Luca's POV
Once I get Val into the car, I drive to a beach. It's about an hour away, but it's worth the drive. The entire time I'm driving though I see a very confused Val staring at me. I smile every time we make eye contact. Finally, she gets fed up.
"What's going on Luca?" I smile at her once more. "You trust me right?"
"Yeah but I hate surprises, is this going to hurt me?" I only laugh. I bet she's going to like this surprise.
"Then just trust me, I promise you'll like this surprise." She just smiles at me, but it's a very fake one. I can tell that I've made her mad, which makes me laugh.
"Stop laughing at me!" I only laugh harder in response. She playfully hits my arm, and I start to calm down. She sighs and looks back out the window. I start humming to the song on the radio.
Val looks at me and smiles. She turns the radio up. We both start singing at the top of our lungs.
"Oh please say to me, you'll let me be your man. And please say to me, you'll let me hold your hannnnnnnd, Now, let me hold your hand. I want to hold your hand, and when I touch you. I feel happy inside, it's such a feelin' that my love, I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide, Yeah, you got that somethin'. I think you'll understand. When I say that somethin', I want to hold your hand. I want to hold your hand. I want to hold your hannnd,"
We both start laughing a lot. I can't help falling in love with her even more. "I can't believe you know the Beatles." She says. I smile. "I can't believe you know the Beatles." We both laugh again. "God. We're in love with each other and still learning new things about each other." She says. I smile. "And that's what makes us perfect together," I say quietly. She beams a huge smile up at me.
We finally arrive at the beach. "Here, takes your shoes off so you don't get sand in them," I say. She takes her sneakers off, and I take mine off. We walk hand in hand down the shore. Letting the water lightly get our feet wet. We walk silently, enjoying each other's presence. Engulfing the silence. Occasionally she looks at me smiling. And it's truly a genuine smile. I love it. I smile back at her.
After walking for about twenty-four minutes, she stops dead in her tracks. I was looking off into the ocean so I didn't see her stop. I almost fell on my face.
"What's wrong Val?" I ask. She points in front of her. There's a couple getting married. Right on the beach. A small wedding as well. I see as Val is staring longingly at the wedding. "I promise you a beautiful wedding beach love," I say to her. Her face lights up and she looks at me. "Really?" She says. I laugh at her cuteness. "Yes really. If it's what you want then we'll do it." She squeals a little bit. We both turn around and start walking back to the car.
But not before I did this one thing. I stop her. And look her in the eyes. "Please hear me out?" I say, she looks at me worryingly but smiles and nods. "Good. Okay."
Val's POV
Once we stop and he asks me to hear him out, I'm weary, but I nod. I can tell whatever he was going to say was serious because he was nervous. He'd been fidgeting after the invasion incident.
"Valentina. You're my princess. My rock. Ever since the first day we met, you're the reason I've been able to stay strong and keep moving on." My breath hitches. What's going on?
"Even after every stupid argument, we come back to each other. Stronger than before. And I know that no matter what happens, I'm always always always going to want you by my side. Whatever I'm going through, I want you there. Whatever you're going through, I'll be there for you. I promise you. I love you so fucking much princess. But I want to make you my queen." After he said that he pulls out a small velvet box.
I step back because I knew what was about to happen. He gets on one knee. The tears just start on their own. "Valentina Rosa Moretti, will you do me the honors of marrying me, and making me the happiest man on earth. Literally." I laugh through the tears but run into his arms. "Yes. Oh my god, a million times yes. I love you so fucking much Luca."
And as I hug him, the few people that were enjoying the sunset, start clapping and whistling for us. Making me blush and feel even happier inside. He lifts me up bridal style and carries me back to the car. I lay in the comfort of his arms, happier then I've ever been before.
What made this so much better was he proposed on his own. We haven't even talked about getting married, yet all on his own he decided to do this. It made me so freaking happy. Happier then words could explain. He sets me down in the front seat and gets in his seat. He drives me to my favorite sushi place. I was pretty excited. We sit down, and because I come here a lot the staff know me.
"Hey, Valentina!" Two guys say. "Hey, Riccardo and Adriano." Luca looks at me suspiciously. "How have you been?" They both reply "Good." I laugh because they say it at the same time. "How have you been?" They ask, I feel Luca's arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him. Heh, he's jealous. "I'm good, look!" I say putting my hand out towards them and showing them the ring. "Oh my god! Finally, I'm happy for you Val, we got to get back to work talk to you later." They say smiling. "Bye!" I say smiling.
Luca's grip loosened. "Okay, what's your deal big dude?" He laughs. "Those guys were so eyeing you." He says. My eyes widen, "Really?" He laughs again. "You're so naive." He says.
