks at me with a whole new light in her eyes as she practically attacks me.
With her on top she’s in charge. I love watching her ride me as her ring catches the light from the night stand. Her tattoo is finished and it looks amazing as I watch her body move. I can’t help but touch it and she grins. “I can’t keep my fucking hands off of you.” I admit as she brings me close. “How do you think I feel when it comes to you?” She says as she rolls her hips making us come together.
She falls down next to me and she brings up her hand to stare at it some more. “It’s so beautiful; you really picked the perfect one!” Her voice filled with excitement. “It was easy; I just found the one that I couldn’t stop staring because it reminded me of you.” I admit and it causes her to lean back over and kiss me. “I love you.” She tells me. “I love you too. So when do you want to get married?” I ask as I pull her in against me. She takes a second to think about it before she responds. “I don’t want a big wedding. So I’ll be happy if we just do like a destination kind of thing. You know like get married on a cliff in Hawaii, or on a beach somewhere warm.” “Like get you in a bikini type of place?” I ask as I imagine her walking in the sand with the sun shining down on her. “I’ll still wear a pretty little dress for our vows, but after that I’ll wear a bikini.” She smiles up at me. “Fantastic, I’ll schedule it for next week?” I tell her because honestly the sooner the better, but she laughs. “I doubt we’ll be able to set it up that soon, but I love your enthusiasm!” She grins as she begins to kiss my chest. “So...who shall we tell first?” I ask as she climbs up on top of me and pauses to think, while I slide my hands up her long soft thighs and wait. “Well, probably my brother, then maybe we can just tell everyone else at once, Like Christmas Day!”
Lilly bends down and starts to kiss me again. I fucking love this woman beyond belief. She is honestly my everything, and the reason I need to breathe. “I’m pretty sure they already saw this coming though.” I mutter into her ear before I bite her cartilage. Her soft sweet moans are like fuel to the fire already set a blaze inside of me from the moment she said yes. A life time of this is more than I can ask for and far more than I deserve but being the bastard I am, I’ll take every fucking minute of it. “Are we that predictable?” She asks as she begins to kiss my chest while her long silky hair trails along my skin. “I’m pretty sure you don’t have to be a psychic to see my love for you Lils.” I answer her just before she takes me into her mouth. With the rhythm she is going I’m rock fucking hard again and never going to last, so I grab her shoulder to stop her. “What? I was just showing my love for you.” She says all innocently, but only I can see the horns on her head because I know where her intentions lie. “Oh I know you do sweetheart. Now come here, it’s my turn.” I grab her and flip her onto her back, with a laugh she is splayed out before me, and it’s a fucking sight to behold. My future wife looking up at me with desire in her eyes, and I can’t wait to see where life takes us.