Chapter 57
Raine and Zelos
Zelos looked at the clock, it was seven. He went to the living room and saw she was there already. She was wearing a long red dress, he had seen it in the closet before. It looked good on her.
"So you came." She said smiling.
"Raine, why are you doing this?"
"Because."
He sighed as she looked at him hopefully. She was hoping that he would get it right, she didn't want to get him upset by doing it herself.
"So, what do you have to say for yourself?" She said looking intensely into his eyes. Zelos took a deep breath and got down on one knee before her.
"Raine, will you marry me?" He said sliding a ring over her finger.
She let a few tears roll down her face before jumping up into his arms and kissing him ever so passionately.
"I'll take that as a yes?" He said smiling.
"Zelos, I'm so happy you figured it out. I just couldn't tell you that this was what I wanted."
"I figured it had to be something like that."
"Zelos, where did you get this ring?"
"Actually if you want to know, Lloyd made it for me."
"It's amazing. Oh Zelos, you must have spent a fortune to get the stone though."
"It wasn't that bad." He said lying. The stone she spoke of was a very large ruby.
"You're lying, how much was it?"
"I'm not telling you!" He said laughing.
"Tell me, please." She said looking cutely up at him.
"Fine, it cost me five hundred thousand gald to get that stone custom cut and another couple hundred thousand for the rest. Lloyd didn't want to accept the money, but I couldn't take it for free."
"Zelos…you shouldn't have…" She said taken aback.
"A woman as beautiful as you deserves a beautiful ring."
"I love you so much…I'm sorry for everything that I've done. I just wanted attention so badly. I had always devoted all my time to others I never thought about myself. I knew you'd care enough to give me the time and attention so I guess I took advantage of it. I'm sorry Zelos."
"It's ok, you deserve the attention. Don't let your pessimistic mind bring you down. I don't care what you think or say about yourself, because nothing changes the fact that I love you."
She just smiled as he set her down on the rug before the lit fireplace.
"This was where we spent our first night together." He said in a reminiscent voice.
"And it's our last night."
"What?"
"It's our last night as just going steady or living together or whatever. It's our first night as a married couple." She said smiling, she held his hand in hers.
"Well, you're not officially Mrs. Raine Wilder. But I suppose you're right."
"Of course I am."
He let her wrap herself around him, her body felt so right against his. He knew that times would come where they would argue and he'd sleep on the couch but he knew that they'd always love each other.
Chapter 58
Presea
Presea nervously stood before Derik's door. She wasn't sure if she remembered his address right but she didn't have to time to check. She knocked, a minute later he opened the door and let her in.
"So you came?" He said smiling.
"Yeah."
"I thought you would be to morbidly sad to come."
"I am but I can't mourn forever." She said as she stood there in her black dress.
"And by wearing black you aren't trying to say you're a widow?"
"We were going to get married someday Derik." She said as he led her into the living room and she sat on the comfortable blue couch where he too sat.
"How do you know?"
"I had a vision."
"And?"
"We got married and had a baby girl, but I suddenly fell ill and died. All of my visions are caused by my special exspere, but they're always true."
The night continued on and she told him her story about her and Regal and everything. He was a good listener, he just sat and smiled and consoled her.
"That's rough."
"Yeah, it has been." She said smiling.
"What's the smile for?"
"You give me hope that there's more to live for."
"I try."
"I was on the verge of killing myself as well you know."
"You wouldn't really do it would you?"
"I put a lot of thought into it. Had you not distracted me I might be dead by now."
"Well, I'm happy to hear I could help."
"I want to be with him again so badly. And I remember how much he struggled not to…"
"Not to what?"
"Not to have sex with me. We probably would have if didn't have to break up."
"Oh, well. He thought you were thirteen or something for a while so it would make sense."
"Yeah. And then the wedding was hard too." She saw the question on his face and smiled and sighed.
"Two of our best friends were getting married and of course me and Regal were invited. We had already had our last night together before the wedding. But seeing him and knowing I couldn't have him hurt too much. So he said we could spend that day together too but that was it. It was harder like he said to say goodbye but it was worth it."
He just sat there and nodded.
"Well, you know all there is to know about me, what about you?"
"There isn't much to know, I moved out of my parent's house and now I'm here. I don't have any siblings, nothing exciting. I suppose not all of us can date infamous aristocrats." He said smiling.
"I guess not." She said laughing too.
"It's getting late, you should go before it gets too dark."
"Yeah, I guess so. Good night Derik, thanks for having me over." She said as she stepped towards the door. But before she stepped out the opened door Derik kissed her lightly on the lips as a bright light flashed.
"So Miss Combatir what do you have to say? After your fiancée dies you go and kiss another man?" A reporter from a newspaper said as more flashes came.
Presea was sick of this, reporters were asking her questions left and right all the time no matter where she went. She kicked the reported in the stomach and shoved the photographer out of her way as she stormed off.
Derik felt bad about it, she would be all over headlines for that. He sighed and slammed the door at the reporter's eager face.
Presea curled up in her bed and cried herself to sleep.
Presea woke up and got a newspaper and read the headline:
Presea Combatir Caught Kissing Other Man After Death of Her Fiancé Regal Bryant
She threw it out and walked back inside and had just sat down when the phone rang.
She picked it up,
"Hello?" She said blankly.
"Hey Presea, it's Derik. Did you see the headlines?"
"Yeah."
"I'm sorry, I should have known not to and you love Regal anyways."
"Don't be so down about it. It's not your fault. I still love him but I have to move on. I have to find the man that makes me fall in love all over again."
"Well, I was wondering, would you? Never mind…"
"What?"
"I just wondered if you'd come…" He stopped abruptly and sighed.
"What is it?"
"Presea, let's just escape this whole mess and everything. Let's move out in the country side together."
"I don't know…"
"I knew it was a bad idea." He said and a long silence followed.
"It's a good idea, I'd love to." She said cheerfully, breaking the silence.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'll be over to pick you up in a few hours?"
"No."
"What do you mean?"
"I can't do this, I want to run away from all of this but I can't. You seem very nice and all, but I can't do this. I have to stay here." Presea sighed.
"I understand. See you around then?"
"No, I don't think so Derik. I'm really sorry, but something about this doesn't seem right." Presea said as she hung up the phone.
