The Powers I Possess Are Fatal

Chapter 9

It must have been an hour or more before James actually came upstairs to talk to me and within that time I had chance to prepare myself for the worst possible outcome and to be honest that was that he didn't want to spend time with me or something had happened with the darkness. James grabbed my hands as he came and sat on the bed beside me and that pulled me out of my revere. He looked over confident and smug and that always made me fear the worse but when he bend down to pull something out from under his bed I didn't expect him to have a wrapped present in his hands. He then went on to explain to me why he went out on his bike 'I went out on my bike Lily because I needed to pick this up. You see I love you so much that I want to make it permanent and I want us to be together forever.  I know you said you didn't want to get married this young so I thought I would do something to show you that this is serious and that one day we will get married and that I will stand by your side when we, not you, fight the darkness.' 

I looked at him gob smacked, with tears in my eyes. I wasn't sure if I wanted to open the gift now or to wait. I mean he wouldn't get me a ring if he knew I didn't want us to get married or engaged this young. I mean he said he's not proposing but what else could possibly be inside this box, its the bloody size of a ring box. 

I took a deep breath and then started to unwrap the gift. Once I had unwrapped the box I opened it and it was a ring. Oh my god, I could already feel the panic attack rising inside me. 

 A beautiful diamond that was on a white gold band. I mean it was gorgeous but it got me panicking as this was the sort of ring you would give someone if you wanted to get engaged. James took the ring and the box out of my hands and said 'It's not what you think okay. I love you and I want to give you this ring as a token and reminder of how much I love you. I also want to give it to you as a promise that in your darkest hours I will be there and that one day in the far future I will present you with another ring and then I will ask you to marry me. But for now this ring is a promise.' I didn't know what to say, I mean I am 100% sure that I will marry James one day but really a promise ring. I wanted to say yes but I need to really think about this. It is responsible to commit to something this serious when I have to fight the darkness and Violate would go mad at me and probably stop me from seeing him.

After looking back up at James's sad broken face I knew I needed to talk to him and let him understand my concerns. 'Babe, I love you, you know that and I want to say yes I really do but can I really be that selfish. Make a promise to you when I have to protect everyone from the oncoming darkness.'

James: Lily, you need to have a life you cannot live every day for the thousands of other people on this planet. You need to be happy and I think this would make you happier than you already are with me. I think that it will have a positive effect on you not a negative, selfish effect.

Me: I love you, James and as long as you promise to love me every day from this moment forward. Then I say yes.

He slides the ring onto my wedding finger and that was it the promise had been made and I had the love of my life. Now all I had to do was explain it to Jeremy and anyone else who asked as they would all assume that we were engaged. I decided to stay the night as I wanted James to help me practice some magic as I had let it slide since Violate gave me the time off. We did some protection spells, invisibility auras and some defense against the dark arts. It was 4 in the morning when we finished and finally made our way back upstairs to sleep.

It must have been about mid-day by the time we woke up. I was asleep by the window and James was in his bed. He did say I could sleep in it with him but I said that if I did we both know how the night would have ended up and he had been drinking so not very romantic. When I finally got up and saw the time I ran into the closet to get dressed as I needed to get ready to meet Violate.