Okay, so summer is finally here, and I am going to have a lot more time to update! And here's chapter one.

Lilly Truscott had her own ideas of happily ever after. It wasn't where the prince saved the damsel in distress. It wasn't the prince kissing the princess that was cursed to slumber for a hundred years. In fact, she always hated the fact that it was always the prince saving the day. It seemed like the princess had to have a prince to take care of them. And thus, Lilly Truscott opposed the idea of marriage.

The small foursome orchestra was playing Lilly's favorite song. They were drinking her favorite champagne. It was just the two of them: Lilly and her boyfriend Derek Zanoni of six months. Lilly, in particular, didn't want to be on this date. Lilly had noticed over the past few months that she had let her guard down and was getting awful close to Derek.

Lilly looked down in her lap. Nervously, she played with the fabric of her black dress that went two inches above her knee. "Derek, why are we so fancy tonight? This restaurant you have to reserve two months in advance, the orchestra, and the champagne?"

"Well, I am glad you asked that!" Derek said. Lilly's stomach tightened as she watched Derek got up out of his chair and got down on knee in front of Lilly. He grabbed Lilly's hand and held it. "Lilly, these past six months have been the best time of my life. You are fun, spunky, loving, outgoing, and funny."

"I'm also critical, dramatic, and forgetful," Lilly said trying to get out of the situation she was in.

"Lilly you are everything I imagined as perfect and more," Derek continued.

"Perfection can be a flaw," Lilly said.

"I love you more than anything else, and I want to continue loving you for the rest of my life," Derek said. He grabbed a ring out of his pocket. Lilly looked at the ring. It was absolutely beautiful. It was a six carat diamond. It had small blue sapphires, Lilly's birthstone, around the diamond. "Will you marry me?"

Lilly took a deep breath and breathed out. She pulled her hand out of Derek's grasp and placed it on top of his hand that was holding it. She patted his hand in a comforting way. She looked around her and realized how many people were looking at the two. She didn't want to embarrass Derek by rejecting him in front of everyone.

She hugged him and gave him a kiss. Everyone applauded the couple that they thought were engaged. "Derek, we'll talk about this later," Lilly whispered in his ear. She closed his hand that was holding the ring into a fist.

Derek looked confused and disappointed. He sat back in his seat and ate his food quietly. Lilly looked at him sympathetically. 'Why do guys do stuff like this to me?' Lilly thought.

They ate for the next thirty minutes with no words being spoken. The rest of the dinner only consisted of them exchanging glances. When they left the restaurant, the car ride back to Lilly's apartment still consisted of no words. Derek parked the car in the parking lot. He got out of the car and went to go open Lilly's door for her. They walked up the stairs in silence. When they got to the door, Lilly stopped Derek.

"Derek," Lilly said nervous of his reaction.

"Yes? What is it that we have to talk about?" Derek asked.

"Derek, I honestly think love is silly. And that there's no such thing as the "one" and "soul mates". I don't believe in love at first sight. And fairytales should be banned. I did use to believe in all that stuff. But that was before my parents got divorced. I thought my parents were the happiest people in the world, until one day I came home, and this total bombshell got dropped on me. Divorce hurts the children more than the couple. I don't want that to happen to me," Lilly took a deep breath in and breathed out. She looked down at her feet. She looked Derek in his brown eyes. She ran her fingers through his blonde hair. Lilly could feel his heart pounding fast, as if he was about to have a stroke. "I'm going to have to decline your offer."

"Well, it's your life Lilly. But you are making a big mistake," Derek said in anger and disappointment.

"I'm sure I am, "Lilly said sarcastically turning her back on Derek. She got her keys out of her purse and unlocked her door. She could feel Derek staring at her. She turned around. "This is the part where I go into my apartment and start to nag myself about how stupid I am, and you go storming off. Then we get on with our lives."

Derek pushed her up the door and kissed her with extreme passion. When he pulled away, they were both smiling. However, Lilly remembered what was happening. "I'm sorry Derek." She quickly went into her apartment and shut the door. She smiled to herself.

She walked into the living room and looked at her clock to see what the time was. "Ten o'clock." She grabbed her phone that sat on a table next to her couch. She grabbed it excitedly. "555-2343"

"Hey Lilly," the familiar voice said.

"Hey Oliver! You won't believe what happened! Okay, so Derek proposed to me!"

"Really?" Oliver said calmly.

"Yeah, so this is what happened." Olive chuckled to himself on the other line. He could imagine Lilly using hand motions as she was talking.

"So he took me to that really fancy restaurant, Corilla's, you know the one where you have to reserve two months ahead. Well, he had the orchestra playing my favorite songs. And well he came to me, and he said that I was what he imagined as perfect and more. So I replied back saying that perfection can be a flaw," Lilly said putting her hand in the air. "Well, I didn't want to embarrass him in public because everyone was watching us. So I gave him a hug and kiss, and everybody applauded thinking that I had said yes. Well, while I hugged him, I whispered in his ear that we needed to talk. So when he dropped me off, I explained everything to him. How my parents got divorced and that I really didn't want to marry. "

"Of course," Oliver said.

"Well then he kissed me. And of course, I laughed after he left. I mean, people kill themselves over this silly thing called love. And I can picture Derek doing that."

"So, wanna go out this Saturday?"

"You read my mind," Lilly said smiling to herself. "I was just about to ask you that."

"Okay, well it's a date," Oliver said.

"Yes it is," Lilly said.

So how was this for the first chapter? Review please!