Kris stayed with Sara and I for the weekend. It was great. Okay fine it was okay. We kept bickering like we used to. Sara would get so annoyed with us that she would actually pull me by the hair to my room. She'd either walk out and leave me there or she'd stay in there with me. If you know what I mean. Kris was being such a suck up. She made breakfast the two mornings she was here and cleaned up before Sara or I could even offer to help. What a kiss ass. After breakfast though, all of us went to the little park to play basketball. Callie met us there. Sara and I kicked their asses. We still made the perfect team. It was awesome. Callie and Kris were playing good together but they were no match for me and my baby. After Kris went home Sara and I sat down and talked about everything. We talked about Kris, we talked about everything we've been through. We talked about our future. Our plans after college and all that nonsense. The future still terrifies me and I don't like to talk about it, but with Sara by my side it's not as scary.
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It's been two months since everything happened with Kris. It's already May. Basketball season ended last month. We had a great season. We only lost 3 games the entire season, which is pretty amazing. I made all A's in all my classes and so is Sara. We'd been spending literal hours at Starbucks studying and trying to get the words in the book in our brains. We took our finals last week and we got the results that next Monday. Ever since I had that night with Sara where we talked about everything I just can't stop thinking about it. I don't want to ever love anyone else the way I love Sara. Right now, we're laying in her bed. She fell asleep about an hour ago after we had some fun. I still don't sleep much but I more content with us just lying in bed. I love having her in my arms. I loved to just hear her breathing. It was soft and constant. She was so warm. I looked down at her and just stared. I loved the way her eyes would flutter every so often. I loved the way her hair always looked perfectly messy and perfectly waved. After everything we've been through, everything I've put her through, everything I've said, I will always love her. I never thought I would love anyone the way I loved Kris, then Sara came along. I didn't know what I had and I almost lost her. Even when I did have her and I knew exactly how much I needed her I still almost lost her. I don't ever want to feel that again. I want to make her mine. Not just for now, or to see how long it lasts, I want her to be mine forever.
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God I'm so nervous. I haven't felt this nervous since I was standing in the middle of the school gym like an idiot with a giant ass sign asking Sara to go to prom with me. That was terrifying, but it's nothing compared to this. The entire apartment is littered with candles. I'm hoping to god that they don't set the whole place on fire. Well if it goes well, if it goes to hell might as well burn it down. Maybe I am crazy. Oh well. Callie was the one who helped me set up the apartment. We got a shit ton of roses and threw the petals all over the ground. I even went to Walmart and bought a bunch Christmas lights, the white ones, and hung them up all around the apartment. Nearly broke my neck trying to hang the lights, burned the shit out of my hand trying to do all the candles, but it looks amazing. I was having so much trouble deciding what to wear. Callie kept joking that I should wear a suit. I'm not a dyke. No offense to the girls who would wear a suit but I'm not going to. I'm also not wearing a dress. I decided to go out and buy an outfit, I had already dished out a shit ton already so might as well. I'm in white jeans with a black sort of tank that's a crop top with a red flannel around my waist. It's not glamorous but it's me and I feel comfortable. I even curled my hair. I never do that. God I'm so nervous that I can't breathe. I'm waiting for the text from Alex telling me that they're coming up the stairs. I told Sara that I'm cramping and that she should just go spend the day with Alex. She wanted to stay with me but I told her that she should go. Alex knew what I was planning, so she kept Sara out of the house all day. I'm looking around the apartment and it's all just perfect. I have the ring in my pocket. It's not anything special. It's just from James Avery but it does have a stone on it, so it cost me like 300 dollars. I can feel my hands shaking with nervous excitement. I'm pacing back and forth in the apartment just waiting. It's already like 7 at night. Right as I was moving the candles around I heard my phone ring. I ran to the counter where my phone was and checked to see who it was. It was Alex.
On our way up. When I heard the door, my heart started to beat so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I ran back to the middle of the living room and had the ball at my feet. As the door opened I could hear Sara saying
"Are you sure you don't want to come in?" When she turned around she looked absolutely beautiful. She was just in jeans and this off the shoulder shirt but she looked perfect. She turned around to look at Alex, but all she did was give Sara a smile and then close the door. Sara turned around and looked at me.
"Avery? What is all this?" Her voice was soft and sweet. I couldn't say anything yet. I just smiled at her.
"Avery?" She walked over to me. I used my foot to kick the ball up to my hands. I then put it behind my back.
"Sara, I'm not good with words. I feel like I never know the right thing to say but I'm going to do my best here." Sara's eyes were already starting to water.
"Sara you are my best friend. You're the only person who can make me laugh when all I want to do is wallow in self-pity. I want to spend all of my time with you. I want to make you happy every second of every day. I want you to laugh at my stupid jokes even when you don't think they're funny because when you laugh the whole world lights up just for a little while. I want to spend the rest of my life making you laugh." At this I got down on one knee, just like a guy would do, and I held up the basketball. On it had written "Will You Marry Me Some Day?" My heart stopped beating. Sara was crying by now and she had her hands over her mouth.
"I know we still have a lot to figure out, but someday, will you marry me?" She moved her hands and smiled at me. She started to nod her head.
"I need a real answer."
"Yes. Yes Avery, yes. I will marry you." She grabbed the ball out of my hand and looked at it. She was still looking at the ball crying when I pulled out the ring.
"Sara..." When she looked down at me and saw the ring the ball dropped out of her hands and bounced off to who knows where.
"Can I have your hand?" She smiled with tears falling down her cheeks. She extended her left hand to me. I slid the ring onto her finger. I stood up and put my hands on either side of her face.
"Sara, I promise you that I will love you through every up and down we have. I promise that I will do absolutely anything to make you happy. I love you."
"Kiss me already." I smiled and brought her lips closer to mine. As she kissed me I felt like for the first time in a really long time that I finally had done something right. Something very, very right. I pulled back and rested my forehead on hers.
"Avery, I promise I will do my very best every day to be the best wife I can. I'll never stop trying to make you happy. I will be your best friend every day, and I promise you I will love you for the rest of my life." I kissed her lips again but this time I dipped her down the way they do in movies.
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Sara and I have been through hell and back. We've been through enough to make a whole movie, but right there. In that moment I knew that it wasn't the end of a chapter. It wasn't the end of the book. It was only the beginning. We have been through so much yet, I knew right then that this was the beginning of our lives together. I am going to spend the rest of my life with this girl.
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Love The Game: Overtime
RomanceAvery and Sara were high school sweethearts. Now they're in college trying to figure out life, school work, friends, themselves. After everything they've been through, college should be easy. But will it?
