BodyGuard (DNF)

Chapter 120: the proposal

Mr Davidson POV.
(20 years ago)

I rubbed my eyes tiredly as I sat up after a long night of working on my business. Every night I'd spend hours working on it, and I had finally made my first major deal recently which was causing the amount of money I had been earning from my part time job look like nothing.

My neck was sore after another night of falling asleep at my desk and I had to roll my shoulders a few times to ease the pain.

With a tired stretch I walked downstairs where my dad was making breakfast and my father was watching the news in the lounge.
"Morning." I said as I ran down the stairs of our small two story flat and swopped a piece of toast off of a plate which was probably for my father's breakfast.

"Morning." Both of my parents replied in near unison.
"How is your business going Richard?" My father asked as he looked away from the TV.
"Good." I replied. "I've made one major deal and hopefully another couple in the next week or so."

Both of my parents nodded in approval as I pulled my flip phone from my pocket. My girlfriend Ashley had been messaging me all morning and last night, asking me why I hadn't seen her in ages.

I let out a sigh, feeling sorry for her. I've spent so long working on my business that I'd ignored her for a while, but I was planning on making it up to her today.

Recently I'd made 5,000 dollars and decided to spend it on her. Ever since I first saw her I'd fallen head over heels in love with her. Now... I wanted to propose.

My dad looked over to me as I typed out a reply. "What are you doing Richard?" He asked as he walked over.
"Just trying to figure out what to do for Ashley..." I replied before trailing off, not taking my eyes away from the text I was typing.
"Ashley... Is that your girlfriend?" He asked as he looked over my shoulder, I just hummed in response.

My dad pulled a chair over next to me and read my text from over my shoulder, "you want to meet up with her... Why?" He asked. My dad was practically fueled on gossip.
"I was hoping to... propose... to her today."

"Really? We haven't even met her yet!" My dad stood up looking somewhat annoyed which just caused me to chuckle slightly as I stood up after finishing my toast.
Suddenly his face changed, "have you even brought her a ring yet?"
"No, I was going to do that now." I responded as I pocketed my phone.

"If you are buying it now then you have to let me come with you, I have better taste then you do."
My dad lead me out of the house and drove me to the mall where I was planning on meeting Ashley.

She wasn't meant to meet me there for another hour and my dad marched me to a jewellers. He wouldn't let me buy anything until I showed him and eventually he gave up on my ring-picking skills and picked his own.

It was small and silver with a diamond sitting in the middle with smaller gems lining the silver metal band. He handed it to me and sent me up to the counter where I purchased it for just over than 4,500 dollars.

The ring was put in my pocket and when my dad saw how money I had left he sent me off to buy some expensive flowers and chocolate which I did.

Once I did as my dad asked he finally left and I walked around the mall until I saw Ashley waiting at the cafe where we had had our first date. I walked over to her and stood in front of the seat opposite her, "hey there, hope you weren't waiting too long."

"No, I just got here." She smiled as she stood up and hugged me as I have her a kiss on the cheek.
I remembered the gifts in my hand and passed them to her, "these are for you," I smiled as I handed them to her.
"Thank you," she smiled as she smelled the sweet scent from the flowers.

Ashley gave me another brief kiss on the lips before we both sat down. She gave me a weary look and I immediately saddened inside at her expression.
"What's wrong?" I asked Ashley, taking her hand in mine as I met her eyes.

She shook her head as a tear started to roll down her check. "My parents want me to move to Australia with them, we're meant to be leaving a week from now and..." Ashley trailed off.
"Is there any way that they'll let you stay?" I asked.

Ashley shrugged, "only if I'm married apparently, that's what my mother and father said."
Well we could be. I bit my lip, wanting to do something special instead of just saying it here at a cafe table in the middle of a mall.

Before I could say anything Ashley looked up at me, "could we get some photos in the photobooth... One last time just so we can... I don't know..." She trailed off again and I nodded quickly.

We walked hand in hand over to the photobooth at the other end of the food court, I offered to pay but she insisted that she would. I sat inside the booth and pulled the box with the ring from my pocket and pulled the ring out.

It sat on the palm of my hand which I balled up into a fist so that Ashley wouldn't see the moment she stepped inside. She came into the booth and sat down beside me and we looked at the camera smiling, a light flashed signalling the photo had been taken and she turned to meet my eyes as the light flashed again.

Just before the third flash I flattened my hand and revealed the ring sitting in my palm. Ashley glanced down but her eyes were caught on the silver object as they widened. She looked back up at me, "Richard... Is this for real?" She asked, more camera flashes kept happening but we ignored them as I nodded.

After a moment of her just staring at the piece of jewelry in disbelief she nodded, then threw her arms around my shoulders. "Yes! Yes! A million times Yes!" She said excitedly as I kissed the side of her face.

We stayed in the booth for a few minutes longer before deciding to leave. I walked out of the mall smiling as my hand held my fiance's.

Mr Davidson POV.
(Present day)

Clay listened intently to the entire story before smiling at the end of my story.
"That's one way to do it," the blond smiled, "but I'm not sure if that's the way George and I should do it."

I gave a hum, "well then I guess we should start brainstorming."
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This chapter is a bit longer than usual.
1918 words.

Anyways, I asked discord for 'how are some unique ways that I could do a proposal' and you people on there all thought I was talking about Dream and George and said things along the lines of:

Shower sex

Bathtub

Normal sex

At the edge of a cliff (so George can reject Dream and push him off).

My mum's house

Under a table

In a toilet

I gave up somepoint after that.

Bitch ⬆️this⬆️ brought the word count up to 2000 and I just ruined it by adding this on at the end.