Chapter six: Will You
Chance and Jake were working in the garage. Felina was at work today. Jake noticed that Chance had been quite for most the day. Jake was looking at Chance as Chance worked. Jake had stopped what he was doing. Chance noticed that Jake was not working and looked up and gave him an odd look.
"What's wrong Jake?" Chance asked putting down a wrench.
"Where did you go after you took Callie home?" Jake asked. Chance stood up and smiled at him.
"Come on Chance." Jake said putting his paws on his hips.
"Okay I'll tell you but you cannot tell Felina okay." Jake nodded his head.
"I went to talk to Feral okay." Jake looked at Chance with an odd look.
"Why?" He asked. Chance looked away and said.
"Because I am thinking of asking Felina to marry me." Chance said looking at Jake. Jake took his paws off his hips slowly. Chance leaned over and closed Jake's mouth. Jake shook his head and looked at his friend again.
"You are going to do what?" Jake asked again with a small smile.
"Yea I'm going to ask Felina to marry me." Chance said again but this time with a huge smile.
"Wow Chance I can't believe that you are going to that." Chance's smile got bigger.
"When are you going to do it?" Jake asked walking over to the bench and getting his water.
"I don't know yet. I don't even know where to do it at." Chance said while getting on the creeper.
"Well if I was going to propose. I would find out where she would love to go to the most, and take her there." Jake said setting down his water. Chance pulled himself under the car that they were working on.
"That is just the thing I don't know where she really wants to go." Chance said from underneath the car.
"Well you have talked about where you would like to go right?" Jake asked.
"Yea we have, but it was not in Megakat City. We talked about you know like she wants to go to Rome and I want to go to England."
"Oh well go ask Feral if Felina has told him where she would like to go or loves to go here in Megakat City." Jake said walking over to his work area.
"I could do that couldn't I?" Chance moved and poked his head out from underneath the car. Jake looked down and nodded his head. Just then a car pulled into the salvage yard. Jake looked and smiled to himself.
"Well I don't think you will have to go far to ask him." Jake said as Chance pushed himself out and sat up. Chance got off the creeper and walked over to the side of the car just in time see Feral getting out of his Sedan.
"Feral what are you doing here?" Chance asked as Feral walked up to him and Jake.
"I came to see how you two were doing." He said looking at both of them.
"Well it's a good thing you're here Feral." Jake said which made the Commander look over toward him.
"Why is that a good thing?" He asked.
"Feral, where in Megakat City does Felina want to go or she loves to go?" Chance asked. Feral looked over at him and then tilted his head to think.
"She likes to go to the Roman Gardens just outside of the city why?" He asked looking at Chance again.
"Chance needs to know so that he can pop the question to Felina." Jake told him. Feral narrowed his eyes at Chance. Jake looked at Feral's reaction and thought it was odd. Chance did talk to Fearl about marrying Felina right. Chance smiled at the Commander.
"You said that you were thinking of asking her."
"Yea well I made up my mind." Chance said putting a paw on the back of his neck and smiling even wider.
"Don't you think you are moving too fast Chance?" Jake asked
"We have been going out for months Jake." Chance said looking at his friend. Feral looked at the both of them.
-A few days later-
Chance was driving and Felina was in the front seat looking out the window. Chance was starting to get nervous. He had the ring in his pocket and he was hoping that Felina would say yes.
"Chance where are we going?" Felina asked looking over at him. All she got was a smiled. They pulled into a parking lot. They both got out and Chance walked around the front of the car where Felina was standing. Felina looked around and noticed that she was at the Roman Gardens. She looked over at Chance with a smile.
"What are we doing here?" She asked him.
"Well your uncle told me that you like to come here, so I wanted to see this place for myself." Chance half told the truth. Felina smiled and they walked into the gardens.
They walked down the paths and looked at the ponds. They talked and laughed about everything and anything. Chance was really starting to get nervous. He could feel his heart racing and his paws were sweaty. They walked onto a bridge that was above a huge pond that had huge koi fish in it. Felina had stopped and was looking over the edge of the bridge. She turned around to look at Chance but found him on his knee.
"Chance what are doing?" She asked looking at him with odd look. Chance moved and pulled out a round-cut 2.04 solitaire diamond white gold ring. Chance watched as Felina's eyes got wide. She put a paw on her chest and the other on the bridge. Chance smiled when she blinked her eyes a few times.
"Chance what are doing?"
"Felina you are the smartest, most dependable, funniest, most caring, bravest, toughest, and most beautiful she-kat I know and you take me for what I am. I don't have to change who I am to be with you. I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So Felina will you marry me?" Felina looked at Chance with huge eyes. Chance was very nervous at this point she was not answering him. A few seconds pasted and Felina opened her mouth and said.
