the kissing gate | simanda ✓

35. year

Simon and Amanda pushed open the kissing gate to the graveyard. In their hands held bouquets of flowers for the graves that they were going to lay them on. Amanda headed towards Chris and Theo's graves, not a tear in sight yet surprisingly.

Simon went towards his parents' graves, his flowers in hand. Amanda knelt down in the snow and laid the flowers down on each grave. She traced the letters of both Theo's name and of her late husband's name. Simon placed the flowers down on his parents' grave, fiddling around with the small box in his pocket when he as finished.

The small box in his pocket was a ring box, the ring he was going to propose to Amanda with. He wanted to propose here because it was where she had first asked him to get a drink with her and thus their one night stand had happened that night. That night had been a year ago exactly. He wanted to propose tonight to Amanda and it was a good night for it because they were going to be busy on Christmas eve and be busy on Christmas day.

There was really no other time for him to do it and he had wanted to propose to Amanda around Christmas time. She was kneeling at the two graves, her hair in her face as she traced the letter in her loved ones names. It was bittersweet for her to be here with Simon because she had loved Chris so much with all of her heart before he had passed away from cancer.

Simon knelt down beside her and he pushed the hair out of her face, tucking it behind one of her ears. He kissed her cheek and with his other hand, he rubbed the smooth surface of the ring box.

"Are you alright, love?" Simon asked her as she sniffed.

"Yeah. I just miss him and Theo right now but I know that I have you now," Amanda replied. "And I'm so happy that I have you."

"I love you, Amanda. Should we go get the kids and go somewhere to eat?" Simon asked her in response.

"I love you too," Amanda said in reply and then asked, "where were you thinking of?"

"That little bar you took me to a year ago when you asked me if I wanted to get a drink with you and we then got drunk and shagged," Simon replied with a smirk. "Maybe I'll get lucky and get into your pants this year too."

"You have to wait and see," Amanda replied. They had been making love every night since they had gotten back from Barbados because they were trying to have a baby before Amanda couldn't carry a child anymore. "Let's go get them then."

She stood up and brushed off the knees of her jeans and Simon did the same. He took her hand and they walked back to the kissing gate together. He opened up the gate for her and she went through with him following behind her.

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They were now in the little bar that they had gotten drunk in a year ago. The bartender still recognized Amanda after a year of not coming to the bar after visiting Chris and Theo's graves, which surprised her as she had recently cut her hair into a long bob. The bartender had even recognized Simon, although he had only been in the bar once ever and that had been the night of Simon and Amanda's one night stand.

Simon, Amanda, Eric, Hollie, and Lexi were all seated at one table at the back of the bar, contrasting sharply with where Amanda used to sit at the bar. The food order had been placed and surprisingly Simon had gotten a beer. He hadn't drunk any alcohol since he had gotten drunk and shagged Amanda. Simon had been good about staying away from the alcohol for a year and he had been a year clean tonight.

The beer was going to help him calm his nerves as he noticed he was beginning to get nervous about proposing to Amanda. Amanda only had gotten water to drink as she hadn't drunk anything since last December.

"Dad, when are you and Mum going to get married?" Lexi asked Simon.

"I don't know really. It all depends on when I'm going to propose and that could be at anytime," Simon replied.

"Is it going to be romantic and are you and Mum going to try for a baby after you get engaged?" Lexi asked cheekily. She had heard Simon and Amanda making love a few times already because of where her bedroom was in the house.

"It will be romantic. At least I hope that it will be," Simon replied to the question.

"I don't know if we will be trying for a baby after we get engaged," Amanda answered the second half of the question.

"When will we get a brother or sister?" Hollie asked, picking up the napkin ring and folding it over and over until it became a paper football shape.

"That all depends on if I ever get pregnant, Hollie. I would love to give you, Eric, and Lexi a sibling right away if I could," Amanda answered.

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The food came and the bill was payed so they began the walk to the car. The car was parked at the church's parking lot, which was right in front of the graveyard. This was where Simon wanted to propose to Amanda.

"You three get in the car. I want to talk to Amanda about something," Simon said as the three children got into the car.

Amanda looked at Simon curiously and he pulled the ring box out of his jeans pocket saying, "Amanda, I don't really know when my crush on you started but I do know why it started. It started because you're beautiful inside and out and I wanted to have you as my own. Now I do have you as my girlfriend and my life couldn't be even more happier.

"I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Amanda, as my wife even though I've never had a commitment as big as this that I'm ready for and I'm willing to do. I want you to spend the rest of my life with me because I love you so much that you make my life absolutely amazing," Simon said as he fumbled to get the ring box open and drop down to one knee. "So, God, I should have rehearsed this, but will you make me extraordinarily lucky and marry me?"

[] hey guys! So Simon's finally proposing to Amanda but is she going to say yes to it? I hope that you guys like this fluff chapter. What did you like about this chapter and what do you think is going to happen next? Bye until the next chapter!