Why Do I Put Up With You!

~Seventeen~

After the incredible dinner, we shared Criss raised his glass and made a toast to me, then as soon as we drank a few sips of the champagne he grabbed me and pulled me to the dancefloor on the other side of the restaurant and began serenading me to the soft, slow music they were playing. For some odd reason, there was just something different about Criss tonight, I had never seen him act this way toward me, not even when we first started dating. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, but I decided it wasn't worth fussing with because I was actually liking this side of my Crazy Crissy. After we danced for what seemed to be hours, he finally walked me back to the table, and as he sat me down, for a minute I thought he was going to end up in my lap, but instead, he spun around and landed on his knees in front of me still holding onto my hand.

My heart stopped for just a moment, at the mere thought of what he was doing, but I tried to calm myself because I knew Criss would never do THAT! Boy was I wrong because as soon as I exhaled lightly Criss pulled out a black velvet box with a red ribbon on top of it. He hesitantly held it out to me, as if he wasn't sure if it was a good idea, or if I would even accept it, after the way he's acted around me for so long. But he slowly opened the box, but when he opened it I looked down at an empty box. Criss looked at it as well and put his finger on his bottom lip and looked around slightly puzzled, as he said sometimes crazy shit happened at the very wrong moments, as he jumped up and said he would find it...after making a huge and embarrassing scene, he came back over to me and said he thinks he knows what happened because sometimes when he thinks about something hard enough it magically goes where he wanted it to...then he slowly reached out for my hand, and without touching it, he asked me how in the hell did I do that! I looked down and sure enough, a beautiful engagement ring was on my finger.

It was so breathtakingly beautiful, I couldn't help but admire it in silence for a while as a mass of tears began to form and freefall down my face. Criss looked up at me as he held my hand with everyone now in the restaurant fixated on us, and asked me if I would do him the amazing honor of becoming his forever because he would truly be lost without me. Then he added that he would always make sure the magic of his love would always be there for me. I closed my eyes for a few seconds trying to fathom what Criss Angel was saying to me right now, but I couldn't stay silent forever, and this was the chance of a lifetime, to be with the Crazy S.O.B. that I was so in love with no matter how much of an asswipe he can be sometimes. So I blinked a few times to get the tears out of my eyes and gently fell into his arms and just before kissing him, I whispered yes into his ear.

As soon as Criss's excitement died down after his personal victory celebration we both looked around and realized that everyone in the restaurant was cheering and throwing flowers at us as they congratulated us both on the first step of finding pure happiness. Criss thanked them all by giving them all a little magic show until the restaurant's manager came out and cut it short when Criss made birds appear telling him that no animals allowed in the restaurant...Criss wrapped his arm around me and said he and his birds were tired of being here anyway as he jokingly turned his nose up and walked me out of the food establishment, but Criss got the last laugh because they threw him out before he could pay for the meal. All the way back toward the house I kept slowly rotating the gorgeous ring around my finger not at all believing that this time, Criss and I were going home as fiances instead of just having the girlfriend/boyfriend status. I told him all the way home how much I loved his crazy and silly ass, and how incredibly happy he's made me tonight.

Criss turned off the ignition after he pulled the car up in the driveway, and gave me a very wicked look as he rubbed his hands together and asked if it was my turn to make him happy for the rest of the night, because he could really use some extra attention after being such a good boy all day. I crawled across the center console in his car and whispered in his ear as I gently rolled my tongue on the outer edge of his ear, when I moved away from him he rushed out of the car, and ran around to my side and pulled me out of the car and kicked his door shut as he carried me to the house. 

After the house lights all went out, and we were both tucked under our blankets, it was my turn to make my baby boy happy, but after the shocking surprise he gave me with that beautiful and very expensive ring, I had a lot of happiness to share with him. I was finally on my way to being married, something my family said would never happen to me, now I was going to show them all, that I could do the impossible, and have a better catch than any of my other siblings, for MY MAN was a milllionaire, not that I cared about money, for I would give it all away just to have him in my life forever and for the first time since I've been sleeping with Criss, I actually put him to sleep instead of the other way around. Then I gave a comforting sigh as I thought to myself, I was the future Mrs. Mindfreak, then I slowly fell asleep in his arms with a smile of happiness on my face.