Life Around The World

Marry Me Sophie?

When Brent left the dining hall, Cali and I looked at the boys with a questioning look upon our faces "Okay spill it boys." We said in unison, they both looked at each other and then at us then replied "Okay, you can't tell Sophie about this but, Brent is going to propose to her today while we're on the huge Ferris wheel thingy." Cali and I looked at each other and huge smiles spread across our faces as we squealed with excitement. "Awe!!" Cali said just as Mina, Justin, Sophie and Brent came into the dining hall Mina asked "What are y'all awing at?" Cali looked at me wide eyed and then I signaled her that I had it covered. I showed Mina a picture I found on Instagram of a little girl trying to imitate her dad cheering for his football team. "That's funny and cute!" Sophie said as Mina rolled her eyes and said "Mads, you always find the weirdest things on Instagram." We walked out of the dining hall and out the doors of the hotel to start our touring around London.

Once we reached the main street, we walked along side some gift shops and some coffee shops. We then made our way to Buckingham palace and took some pictures in front of the gates "Let's get some pics with these guys!" Jack said as he, Hunter and Brent stood beside them and signaled us to come join in, Mina, Sophie, Justin and I stayed put then, Hunter came over and grabbed my hand to get me in the picture "No, please let me be!!!" I said as he dragged me over there, Cali who was standing behind with the others laughed as she held her hand out to help me. I grabbed it and soon she was being dragged into the picture too. "Okay, so how we going to pose?" Jack asked, Cali looked at me and I looked at her then I suggested "How about I give Cali a piggy back and you give Hunter a piggy back then, we can switch it up if you want." I knelt down as Cali jumped onto my back then, we got super close but then Brent said "Hey! What about me?" We all looked at Sophie who came running up and climbed on his back then, Mina snapped the pic and Cali then jumped onto Jack's back as I went over and jumped on Hunter's. For this picture, Jack and Cali were on one side, Brent and Sophie were in the middle and Hunter and I on the other side. "Okay, on the count of three say cheese guys!" Mina said then she counted down, as she snapped the picture, Cali kissed Jack on the cheek as he smiled, Sophie and Brent smiled and I kissed Hunter on his cheek as he smiled then, we ran over to Mina who had all our phones and we looked at the pictures. "Awe, these are so cute!" I said "Thanks Mina!" Sophie said.

We continued our walk down the streets of London; we stopped in a couple of gift shops and found some cute little knickknacks. "These telephone booths remind me of Dr. Who." Sophie said letting out a small giggle. I looked at the post cards and bought a few then whoever else bought something went to pay. After that we went for lunch at McDonalds up the street from the store, we went in and ordered our food. I ordered some chicken nuggets and a side of fries with a root beer, and Hunter ordered a Big Mac combo. While we were waiting for our order to be ready, I went to get us some straws and ketchup and while I was doing so, Cali came up beside me and asked "Hey Maddie, can I ask you something?" I smiled and replied "Yeah what's up Cal?" She took a moment of silence before proceeding with whatever she wanted to talk to me about then she said "Do you think Jack and I will end up getting married soon?" I looked at her with a look that said where did this come from? Then I replied "Cali, I'm sure you will, I mean he loves you so much he's willing to protect you and..." I got cut off by Hunter.

"Food's ready Mads." He said walking by me with the tray and I replied "Okay I'll be there in a minute." As I turned back to face Cali, and continued what I started to say " Jack loves you and he has loved you ever since the day he met you Cal, it's going to happen maybe not now but it will...When he's ready to propose, he will be your superhero Cal." She looked at me tears filling her eyes, there were no words, just Cali coming towards me for a hug, I wrapped my arms around her and she whispered. "Thanks Maddie...You always know what to say." We released from the hug and I replied "Well, I did learn from the best you know." We both laughed and went to join the others to eat lunch. When we sat down, we jumped into the conversation with the rest of the gang as we enjoyed our meal. "So where we going to go after this guys?" Justin asked, "Well, where do we want to go?" Cali asked, I was searching for tourist sites on my phone and came upon a few, as I scrolled down the page, a couple had caught my eye "Well, we could go to the Science Museum?" I suggested, everyone looked at me with mixed expressions on their faces. "That sounds like learning, I don't feel like going back to school!" Hunter said, everyone laughed and then Sophie said "sure why don't we go there. Show of hands for who's in for a trip to the science museum." Five out of eight hands where raised so it looked like we were going to the science museum. "Majority rules! Sorry boys but we win this one!" Sophie said as we made our way towards the museum.

When we arrived at the museum, we bought tickets and started walking around in the different exhibits, reading, looking and using the interaction. The first exhibit we went in was the art exhibit that brought lots of color and inspiration to our eyes. "Wow! This is awesome!" Sophie said admiring the art work surrounding us. "Inspired yet?" Mina asked, Sophie turned, smiled and replied "Yeah very!" We proceeded towards other exhibits, after two hours spent in the museum; we ended in the universe exhibit which personally was my favorite because I love space. "Whoa, this is so cool!" I said as I froze in the entrance of the exhibit looking around at all the cool stuff, everyone started walking as I still stood there still taking in all of this exhibit. "Maddie are you coming?" Hunter said reaching out for my hand. I snapped out of my space world and came back to the real world, I put my hand out as he grabbed it and intertwined our fingers. "Yeah." I said smiling. We walked through the exhibit and climbed into a remade model of a space ship and then when we were done there, we left and made our way to a restaurant for dinner.

After we finished eating dinner and desert, we made our way towards the London Eye Ferris Wheel where Brent will be proposing to Sophie. Before we got to the London Eye, we stopped at the Big Ben tower and took a couple pictures. "Sophie." Brent said "Yeah?" She smiled, as he grabbed her hand and we all ran following them to the London Eye , we all stood in front of Brent and Sophie as Brent placed Sophie so she faced him, she looked at us and mouthed 'what's happening?' We all shook our heads saying we didn't know even thought, we all knew except for Mina who was asking us what was happening. Then Brent started with a speech, "Sophie, ever since we first started dating, that's when I truly knew what it was like to be myself and not have to worry about what you thought about me and now..." He continued as he grabbed a box out of his pocket and knelt down on one knee. "Sophie Baker, Will you make me the happiest guy in the world and marry me?" Sophie placed her hands over her mouth as tears rushed down her eyes, she shook her head yes as Brent got back up and pulled her in for a kiss. Mina and Cali took a picture of this special moment of our vacation and then we all cheered.

"That's what I awed about this morning." Cali said looking at Mina. Just then, we all came in for a huge group hug and made our way onto a huge cart of the London Eye and it took us up. "Guys?" Sophie asked "Did you know about this?" We shook our heads in unison and Mina said "Yeah, looks like everyone knew except for me!" We all laughed and then when we reached the top, the wheel stopped and we looked out at the scenery. Brent wrapped Sophie in his arms, Cali leaned her head on Jack's shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her, Justin pecked Mina on the lips and Hunter wrapped his arms around my waist and placed his head on top of mine. It was the most perfect moment ever, everyone was happy and the scenery made it special.