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“It’s beautiful. When did you do this?”
“Remember last week when I said I had a client meeting? I came here. Mr. Polsky was kind enough to rush the order.”
I can’t stop looking at it even though it’s not the first time I’ve had an engagement ring on my finger. We thank the jeweler, and he lets us out of the store. I’m giddy with excitement because now it’s official. We’re engaged. Now I have something to show my parents when we go to their house tomorrow.
“Would you be upset if we went to show Olivia and Megan?”
“No, I expected it.”
On the drive to my apartment, I can’t stop touching JC. His handsome face has a permanent smile. He’s going to be my husband. Our marriage is almost eight years in the making. In another week on September first, I’ll be thirty. I thought it would be at least another few years until I found someone to marry after my breakup with Noah. But here I am.
The next day, Megan, me, and JC set out in a rented sedan for the drive to Glen Rock, NJ, where my parents live and JC used to live. I go over in my head what I’ll say to them. I think it’s best that I ask JC to stay in the car until I break the news to them. While I’m thinking I absentmindedly twist my engagement ring around my finger. JC sees me and reaches out to hold my hand.
I glance behind me, Megan is sleeping, and I take his hand to my mouth and suck on his fingers, nibbling on the tips.
He mouths, “Don’t.” and withdraws his hand.
I’ve riled him up. We made love most of the night before, and it’s still not enough for him or me. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to make it through the day. I smile because it’s funny how for the past few months we worked together and denied our passion for each other. Now, all I want is to spend all my waking moments with him. I know he feels the same.
We pull up to my parent’s large colonial. It’s the same as it was when I came here with Noah about six months ago. All except for the fresh summer blooms of flowers. I kiss JC and wake Megan. My stomach is in knots because I know my parents are going to be surprised by the news. Might as well get this over with.
It takes over an hour to get out the entire story of how my relationship with Noah ended and why. My mother is sympathetic, but my father, more reserved. Megan tries to lighten the mood with some jokes, but it doesn’t go over well. I’m ready to tell my parents about JC when my sister Emma comes in and blows the whole plan out of the water.
“Hey, why is JC Lawson sitting in a car in our driveway?”
I clap my hand over my mouth and roll my eyes at Megan.
“Might as well go get him,” I say to her.
I stand, leaving my parents and Emma to wonder what is taking place. On the way back from the car, I pull my engagement ring from my pocket and slip it on my finger. My parents are cordial to JC but there is a frosty overtone. I hope they accept him because I love him.
“JC and I are engaged,” I blurt out.
Now it’s my mother’s turn to cover her mouth with her hand. My father sits there shaking his head. Emma begins questioning how this happened.
“If you just give us a chance to explain.”
In twenty minutes, the story is out. We proclaim our love for each other and the plans that we want to make for our wedding. My father takes JC aside, and when they return, it’s like their best buddies again as they were years ago before we broke up. It’s then I realize that everything is going to be alright.
Epilogue
I’m nervous as hell. My sisters, mother, and Olivia fawn all over me while I wait to walk down the aisle. I spent the night here at my parent’s home while JC stayed with a friend from high school. His parents drove from Manhattan where they now reside as did Hunter and many of our other friends.
I check and recheck my hair and makeup. It’s perfect, but I still look for anything out of place.
“Lexi, stop it. You look beautiful and JC is going to lose his mind when he sees you in this dress,” Megan says.
I was lucky to find this dress on a rack at the same bridal shop I bought the dress for my impending wedding with Noah. I was prepared to wear a simple white dress rather than get all decked out. I had gone to the shop to let them know they could donate the other dress to someone. It was already paid for, and the recipient would just have to pay for the alterations.
Olivia was with me and pulled out the dress off a rack. It was a size four, which was just right. I needed a small alternation to the waist, and it fit like a glove. She took it home for me so that JC wouldn’t see it since I’ve been sleeping over at his place almost every night since we’ve been back together.
My sisters and Olivia look beautiful in the light blue dresses they bought off the rack at Macy’s.
Emma has matured so much in the six months it’s been since I saw her. She’s become more focused and has been working for the local newspaper. Her figure is just darling with soft curves and an ass to die for. Her long wavy blonde hair looks wonderful, pinned up with soft tendrils around her face.
We pose for pictures in my bedroom, then on the stairs, and finally on the front lawn. I don’t need to worry about JC seeing me since he’s not here yet. Once I get a call from Hunter that they’re on their way, I duck into the house to hide. I see him from my window exit the car and he’s gorgeous in his black tuxedo with white shirt and tie. He wipes at his forehead with a handkerchief in the heat of mid-September.
Once the music cues up, everyone, including my mother leaves me to be seated. I’m alone in my bedroom thinking about how far we’ve come, the secrets we’ve kept and revealed, the discussions we’ve had and how we promised to be honest with each other. However, I have one more secret I’m keeping from JC.
