Tú Eres Mi Sol

XCIX

"RJ, the dinner was really delicious! I can't stop gushing, I love this house. It's so wonderful!"

"Dei, let's go to the lawn. It's a beautiful night and I know you love watching the stars, so tonight we wait. I want you to see one of your childhood dreams."

They walk a little more until she saw a big blanket laid out, there were a few more blankets, a picnic basket, binoculars and a camera.

They exchange stories and catch up. All of a sudden, he says "Look up!"

There she sees a barrage of stars, shooting stars.

"Orionids, is the most prolific meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet. The Orionids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Orion, but they can be seen over a large area of the sky. Orionids are an annual meteor showerwhich last approximately one week in late October." (Wikipedia)

Then she screams and shakes him, "Oh my god, you remembered. It's the Orionids! It's like raining fire in the sky!"

She was jumping and twirling! And all of a sudden turns quiet and gasps at the marvel that she's seeing.

She stays like that for about an hour, then she lunges at him and give him a hug.

"I almost I forgot about this." she said tearing up. "Thank you for reminding me. Thank you for letting me experience this. I will never forget this."

He disengages himself from the embrace. And kneels on his right knee.

She's stunned.

"What.." she says

"Please let me talk first, else I might forget"

She nods

"I never thought it's possible to feel like this, to feel love as passionate as this and the intense joy that I feel when I am with you. Sometimes I feel that you make me feel the kind of feelings people write novels about

All my life, I've been afraid of two words in the english language.

Dei, Love. There are two words in the english language that scares me when I am with you.

One is almost and the other one worthy.

When I started this project, I wasn't sure if you felt this same about me, all I know was that I wanted you to be happy. That was all that mattered to me.

I wasn't sure if I was worthy of your love so when you said you loved me, too. It was as if at that moment, I was frozen, everything was moving in slow motion.

I know that we haven't been together long.

Dei, I wanted to do this the first day that we were together but I didn't want to scare you. I've always known that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.

Did you know when I realised I love you?

(She shakes her head)

It was on my last day in the University, I went into the grocery to pick all those snacks that you wanted when I saw an old couple walking hand in hand. They were slowly looking at food items, talking each other and laughing. I stood there and in my head, I could see you and I, laughing, our face wrinkled by time, our hair grey and our hands still holding hands.

Dei, I look forward to waking up with you everyday, tickling you, running after you and cooking for you even we are old and grey.

I will work everyday that we're alive to be deserving of your love, to be worthy of it. When I started this project, I realised that I will never forgive myself if I didn't do anything about how I feel for you now, that we will be an almost instead of what we could be.

I am not sure if I am worth or I will be ever be worthy of your love (she shakes her head as if she disagrees, and she's now crying)"

He produces a box and opens, it was a Harry Winston, 3-carat emerald-cut diamond platinum ring.

"Nicole Dei Alexandra Montenegro Mendoza, will you marry me?"

She nods and says, "Yes!"

She pulls him up for a hug. He then takes her hand and puts on the ring.