Finally See (Finally Book 1)

Chapter 13 - Rose

For the first half of the week Xavier and I are just settling into the beach house. I’m still shocked that Xavier planned this for us. I have a suspicion that he mainly did this for me, but I don’t care, because he is here with me.

Saturday:

We just cuddle on the couch together and look around the beach house.

For lunch he makes us breakfast. Since we got up at about noon, well I got up a half hour before him and just stood on the beach letting the waves catch my feet.

After lunch, I shower and get dressed in my white summer dress and it shows my baby bump a little.

After I shower, Xavier and I cuddle up on the couch, he has his hand on my baby bump and rubbing his thumb on it, causing the baby to kick.

For dinner, Xavier cooks steaks on the barbeque for us, and after we eat we just lay on the sand watching the stars for a little while, and then we head to bed.

Sunday:

For breakfast he makes us pancakes, French toast, omelets, and some bacon. After breakfast we stand in the water thigh deep, well I am, he is knee deep, since he’s taller than me.

Then a crab decides to have it out for me and whenever I move to get away, it follows, Xavier grabs and shoves it toward me causing me to jump back and fall on my ass. Xavier bends over laughing, at least until the crab pinches him and he yelps. It's my turn to laugh.

For lunch, he takes me out to a movie theater and I eat two hotdogs and almost all of the popcorn, so when we get back, Xavier makes a sandwich for the both of us. For dinner he takes me out to a diner.

Monday:

We take a bath together when we wake up that morning.

After, we go out to the grocery store to get some more food since I have been eating twice the amount Xavier is eating.

So, we stocked the fridge, freezer, and the cabinets full of food. Then he makes us some breakfast stir fry, which is really good. Then we just sit on the couch and are seeing what things make the baby kick.

Some things make the baby kick hard to where I groan in pain, some kicks are soft to where I am not even sure the baby even did kick. Classical music makes the baby kick softly, Xavier watching sports on the T.V. makes the baby kick hard, Xavier rubbing his thumb on my belly, kissing my belly, and putting his head on my belly makes the baby kick hard as well. Definitely going to be a daddy’s girl.

For lunch he makes sandwiches and some cookies, and I will sneak into the kitchen when he isn’t looking and steal some of the batter out of the bowl, but he knows I am doing it. We go out to the beach and swim a little and then lay on the beach together. For dinner he makes chicken and steak stir fry.

Tuesday:

We go out for breakfast. After breakfast we walk around looking at different places, at some point we get some ice cream, the ice cream looks like little dots. Then we go to the movies again and we watch this new action movie that I have been dying to see. After the movie we go to subway and we quiz each other about what we know about each other. We eat our subway sandwiches at the pier. A couple of times other women sees my belly and congratulates us on the baby.

For dinner we go to this fancy restaurant and I don’t want Xavier to spoil me like this, but it is fun hanging out with Xavier with not needing to worry about people from school seeing us. It’s also fun being able to see new places. When we get back to the beach house we lay on the hammock that is on the back patio and we fall asleep on it.

Wednesday:

When we wake up my stomach is hurting, I get up off of the hammock and go into the bathroom and I have a rush of morning sickness and throw up and barely make it to the toilet.

When I am done throwing up I take a bubble bath, and then I go out into the living room and I tell Xavier that I want to go to the hospital to do a check up on the baby. He agrees, and he takes me to the hospital.

We find out that the baby is strong and healthy, it makes me so happy to hear that. The doctor tells us to go to the hospital every two weeks for a routine checkup and they also say that we should are able to know the gender, but we say that we want it to be a surprise and we get a couple of pictures of the ultrasound. After we leave the hospital we go to the pier and get some more ice cream again. When we get to the end of the pier to be in the middle of all of the shops, I see a tattoo parlor and I tell Xavier that I want to get a tattoo on the side of my calf.

He takes me over to it and I look at the tattoos in the cases and I find one that looks cool. It is a green dragon with black and green flames rising off of the body. The tattoo guy that is behind the glass case asks if I found what I want, I look up and nod my head. “I want that dragon tattoo on my leg starting at my calf and climbing up my leg to just below my knee.” I explain.

“I think I get what you are asking.” The tattoo guy says.

He has us follow him and has me sit on the chair/bench sideways and gets started.

When he is done he puts a cotton bandage over the tattoo, he tells me to keep it on for a few days and then apply the tattoo gel on the tattoo to let it heal twice a day.

After Xavier pays the tattoo for me we leave and go back out to the pier and get something to eat. After we eat, Xavier brings me over to the bridge that goes over part of the ocean, and then he does something so unexpected I didn’t see this coming.

He gets down on one knee, pulls a little velvet black box out of his pocket and opens it, in the box there is a ring with a ruby stone-my birth stone-in a heart and little diamonds around the ruby. “I know that what has been happening with us wasn’t what we expected, but I am so happy to be with you and I love you. I want us to stay together through everything, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I will do everything in my power to make you happy and to feel special. Will you, Rosalina Sanchez, marry me, Xavier Thorn, to be my wife?”

I nod my head vigorously with tears in my eyes, he puts the ring on to my left ring finger and then stands up. With people around us clapping and whistling, when Xavier stands up, I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him deeply. I pull back from the kiss and put my chin on his shoulder hugging him. “I love you, my beautiful, Rosalina.” Xavier says.

“I love you too.” I say with happy tears behind my eyes.

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For the next two days Xavier and I celebrate our engagement by going out to the movies, having a nice dinner, and then going to karaoke. It is one of the best nights of my life. When we get back to the beach house Friday night around midnight, we take a bath together and just relax, then we go to bed around two in the morning. We wake up around noon the next day, pack, put all our stuff in the car, grab something to eat on the way out of the city, and then head home.