Our Ever After?

What do you Say?

Jamie

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I love her.

That's what I tell my rich buddies when we go out for drinks. I love her, scars and drama. That when you love someone that much and deeply trivial things like that don't matter.  They don't understand, I've known love like Skyler and I's, and I can't wait for them to be caught in the whirlwind adventure of true love. And yes Skyler does m=punch me whenever I say "true love."

It's been a year of happiness, firsts, fights, and learning to grow together since my accident. It hasn't been perfect but it's us, and to me, that will always be perfect. After I got home the hospital, Skyler never really left, for a while, it was separation anxiety, but then it was just home for us.  I didn't get to give her the romantic gesture of a first date or moving in together; I was determined to provide her with the perfect propose, for us.

Skyler

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Stories always give the perfect happily ever after; The guy saves the girl, and they live happily ever after, nothing ever goes wrong. I love Jamie with all my heart but we aren't perfect, we've already been through too much together to pretend, the honeymoon phase, and we had our struggles, everyone does finding their footing with another person.  We moved really fast in the beginning, I may have camped out at his apartment until he called it ours, but we relaxed figured what we felt was true, not a reaction to how we were thrown together. I love him with all my heart. He's been promising me a vacation, brings it up every time I start to feel trapped. I don't regret retiring; I don't miss the fighting. Even when Jamie and I fight, it's nothing like what I grew up with or a war.  We fight until we can resolve it, we don't storm out or go to bed mad.

I love him, but I have no idea what he's been up to the last two weeks. In the year we've been together I could count the number of times I've woken up alone on my fingers, half of those have been this month. I don't know what's been causing him to be so busy suddenly; we haven't fought about anything significant in months. I've to talk to John, but he's been super busy lately. In times like this, I wish I had someone all my own to turn to talk to them about. Shaking off the weird feeling, I get up and go about my usual morning. I go into the kitchen to start breakfast when a small noise from the living catches my attention.

Not having any idea of what could be in the living room, I slowly approach ready for anything but what I find: a little black and white kitten sitting on my coffee table. I look around the room, and Jamie is nowhere in sight, I approach the cutest kitten slowly not to scare them.

"Hi kitty, how did you get here?" I gently ask it as I reach out to let them sniff. With no hesitation, the kitten rubs against my hand, purring. I take this as a sign to pet them, as they look up at me I see something around his neck, ribbon. Upon kneeling next to the coffee table as the kitten goes closer to me something drops done to the front of his chest, a ring. Sitting here in shock with a purring kitten on my lap, holding an engagement ring, I jump when I hear Jamie behind me.

"Well, baby girl. Is that a yes?" he whispers in my ear. I jump up, quickly setting the kitten down, I throw myself into his arms, "A thousand times yes," with that I kiss the hell out of him.

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"I can't believe you got me a cat; I thought you weren't  a pet person?" I ask him later that morning, cuddled up in bed with our new kitten cuddled between us.

"I knew you were and the second you said you wanted a kitten, I knew that's how I would propose." He quietly says, between kissing my face. Giggling, I pull back slightly, "Jamie, and I said that months ago," I say in shock.

"I've known for a while. If Gabe hadn't warned me to stay away from you, I probably would have said something like that's the one when I saw you" Jamie tells me, full of confidence, with such dedication and love, that I can't help but believe wholeheartedly.

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When we finally make it out of bed, it's early evening, when his parents call, dying to know if I said yes. It's not until then does Jamie tell me that he asked Gabe's permission to ask me to marry him since Gabe is more protective of me than my blood relatives. Of course, after hearing this, I demand we go to the club to tell Gabe and John that we are in fact engaged! I know John will be so excited to help me plan the perfect, simple wedding. As well as the fact that Jamie promised we would play after we tell them the good news.

In no time we arrive at the club, and I have to take a moment as taking in how much my life has changed in a year.  Almost a year ago to the date, I showed up here hurt and lost with no family or future.  Today I arrive with my brand new fiancee ready to tell my family the good news, with our whole future ahead of us.  Stepping closer to Jamie, he wraps his arm around my shoulders pulling me against him as we enter the club. We quickly decided that they aren't out on the floor yet and head back to the office. We don't bother knocking since we are here all the time. Jamie opens the door, and I enter the office first, I stop in shock of the sight in front of me. Jamie, not looking up bumps right into me, looking up to see why he also gasps.

"What the hell is going on!?!" he yells once he finds his voice again. John is sitting on the couch, but Gabe is not the person he is kissing. Let's just say it took a while to circle back to the reason why we stopped by unexpectedly today.

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Author note:

Hi everybody! I know I haven't been doing author notes but I just wanted to say thank you for sticking with the story! This is it! Skyler and Jamie got their happily ever after (Sorry to those who thought I was going to kill him.) Anyway, Thank you for reading and I hope you loved this story and character as much as I did! Keep an eye out for book two!