Jess and Darcy

The Proposal

"I think that's it!" I exclaim, gathering thelast of the dirty napkins off the tables. Emma and Stewart left for their honeymoon an hour ago. The guest filed out soon after, which left us bridesmaids and groomsmen on clean up duty.

"Bye guys!" Megan and Simon wave, followed by Becca and Theo.

"See ya!" Cassidy and Tristan give me a high five.

Darcy grabs my hand and we walk toward the parking lot. A few yards from the car Darcy takes an abrupt left toward the park.

"Darcy, the car's back that way."

He chuckles. "I know, I thought we could take a walk through the park."

"It's 2 in the morning and I can't see anything."

He pulls out a flashlight. "Bring back memories?"

"Definetly."

He smiles. "You don't even know how nervous I was."

"You were nervous? I never thought that was possible."

He laughs. "It's rare."

"What other times have you been nervous?" I ask. He thinks for moment.

"Talking to you about staying together during college,"

"Why?" I question.

He runs his hand through his hair. "I didn't know if you wanted to stay together or not. I wanted to, but I didn't know if you wanted to." I squeeze his hand. He smiles. "Oh yeah, and asking you to move in together."

He starts picking up the pace and we end up in front of a gazebo. He grabs for a string in the darkness somewhere and tugs it. A bunch of twinkle lights light up the gazebo. I gasp and he walks me inside.

"One more thing."

He gets down on one knee. My eyes widen and goosebumps appear on my arms. Darcy grabs a tiny box out of his pocket with his one hand and grabs my hand with the other. My knees are shaking, and It feels like his hand is the only thing keeping me from falling.

"Jess," He starts. My breath gets shallow and my eyes start watering. "You're the first person I wanna look at when I wake up in the morning, and the one I want to kiss goodnight. You're the person I want to spend the rest of my life with and I've known that for a long time."

Now, I'm full on crying.

"I promise you that I will do anything to make you happy. And I'll do anything to make you smile because you have the most amazing smile, Jess. And what I'm trying to say is Jessica Delaney, will you marry me?"

"Of course." I whisper. His smile is so big my heart almost explodes.

He stands, picks me up and twirls me around, he doesn't put me down but instead, he kisses me. I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him back. We're like that for a while until he finally puts me down. I look at the ring which is gorgeous.

Darcy watches me. "You like it?"

I nod my head and bite my lip to keep from crying again. I hug him. "I love you."

"I love you more."

I look up and smile at him. He smiles back down at me.

"We can't tell anyone yet. I don't want to steal the spotlight from Emma." I say.

"Kyle, your parents and my parents know, but that's it." 

I nod. "Okay, we'll tell everyone after Emma gets back from her honeymoon."