Haha ignore the bold words at the top of the last chapter!
Story Inspired By A Real Story. (Not all of it is true though)
Ryder Lynn continued to get excited as Marley Rose, his girlfriend of five years, and him got closer to the San Francisco bridge. The same spot they met six years earlier.
Strange story.
As the night grew and grew, the lights around them shined vividly. Ryder turned to his girlfriend as she spoke about the recent job offer she got the other day. Her long brown hair cascaded her round stunning face, her blue eyes shining brighter than the moon and stars above them. Her smile giving him warmth.
"So what do you think?" She asked him.
"What do I think what?" Ryder asked, coming back to Earth.
"You didn't listen again, didn't you?" Marley asked, pretending to sound offended.
"I can't help it," Ryder stopped and took her hand in his. He swung her into his side, causing her to lean on him. "You're too beautiful to focus on anything else."
She smiled. "Forgiven. So where are we going again?"
"Just to watch the stars and join them on this lovely night on the bridge." Ryder said, keeping his arm on her side as they continued to walk.
"I'm not ready to join the stars yet, Ryder!" She laughed.
"Oh ha ha, that's not funny." Ryder said.
The duo arrived at the same spot they met years earlier. It was easy to find because the day they met Ryder was spray painting the letters R.LTo one of the bridge's posts. He wasn't exactly an artist, but he liked doing that a lot. It made him feel alive. And strangely, nobody found it offensive as the two letters remained there for the past several years.
"Remember I asked you for directions six years ago and you were breaking the law at the time?" Marley laughed.
"It was art, I felt alive!" Ryder laughed. "And you and you little innocent little girls voice kept asking me what I was doing...then asked for directions."
"Yes. Then you offered me a ride."
"'Never take rides from a stranger' I said to you." Ryder smiled. "But you totally trusted me, that's awesome."
"Well that...and if something bad happened then I'd use my weapon." She grinned.
"Weapon? What weapon?" Ryder questioned. She had a weapon with her at the time.
"Pepper spray." She said as she pulled it out of her purse. "I never leave home without it."
"Oh god!" Ryder chuckled. "Then you sure as lucky as me to find someone who's nice and amazing."
"Lucky as you to find someone who's nice and amazing? That says a lot." Marley smiled. The wind blew up a little bit causing her hair to blow to the side, the same with her blue dress.
"Because its honest." Ryder said. "You are the best person I've ever met before. Your the best thing that has happened to me for the past six years and within those six years you've taught me more about myself than I ever though I knew about myself."
"And you've done the same to me." Marley said. "Before i was just a girl from Lima, Ohio just coming out here to get singing instead of going to New York like a Rachel Berry copycat. But knowing you for the past six years I've grown into such a smarter and happier woman. You taught me more about me than I knew about me."
"That's amazing, its an amazing feeling right? And even if we tested each other a lot—more of you testing me, than me testing you— it just grew stronger." He grinned. He could already feel his hands shaking just thinking about the question. "It's amazing."
"Your amazing." She laughed.
"And you too. Which is why I want us to spend our amazing lives together." He smiled, hands shaking harder than ever.
"Ryder?" Marley questioned.
Ryder swallowed a gulp down as he moved down to the ground with one knee up, the other resting on the ground. He took one of his hands and grasped Marley's hand. His breathing was shaky, his hands clammy.
"I love you Marley Rose. I've loved you since our first official date when we went ice skating and we kept skating into the walls—" Marley laughed, remembering how much they both failed and sucked as the event. "But I don't care. I don't care about anything else for that matter. All I know is that I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to have great memories with you and I want us to have adorable little babies."
"Ryder?" Marley questions.
Ryder reached into his pocket and pulled out a small black velvet box and opened it up, revealing a silver three diamond ring.
"Marley Rose, will you be my bride?" Ryder asked.
"Oh my god!" Marley grinned. "Yes! Yes I do! I will marry you!"
Ryder grinned as he stood up, picking Marley up by her waist and spinning her around in a circle laughing and cheering until they both felt dizzy. He placed her back on the ground, held her face in his hands and kissed her lips. She kissed back as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him deeper into the kiss.
After several moments Ryder pulled back and went to grab the ring from the box, when he found it empty. "Shit.." He muttered. "Where did that ring go?"
He went to the ground and looked around for several minutes, Marley helping too.
"Ryder?" Marley asked.
"Yes?"
"I think while we were spinning, it fell out of the box." She said with a sad tone, trying to hide her laughter.
"Oh no! It's down in the water..." Ryder said. He then laughed. "Good start to a marriage, I suppose."
Cute right?
Real Story: The man proposed to his girlfriend on the Brooklyn Bridge and he dropped the ring. It landed on the construction site below and they were able to get the ring back.
Too bad I like to make Ryder and Marley have fun torture together!