The Boy Trapped

Chapter 22

Colette's POV
"I-I just...wanna be with you forever. I-I was scared everyday. I-I was scared, I'd never see you again."

He started hugging me.

"It's okay. You're gonna stay with me forever. I think, I understand why, you asked about Masie."

He cupped my face.

"Baby, if she walked in the front door, I wouldn't leave you. I'd only see her as a friend. I don't love her anymore. I love you. That's the truth. It's not a lie. I don't lie about things like this. I need you to stop dragging yourself down. I don't want that to happen to you. I know what it does to me. I refuse to let that happen to you. You wanna be with me forever then...so be it."

SAY IT!

"I-I love you, will you marry me?"

"Yes."

He kissed me.

"Let's have breakfast. Then, we'll get ready and we'll go get you a ring."

"Y-you'd buy me a ring? B-but those are expensive."

"So? I don't care. You deserve the best and, that's what you're going to get. Please don't say, you don't. You're getting a ring."

I wrapped my arms around his neck.

"Thank you."

He turned the stove back on. He went back to making breakfast.

"Do you want to come with me to the pet store later? I ran out of food for Winnie. We can go after, we get your ring."

"Okay. I'm going to want to look at the animals."

"Okay. I don't want another pet right now."

"That's fine."

"Do you want to do anything else today? We can go have lunch somewhere if you want."

"Oh no. I-it's fine. You're already spending a lot of money on a ring. I-I'm fine with not doing anything."

"Oh. I just thought, it would be nice since we haven't gone on a date or anything in a while."

"Oh! We can do that! Sorry. It didn't click in my head for a sec."

"It's okay, don't worry."

"You don't think, you need to rest?"

"I'm okay. If I need to rest, we can stop and sit somewhere. If I get worse, we can always come back here."

He finished making breakfast then we ate. After we ate, we got ready and went to the jewelry store in the mall. We wandered around the store looking at rings.

"Do you want that one? You keep staring at it."

"I-I can get it?"

"Yes."

I got the ring, I wanted. It was a sliver rose with a rose gold diamond in the middle of it. I started hugging Nyxon.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

He chuckled.

"You're welcome."

We started walking around looking the mall. I couldn't stop looking at my left hand.

"I take it, you're happy."

"Yes. Very."

"I feel like, your step dad, is gonna shoot me again when we tell him."

I shook my head.

"Oh, he's not my step dad anymore."

"Oh no. That's my fault."

"No no. He showed his true colors. My mom left him that day. They got divorced quickly. Don't blame yourself."

I stopped in front of a clothing store. I started looking at the clothes on display.

"Do you like any of them?"

"I'm not sure yet. Those shorts look too short. I like the dress though."

"Okay. Do you want it?"

"Oh no. You should save your money for Winnie's food."

"Colette it's fine. I know how you are, we're going to get to the car and, you're going to regret not getting it."