"Chance…Chance I…I would love to marry you." Chance put the ring on Felina's paw and moved up and kissed her on the lips. Felina wrapped her arms around Chance's neck. Chance broke the kiss and laid his forehead against Felina's.
They kissed once more and started to walk again. They walked the rest of the gardens. After they had seen everything they walked back to the car. They got in and Chance was about to start the car when he stopped and looked at Felina. Felina was looking at the ring. She noticed that Chance was staring at her.
"What?" She asked.
"Why did it take so long to answer me?" Chance asked.
"I never thought that anyone would ask me to marry them." Chance narrowed his brows.
"What do mean you never thought that someone would ask you to marry them?"
"Well some of the tom kats at work are afraid of being with me because of my uncle and then there are those that see me as a ticket to a promotion. Then there are those outside of work that know who I am and what I do they are intimidated by me. But you're not like them at all, you see past all of that and see me for me. Just like I see you for you." Chance smiled and leaned over and kissed Felina. Felina put her paws on either side of Chance's face as they kissed. Chance started the car and they drove back to the salvage yard. Chance could not wait to tell Jake.
Chance pulled into the salvage yard and saw Callie's car there. He smiled to himself and looked at Felina. Chance turned off the car and got out. Felina got out of the car and saw Jake and Callie talking about something. The two walked up to the other two. Jake could see a smiled on Chance's face.
"Hey what you smiling about?" Jake asked his friend.
"Felina and I are getting married." Jake and Callie smiled as Felina walked to Chance's right side. She put her paw on his arm and laid her head on his shoulder. Chance laid his head on Felina's.
"That's great. Have you told Commander Feral that you are getting married?" Callie asked. Felina looked up and over toward Chance.
"Yep he knows."
"Wait how does he know?" Felina asked.
"I asked him if I could marry you." Chance told her. Felina looked at him with an odd look.
"Why would you ask him?"
"Because he is like a father to you." Chance said while smiling at her. Felina smiled back. He was like a father to her. Just then a car pulled in. They could see that it was Feral. Felina and Jake looked at Chance when he said.
"I asked Feral to come here."
"Why?" Jake's question went unanswered. They watched Feral walked toward them. Felina let go of Chance and walked over to her uncle. She saw him the ring and Feral's eyes widen.
"How much did this ring cost?" He asked looking at Chance. Everyone looked at Chance.
"Yes how much did this ring cost?" Felina asked.
"Don't worry about it." Chance said smiling at her.
"Chance I don't want to spend the rest of our lives paying off my engagement ring."
"Okay my father gave it to me a long time ago. He told me that if I ever found the right she-kat then give it to her with love." Chance said looking at his fiancée.
"Your father? You mean Mr. Furlong?" Felina asked.
"No my biological father, Duke Daaé" Chance said. Everyone was floored by this. Jake looked at his friend with wide eyes.
"You to tell me that Mr. Furlong is not your father! And that your real father is a senator!" Jake kind of yelled out.
"Yea." Chance said with his paw behind his neck.
"Chance why didn't you ever tell me about this?" Jake once again yelled.
"It is hard to talk about my past and it doesn't matter what happen in the past. I am who I am now because of it yes, but a lot of bad things happened to me and I didn't want to talk about it." Chance said while looking at the ground. Jake didn't know what to say. How could his best friend not tell him this? He told Chance everything about his past. Callie looked at Chance and titled her head and asked.
"Why didn't you ask Felina's father if you could marry her?" Chance looked at her and smiled.
"I have never met him."
"That will change." Chance looked over toward Feral.
"You will have to meet the whole family now." Feral said with a smile. Chance got nervous very quickly.
"I do have to meet them don't I" Chance looked down at the ground once again.
"Chance!" Chance looked over toward Jake. Chance could see that Jake was hurt by him not telling him about his past.
"I'm sorry Jake. I tell you what late I will tell you everything that you want to know okay." Chance said while placing his paws on Jake's arms.
"Fine but I will want to know everything." Jake said.
Later after Felina, Feral, and Callie had left. Chance sat down with Jake and told him everything about his past. Jake could not believe the things Chance was telling him. Spending a year in the woods and a year in the city on the streets. As Chance went on Jake could understand why Chance did not want to talk about his past. All of the pain and hardship that Chance had went throw. At the end of the story they two went to their own rooms. Jake was in his room setting on his bed. He looked up at the wall. He was still in shock over what Chance had told him. But in Chance's room Chance was on his bed looking at the bedroom floor. He didn't want to meet Felina's father or mother. He know what they were and going to say to her about him. Chance shot his eyes and sighed.