Flashback

Around 9:30 last night Martin was sitting in the living room of Sandy's apartment. Sandy had just fallen asleep so, Martin carried her into the bedroom and tucked her in. A smiled came to his face when he looked down at her. She looks like an angel, he thought. He went back into the living to watch some TV, he wasn't tired yet.

As he sat on the couch, Martin began thinking about how he wanted to propose to her. It had to be just perfect, spontaneous, and something so unique that she couldn't say no. But the question was, how would he do it and when. The clock now showed 10:00 pm, and Martin was still coming up with an idea. Turning on the TV hoping that something he watched would inspire him.

Flipping through the channels, Martin stopped on the channel Survivor was playing on. The contestants on the show were given multiple clues that would lead them to a prize. After a second or two of thinking, Martin had this brilliant idea. He would have Sandy go on a scavenger hunt. He would make up the clues and have them at different places that would lead her straight to him. It was perfect, but what would the clues be and when would he do it?

Tomorrow would be a perfect day. I could set up a romantic setting at the park gazebo with candles, desserts, and a band of violinist playing. This would also be great way to get Jason and Maggie back in her life. They could be at one of the places where her clues would be. Martin man you are a genius, Martin praised himself.

Now all he had to do was orchestrate the whole thing. Martin grabbed a piece of paper and began writing the clues that Sandy would have to follow. To his surprise the ideas came very quickly. Putting each of them in an envelope and setting them aside, Martin sat back in his chair and wondered, would these places agree to work with me?? Once morning came he would have to go to the places really early and speak to someone.

Picking up his phone, Martin called for some assistance.

"Hello." Jason said as he picked up his phone.

"Jason… its Martin." Martin replied. He didn't know if Jason would want to help, due to the fact that he hasn't talked to him for a while.

Jason was in shock that Martin had called him. It had been a long time since he has seen his friend or spoke to him. He was kind of mad, but then yet, happy that he was hearing a familiar voice once again.

"Wow it's been way to long since we talked. How are you buddy?" Jason asked. Why is he calling now though? Jason wondered to himself.

"I'm doing good. What about you?" Martin answered with a question.

"Doing fine. So how's Sandy doing? I haven't heard from you guys in a while, I hope she is ok." Jason inquired.

"Sandy's doing a lot better, thanks for asking. But the reason I called is…I need your help." Martin stated.

Now Jason got a little curious about Martins call. What did he mean, need my help?

"Is everything ok? And not saying that I won't help you, but why should I? You haven't spoken to me in how long?" Jason questioned.

He knew that was coming, and he deserved it. "One, everything is ok. Two I'm your friend. And third, I'm sorry ok I didn't talk to you. Things were just hectic with Sandy and I didn't want there to be anymore fights." Martin admitted.

"I know…so what is it that you need my help with?" Jason asked.

"Ok I want to propose to Sandy and I need your help. See I came up with this idea for a scavenger hunt. Sandy goes on a little quest looking for clues and I thought you would want to be one of the people who give her one. So you guys can talk again, and maybe you would help me with the rest?" Martin informed.

If Martin could see the look on Jason's face, he'd laugh. Jason's mouth dropped, he was in total shock. He just stood in his room like a statue, that if someone were to come in and rob him, he would just be standing there with his mouth hung open.

"Did…did…did you say propose to her??? Cause I could have sworn I heard you say that." Jason stuttered. He was baffled, dumbfounded, he was just plain shocked.

Martin let out a tiny laugh at Jason response. "Yes I said propose, you heard me right." Martin confirmed.

"But…but you hated each other. I mean yea I thought you were being nicer because she was raped, but I didn't think you fell for her. When did this happen." Jason retorted.

"Umm bout a month or two ago. So will you help me?" Martin asked again.

"Yea of course I'll help you. What do you need me to do?" Jason wondered.

"Well I've written all the clues down and stuff, all I need is the places to agree to work with me. I also need to get the park set up." Martin explained.

"That should be easy to get done. Tomorrow get up early and we can talk to these places and see what we can do…is there anything else." Jason asked.

There was another thing, but he wasn't sure if Jason would go for it or not. Taking a deep breath and exhaling, Martin asked, "Would you want to help me get Maggie in on this? And maybe even give Sandy one of her clues?"

Jason stood there for a minute, thinking about what he should do. It would be nice to see Sandy again and it would be nice to talk to Maggie again. "How could I not help? You're my friend and Sandy is too." Jason stated.

"Thanks Jason. It's kind of late so I'll let you go. Be up early tomorrow, we have a lot of things to do." Martin emphasized.

"See you then." Jason hung up the phone and went to bed. He would need his rest for tomorrow's events.

"Martin hung up as well, but didn't go to sleep. There was too much on his mind for him to be sleeping, well for now anyway. So many things would need to be done before Sandy woke up to her first clue. He was sure a lot of the places would agree to help him since he was always there, and they would probably think what he was doing would be romantic. Grabbing a piece of paper from the light brown oak drawer, Martin grabbed a note pad and began writing down the items that would be needed.

List

Small table

Two chairs

Candles

Table cloth

Zinfandel's White wine

Pastries

Music

Lights

Flowers

Finally the list was finished, and he could get some shut eye before morning came. Walking into the bedroom, Martin could hear the faint breathing of the woman who lay in the bed fast asleep. Her hair sprawled over the pillow, her delicate hand resting on her stomach, slowly moving up and down with each breath she took. The light blue sheets hid her body from the cool breeze of the night air. Martin climbed into bed slowly, quietly, and gently, not wanting to wake her from the peaceful sleep she was in.

Before letting his tiredness take over him, Martin stretched over to the alarm clock and set it for 7:00 am. Hopefully he would wake up before the alarm went off, but if not, he would pray that Sandy would be in a deep sleep when the alarm went off. Wrapping his arm around her, he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Around 6:30 Martin began to stir. Looking over at the clock to see it was early, he let out a sigh of relief. He turned the alarm off and gently got out of the bed not wanting to wake Sandy. Slowly creeping over to the bathroom, Martin grabbed a pair of jeans, jocks, boxers, and a shirt.

About 20 minutes later Martin was about ready to leave, but he still had one thing left to do before he could leave. Grabbing his keys, Martin took one last look at his sleeping beauty, angelically lying there in the bed, and left.

AN: Hey its bluebaby3296 and 7thHeaven704 and we just wanted to say sorry it took so long for this ch to be posted. This ch will be split into 2 parts. We hope u like this ch and send us some reviews…again sry for the delay….enjoy the ch…