Inked In Love

Epilogue

1 year later

Every morning I do the same thing. In my apartment that I share with Theo I get ready in the vanity and stare at the black box.

Inside is the most beautiful ring, it wasn't the usual diamond ring but rather a ring that took a lot of thought. It makes it more difficult to see it sitting in that box.

After a year of dating and working together.
Theo proposed to me on Friday night after he cooked me a traditional Japanese candlelit meal and I wasn't able to give him an answer. I was speechless, I didn't know if saying yes was the right answer with how young I was and how early on our relationship we were.

Theo seemed to be fine with giving me time but somehow he's decided to disappear for the last few days making this much more harder.

I walked out of the room and headed downstairs. Hero which was our Labrador was sniffing around the kitchen, around the cupboards where he has seen both me and Theo get his food from.

" you hungry buddy, let's eat then" I said pulling out his food and filling up how bowl. 2 months after the competition we adopted a rescue puppy. Originally his name was going to be something else but Dillan ended up changing his name to Hero after his barking helped save a young boys life in the pool once. It was the perfect fit and I loved the name regardless.

After sorting him out I grabbed some sour bread from the fridge and started to fry up eggs. Tina liked to get to the pool earlier and I decided to not come in so early. When Theo is here we like to have breakfast together before going there.

He gets grumpy with me when I wake up late or try to rush out of the door.

I grab my gym bag and head to the car. Hero jumps in and sits on the backseat, excited for his day. Turns out the guys like to have hero around when they train so we bring him along with us. I like that I don't have to leave him at home every day.

The second I pulled into the car park I noticed students scattered around the cars talking or throwing balls or even racing. Ever since the success of the swimming and football team last year the enrolment in the academy has increased with Ryan adding more learning courses as well.

" what's up coach, hey Hero boy" Jacob said walking up, he had his laptop tucked into his side and his other hand holding Jenny's.

" still not back yet?" Jenny asked referring to Theo.

I gave her a tight smile. " not yet, but I'm sure any day now" He's called me a few times but he won't tell me the day he will be back. But I can't exactly blame him. If it was me I wouldn't want to be around if I was still waiting for an answer.

" don't understand why you can't just say yes if I'm honest." Kyle said running up to us.

Bryony who wasn't far away walked over and slapped his arm. " you can't just say that kyle, have some manners " kyle simply rolled his eyes.

" So where's Scott, wasn't he back on Friday?" I asked them. Scott decided to spend 2 weeks at a summer camp so it's been rather quiet recently.

Which has been lovely.

" yeah but he got smashed last night so don't expect him to be on time" Bryony laughed.

Well that doesn't surprise me. I turned to start heading in when we all heard a seriously loud car. I watched the familiar car sharply turn into the car park and drive through the middle until stopping a few spaces away.

" well fuck me, he actually made it" Kyle says amazed.

I watch Scott stumble out of the car. His hand braced on the top of his car as his body catches up with him.