Finding The 10

5 - Girl Fight

Eli's POV

"Hood morning sunshine!" A loud voice booms along with loud banging.

I sit up rubbing my eyes and realise that I am still in last night's clothes. I must have fallen asleep on the couch as well.

Marco is standing in front of me in my living room, smiling that big idiot smile of his.

"You do know you have a perfectly good bed in the next room, right?" He asks mockingly as I let out a yawn.

"I must have fallen asleep while working on this." I say handing him the new and improved list. That should keep him happy.

"You worked on you list? That's awesome man." He says before taking a seat on the leather recliner and studying the paper.

I stand and stretch my back out and head to the kitchen to make myself a much needed coffee.

"Read it out loud and tell me if it makes sense to you." I ask making us both a big cup of liquid sanity.

"Ok then;
Number 1 - a sense of humour. Very important.
Number 2 - trustworthy. Definitely
Number 3 - intelligent. As in someone that can hold up a serious conversation or someone that exceeds your own intellect? Because finding someone that's smarter than you shouldn't be hard."

"Ha ha. Very funny. Just keep reading." I reply to his commentary.

"Ok ok. Number 4 - someone I can be myself around and visa versa. Ok.
Number 5 - has to want to have kids.
Number 6 - someone I can talk to about anything and actually listens
Number 7 - speaks her mind.
Number 8 - a passionate personality. That's a good one.
Number 9 - self confidence.
Number 10 - beautiful eyes. Really? Your an eyes man?"

"Well I figured having super model looks or big tits wasn't going to cut it for wifey material. And besides, if my wife has beautiful eyes then maybe our future kids will too." I say only a little shocked at myself for talking about having kids.

I never really thought about having kids until o started writing this damn list. I realized that if the girl I want to be with doesn't want kids then she probably isn't the one for me.

"Gotta say I'm proud of you man. Well done for taking my pep talk seriously." He says coming up behind me and clapping me on the back.

"Well, actually it wasn't your pep talk that got to me. It was Frankie's. She is one smart girl." I say with a smile.

It was nice to have a real conversation with Frankie last night. It's been so long since I have done that with any girl really.

"Well she is related to me so of course she is smart. We all are." He grins widely and I snicker mockingly back to him.

"What's on for today?" I ask after downing most of my coffee.

"I actually came by to show you something and get your opinion."

"Show me what?"

"This."

Marco stands in front of me with a small ring sized jewellery box in an outstretched hand. I glance at it and then back to him and can't help myself.

"I'm flattered and all but I would much prefer to marry a woman. So my answer is no."

"Ha ha very funny. Take a look and tell me if you think Beth will like it?" He says opening the box and thrusting it toward me.

I look at the sparkling ring and see nothing but a big diamond on a white gold band. I wouldn't know the first thing about what a good ring even looks like. To me, all engagement rings are the same.