"What did I do this time?" Gerry asked as she turned away and went back to her fridge to top her wine glass up having downed the previous glass.

"You said you loved me." Sandra said simply as if it was obvious what he'd done wrong this time.

"We've been together 6 months, all be it secretly, surely you were expecting me to tell you how I felt at some point?"

"No, that wasn't what we were doing; I can't do it like this. Please can you leave?"

"Sandra…"

"Go."

Those 3 words had a habit of ruining everything when she was happy, they were the beginning of the end and with Gerry she didn't want that. They weren't doing the whole love thing, they were messing around, that way both of them were happy yet somehow those 3 words had managed to slip their way into the equation. Love wasn't something she wanted or needed at this time in her life and she was sure Gerry had known that.

"Fine but I'll prove to you that I'm serious, that I do love you and that together we can conquer the world."

When she got into work she found a flask of her favourite Starbucks drink on her desk as well as a box of homemade samosas that Gerry knew she loved. To her surprise she'd also found a considerable amount of paperwork, which had been sat on her desk for months waiting to be filed, now gone and instead filed neatly in the filing cabinet in her office.

By far the most surprising thing was the addition of a small rose bush on her desk, roses were her favourite flower something which only Gerry knew, it had taken her nearly all day to spot. A white blur among the red flowers caught her eye as she stared at the small bush. The white blur was in fact a note that told her to open the top draw of her desk, she did as she was told but mostly out of curiosity and now a white envelope, with her name scrawled on the front in Gerry's unmistakable handwriting, sat in her hand.

"Sandra,

I know you believe that we're just messing around and that it means nothing but you couldn't be more wrong. I know you think love is the root of all things that have gone wrong in your life but it wasn't love, it was the men who had claimed to have loved you. See with us it couldn't and wouldn't be like that, I'd make sure you felt as loved as you are every single day because what we have here is love and if you're willing to give us a go then I'd show you what real love is and show you that it's nothing to fear.

All my love,

Gerry xxx"

It made her when she lifted her eyes off of the sheet of paper and instead laid them on Gerry, who wasn't there when she'd began reading and hadn't heard come in.

"Well?" He asked.

"Okay then." Sandra smiled.

"You'll give us a go? A proper go? No more messing around?" Gerry asked not quite believing what he was hearing.

"Yes." She said simply but the enormity of what was happening making her heart swell and head spin a little.