Caroline could tell that Andy was nervous. He had been all night. Her suspicions as to why were semi-confirmed when he asked Carrie to go on a walk with him.
"Just for a lap around the house." He promised.
Caroline's daughter agreed very readily.
Once they were out the door, Caroline eased up from her rocker and went to look out the window towards them. Adam was right behind her, and she was now certain that he knew something she didn't. As Carrie and Andy left her line of sight, she almost asked Adam what that something was. She refrained though. If it was something that she needed to know, she would find out soon enough.
By the time the love struck duo reappeared, they seemed to be in the middle of a deep discussion. Adam propped the window open a very little bit so that he and Caroline could hear what they were saying.
"You're sure?" Carrie asked. "There are a lot of better girls."
"Maybe you think so, but not one of them is my girl. You are, and that makes you the best, by my way of thinking. Come on, Carrie, please say 'yes'."
Carrie beamed. "Yes."
Caroline whirled around to face the room full of family and friends, smiling broadly, with laughter bubbling up inside of her,
"Mary," She told her eldest. "I think you may have started a trend."
"He asked her?" Charles inquired.
Caroline nodded, feeling as giddy as a school girl. "It sounds like it."
Before anything more could be said on the subject, Carrie and Andy burst into the house, merrily exclaiming their happy news.
Caroline went to Charles and wrapped her arms around his waist.
He rolled his eyes towards the ceiling, moaning, "Come on, God, all I asked for was that you let me keep one of my girls. We're running out of options, you know."
Caroline burst out laughing at her husband's antics.
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