Life Revamped

Chapter 24 - Happiness & Flutterings

I can’t believe she said yes!  Alright, well I do believe it because lets face it, she would have said yes had that been the question prior to her departure to sort things with Adam a few months ago.  As a man on bended knee, proposing to the woman he loves, professing his never ending sentiments, I’ll be the first to admit that regardless of knowing the final answer or not, it was nerve-wracking.  I officially found myself one step closer to wedded bliss.

“I don’t think you know how happy you’ve made me.”  I whisper to her as we sat there, on our knees, on a bed of leaves and twigs, holding each other.  Forgetting completely about the ring I held in my hand; no care in the world about the diamond encrusted white gold band that surrounded the large one in the centre; my love had said yes.

“I can’t believe you rehabbed our old fort.”  Amelia told me after she got over the shock of the proposal, the ring, and the reality that was sinking in.  “It looks fantastic!”

“Did you see what I had added to it though?”  I asked her.

“You mean besides the paint?”  She laughed.  I nodded and then grabbed her hand to escort her inside our fort.  If you lay down on your back, you were now staring at a painting of both our names, centered in a heart.

“It’s as best as I can do.  I’m not an artist like you.”  I tell her.

“It’s perfect.”  She says smiling and I couldn’t help but cuddle her to me.

We walked our way back to my parents’ house, taking our time, stealing kisses from one another.  Everyone but Amelia was aware of what I was about to do which meant we had the three most important people in our world, waiting for us back at the house.  I was so ecstatic I could have screamed it to the top of my lungs.  Aiden came running toward us as we came out of the thicket of brush and trees.

“Are you my Mommy yet?”  He asked and I couldn’t help but laugh.  Amelia looked at me and I smiled at her.

“They all knew.”  I whispered in her ear.  She crouched down and pulled Aiden to her and held his hands as he looked into her face.

“I can definitely be your Mommy if you want, Aiden.”  She tells him.

“Daddy, Amelia’s the best Mommy there is, isn’t she?”  He says aloud.

“For you son; definitely; I only keep the best.”  I say and wink at Amelia.  As we approached my parents, Amelia ran to them to show off the ring I had got her.  It was wonderful to see how my parents interacted with her; it was like she had been theirs since we were kids and I knew that it wasn’t too far from the truth.  Then again, Mom knew everything that had happened back then; even the part about how much I had loved her, surely, as a friend but even so, my mother attested that it was all part of the process that had brought us to this very day; this very moment.

My parents had offered to keep Aiden over for the night, just I had suspected.  At Aiden’s request, I had let Amelia put him to bed.

“I want my Mommy to do it.”  He had explained to me.  Never once, had I ever imagined that my son would have the mother figure he deserved and if he did, I had been terrified that he wouldn’t have wanted her.  In Amelia, I had it all.  She is beautiful inside and out, she loves, she nurtures and is patient.  She has a zest for life like no other person that I have met.  I love her simplicity about as much as I love everything that makes her intricate and complex all at the same time.  She’s a wonderful package of delicateness mashed with solidity which I had come to admire; how could she be soft yet strong at the same time?  Her mysteries were what had me amazed and wanting more of her.  Every time I was done solving one of her quirks, a new mystery popped up and asked for me to solve it.