Lost- This was an idea that Deb-Wood1999 had, I enjoyed writing this it was really fun. Thanks for the idea. :)
Ivy's Point Of View
We were driving down the road, we'd been driving for what seemed like forever. But it'd only been about 45 minutes according to the clock on the radio. I looked over to Bray who seemed focused on the road in front of us. "Bray." I said, reaching over placing a hand on his knee.
"Yes love?" Bray took his eyes off the road for a split second to look over to me and off a smile.
"How much further?" I questioned. "We've been driving forever."
"Ummm." Bray bit his lip. "Not much further." He stated.
"Where are we going?" I questioned, he'd told me he wanted to take me on a little date. He was being really hush, hush about it.
"It's a surprise." Bray said his eyes still on the road.
"Well, I don't like surprises Bray. Just tell me." I sighed.
"I'm not telling you my love. I told you I wanted it to be a surprise." Bray said.
"Well how do I know I'm dressed appropriate for this date then?" I questioned.
"You are dressed just fine, you'll see." Bray said.
"I hope so." I sighed and leaned back, putting my feet on the dash dashboard in front of me. Reaching into my bag and grabbing out my lotion. I squeezed a small amount onto my hand and started to lotion up my legs. I heard Bray let out a small groan and saw him grip the steering wheel tightly. "What?" I raised a brow.
"Are you trying to distract me?" I sighed. "How am I supposed to keep my eyes on the road when you are lotioning up your legs, you know the combination of the smell and the sight of you putting lotion on yourself, does things to me woman." Bray growled lowly.
I laughed and shook my head. "Well if we got where we were going a bit faster you could do something about it." I smirked.
"If only." Bray sighed.
I heard Bray mumble under his breath something about this road not seeming right. "What was that?" I raised a brow.
"Oh, nothing." He sighed, and I heard him mumble something under his breath again.
"Are we lost?" I questioned.
"No, of course not." He shook his head.
"I swear I heard you say something about this not seeming familiar." I said.
"Well, it's nothing. Things change around here sometime." He shook his head, biting the inside of his cheek. "It's fine, I know where we are."
"Okay, if you say so." I sighed shaking my head, we are totally lost and I know it. But Bray is too damn stubborn to admit it.
We'd been driving another 25 minutes when saw him shake his head and say something about a town. I looked a head and saw that there was a small town ahead of us." Is this were we are going?"
"Umm, no. I've never been to this town." He sighed.
"We are so lost Bray." I groaned. "We need to ask for directions."
"No, no we don't. We aren't lost." Bray shook his head.
"How are we not lost when you don't know where we are?" I shook my head. "Let's stop somewhere in town and ask for directions."
"No we are fine, there isn't a need to ask for directions." Bray shook his head.
"Stop being so stubborn and ask for directions Bray." I said sternly.
"But I'm not lost, I don't have a need to ask for directions." He let out a sigh of frustration.
"If you are too damn stubborn to ask, I will. Just pull over." I said, noticing we were almost to a gas station. "Look, there is a gas station. We are going to need gas anyway let's just pull over." I sighed.
"Fine, but we aren't asking for directions. We are just getting gas." He sighed.
"Fine whatever." I rolled my eyes slightly, such a bullheaded man I tell you. We pulled into the gas station and I put my shoes back on.
"What are you doing?" Bray raised a brow.
"Getting out." I said giving him a confused look. "I need something to drink, we've been driving forever Bray." I sighed.
"Oh okay." Bray sighed getting out of the truck as did I. We both walked towards the store and I reached forward taking his hand. Bray smiling and leaning down and kissing me.
"I still think you should ask for directions." I said as we got to the door.
"No, it's not happening." Bray shook his head, opening the door for me to walk in Bray walking in behind.
xXxXx
Bray's Point Of View
"Do you want anything to drink?" Ivy questioned turning back to me as she was at the cooler. "It might be awhile, seeing as we are lost." She sighed.
"We aren't lost." I groaned, so we were totally lost I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere but I'm not going to ask for directions, not at all. I'll find a way to get where we are going, one way or another.
"Sure we aren't." I saw Ivy roll her eyes reaching into the cooler, grabbing a bottle of flavored water. She walked over to me following me to the front counter.
"Howdy, folks." The woman at the front smiled at us. "How's your day?" She smiled.
"Great, besides the fact we are lost." Ivy sighed.
"We aren't lost." I shook my head. "I'm was going to fill up but the pump said prepay only. So I'll get her water, and put 40 on 2." I sighed.
