that one cold night

how it started

One cold December morning, as the soft new snow fell, a blood curdling scream pierced the silence. The townspeople of Little Brook lane awoke with a jump, fear clawing at their stomachs. Nothing ever happened in small town of Kornsville, Kansas. The owner of the scream was a young woman with waist length brown hair and shining blue eyes. She ran into the street, tears streaming from her now blotchy, and red eyes. Crumbling to her knees she sobbed and sobbed. The man of her dreams had just been snatched away from her in the blink of an eye.

~earlier~

Earlier that same night the young girl was out with the dashing man she always saw in her dreams. What she did not know is what he was hiding in his breast pocket. Concealed in the little blue box, sitting in the pocket, was a big beautiful diamond on a white gold band.

"Rosie, you know very well how much I love you, but I feel I need to show you." He got down on one knee.

"Oh, Riley!"

"Rosie, will you let me be the light of your life? The one you come home to every night?" He pulled the little blue box his breast pocket, "Will you marry me, Rosie?"

"Riley! With every ounce of love in my heart, yes!" He rose to his feet. Rosie wrapped her arms around Riley's neck. "kiss me, Riley, kiss me now."

"With pleasure." he pressed his lips to hers, gentle at first, but then hunger, as if he needed her love to live. "Stay mine forever, Rosie, never leave me."