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Chapter Thirty Six- The Last Day

Each day spent in Mexico the couple had spent some time relaxing, obviously some drinking and some exploring of all the sights that Ollie knew. And as the days past they had both completely forgotten the stresses of daily life at the hospital, they were both extremely content and just happy to be together.

They woke on their last full day of their holiday, today was their one year anniversary.

"Happy anniversary Zosh." Ollie says laid opposite her, looking at her as she slowly wakes.

"Aww and you Oliver." She smiles but a little sleepily.

"I have been saving the best until last for where we can go today. There's this beach, it has the bluest and clearest waters that I have ever seen and sometimes you can walk out into the water, for what feels like ages and it still only gets up to your legs. I really hope it is like that today." Ollie says grinning.

"It sounds lovely." She shuffles forward and kisses him.

"It really is lovely, it's quite quiet too. I thought it might be nice for our last day."

"I have a little present for you; don't get too excited it's nothing too dramatic." She says as she gets out of bed and goes into one of the drawers at the other side of the room. She then returns with a wrapped rectangular shaped box and pushes it in front of him on the bed.

"Ooh thank you, you didn't have to." He says but sits up and starts opening it grinning.

The wrapping reveals a scrap book/ photo album. It was titled 'The First Year'.

"Aww this is amazing, you have put so much effort into this!" He says as he flicks through the pages. All their significant dates wrote on the pages, pictures of the two of them and little phrases that had so much meaning to the two of them.

'Power Cut Day!' He reads "Ha the day you were panicking about showing up really late and we accidently had a genuine excuse! That was brilliant!" Ollie chuckles.

Zosia then points to several pictures from her birthday 'Zosia's Birthday with large quantities of Pasta and food fights!' "That was such a great evening, but it took so long to clean the kitchen afterwards though."

There was a picture of Zosia's house keys and 'He asked me to move in!'

'This is our home' paired with a picture of their matching 'O' and 'Z' mugs.

Photocopies of their plane tickets to Mexico followed.

'I won't run from you, I promise.'

"I thought that was a significant phrase, you know from 'that' time, a good thing to come from it. Proof that we can stick together, no matter what." Zosia smiles at him and he takes her hand tightly.

'6 Months' accompanied by a picture of their matching tattoos.

And then 'Zosia Holly Ryland'. "I honestly still can't believe that a child was named after us!" Ollie says laughing.

'London Conference, The funding battle, and a very special life changing talk on the way!'

"Yeah what an eventful few days they were!" Ollie jokes.

Wrote alongside a picture of Ollie, Zosia, Mo and Jac taken the night they we celebrating Darwin getting the funding was 'Getting one over on Jac! Best thing ever!'

'MEXICO' followed by several empty pages.

"I thought we could fill those pages together once we get home." Zosia explains.

"I'd like to think we would have lots of memories to fill those!" He smiles at her. "Come on lets go get ready."

A bit later on they were both ready. In truth Ollie had been waiting a while before Zosia finally came wandering into the main room of the apartment. She was wearing a simple but quite skimpy royal blue bikini, her glossy blown locks flowing down her back and she was absolutely glowing with the golden tan that she now had.

"Have you been saving that bikini for today Zosh? You really are… something." He stands just staring at her.

"Hmm I thought you might like it." She smirks and then grabs a flower print kimono and drapes it around herself. "Come on then Mr Valentine, what are you waiting for, I am stood here ready to go."

"Sorry, I momentarily couldn't do anything there but stare at my beautiful girlfriend!"

"Oh how much I love that I have that effect on you. It comes in handy every now and again."

"Shush you." He says but he silences her anyway by kissing her.

…

They lay relaxing on the beach as planned later on. Zosia looks across to Ollie; his expression suggests he is really thinking about something. "Are you okay Valentine? You look to be deep in thought. What is it?"

"Oh nothing, ignore me, do you fancy having a walk?" He points to the sea.

"Yeah sure, I would love to."

"Come on then Miss March." He says as he holds his hand out to her. She happily takes it, and they start wandering down to the water.

"I see what you meant Ollie, look how far out we have walked, but the water is barely up to our knees. And it is very beautiful, just like you said."

"Yes well I thought it would be the perfect place." Ollies says still looking further out to sea.