"Or maybe they were looking at my stomach and realized I'm not some shy weak girl anymore," I say smirking. He smiles back. "You were never weak love. Shy yes, weak never." I blush because he's making me feel better about myself as usual. I lean into his shoulder, "I love you." And I wait until the waiter comes to the table.
"Hey Val, the usual?" She asks, I nod. "And for you sir?" She asks, nodding towards Luca. "Whatever she's having." I smile at him. The waiter walks away. "Do you even know what I'm getting?" I ask amused. "Nope, but I'm sure I'll like it." He says. I laugh. The food comes, and my most favorite employee is serving it. "Hey bitch how are you?" She asks. I excitedly get out of my seat and jump up and hug her. "Zahra! Hey! I missed you!" I say back, she sets the food down and then grabs my hand. "Sheesh, girl. These diamonds are expensive. You got lucky." I blush because I'm sure Luca can hear this all. I look at her again. "That's not all," I say pointing to my stomach. She squeals. Everyone around us gives us dirty looks. Whoops. "Oh my god, you're growing up so fast." She laughs.
"Babe, I'm nineteen, I am an adult." She smiles at me. "Yea well I'm twenty-one and I still act like a child. So I'm proud of you." I laugh but hug her. She then adverts her attention to Luca.
She whispers to me. "Is this hunk of meat your fiancé." I get super red, but then calm down because there's nothing to be embarrassed about. He is my fiancé. And he's smoking hot. "Yes, Zahra meet Luca, Luca meet Zahra," I say, they shake hands. "Nice job V." She says to me. I can't help but to laugh. "I got to get back to work, I'll text you later!" She says walking into the kitchen. I smile and sit back down next to Luca and start to eat my food.
"She's obnoxious." I laugh. "She is, but I love her." He laughs as well. He grabs the sushi roll with his hands and just stuffs it in his mouth. My jaw drops. He looks at me like I'm stupid. "What?"
"You just ate that without chopsticks. And in a very non-classy way. I thought you were too fancy for this type stuff." I say teasing him. "Oh." He says. I laugh a little harder. I show him how to use chopsticks and it takes him like ten minutes, but he finally gets it. And boy do I wish I could've gotten it on video. He was so fucking cute the entire time. And every time he failed, he got frustrated which was so funny.
Anyways we both ate laughing at each other, and when the check came, so did a slice of cake. "Congratulations you too," Zahra says winking. "Aw thank you," I say she smiles, then I look at Luca. He's already eyeing the cake. "You can have it, Luca," I say laughing. He smiles and eats it all.
"Damn boy." We laugh together. He pays the check, and we go home. I go to bed early tonight because I definitely ate too much. I mean what can I say? I'm eating for three. As I lay in bed, Luca gets in the shower. I start looking at my ring. Falling in love with it. As I look at it more closely, I see how expensive it really looks. I start feeling bad because he didn't need to spend a lot on it.
I would've been fine with a cheap ass ring. I'm very grateful for this ring though. I was going to show him how grateful I was tonight. If you catch my drift. Hehe. I wasn't tired as I was before. Luca came out shirtless and had grey sweatpants on. Hanging pretty low on his hips. I eye him up and down and he must've noticed because he was hovering over me. Looking at me hungrily.
"How can you even look at me like that. I look like a very fat elephant." It takes him a few seconds to realize what I said. Then he looks at me disgusted. "How could you even ask me that?" I just shrug. He sighs. "Princess, yes you're very attractive, but that's not the only reason why I fell in love with you. I fell in love with your soul. Your voice, eyes, personality, and your heart. You could be pregnant for the rest of your life, and I'd still look at you like I did the first time I met you."
"Aw. Luca." I start crying. Why was I crying? He spoke to me like this all the time. Then I remember, I was pregnant. "Stupid hormones," I say through laughs. He laughs with me. "I love you so much, Luca. You have no idea." He smiles. Then the hungry look was back in his eyes. I was just as hungry though. This was going to be fun.
After about three hours, we realize that the bed was broken. "No fucking way." He says. Breathless, and laying on his back. "That was definitely a first." I could not stop laughing. I was laughing so hard to the point it was silent. There were tears coming out because I was laughing so hard. Luca looks at me. I probably looked like a psychopath. He props himself up on his elbows and looks at me. "You're weird." He says. "But you love me."
"That I do." He kisses my forehead, then wraps himself around me. I fall asleep right away. I know Luca was tired but something was on his mind. I promised myself I'd ask him in the morning.
authors comments:
So if you actually like my story, I hope this is something you were waiting for because like I'm glad they're getting married, and now I'm like so close to finishing this story and I'm so sad. but its okay.
I'll be wrapping a lot up in the next four or so chapters, but I'll add an epilogue of like ten to fifteen years later.
I love you.