My parents and I haven’t spoken in over a month. I told them in no uncertain terms that if they couldn’t deal with me being involved with Brian, I didn’t want to be involved with them. I needed to eliminate the negativity from my life and they are a huge source of it. They blamed him for me taking the money from my trust, which I never really explained what it was for. They just automatically assumed that I gave it to him because he is some sort of con artist, when really the golden boy they loved was.
As for my trust, I donated what was left of it to charity. I never wanted that money and if it hadn’t been for Dan’s debt I would have never touched it. After Dan died, I really neglected the bakery and have been working overtime to try and catch up on everything I had been pushing to the side those couple months. My first task was to check the books to make sure Dan didn’t scam me there as well, thankfully he didn’t. I finally have things back on track there and Brian comes in everyday around lunchtime to visit me.
Brian couldn’t let go of the fact that someone had to have known his dad was alive and never told him. He called his aunt and in the few words she gave him she said that they told her. She figured since his dad never came for him that it made no difference to tell him that he was actually still alive.
I pull up to a two story brick house with a white porch that seems to wrap around the back of the house. I check the text with the address on the house and get out of the car once I realize I’m in the right place. I raise my hand to knock on the door when I see a note.
Come in
I open the door stepping into the house and looking around to see another note hanging from the doorway.
Follow the trail…
On the floor is a line of white roses. They lead into the living room and I see another note on the floor. My heart speeds up realizing the game that Brian has set up. Each note a clue.
I can see us watching TV in here, you yelling at me for hanging a picture crooked, and sitting by the fire to get warm on cold nights.
I smile at the note and notice another trail of roses. I follow them turning the corner and walking into a massive kitchen. On the counter I spy another piece of paper and practically run to it.
This is where I’ll be making you breakfast in bed to show you how special you are to me. And where you will be fixing all of the screw ups I make when I try to cook.
I smile thinking about yesterday morning when I woke up at Lacey’s and Brian was there cooking breakfast for me. There are more roses on the floor leading out to the backyard. There is a stone patio surrounded by a wall that’s about two feet tall. I pick up the note sitting on the ledge.
This is where we will have friends over for barbecues and hopefully in a few years birthday parties.
Birthday parties? Is he hinting at kids? I take a deep breath and follow the next trail which leads back into the house to what looks like it would be the dining room.
This is where I will sit down with you each night and ask you about your day. I want to know every single part of you that I don’t already.
I can’t believe he set all of this up. I rarely see this side of Brian and it is only showing me that I made the right decision last night. I follow the petals up the stairs and see that they disappear behind a door. There is a note taped to the door.
When I open the door there are hundreds of candles lit all along the floor and Brian is standing in the middle of the room. He has on a black button up shirt, dress pants and is holding a single white rose. I walk up to him wrapping my arms around him. After a minute he pushes me away and gets down on one knee. No.
“Julia Fisher, I have loved you since the day that I first saw you. I didn’t know why, or how it was possible, but I did. You are the only person who has ever made me feel like I was good enough. I know that we have had our problems, but no matter what, every time we have found each other again. That to me is a sign that we are meant to be. When I am not with you, a piece of me is missing and I don’t feel complete until you’re near me again. I lived six years of my life feeling lost and alone without you and I don’t want to spend another day like that. I know this is fast and that you probably think I’m crazy but I want you to be mine forever. I promise to cherish you every minute that I am lucky enough to have you. I will make you feel loved every day. I bought this house for us but that’s all it is right now. It needs love to become a home. I love you and will spend forever making you happy if you will have me.”
I look at him completely speechless. My heart is screaming at me to tell him yes, but my head is telling me this is too soon. I just agreed to be with him again and then he does this? That’s when I remember what Lacey said to me before I left this morning when I was talking to her about last night, “If you never jump you’ll never have the chance to fly.”
“Yes.”
He looks at me surprise evident in his face. He opens up the small box in his hand that I didn’t see before and slips it onto my finger. Brian stands up and places a kiss on my lips and his smile is so big that I can feel it against my face.
I pull away from him and look into his eyes. “I love you, Brian Evans.”
Today I have finally made the decision to jump without the fear of falling.
And it feels fucking fantastic.
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