Part 12
They had had a lovely Christmas Day at the Beales and now it was Boxing Day and Christian was starting to cook their food. Syed had had to go to the Unit to get a few things organised for some functions coming up around New Year. Christian walked over to the table for one last check. Yes it looked great and he was pleased with his work. He wanted to create the perfect atmosphere for this meal.
As soon as Syed walked in he saw how lovely the table looked. Christian had put candles on it and there was a gorgeous arrangement of winter flowers. There was some very soft music playing in the background. Syed smiled and walked into the kitchen.
"Wow you've been busy and everything looks lovely. Can I do anything?" he asked.
Christian turned around from the oven "no you go and take a seat, I'm about to bring the starter out".
They had a lovely starter of smoked salmon followed by a main course of a small Roast joint of beef with all the trimmings then for pudding they had strawberries and ice-cream. The meal was wonderful and the two men chatted contentedly together. Christian suddenly stood up and walked to Syed's side looking a bit nervous.
"What is it?" asked Syed "is something wrong?"
"Shush" Christian replied "I need to no I want to speak to you about something, I mean I wanted to ask you something……"
"Christian what on earth are you ……"
"Let me finish please." Christian walked right up to Syed's chair and got down on one knee "Syed Masood would you do me the greatest honour of agreeing to marry me?".
Syed was shocked and amazed but could see that Christian was completely serious and desperately waiting for an answer.
"I yes I will Christian" he replied.
Christian beamed and the two men hugged and kissed. Christian whooped with pleasure and rushed off to the kitchen "think we may want to open this" he said.
He brought out a bottle of bubbly and they shared a toast together. They talked about when they might get married and who to invite. They decided they would have a six-month engagement to give them time to get organised but it would be a fairly small affair. Syed was now divorced from Amira who had been really quick dealing with that side of things so there was no reason to wait too long. Christian said how he had always hoped to meet the right person one day and settle down and as soon as he and Syed had got together for the second time after the food fight in the Unit, he knew that he was the one and he was in love big time. Syed told him how he had realised he had fallen in love with Christian when they had split for a while and Christian had been with James for a short time. He talked for the first time about how jealous he had felt over it all and Christian reassured him James had meant nothing. The two men talked long into the night about everything in the past and also their future.