Ivy sighed and shook her head taking the water. "You are the most stubborn man of the face of this earth." She said, before walking out the station heading the truck.
"So where are you heading?" She questioned.
"Cascade Ridge." I said, it was a great place I knew she'd love walking around looking at the scenery, there was a small pond, that lead off into a bigger one, it looked like a waterfall, they called that spot cascade fall. "She's never been there."
"Oh, that's a beautiful place, I'm sure she'll love it." The woman smiled. "I know a shortcut to get there, normally you have to take the 4 and head back another 35 miles, but if you keep going another 7 miles up the road, and turn onto Sliverridge road, you take that road all for another 5 miles, then turn onto Cascade Road, and then another 5 miles there is a little park if you take that trail it leads you right to the ponds, or Cascade fall as they call it. Only townies know about that shortcut, so it will cut out some of your travel time." The woman smiled.
"Yeah, I didn't know about that route. Thanks for the shortcut." I smiled paying for the gas and her water. We were a lot further way then I thought, It usually only take 40 minutes to get to Cascade Ridge from my place but I had picked her up from her brothers, who moved about 15 minutes from us so he could be closer to her. So I think that must of thrown me off, that had to be it.
I got into the car and looked over to Ivy. "I figured out a shortcut." I said as I put my seat belt on.
"I see, how'd you do that?" Ivy raised a brow.
"Oh, the woman inside told me about a shortcut only townies know. So it will get us there a lot faster." I smiled.
She laughed and shook her head. "Thank goodness she had that shortcut or we'd never find the place, seeing as you have no idea where we are."
I sighed and shook my head. "We aren't lost." I sighed. "Not anymore." I added.
"So we were lost." She clapped her hands together. "Thanks for finally saying it."
"Okay I know I'm stubborn, but I know where we are now, and how to get us there so its all good now right?" I looked over to her.
"Yes, I guess." Ivy smiled and leaned in to give me a small kiss. "So are you going to tell me where we are going now?" She raised a brow.
"No, it's a surprise, I told you that already." I shook my head, turning the engine on and putting it in drive before taking off. "
xXxXx
We pulled up to the park she told me about. I saw the trail and smiled. Finally, we were here and we could get this going. I smiled as I looked over to Ivy. "We are here, well kind of we are going to take a little bit of a walk before we get there." I said unbuckling my seat belt.
"Finally." Ivy smiled. "So, are you going to tell me where we are going?"
"Not yet, it's worth the wait. You'll see. Wait here for a second." I smiled, then opened the door getting out of the truck. I reached into the bed of the truck, grabbing the picnic basket, opening it and opening the thermocooler I'd gotten to keep some of the food cold for us. I had some grapes, different kinds of cheese and some mini sandwiches made and in the cooler. I put that in basket, then put the bottle of chilled sparkling cider in there also, with the plates, and cups. I grabbed the picnic blanket and put it over the top of the basket before then picked it up hanging it over my arm. I walked over to the passengers side of the truck and opened the door for Ivy. "You ready love?" I smiled, reaching my hand out for her.
Ivy took my hand and smiled jumping down from the truck she leaned in and gave me a kiss. "So we are having a picnic?" She raised a brow looking at the basket.
"Yes, that's something we are doing." I smiled. "Let's get going, it shouldn't be too far through the trail."
"Great." Ivy smiled taking my free hand and following me to the trail. We were walking a few minutes when I saw Ivy stop and gasp a smile coming to her face. "Aww, look it's a baby deer." She cooed.
"Yeah, we better be careful. The mom is somewhere around here and we don't want an angry mom on our hands." I said.
"Oh, I'm sure if she was around here you'd see her by now." Ivy said, reaching into the basket and grabbing a couple grapes out before walking closer slowly to the baby deer. She held her hand out once she was pretty close. After about a minute the deer started walking closer to her it sniffed her and then took the grapes from her hand. It rubbed its head on her side before it took off running back into the woods. "Aww, that was so cute." She smiled.
"That was dangerous. Do you have any idea how bad it'd of been if it's mother came around?" I sighed.
"It didn't so we are fine." She shrugged, and took my hand as we started walking back down the trail. We finally got to our destination and she smiled. "Is this where we are going?, it's beautiful." She said looking at the man made waterfall.
"Yep." I smiled, we walked a bit closer to the waterfall and Ivy grabbed the blanket and laid it out for us. I reached out taking Ivy's hand helping her to sit on the blanket. Then put down the basket on the ground before sitting next to Ivy. "So its beautiful out here isn't it?"
