This Is Your Moment. The Right Time Is Now!
Flight 15 to California, now boarding at Terminal C. I grabbed my bag and stood up. I was excited to get home and see my girlfriend, Hikari. It had been two weeks since I had been forced to go on a business trip to Hawaii and it had been torture for the both of us.
The attendant took my ticket then let me onto the flight. It was going to be a long flight and I was hoping that whoever was sitting next to me would be quiet so I could catch up on some of the sleep I had lost meeting with our new client, who made everything more difficult than it really had to be.
I was relieved when I saw that the person sitting next to me was already trying to sleep himself. I took my seat, reclined and attempted to sleep.
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Thunk, thunk, thunk. I was getting incredibly tired of the little boy sitting behind me. About an hour into the flight he had started kicking my seat and so far he hadn't stopped. I would have turned around to yell at him, but when I had tried his mother had given me such a deadly look that I didn't dare try.
I moved the seat up some in hopes that the kicks would be lessened in strength, and the boy started to wail. I groaned. At least now his mother had to deal with him and not just myself. Maybe someone else would have the guts to stand up to her, but it wasn't going to be me.
Seeing as I wasn't going to be sleeping anytime soon, I pulled one of the magazines out of the seat in front of them. It was one of the ones where they tried to sell you things you didn't need for three times as much money than it was actually worth. It was stupid, but it was something to do for a few minutes at least.
I flipped through the pages, laughing occasionally at the stupider things in the magazine before I saw a little piece of paper fall out. I was about to ignore it but I decided to pick it up instead. No use in adding litter to the airplane, there was enough of that as there was. I was about to throw it into the little cup that had previously had my soda in it, when I noticed that there was something written on it and read it:
This is your moment. The right time is now!
I stared at it. I wasn't sure what to make of this little scrap of paper that had been literally dropped into my life, but my hand subconsciously went to the small metal band in my pocket, the one I had been debating on whether or not to give Kari for two years. When I was ten my grandmother had handed it to me and told me that when the time was right I would give it to the girl I loved. At the time I had no idea who that would be, but respectfully took the ring and put it in a box. Four years ago I had started dating Yagami Hikari. Two years ago I had come across the ring and remembered the story and put it into my pocket. Ever since then I had been planning on giving it to her, but the time had never seemed right. Maybe this was the right time. Maybe God had sent this to let me know that she would say yes.
I pulled the ring out of my pocket and looked at it. It was a simple silver band and the inner ring was inscribed with Gra anois agus go deo, love, forever and always. My grandfather had come over from Ireland and met and married my grandmother, giving her the ring with words in his native language, which she loved to hear him speak.
I thought about what I was going to do for the rest of the plane ride. I wouldn't have even noticed we were landing if I hadn't felt us bounce roughly on the tarmac, jarring my thoughts and making me realize that if I was going to do this I had to make the decision now.
The plane came to a complete stop and I nervously stood up and grabbed my carry on bag. The line to get off of the plane seemed to take forever and spotting Hikari seemed to take just as long, but I managed to just before she jumped onto me, catching her in my arms and laying a passionate kiss on her lips. When we broke apart, I gently put her down and got on one knee.
"Hikari, you are the light of my life and you have been since I met you years ago. You have fueled my hope and made me complete. Will you marry me?" I asked, my stomach twisting in knots as she looked at me, tears filling her eyes.
"Takeru," she breathed, her voice catching, "Of course."
With that I pulled her close and spun her around, the people near us clapping. And to think, all of this started with a little piece of paper.
The secret for this chapter:
I found this inside a Magazine on an Airplane. As soon as I arrived home, I took the ring I've had in my pocket for two years out and proposed to my girlfriend in the middle of the airport. She said yes.