Wining Spirit

It was a chilly March evening; Gemma had just got home from the Salford City Stadium after watching her beloved Salford City Reds beat Catalan Dragons. She couldn't wait the extra ten minutes for her favourite player and her man Theo to walk through the door.

Impatiently waiting on the couch at the other end of the room, she kept her eyes fixed on the door awaiting his arrival. The clock kept ticking, five minutes passed, then ten he should have been home by now she thought. When the door finally opened and he was twenty minutes later than he should have been, she sprung out of her seat and ran towards him, jumping into his arms like there was no tomorrow. This came as such a shock to Theo as he wasn't expecting it that he stumbled back as he caught her, closing the door with a slam as he crashed against it. "You played great tonight baby" she whispered as he gently kissed her on the neck, sending a chill down her spine. "I love you so much" he said in his adorable French accent.

Slowly he let her feet reach the ground and still with his arms wrapped tightly around her and they stared into each other's eyes, with their foreheads pressed lightly against one another's and the tips of their noses just touching. Just breathing each other in. The moment was perfect.

Then from nowhere Gemma's phone started ringing. Her mum's personalised ringtone. Still embracing each other she answered the phone, cautiously.
"Now really isn't a good time mum" she said in a stubborn tone
"I'm just making sure you got home safe" her mum said
At this time Theo was still holding her tight and began to kiss the side of her face, slowly working his way to her neck. She began to giggle.
"What's going on? Is someone else there?" said her mum almost angry. As her family didn't know about her new relationship with the young star.
"No mum, I'm watching Supernatural, you know… The French Mistake episode" she said with a grin
"Oh okay, well I'll let you get back to it"
"Great" said Gemma as she hung up.
"Now where were we?" said Theo as he pushed her towards the couch at the far end of the room.

Gemma couldn't gather her thoughts, all she could think about was him and what she thought was about to happen. She had been waiting all day for it, and she could tell he had too.
Something's wrong she thought as she stared straight at him, something was quite clearly different. He pushed her onto the couch and continued to kiss her all over, moving from her neck back to her lips. Holding his body over her he stopped kissing her and looked straight at her. She placed her hands on his chest as he breathed heavily trying to read what was going on in her mind all the while running the fingers on his left hand through her hair. Then he rolled off the couch and onto the floor, at the same time pulling something out of his pocket.
"I love you and I will always love you" he said opening the box he pulled out of his pocket "will you marry me?"
Unable to function, she couldn't manage to get the words out; all of her dreams were coming true all at once. She was just making faces and stuttering, Theo looked at her thinking he had done something wrong. Then after a moment or two she jumped on him and said "yes, yes of course I will, yes".

Delicately he placed the beautiful clearly very expensive ring on her finger and taking hold of both of her hands, walking backwards, led his new bride to be into the bedroom.