The Perfect Proposal

The base of almost all my stories will be the same as 'New Beginnings'

“Hey, where you at?” he said in his raspy voice. Everytime he called my mind just went blank, I would fumble on the simplest of world and I would totally lose my ability to not be awkward. I guess that’s how you become around a crush, right?

Atleast , that’s what I say to myself to assure me that im still a little bit sane as yet.

“Umm.. at my hotel.. why?” I reply back to him trying to control the high pitch screaming going on in my head right now.

“Can you be ready in 15?” he asked.. “Where are u taking me?” I asked, now feeling flustered at the thought of seeing him, maybe alone.

“this place I wanted to go for a while.” He says, being kind of discreet. “Who all?” I ask.. half of me hoping we’d be alone and the other half hoping that others would be there so that he doesn’t notice every weird thing I do since his entire attention wouldn’t be focused on me.

“Just us two.” He said. All I could hear now was a loud high pitched beep in my head and the very hard and fast thumping of my heart.

“yea I’ll see you in 15.” I kept, disconnecting the phone and just taking a grip of the table to just breathe in and feel a little normal, and once I had caught my breath, my lips began to form a smile at the feeling of a thousand butterflies flying in my tummy, I quickly ran to get ready to look pretty and go to wherever it was that he was taking me, I put on a white dress with small purple lilies on it and put on a little bit of make up.

Just as I was putting on my sandals my phone rang, I was again faced to answer to the raspy voice coming through the speaker of my phone. “Im under. Come quickly.”

He said.. “Im just stepping out. Be there in 2.” I quickly said, disconnecting the phone entering the lift and putting my phone back in my little side bag. I checked the mirror once more to check if everything was in place.

As I was stepping out of the hotel.. a warm breeze of wind flew through my air reminding me of the typical LA summer evenings. And right in front of the sunset, was him, my prince, in his Fisker which played the role of my horse cart. He stepped out as he saw me and smiled his warm side smile.

“You look really pretty.” He said while he was hugging me. I could smell his perfume while in midst of a hug, and it gave me goose bumps. “Thank you.” I said, now blushing. He put his arm around my waist walked me to the passenger door, opened the door for me, sat me in and then closed the door, like a perfect gentlemen making me smile like a perfect idiot. As he sat down next to me, he looked at me, smiled and ignited his engine and we started to drive off into the sunset.

He had rolled his windows down so my hair flew out of my face.. he was wearing his shades that reflected the road in front of him.. “So, where are u taking me?” I said, trying to make conversation.

“Curious much?” he said, smiling and then licking his lips. “Shut up. Tell me where we’re going, for all I know, you could take me to a jungle and feed me to the wild animals.” I said jokingly, and then cursed myself for saying such a stupid thing. What was wrong with me?! “Haha, is that so? You really do not trust me one bit, eh?” he said.. a little sarcastically. “You know I was only kidding right?” I said.. “Ofcourse. Look, it’s a surprise, we’ll be there in 20, and you’ll know then.” He said exchanging looks between me and the road.  “Alright..” I sighed.

He cranked up the radio and “time of my life” from dirty dancing was playing.

And before we knew it, we both were singing the song loudly and in a really low voice to match the pitch of the singer and laughing away… Justin casually put his arm around me. It literally sent shivers down my spine. At this moment, all I felt was happiness. This was the perfect escape.

After a while, he pulled up his car, and parked it. I looked around to see an old light house right in the middle of a field. It was absolutely beautiful because, the plants in the field reflected a kind of a golden color amd the sky was a shade of blue and pink. I was so lost in the beauty of this place that I didn’t even notice when he got out of the car. He opened the door for me and lent out his hand for me to step out. The breeze was pretty strong, but it just kind of went along with the warm weather.

 

After I stepped out of the car, he still didn’t leave my hand, infact he grabbed it a little tighter and pulled me towards the light house, “Come on, I have so much to show you.” He said happily with a huge smile spreading on his face like a kid when he has at an amusement park.

We enter the light house and it seems like a long way up and I don’t want to climb that many steps at any cost.

“Justin, this is way too high.. and it looks old, it might not be able to take both our weights.. I don’t think its safe, lets just go out and enjoy the beautiful scene outside, eh?” I said, making excuses. “You just don’t want to climb up, that’s why you’re making excuses.” He said, instantly catching my lie and teasing me. “Come on. It’ll be worth it, I promise you.” He said smiling extremely wide.

