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As soon as he saw me, his eyes lit up. Throwing the door open, he stepped inside.

“Lou!” he bellowed from across the room. His teammates lined up behind him.

“Sey, what’s happening?”

Sey looked back at the guys. When he did, they started singing.

“Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can’t help falling in love with you.”

As the guys continued what had to be the sorriest rendition of one of my favorite songs, Sey crossed the room to me. Overwhelmed, I looked at my parents. Both were looking down and away. They wanted no part of what was going on and they weren’t hiding it.

I didn’t care. Whatever was happening was the most romantic thing anyone had ever done for me and I wasn’t going to let them ruin it.

“Lou, I know we haven’t known each other very long. But when you meet the person you know you want to spend the rest of your life with, you know. And if you do, what’s the point in waiting?”

“Wait what?” I said both horrified and delighted.

“Like a river flows, surely to the sea, darling, so it goes, some things are meant to be.”

“Lou, what I’m saying is that we might have just met, but I know you. I’ve known you my entire life because you were the dream I prayed every night would come true. So…” he said getting down onto one knee in front of me and pulling a ring out of his pocket.

“Oh my God!” I gasped.

“Louis Armoury, will you marry me?”

My head spun. Was this real? It had to be. I would never put such horrible singers in one of my fantasies.

Could I do it? Should I do it? We had only just met. But, as he said, when you know, you know. And I have never had anyone treat me like he has. Never.

“Yes,” I said. “Yes, I’ll marry you,” I told him with tears rolling down my cheek.

“You will?” he said as happy as I was.

“I will,” I repeated knowing it was the best decision I had ever made.

He took my hand and slid the ring onto my finger. It was a little big but that was okay. We could fix it. We were in love and love could fix anything.

He got off of his knee and kissed me. It was my first kiss as an engaged man. It was wonderful. I had never been happier in my life.

With Sey’s arms around me, I turned to my parents. They still hadn’t looked at Sey. They hadn’t moved their eyes from the floor. Was it that they couldn’t stand to be wrong? They had said that no one would ever love me, but this was the proof that they had been wrong.

A man loved me so much that he had asked me to marry him after two dates. Didn’t that say every there was to say about me? I was lovable. I was worth someone’s time.

“Well? Aren’t you going to say anything?” I asked needing to hear their defeat.

It was then that my mother looked up at me. Her eyes locked on mine.

“Your grandmother Agatha died. Her funeral was yesterday. There will be a reading of her will. We expect you there and try not to be late,” she said before both of them got up and walked out.

I watched them stunned. I couldn’t speak or move. I had to have heard them wrong. Or maybe it was a joke.

“Grandma Aggie is dead,” I heard someone say.

I was the one who said it. It was meant to be a question for the two people who were leaving taking my grip on reality with them. But they couldn’t hear me. I could barely hear myself. And as they left the shop and crossed in front of the window, they brushed past another familiar face. That person was holding a bouquet.

“Titus,” I whispered before his devastated eyes turned towards me, and he ran past the window and out of sight.

Chapter 2