Best Friend Bucketlist

Chapter Thirty-Two

When I wake up Josh is smiling at me. “What?” I ask. “I’m just thinking about how you are my fiancée!” He says. We lie in bed together for a while before I get up and get in the shower. I put on a floral summer dress and wedge heels. When I go into the kitchen there are two tickets to Paris! Josh puts his hands around my waist. “I see you saw the surprise!” Josh says turning me around to face him. I kiss him, “I love you!” I say. I go into the living room and grab my iPhone. “Hey girl!” Soph says. “Guess where I’m going?” I say. “Idk, but I’m going to Paris!” She says. “Are you serious?” I ask. “Yeah! Why?” she asks. “I’m going to Paris too!” I say. She begins to squeal with joy. She hangs up and Kellan and Soph come over.

Soph already packed and she is so excited. We are leaving in about four hours. Soph helped me pack. Soph and I sit in the living room. I’m twirling the engagement ring around on my finger. Soph and I talk for about two hours before Josh and Kellan come into the living room and he starts playing with my hair. Kellan and Soph are talking about something and Josh and I are just staring at my engagement ring. We head to the airport to go to Paris!

The flight was surprisingly not that long. The sun is just coming up when the plane lands. We head to a hotel to drop off our luggage. We got one huge penthouse suite with two bedrooms each with two king beds. Soph and I take one room while Kel and Josh take the other. “Let’s go to out for dinner tonight, girls dress fancy!” Kellan screams from the other end of the penthouse. Soph and I agree and we look through our clothes for something to wear. I pull out a deep purple tulle sleeveless Alberta Ferretti dress with an explosion of ornate embellishment on the middle and sides and silver/gold heels. Soph pulls out a navy blue BCBG cocktail dress with sheer navy covering, embellished with small diamonds from the top of the bodice to the back underneath the shoulder blades with navy and silver heels.

When we get to the restaurant, Café de l’Homme, Kellan says his name for the reservation. The waiter takes us to a seat just over looking the Eiffel Tower. “It’s so beautiful!” Soph says. “I agree, I’ve never seen something so beautiful before!” I say. “I have! You!” Josh says sweetly. I kiss him, “I love you!” I say. Soph kicks me under the table and gives me a weird look. I smile and we continue eating. When we are finished, Kellan says he wants to go to the Eiffel Tower and we all agree.

When we get to the base of the Eiffel Tower we take in the amazing view. I have Soph take a picture of Josh and I kissing under the Eiffel Tower. I also take a picture of my ring with the Eiffel Tower as a background. Josh and I walk hand in hand to a little bench leaving Kellan and Soph by the Eiffel Tower. I grab my iPhone and Josh grabs Kellan’s camera and we begin filming.

SOPHIA’S POV

When Amanda and Josh go over to a bench Kellan looks at them and nods. I don’t think anything of it until he grabs my hands. I turn to look at him. “Sophia, when I met you a little over five years ago I knew I found the love of my life. Your beauty, your passion, your dreams, your constant fainting, your smarts and your love of life just made me more crazy for you! Every time I look at you I feel the same sparks I felt the first time I laid eyes on you! I love you more than you will ever know. But I don’t want you to be my girlfriend anymore, I want you to be my wife.” He says and gets down on one knee. At this point a stream of tears is running down my face. “Sophia will you marry me?” He asks opening a Tiffany’s box. “Of course I will marry you Kellan!” I say jumping into his arms and kissing him. I feel like I’m in a fairytale. “I love you!” I say. “I love you more!” He says kissing me again. Amanda and Josh run up to us and give us there congratulations. “I’m so glad I got that on video!” Amanda says. “You got it?” Kellan asks. “Yes, one my iPhone and on your camera.” Amanda explains.

NORMAL POV

We head back to the hotel and Soph is just completely overjoyed. She can’t stop staring at her Tiffany Novo ring. Soph and I are both engaged! “Soph come here!” I yell. The sun is just about to set behind the Eiffel Tower. “Let’s take a picture of our rings with the sun set and Eiffel Tower in the background!” I say. We take the picture and it turns out absolutely amazing! Josh and Kellan come into our room and sit with us as we watch the sun go down.

“When is the press going to know about this?” Soph asks. “Do you want to keep them guessing or do you want to tell them?” Kellan asks. Soph and I look at each other. “I say we keep them guessing, Soph and I should post the picture of the rings the Eiffel Tower and the sunset to keep the paps guessing.” I say. Soph looks at me and smiles. “Let’s keep them guessing!” She says. We take out our iPhone’s and tweet the picture with the caption, “City of Love”. We hit tweet and we wait for the media roar.

I’m sitting on the balcony that over looks the beautiful Eiffel Tower with Josh beside me. We are holding hands talking about our wedding. Soph sits across from me with her hands intertwined with Kellan’s and they are also talking about there wedding. It’s almost midnight in the City of Love. I kiss Josh one last time before heading off to bed.

I can’t sleep though; I lay up staring at my beautiful engagement ring, twirling it around my finger. I see Soph isn’t asleep either. “Soph!” I whisper. “What?” She whispers back sitting up and flipping on the light. “I can’t sleep!” I say. “Me either. I can’t stop playing with my engagement ring!” Soph says. “I agree and I’ve been engaged longer than you!” I say with a laugh. She comes over and sits in my bed with me. “You know what’s really beautiful?” She asks. “What?” I implore. “We’ve been best friends since we were in Kindergarten. We’ve been through so much together and we keep making more memories. We are both engaged to the people we have dreamed about meeting our whole lives. I just can’t believe any of this is happening.” She says staring at the engagement ring. “I’ve told you are the best friend a girl could ask for right?” I ask. “Yes, a lot! You will always be the bestest friend ever!” She says. We laugh. “So you know you’re going to be my Maid of Honor right?” I ask. “Of course, you know you’ll be my maid of honor right?” She asks with a smile. “Of course!” I say with a laugh. We talk for hours about our future weddings before she heads to her own bed for some sleep. I close my eyes and say Goodnight to the City of Love!