Never the Right Time

Chapter 47 Sophia's POV

The past six months that Mark and I have been together has been anything short of amazing. Mark and I had a great routine of surfing in the morning, I finally taught him, and then we would go to the shop and he would work at one of the tables while I ran the shop. He helped create a better website for the shop and help generate more business for us and the rest of the town.

Everyone loved him and was immediately welcomed into our circle of locals. I couldn't have been happier. The past few weeks we had been talking about renting out our apartment and getting a house in the near future.

Mom and Dad were shocked to hear that Mark had come back into my life again and were so happy about it. Same with Mark's parents. They had been out to see us a couple of times and fell in love with our little town.

Tonight Mark told me that he had planned a surprise for our six month anniversary. He was super cheesy like that but I wasn't complaining. He was planning on picking me up from my yearly physical exam and taking me on "The most amazing date ever" according to him. He always made them special in some little way so I couldn't wait to see what he had planned for tonight.

I was getting antsy to get out of the doctors office. They had taken my blood and asked me a million questions. I was just waiting to see what the doctor said before I was able to rush home and see what Mark had planned for them. Just as I was trying to mentally go through my closet to figure out what I was going to wear, the doctor walked in.

"So I have some news," she started, I instantly perked up, "It looks like your HCG levels are elevated which means congratulations you're pregnant." Shocked was one way to describe my feelings at that moment, she continued as if she didn't just drop a huge bomb on me, "You should make an appointment with your obstetrician as soon as possible and they will help you go from there. Other than that your blood work looks great and there isn't anything I am worried about from my end."

She might have said more, but everything went a little fuzzy after she told me that I was pregnant. I hadn't had any symptoms and we had been careful for the most part. Well I guess that doesn't matter anymore. Then I immediately got anxious about how Mark would take the news. Would he be upset? Would he think that I was trying to lie like Rebecca. Oh god, what if that whole thing put him off of having kids all together. I felt sick and knew it wasn't because of the baby.

I was on autopilot I walked out of the office and drove home. Truthfully I could've ran a million red lights and would've had no idea. That's how dazed I was with the millions now questions running through my head. I pulled into my parking spot behind the shop when I realized that my best bet was to at least try to figure out a cute way to announce it to him. I walked down to one of the gift shops down the street and picked up a tiny onesie that said, " daddy's buddy" it was goofy but it would work. I also picked up a pregnancy test just so that I could confirm it on my own. I peed on the stick and it almost instantly lit up "pregnant" on the screen. I put it all in a little bag and prayed that he would be happy about this.

I was a bundle of nerves when he started to pack up and waved me over so that we could get going.

"Have fun kiddos!" Nick called after us as we walked out.

I looked up at Mark, but he looked almost ill.

"Are you ok?" I asked

"Yea yea just tired" he said almost too quickly.

Yea if I wasn't nervous before I was now.

He walked us down to the beach as he asked me about the doctor. I gave him the vague, "it was fine" answer

Right before we walked on to the sand, he turned to me, " Ok i'm going to need you to close your eyes. I'm going to lead you to the surprise, ok?"

"Oookkk..." I laughed and then shut my eyes and put a hand over them. He grabbed my other hand as he gave me a quick kiss.

"I really hope you like this." He said nervously.

He lead me through the sand before stopped I could hear that we were decently close to the water but that was about it.

"Can I open my eyes now?" I asked

"Not yet. Almost ready." He said as I heard him moving around near me.

"Ok now!" As my eyes adjusted to the light I gasped when I saw Mark kneeling on one knee in front of me surrounded by candles.

"Sophia, there has never been a question of how much I love you. I think the only thing that I didn't realize was when I fell in love with you. Now that I am of sound mind and finally get to be with the love of my life, I can say without a doubt that I have been in love with you for a long time and never understood it until now. You've always been my best friend and biggest supporter even when that meant that you would be sad. You've always been my best friend from the very beginning. I have always known that you were meant to be in my life and now, Soph, I'm hoping you will be in my life for forever. I want to wake up next to you every day. I want to have a million kids with you. I want to grow old with you. I want you.

Soph, will you marry me?"

I was sobbing at this point so hard that I could only yell out a half garbled "Yes!" Before I pounced on him. We stayed like that for what felt like forever it during which he slid on a beautiful solitaire diamond ring. It was so pretty that it made me cry even more as I couldn't stop myself from alternating between kissing him and staring at the ring.

Eventually he carried me over to a table that he had set up with champagne, assuming I would say yes. He started to pour us both glasses before I realized my news and halted him.

"Wait, I have a surprise for you as well!" I tried to sound somewhat collected but after that proposal I was just so excited to tell him.

I handed him the small bag and tried to contain myself as I waited to see his reaction. He looked confused for a second as he took the onside and the pregnancy test out. When he turned over the test, it all clicked and he couldn't help but smile.

"Are you serious?!" He yelled with a gigantic grin on his face.

"This is a good 'are you serious right'" I jokingly asked.

"You're pregnant?!" He yelled even louder I couldn't help the laugh sob combination that escaped my mouth as I nodded in response.

He picked me up and spun me around.

"Soph you've made me the happiest man alive in so many different ways today." He said through heavy breathing.

"Right back at ya papa bear" I whispered as I pulled him back down to my lips.