Two years have passed and still nothing, he did love her, but she wasn't sure if she loved him. Karen looked out at the waterfall near to where she was standing, it is beautiful, it seemed to shine in the sun. She had met him two years ago when he had come into the shop to buy some seeds, Duke had also come in at the same time and had bought some cooking oil, he wouldn't pay right away, but He told Duke to pay and then she had come into the shop and saw them talking about it, Duke saw her and paid up.
"Thank you." She had said to him, watching him, trying to recognise him from somewhere, she was sure she had met him before.
"It's okay." Was all he said and then she went back in the house that was linked to the shop. Since that day, he had come round many times to see her, he brought gifts and talked to her, she talked to him as well, she could feel herself very slowly falling in love with him, but why, she didn't know him. Over the first year, their love for each other slowly grew and Karen began looking forward to his visits. She even watched him as he worked, not that he saw her, she had found a good place to watch him without being seen. She would fantasise about what it would be like to be his wife and she held on to those fantasies, she wanted him badly. Footsteps, it's him, it's her lover.
"Hi Karen, taking a walk? Mind if I ask you something?" This was it, this was what she had waited two years for, he was going to propose, she had been in the shop when he had bought the Blue Feather.
"Sure, what is it?" He took something out of his rucksack which he used while working, it was a pizza he had just made.
"Would you like some?" What is he doing? Where's the feather?
"Thank you, you are very kind." As she cut a slice for herself, he took something else out and said.
"Karen, would you do me the honour of becoming my wife?" She looked up and saw in his hand, the feather. At last, after all this time, all this waiting!
"Yes, I will, damn it, I will marry you! Come here and give me a kiss." They kissed and eight days later, they got married. Karen is happy now, she feels sorry for Rick, she did love him, but not as much as she loved her farmer, they had many kids, and a long, happy marriage. When they died of old age in each other's arms, the last thing she said before she died was,
"Thank you." They were buried together, a coffin made that would allow them to hold hands even in death, he had kept his promise and come back to her and she had kept her promise and waited.