December 24th, 2014
"So have you thought about who is going to be your best man?" Jordan asks.
"Amidst everything that's been going on, it slipped my mind," I commented, refilling my cup with more eggnog.
We are at Devin's house for a Christmas party and today was the day he is going to propose to Aaliyah.
He was going to do on Christmas but changed his mind on that and decided to do it today.
"Well I hope it is me when you think about it." Jordan said.
"You could be my second or fifth choice but who knows." I said.
"Who's your first choice? He asks.
I honestly don't even have anyone that can be my first choice and picking a best man is a hard thing to do.
The crazy part is that it didn't take that long for Erika find someone to be her maid of honor.
I shrugged. "It can be one of our friends or my cousins."
"Whatever you do, I hope you pick the right person for it."
"Yeah I hope so."
"I don't think I can do this." Devin says as he walks towards us and I could tell that he was nervous.
"Yes you can man." I tells Devin.
"What if she say no?" He wondered.
"She will say yes and I know she will but if she doesn't then it wasn't meant to be." Jordan says.
Devin took a huge deep breath and then pulled out a black box out of his pocket.
"I am gonna do it and hope for the best but don't laugh if I get embarrassed." Devin stated.
"Hey we won't." I said.
"Hey everybody can I have your attention because there is something I need to say." Devin yelled.
Everybody stopped their conversation or whatever they were doing and turned to look at Devin.
"I want to wish you guys a great Christmas and the greatest present I have now is seeing all of my friends and family here like you guys really are the best." He said. "But there is one great special present I want to do for the rest of my life and it is to marry the woman of my dreams."
He got on one knee and opened the black box that showed an engagement ring.
"Aaliyah Ferguson will you marry me?" Devin asked.
Everybody looked at a surprised and shocked Aaliyah who had her hands on her mouth because of what is happening right now.
"Yes I will marry you!" Aaliyah exclaimed as she walked towards him and gave Devin a kiss.
"She said yes!" Devin yelled.
Man, I am really happy for Devin and Aaliyah but couldn't believe that he didn't embarrass himself a little bit and now I have to give Jordan his money.
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Christmas Day
4:23pm
"This either going to backfire or not." Erika said.
"It won't I promise." I says as I set the plates and the utensils on the table.
"How do you know that?" She asked.
"I just know and besides they are not going to notice that you are two months pregnant since it is barely noticeable."
"They are not going to notice unless we tell them which I know it is not going to happen because you changed your mind a lot about any certain topics."
I am not going to argue about that because she is right......
"Both of us will tell them and knowing my mom she will probably might figure it out since she is a mother but yeah you know what I mean."
"Speaking of your mom, are you going to re invite her to our wedding?" Erika questioned.
I sighed. "If I do that will you invite your dad?"
She rolled her eyes at me. "You know damn well that is not happening."
"Alright I will tell my mom to come."
The doorbell rang and I looked at the front door from the dining room praying deeply hard inside in my head.
"Well they are here so let's hope everything goes smoothly." I said.