"What? To spend our anniversary day?" She questions whilst looking down, watching little fish swim around her feet.

"Yes that."

"… and something else." He adds.

"Ollie?"

"Zoshher." And then he goes silent.

"Oh come on, what something else?!"

"Well I was thinking, you know, the whole potentially starting a family."

"What about it Valentine? Nothing to do with that is going to happen out here matey!"

"Ha, clearly not Zosh, it was more the family aspect of it that I thought could be addressed. Here, where we are completely alone, just us two; well maybe with a few fishes and turtles keeping us company."

She was really confused by this point, just looking at him blankly.

"Okay, so do you remember when we had been going out for a month or so, and you wound me up pretending to be pregnant. Do you remember what you said to me when we were joking after?" He asks her now facing her directly.

She shakes her head in response but then giggles. "I remember your panicked expression Oliver. I don't know what I said though."

Okay he thought, she needs a little prompter. "I'll give you a hint then Zosh. You said that our kids would only be Valentine's if…" He stopped when he saw the realisation on her face.

"Oh my…!" Her hand shoots up to cover her ever growing smile.

"I said… that… that they would only be Valentine's if you put a ring on this finger!" She looks at her left hand.

He stands opposite her smiling but not saying anything. He then starts to ferret in the pocket on his shorts.

"Is this really happening or am I dreaming?" She says watching his every move intensely.

"This really is happening!" He chuckles as he gets down on one knee into the clear blue water.

"Ah now I see why you wanted the tide to be out, this wouldn't have worked very well otherwise would it?" She says laughing.

"Really Zosia?" He smirks up at her.

"Oh sorry, please continue!" She quickly urges.

He then raises his hand up to her, revealing a gorgeous diamond engagement ring.

"Zosh, my beautiful Zosia March will you marry me?"

"Yes! A million percent yes!" She says as she quickly leans down to him and passionately kisses him.

Afterwards he slid the ring onto her finger, she watched in awe. It was a perfect fit.

"Well that is a weight lifted!" Ollie laughs as they both settle and sit in the water.

"It is beautiful Ollie." She says looking at her ring. "Honestly your entire plan, just perfect. How long have you been planning to do this!?"

"I had the idea back when I gave you the tickets to come here. That whilst we were here in Mexico, it might be the right time; when we had been together a year and you know, it would give it a nice setting." He explained.

"You have really been thinking about this for so long?"

"Yeah I suppose so; I finally got the ring after we got back from the Conference, after we had discussed having a baby, nothing is more committal than that so I thought it only right that I made the leap and asked you. The family thing is also what inspired the engraving inside the ring." He nods towards it.

She took off the ring to look inside it. She smiled as she read it. It was today's date followed by 'The Valentines'.

"What would have happened if you didn't propose today Ollie?" She giggles.

"I would have been buggered! It stopped me backing out, not that I would ever not want this." He says gesturing between them. "But it was just plucking up the courage. Why do you think I was so distant on the beach beforehand!?"

"You were brilliant; you have really outdone yourself Valentine." She says kissing him again.

"There is one thing I am worried about though." Zosia then adds.

"What could you possibly be worried about in this moment Zosia?" He laughs.

"The fact the tide is coming in might be something to keep in mind, but I was mainly anticipating how my dad is going to react to this."

Ollie simply smiles and shakes his head.

She stares at him open-mouthed. "What? He knows? You asked him? He was okay with it?" She quizzes extremely shocked.

"Woah slow down with the questions Zosh!" He laughs.

"Okay to be honest, I thought I had nearly given myself away the other day when I told you I had spoken to him. It wasn't on the phone, as you guessed he doesn't have our house number, I quickly blurted all that out to hopefully cover my slip up. What actually happened was that I met up with him and I told him of my intentions for today."

"And…" She prompted.

"I won't lie to you. It's never going to be great between me and him Zosh."

She stares hoping he will continue.

"But your dad will walk you down the aisle."

"You are winding me up now! Seriously? Is there anything you missed Ollie? I bet you have secretly booked all the wedding and everything." She smiles ear to ear.

"You know what… I thought we might actually do that bit together." He says as he takes her left hand in his, smiling as he looks at the ring sitting perfectly on her finger.

I am so excited to finally upload this chapter! I really hope you like it! xxx