Lovestruck in Los Angeles (29 page)
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Authors: Rachel Schurig
His gaze seemed to bore into mine, so intense it took my breath away. “Lizzie, I don’t want to wait anymore.”
“Thomas.”
He finally opened his right hand, and I saw the ring. It was beautiful. Exactly the ring I would have picked for myself. Delicate and sweet, thin lines of twisting silver wrapping around each other until they met in the center at a small, perfect diamond. “I bought it in Notting Hill,” he whispered. “I think that’s where I fell in love with you.”
I was already crying. “I think that’s where I fell in love with you, too.”
“Maybe it’s wrong to do this now, when your mom is still sick,” he said. “But, Lizzie, if anything, your mom being sick just showed me how we can’t take anything for granted, you know? There are no guarantees in life. I’ve wasted all this time waiting around for everything to be perfect, but perfect isn’t the most important thing. The most important thing is this—” He kissed each of my wrists again before dropping from a crouch down to one knee. “I love you. You are the best part of my life. I want to make you happy for the rest of my life, the way you make me happy every day.” He took a deep breath, looking straight into my eyes. “Will you marry me?”
I slipped from the bed onto my knees in front of him and kissed him, sobbing and laughing, wrapping my arms around his neck.
“Is that a yes?” he asked, and he was laughing too, the sound so joyful it made my heart clench. “This isn’t fair, Lizzie, you have to say the word!”
“Yes.” I kissed his cheeks; his grinning, laughing lips; his eyelids, glittering with tears. “Yes, Thomas, I’ll marry you. Of course I’ll marry you!”
I actually knocked him over with the ferocity of my hug, but he only laughed some more, lying flat on his back on the floor of my room and pulling me onto his chest to kiss me so hard and long that I was pretty sure I wouldn’t ever be able to breathe again. I couldn’t care less—who needed air when they had a man like Thomas?
“I’m so definitely taking the late flight now,” he said, laughing, when I finally let him up.
“Let’s get married right now.” I was beyond giddy. I trailed my lips down to his neck so I could feel the way his throat vibrated when he laughed. “Let’s go back to Vegas. You can fly to L.A. from there.”
“No way. You promised me the whole shebang.”
I kissed his Adam’s apple, his ear, every inch of skin I could reach. “Like you care.”
“I do! I have my heart set on seeing you in a big old white dress. And you said we could have an open bar.”
My breath caught in my chest as the image flashed before my mind—me, walking toward Thomas in a church filled with all the people we loved. I pushed myself up on my hands so I could look down at him, my laughter replaced with tears once again. “This is real, isn’t it?”
His eyes softened as he looked up at me. “Yes, it is. It’s always been real, for me.” He shook his head a little. “The most real thing in my life.”
I lay my face against his chest, feeling his arms come up around me. I never wanted to move, wanted to live in this moment with Thomas forever. I knew he still had to go home, knew this would probably make me miss him more than ever, but none of that mattered right now. The only thing that mattered was the feel of his hands in my hair, his heart beating strong and fast below my cheek.
It wasn’t the most perfect scenario in the world, him having to go the same day we got engaged. But it was like he said—perfect wasn’t the most important thing.
“You’re going to be my wife, Lizzie,” he whispered, almost as if he couldn’t believe it. “My wife.”
I lifted my head so I could kiss him, letting the moment take me over, letting the joy seep all the way through my bones. No matter what else ever happened, I was going to have Thomas at my side. Forever.
Perfect
wasn’t
the most important thing. This was.
The End
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