"So beautiful, just breathtaking." Ivy smiled over at me.
"Nothing compared to you though." I smiled, Ivy leaning forward and kissing me. I reached into the basket grabbing the plates out and all the dishes. "What would you like to eat?"
"One of those sandwiches look good." Ivy smiled, so I reached out handing her one on a plate. "Thanks." She smiled.
"Anything else?, some apple cider?"
"Some of those grapes would be good." Ivy said. "And some apple cider would be great."
I poured her the apple cider while she got some grapes. I smiled at her remembering while I'm here today, what I had planned for our date. It made me kind of nervous, but I wanted what I was going to do today, to be special to be something she'd remember forever.
"Why here?" She questioned.
"What do you mean?" I questioned.
"Why'd you pick here for our date?, I mean it's beautiful, but we could have done this on the grounds at home and it'd be just fine by me." Ivy smiled.
"Well, it's beautiful you are right, but it's quiet, private. And I wanted today to be something special, that you'd always remember." I answered honestly.
"Well, I remember everything we do together." She said "What's different about this date?, why do you want me to remember it like this?"
I took a deep breath and stood up, reaching down to take her hand. "Stand up for me love." I said, Ivy taking my hand and with my help standing up. "You know I love you right?"
"Of course, and I love you." Ivy smiled.
"Well, I wanted to bring you here, because I wanted to do something to ask you something today. You know I love you, more than anything in this world. I'd do anything for you, I want to spend my whole life with you, I want to give you everything you've ever dreamed of and more. I can't picture my life without you, when I see myself 10 or 15 years down the road, I see myself with you, laughing, loving, and enjoying our life together. So that's why I brought you here Ivy, I want today to be something that you remember forever that you tell your friends about for years to come." I smiled and got down on one knee while pulling out the box I had in my pocket. "Ivy Wesley, will you make me the happiest man alive? Will You Marry Me?" I asked as I opened the box to show a 3 carat princess cut diamond ring set in white gold. I saw Ivy's eyes widen and her hands go to her mouth as she gasped. She just looked at me, not saying a word her eyes wide as could be. After about a good 45 seconds she still hadn't said anything. "So will you?" I questioned, my nerves starting to get to me, was she going to say no? Was this too sudden? Should I have waited?
After another 5 seconds it seems she snapped out of her trance. "My god, Yes. i'll marry you Bray." Ivy nodded, tears coming to her eyes. I smiled and stood up placing the ring on her finger pulling her into my arms. "I love you so much Bray." Ivy's smile was 10 times wider than I've ever seen it as she placed her hands on my cheeks pulling my face close to hers as she brought our lips together.
xXxXx
Ivy's Point Of View
We laid back on the blanket Bray's arms around me, as I looked at my ring, god it was so beautiful, I couldn't believe it, I was engaged to the most wonderful man in the world. I loved him so much and I couldn't believe he actually wants to marry me, he wants me to be his wife forever.
"This has been the best day of my life." I smiled up at Bray.
"Even with all the problems getting here?" Bray raised a brow.
"Yes, even with all that." I smiled. "You do know you didn't have to get this big of a diamond."
"I know, but you deserve something big and beautiful." Bray smiled.
"It makes my hands look even smaller." I laughed holding it out in front of me. "There isn't any missing this, you can see it from a mile away, everyone will know I'm taken now." I smiled up at him.
"Good." Bray smiled leaning forward and kissing me. "I was worried you weren't going to say yes. You had me scared there for a minute."
"I was just in shock, I didn't expect it. " I said. "You know how much I love you, you had to know I would say yes."
"I was hoping you would, I just didn't know if you'd be ready to accept my proposal." Bray stated. "I'm happy you did, happy isn't even an appropriate word. There isn't a word in the dictionary to describe how happy I am right now." Bray smiled.
I smiled and wrapped my arms around him, laying my head on his chest. Today had been the best day in my life. I couldn't think of a better day I've had, this day was everything I could have wished for and more, I don't think it could have gone any better. Even with all the problems with finding our way here, all that matters is we made it here and we are engaged, I'm going to be Bray's wife someday and I couldn't think of a better way to spend my life.
A Note From The Author: Thanks to DebWood-1999 for the idea of them getting lost, I put a little twist on the ending, I hope you all enjoy! :)
Debwood-1999- Happy you are enjoying the one-shots, hope you enjoyed the new one! :)
