The light changed and Daryl slammed the accelerator of his truck.

He was late. Really late. Shit!

He should have left his home at one in the afternoon so he could be there at two like she wanted him to. Like the idiot that he was though, he lost track of time during a hunting trip he promised was going to be "short."

He ended up leaving at 1:30. He debated on whether or not he should clean up but he knew that his girlfriend would kill him if he showed up to her college graduation late, bathed in blood, with mud on his shoes, and ripped jeans.

To make matters even worse, as he arrived to the pavilion her graduation was being held in, was that traffic was a state, and finding parking was going to be terrible. It seemed like the parking garage designated for the graduation was full as everyone and their mothers came to this year's graduation. Honestly he can't remember his and Shawn's graduation being this bad. Perhaps the fact that he didn't care much about the ceremony (he wasn't even going to receive his diploma then, it was going to be mailed) made him careless about the logistics of it all. However this was Beth's graduation. This graduation mattered more. It just did, and he needed to find some damn parking.

Beth studied and fought hard to get her Master's degree in Education. She stayed up late to study, and made him quiz her in ungodly hours of the night. She fought hard to be the best and here he was being late, as if all she did didn't matter to him.

In reality it mattered to him. A lot. All he wanted was for her to be happy, to have her dreams come true, so that when he proposed to her he wouldn't be holding her back.

He waited for four years now and here he was waiting longer as he was stuck in another red light, and completely missed Beth walking for sure.

He was scalding as he slammed the horn of his truck to get the people in front of him, who were in no doubt texting, to move as the light turned green. He really wanted to rip all his hair out in the moment. All he had wanted to do this morning was go to her graduation, congratulate her with a big hug, and a bigger kiss. He had wanted to give her the ring that was weighing down his slacks, and start his life with his girl. But no, he had to go hunting to calm down his nerves. He had had to be stuck in traffic with the worst and most insensible drivers in the world. He had to be late.

Thankfully, after he finally found parking and arrived, she still said yes.