So we start climbing up and Im already running out of breath just 30 seconds into the climbing. Somehow we manage to get to the drop after he had to drag me half way up hear, he took out a key from his pocket and opened a door that all these steps lead upto. And as he opened the door, the light instantly filled up the entire height of the light house and the wind was refreshing after the tiresome journey climbing up here. The light was blinding.. he grabs my hand and we both step outside in the balcony like part of the light house, and see the LA city skyline in the distant horizon. “You were right, it was worth it.” i said as I turned around to him standing extremely close to me, that kind of shocked me a little bit. He just gazed into my eyes, smiling pleasantly. He was being really different today. Not that I was complaining, I loved every minute of this..

A few minutes later he parted his lips to say, “This is my secret escape place. I now know about all the troubles you have back home and some of the troubles you have here, but everytime I come here, my problems seem very little. I can barely see LA’s skyline through all the fog and I cant even see my house. When im here, my problems seem distant. I got you here cause everytime im with you, I feel like im here. You are my escape. I notice all your awkwardness and weirdness around me, but I think every part of you is just adorable. And you’ve gone through enough alone. A lot more than a person should. So im putting a stop here. I don’t want you to go through any of this alone. I know I cant make your troubles go away, but I can promise you that I will be there at every step with you, facing the world together. Like we always said, just you and me. I know this is cheesy but just like how we climbed up this light house together, I want to take every step of my life with you. By now you must’ve already understood, that I really really like you. So, will you please be my girlfriend? And not like one of those flings, a serious one?” he said finally pausing to get an answer from me, looking at me expectantly with his beautiful hazel eyes and biting his lower lip a little bit. And as for me, I didn’t know how to react, weather to laugh or cry.. so I did both.. and as for my answer, I already knew that there was nothing more I wanted than to be with him. “Yes” I managed to gasp. Hearing that he came closer, placed his palm under my ear and on my neck, looked into my eyes and said, “You’re beautiful” then his gaze fell upon my lips and finally ending the distance between us, he kissed me. His lips and mine moved in perfect sync and to be honest, it was a little difficult to maintain balance. We ended our perfect first kiss with a little peck.

“I have another surprise for you. But for that you’ll have to drag your ass all the way down again.” He said teasingly.

“nooo!” I said forming a huge pout on my face.

We finally reached at the bottom of the light house and the sun was gone and it was starting to get a little dark, he lead me to the other side of the light house and in front of me was a little tent with 2 chairs and a table set underneath. “wow..” I began to say.. “Wait for it” he said, pulling out a little remote that had a switch on it and as he pressed the button the tent lit up, it was just beautiful.

“Sit here, il just be back,” he said after making me sit in my chair.

I just sat there, trying to think back to everything that happened, right from the phone call to this moment, I couldn’t help but smile the whole time. My heart was beating so fast that if he had one more surprise, id probably have a stroke. I saw him walking upto me. I noticed that he couldn’t rub off the smile off his face either, he was carrying a picnic basket in his hand. He reached the tent and pulled out an entire meal out of the basket. We sat there and ate until it was pretty late, laughing, staring into each other’s eyes, holding hands and just being happy..

“I think its time to leave” he finally said after we had cleared up the table and after he had put the picnic bag back in the back of his car.

I formed a pout on my face, leaned on his chest and said “already? I don’t want this beautiful day to end though.”

“Baby, I promise you to make u have such beautiful days atleast once a month as long as we’re together.” He said, stroking my cheek and making me blush.

“Thank you. No one has ever even nearly done anything even remotely as awesome as this. This is beautiful.. I just cant thank you enough for the perfect escape.”

I said looking his eyes with my arms wrapped around his neck and his arms wrapped around my waist as we leaned on his car.

“that’s what im here for, you don’t need to thank me.” He said, opening the door of the car for me.

“I can tell this to everyone right? I mean, we’re like official right?” I asked him, cause I couldn’t wait to tell my girls about this.

“well sure. The boys know about this, they helped me set up everything, so I guess you can tell the girls.” He said.. keeping his eyes on the road.

“though I’d appreciate it if you left out the details and only told them that we’re together now, cause the thing is that, I want this evening to be for u and your memories and not for them, its kind of intimate. But if you really want to tell them, then im not stopping you.” He said trying to be cautious with the choice of his words.

“Don’t worry, I’ll keep it simple.” I said winking at him and a big smile grew on his face.

We drove off back to our hassles and troubles and the chaotic city from our peaceful escape, but a little stronger now, since we had each other by our side and as of now, that was more than enough to make me happy.