''Why don't you ask her yourself?''
He turned, looking down the destroyed street and then he saw her.
Rose, his Rose standing there. Her face broke into a wide smile when she saw him and she began running toward him. He stared in disbelief and ran towards her too. It seemed like an eternity since they had last seen each other instead of a year. She reached him and threw herself into his arms. He smiled, and hugged her so tightly that it lifted her off the ground. She was now crying into his shoulder.
''Rose, there's something you need to know,'' he began as she lifted her head off his shoulder.
''And what's that?'' she asked.
''I love you," he said simply. Instead of saying anything to him she pressed her lips to his. A moment later they broke apart and she said, grinning,
''Quite right too.''