Tom and Silke have been together for more than five years now. They moved to Manchester three years ago and got their own apartment. Tom works as a athlete trainer and Silke because an English teacher in Manchester University.
Sometime back Silke found out that Tom did not believe in marriage. He called it useless. This was bugging Silke because she came from a very religious family and if her parents came to know about this they wouldn't be happy. Silke didn't know how to explain this to Tom. He had a very strong will power.
Today she decided that she better talk to him about it. It was now or never. It was around 7 pm when Tom came home extremely happy. He had a pizza in his hand for dinner. Silke thought she would not get a better opportunity to talk to him.
"Tom, can we talk?" she said, her voice a bit shaky.
"What's up Silke?" he asked with worry in his eyes.
He thought that she was going to break up with him.
"You know how you told me you don't believe in marriage?" she said.
Tom nodded his head.
"Well that could be a problem. You see my family is VERY religious and if they find out you don't want to get married they are going to tell us to break up," Silke said.
Tom laughed and said, "Then we'll have to explain to them that we don't want to get married"
Silke stared at him. She never said that she didn't want to get married. She wanted to.
"Tom I want to get married," she bluntly stated.
Tom looked at her in shock.
"WHAT??" he said, "Since when did you want to get married?"
"Since forever. If you didn't know it's every girl's dream to get married to the love of her life one day," Silke stated with a matter-of-fact tone.
Tom's face was filled with guilt.
"Why didn't you say anything before?" he said.
Silke sighed, "I didn't know how to. You made it clear that you want nothing to do with marriage."
Tom took her hands in his and kissed it, "I can change my mind for you. If you want to get married we will. I just want to see you happy."
And sure enough on 21st May 2020 they got married.
