the crossword from jared's place

crossword puzzles

Previously on The Crossword Puzzle from Jared's Place…

"Zachary." Getting louder, I playfully bit his ear when suddenly, "OH ZACHY POO!" Let me tell you, he never bolted out of bed so quickly. "I'm up. I'm up. What's the rush? It's only 7 in the morning and we don't have school. Mommy, I wanna sleep in."

"Oh, Zach, shut up. Damn, I love you. But that's beside the point. I thought of the perfect way to tell them." I whispered it in his ear and he nodded. "And this is why I am so in love with you."

"YOU'RE PREGNANT?!!?" Bex practically screamed in my ear.

"OUCH! Hellooo! I'm right here! No need to yell!" They all looked at me, incredulous. They really thought I was pregnant.

"Uhh… no? What makes you think that I'm pregnant?"

Macey stood up to the plate. "Well, first of all, you loudly and quite rudely, if you ask me, burst into Bex's house screaming your freaking head off saying that you have 'news'".

Oh, yah, I forgot to tell you. Because I clued Zach in, he made the boys leave the girls and we all had a girls' night in.

"Also, that night when Zach first came home, we were gonna call you since the boys abruptly left and we wanted you to enjoy our lovely spa night with us that night. But then when we tried, your cellie was off, as was Zach's, and get this! The phone was off the hook! This was about a week ago," even though she clearly remembered when, "and that gives you enough time to know that you're pregnant!" "Okay, well, I appreciate your super freaky stalker…ness, and I mean, yah, you're a spy and all, but it's just that, JEEZ! WILL YOU JUST LIKE, STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS?!? And besides, I did not burst in her house. I was clearly invited."

"She has a point, you know." Liz added, her finger pointed sharply in the air.

Macey glared. Liz backed off. Wow, aren't they just the best of friends?

Rolling my eyes, I quietly looked down at my crossword puzzle. Five letter word for facial expression… let's see… there's an "I" already… ahh, la duh! Smile!

"Helloooo! Earth to Cammie! We've been waiting since last night for you to just tell us your news. Please, for the sake of my God damned sanity, just tell us what your news is."

I looked up from my puzzle book. "Fine, but will you guys please help me with this one? It's impossible."

Bex's face looked confused, seeing as being as smart as I am shouldn't need help with a crossword puzzle of all things.

Macey huffed. "Fine."

"Okay. So I need a fourteen letter word for marriage proposal… can't be engagement because that only has ten letters…"

"What about… engagement… ring? Are spaces allowed?" Liz asked, perplexed.

"Mhm. But that's not it. "E" is the second letter, not the first. I got it! He… went… to… Jared's!" Well, then.

That got me nowhere. They all exchanged looks. I slowly got up from the couch. They exchanged another look and we all squealed, jumping up and down.

"Where is it?"

"Eh mah gawd, how did we miss that?"

"IT'S GORGEOUS!"

"Wait… is that…"

"What I think it is…" I nodded. "Cammie, that's not from Jared's."

"True, true. But also veeery false!"

"Uh… English please?"

"Yah. Dumb it down a bit for your less-than-genius friends over here!" Poor Macey. She always thinks that she's stupid.

"I'm guessing you all figured out that it is il anello di perpetuo amore, but yes, he did go to Jared's. Oh, that and I reeeeeeeeeally wanted to use that line!"

They still didn't get it. I slipped it off my finger and showed them the inside. There, in a fancy script-like writing, was an inscription: the ring of eternal love. C, my love for you will last forever. ~Z. and there, right after the small Z was none other than a piece of diamante de esperanza!

"Inside the cave where Zach retrieved the ring and the diamond, there was a box filled with other stones that were allegedly a myth. It was said that there were two diamonds of hope and the first was crushed into thousands of tiny pieces. The government knew of Zach's plan to propose to me and agreed that he could have the ring and a piece of diamond. The other, however, is staying locked up where no one, and seriously, I mean no one can get into."

They all grinned at me and at that moment I was so incredibly glad to have best friends like the ones I do.

"Don't you just love, love?" I asked.

Then we all squealed really loudly and all of us, even Bex's Chihuahua, Bean, were jumping up and down.

"I take it you told them, Cam. Well, it went better than I expected."

"Dude, I don't get how you can handle all that screaming, Cammie. It's like a bunch of dying pigs."

"Hello to you, too, boys!" I playfully yelled to Grant.

"Oh, no you didn't!" Woah, he did not just say that. "I am not a boy! Clearly, I am a man." He puffed out his chest. Typical Grant.

Bex gave him a look and ushered them all out of the door. "Yah, and you best leave or else you won't be able to call yourselves men anymore. That goes for all of you. NOW."

Jonas and Danny complained on their way out about how they didn't even get to congratulate me.

"WELL, I CAN HEAR YOU NOW, SO CONGRATULATE FROM AFAR OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE!" I yelled out the door.

They muttered quiet congrats as Zach and Grant dragged them away.

I leaned against the door and let out a sigh of relief.

Suddenly I noticed three mischievous faces making their ways closer to me and a small white dog running away, as if she was afraid.

"Oh, Cam!" Macey said in a sing-song voice. "Now we get to help you out just like we did with Bex. IT'S PLANNING TIME!"

Screaming, I opened the door, only to get dragged back in by the girls.

"ZACH! GRANT! JONAS! DANNY! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL-" SLAM! Uh oh.

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