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As we make it closer to the shore, the sun slowly begins to set and the sky is painted with the perfect shades of gold, red, and orange. I start to slow our pace and Meg takes notice, looking at me with concern.
“Are you okay?” she asks. The little furball at her feet growls in complaint when we come to a complete stop.
“I need to ask you something and it’s very important,” I start. “I want you to know how happy you’ve made me in just the short amount of time that I’ve known you.”
She smiles and shyly brushes her hair behind her ears. God, she’s so damn cute.
“I need you to know that…” I pause and take a deep breath. “That I’ve never loved someone like I love you, Meg.”
Her eyes widen and her jaw nearly drops. “You…you love me?”
I smile at her and take her hands in mine. “More than you know.”
She lets out a sigh. “Okay, because I’ve been wanting to say the same to you since you left!” She smiles. “I love you too, Drew.”
Before my heart can explode, I lean down and kiss her lips, holding her face in my hands. This kiss isn’t anything like others have been before. Yes, kissing her was always something I enjoyed, but it’s been nothing like this. This is a kiss of great promise.
Not only does she feel like home, but she’s also a person I want to cherish and love and hold for the rest of my life. I feel like she’s finally, undoubtedly mine.
As I pull away and look into her eyes, I finally have a clear vision of what my future, our future, looks like. The woman of my dreams has a face, a stunning face, with the most beautiful blue eyes.
I reach into my pocket and pull out the little blue box before dropping to one knee. I can see tears swell in her eyes as she covers her mouth in excitement.
“Megan Marie Carson, will you please be my partner, my home, my forever, and marry me?” I ask, opening the box.
Despite the shiny ring inside, her eyes never move from mine as she says, “Yes.”
I scoop her up into my arms and now it’s my turn to start crying. I try holding it in, but realize that I don’t have to do that anymore. I finally found someone who I can be totally authentic around.
I don’t have to pretend to be someone or something I’m not anymore, and that’s the most freeing feeling in the world. It all feels like a fairytale to me, and I can’t wait for us to be our own family.
“We’re getting married!” she says, through happy sniffles.
“We are,” I say. “Would you like to take a peek at the ring now?” I laugh. She hasn’t so much as looked at it.
“Oh, right!” she says. Her mouth drops open when she sees it, two carats in a princess cut, set in a white gold ring. “Oh my gosh, it’s beautiful, Drew!”
“It was my mother’s.” I smile as the ring slides on perfectly.
Just as I was about to leave my apartment for the airport, Troy stopped me and put the small box in my hands.
“You’re going to need this,” he said, as I opened the box. As the oldest child, he was given Mom and Dad’s rings in the will after they died.
“Troy, this is supposed to be for your future wife,” I said, trying to hand the box back to him, but he refused to take it.
“I think Mom would have wanted Meg to have it. It seems to me that they share quite a bit in common,” he said.
It was then that I realized why I was so drawn to Meg’s feisty and bold personality. It’s because I’d seen it in my own mother as I grew up. She knew how to handle my dad’s grumpy moods and turn him into someone all of his kids could run to.
My mom was a rare kind of human being, so it makes sense that I’m determined to hold on to Meg for as long as I can. No wonder I couldn’t get her out of my head.
“Thank you,” I told him, as I tucked the ring safely in my carry-on before heading out.
“She and my father were married for almost sixty years and I always thought it had some kind of good luck to it,” I tell Meg, as she admires the new treasure on her hand. “I know I had amazing luck finding someone like you, and I think it’s fitting that this ring be yours now.”
“Drew, I’m honored,” she says, as she reaches up to kiss me again.
“We’re going to have a wonderful life together,” she follows up breathlessly, as if the realization is just hitting her.
