We're Just Friends

Fireworks

The trip went by in a blur. That first day Chris carried Aurora most of the day, pointing out things to her.

"See, if you crouch down Cinderella has a crown." Chris had knelt next to the Cinderella fountain and showed her the optical illusion. Aurora had tried to splash in the water. Before we took her on the Golden Carousel, he helped her pull out The Sword in the Stone. Aur was confused, but laughed at Chris' reaction.

The guide was just there to keep tourists from bothering us, Chris knew everything to do and see. We took her on Small World, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Dumbo, the Teacups, and Buzz Lightyear.

"Do you think she'll like this?" I frowned as we approached the Haunted Mansion. Turns out, she loved it. So we figured she would like Pirates, she did not.

"Dada, nonono." She whined and buried her face in Chris' neck through the ride.

She loved all the people and activity. She would wave to the characters as they passed. She and Chris both had on sunglasses and he had his baseball hat on. No one recognized him, it was just a daddy and his daughter. I took over Chris' job as photographer and took a million pictures of them. It hurt how sweet the sight was.

When Chris' family joined us over the next few days, he and I got more time alone for the rides. We regressed and ran around like children.

The day of Aur's birthday was spent meeting the characters and getting the Be Our Guest restaurant decorated in purple and...lime green. My daughter has horrible taste in decor. Aurora ran around the room examining all the animated windows, as the sun went down so did the lights in the room. It was beautiful, there was so much detail. She had a cake with 'the gray stuff' on top. She opened presents and got way more toys than she needed. When the party was over we went to watch the fireworks.

"You'd think with the fireworks she would've stayed awake." Scott smirked at Aur, who was fast asleep in her stroller.

"She's all partied out, major sugar crash." I smiled. The cousins were bouncing around, jumping on Chris and Scott. Shanna and Carly relaxed with Lisa. One of the boys called for Scott and he went to stand with them.

I ran a finger over Aur's face, how I managed to make something so pure and sweet was beyond me. I didn't deserve her or Chris when it came down to it. Where was Chris, anyway? I looked up and found him a few feet away, watching me. He'd been doing that a lot. I stood up and held out a hand to him. He smiled and came over, taking my hand. I turned to look at the fireworks and he embraced me from behind.

"I feel like we're on a TGIF show. Things have gone too well." I leaned back into his chest.

"Shhh, you'll jinx it." Chris stage whispered. "Little bit couldn't take all the fun? Look at her, little smushy baby girl. Do you believe we were able to get her to her first birthday alive and generally normal?"

"I'm not sure about that. Those first few months I know Ii caused psychological issues that won't come up until she's a teenager."

"What? The whole lying to her father thing? No we've all forgotten that." He scoffed.

"Chris, come on. I was making excellent progress at screwing everything up beyond redemption. I still don't see how you or your family forgave me."

"Why are you bringing this up now?"

"Because I see you look at her and it makes me fall more for you every day. I know we're not together because of her, but why didn't my dumb ass see it sooner?" I shrugged.

"Heh, dumbass."

"I'm just lucky that you developed a thing for dumbasses, or I would be in serious trouble." I laughed. "Hopefully, with the next pregnancy I won't have to go through the horny months alone."

"Two things.One, you didn't have to be alone with Aurora. I would've gladly, in the interest of medicine, fucked you into the mattress. All you had to do was ask." Chris dug his fingers into my sides and I spun around to smack him. He linked his hands at the small of my back and I rested my hands on his forearms.

"Trust me the logistics of pregnancy sex are no laughing matter. You seemed to know what you were doing in a couple dreams though. What's the second thing?" I looked up at him.

"You admit you want another kid. I knew I was wearing you down. You want me, you need me, you can't live without me." He sang and then kissed me. I felt so content and that's probably why I said this.

"We should get married." I blurted out as he pulled away. His eyebrows shot up. What the fuck was I doing? Fucking Disney World had my head all messed up. I opened my mouth to take it back and Chris smirked.

"I don't know, that's a really shitty proposal. Not even on one knee, no flowers, no ring? Come on." Chris tsked me, shaking his head.

"That was stupid-" I blushed.

"No shit, how hard is it to get a ring? Like this one, this ring here. Jeez Lys, way to half ass it." Chris pulled a ring from his jeans pocket. It was beautiful. I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Wha-"

"Simultaneous proposals, sort of romantic." Chris smirked and shrugged. I know you hate stuff like this, but I wanted to ask you here. You beat me to it. So right now, just between us two, well 3 with sleeping beauty there, yes or no?"

I looked up at him and thought of everything we'd been through together. How could I say anything but-

"Yes."