Love Bound/ COMPLETED

Sophia

Sophia Rhodes sat quietly on the drive back to her house. It was another typical date with her longtime boyfriend John Hunter. Dinner and a movie that ended with a night cap at her house or his. Usually nothing new, same restaurant, same action movie or comedy depending. Same ending of every night, him satisfied, her not so much.

Unsatisfied in bed and in their relationship. She had been with John for most of her young adult life. He had been all she knew. First crush, first kiss, first love, and hell she had even lost her virginity to the man. Like all those romance novels, they meet, fell in love and were each other's everything. At first it all seemed so romantic.

Unfortunately, that was only one sided. Truthfully, she had no idea where John stood in their relationship. Even though she loved John, she found herself wondering if she wasted some of those firsts. It seemed as though he was getting board. Although, he would get snappy with her whenever she suggested change, even in the simplest of offers.

Watching her friends love lives surpass her own caused the jealousy monster to rise up in her. Seeing the love, they all have for their men, only reminded her of how absent her and John were becoming. All the new and excitement was gone.

If there was a way to bring their relationship back to where it was six years ago, she was completely lost on how to do so. It saddened her to think that she might not want to bring it back. She wanted to go forward to marriage and children. Although she didn't think that's where John was headed.

"Well..." John sighed as he pulled up in front of her home.

"Well..." She echoed back wondering if she should just call it a night, to avoid another unfulfilled night.

"So, I was talking to my mother." John started as he turned off the car.

"Oh, really? And..."

"She thinks we should get married." He said flatly.

All she did was nod. Emily Hunter had been hearing wedding bells in their future for a while now.

"I think she's right."

Turning suddenly to him she felt her jaw drop. "What? What are you saying?"

"We should get married." He shrugged.

Saying nothing, Sophia sat in shock. This was not how she imagined this day at all. Flowers, some candles, moonlight, hell anything would be better than this.

"So.... What do you think?" He asked turning more toward her.

"I—" think this proposal sucks! "Okay, sure. Why not?" She heard herself mutter.

"Okay. Cool." He smiled. "How about a year from now? A fall wedding was what you and my mom talked about once. And by then hopefully I'll be in good with the owner of my work and making way more money."

She began to nod. Not sure if it was anywhere near convincing, she just sat there nodding. She waited in complete silence as the shock slowly subsided. This could not be happening to her. Out of everything that could have went wrong this was one she hadn't seen coming. Taking in a deep breath she tried to focus on her sudden fiancé. Unfortunately, nothing he said made sense. It was as if he had started speaking in a different language.

This just wasn't what she wanted at all. She wasn't even sure if she could make it to her door. Hell, even if she made it to her door, to her room and into bed, she wasn't so sure she would be able to sleep tonight.

"Are you okay?" John asked sounding truly concerned.

She continued to nod without any understanding of what was really happening.

"What's wrong? Are you going to faint or something?" He wondered with a worried look on his face. "Don't okay? I don't want to make a big deal out of this or anything."

Still nodding like a bobble head, Sophia glanced out the window. Here she was finally getting her answers of where he stood. She had been trying so hard to find this out. Refusing to give in, and cutting corners to keep him happy. None the less, it wasn't enough. She found herself wondering if this was really what she wanted, if being married to John was where she wanted her story to end.

"Sophia!" John called to her. "Stop nodding!"

"Sorry. This is just so sudden. I'm okay. Fall will be great." She smiled with false sincerity.

Giving her a questionable look John smiled back. "Okay, then."

"Great! Just perfect!" She couldn't help think that those just could be her famous last words.