Promise

Chapter 28

"Jess, wait." Ricky said catching me up and grabbing my wrist. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry." I said turning round to face him, "don't be sorry. I was going to find out about what you really thought sooner or later anyway, I'm lucky I found out now rather than later. I should've known that this wouldn't last, everyone I seem to care about always leaves me at some point."

"I'm not going to leave you." Ricky said raising his voice, it was like he didn't notice that we were in a hallway in the BBC studios where someone  ould overhear our whole convosation quite easily.

"What I said earlier, I didn't mean any of it. I let the stress get the better of me when I shouldn't have let it. You're not an attenion seeker and everyone loves you because of your amazing talent and I know that."  He was tearing up as he said it.

"I love you and I will love you with or without the illness, the thought of losing you is something I can't bear to think about." He was crying at this point, his voice and hands were shaking.

He pulled me in closer and we stood there, standing in an empty hallway huuging each other crying. I was getting tear and mascara stains on his shirt.

After a while, Ricky pulled away and held both of my hands. "I want to make it up to you for the rest of my life. I have never felt this way about anyone else before and I can't see spending my life with anyone else but you. I know this isn't the most romantic place or time to do this but it's something I have to do."

Ricky knelt on one knee and pulled out a ring box from his pocket. He opened it up to reveal the most beautiful ring I have ever seen. He was still holding my left hand while he was holding the ring box in the other.

"Jessica, will you marry me?"