Unexpected things
6 months later Simone and Todd were closer then ever, they spent every free moment they had together. Her father had accepted the fact that they were together and found out that he could actually get allong with Todd very well. He was a real army man after all, he had lots of potential to make it far in this mans army. The only thing that wasnt right was that Lucy looked more surley with each the day that went by, he had hoped that after that 1st time she hade gone out with Hoot they would grow towards eachother, he was a good man, and her father hoped that he would have a good influence on her.
After the night Hoot and Lucy almost kissed they never went out again, not that they didn't want to but Hoot was caught up in trainig with Delta most of the time and Lucy worked most of the days he was off. The only time they did meet was when Simone and Todd were arround or on the shooting range were they couldn't really talk, with his team hanging arround him most of the time.
Lucy had gained respect on the base by still maintaining the record on the shooting range; nobody had been able to break it but herself, each time raising it by a few points. This usually happened on days when she had seen Hoot the day before, she still didn't know what to think about what had happened between the two of them.
Simone, who had gotten tirrerd of counting bullets at the ammo depot, started training for communicationspecialist and was very pleased with her new job.
Lucy came home from work on night, she was very tirrerd, as the new trainee's had come in this week she had been very budy indeed at the range. She walked in and greeted her mother then took a shower; she was to tirrerd to eat so she planted herself on the bench outside and just sat there.
When Simone came home she saw her sister sitting in the bench in front of the house. "Hey are you ok?" She asked whil sitting down next to her. Lucy looked up at her "Yeah im fine, just tirrerd that's all. I can't believe how fast time has gone past." Simone smiled. "Yea I know, it's been 6 months to the day that Todd told me he loved me........." "So I guess that you two will be going out then tonight? Again." Lucy said looking at her shoes. Simone turned to her. "Whats wrong with you? You've been acting funny for weeks now?" "Nothing, I think I just feel kinda left out that's all. I mean you have Todd now and its been ages since we did anything together. I mean, its good that we've outgrown our childish little pranks and stopped pissing dad off as much as we could but I feel like im in a wrut. Everything is the same day in day out. We work, come home, you'll go out with Todd and tell me all about it when you get back, we go to bed and get up to go to work again. I don't know I just feel like there is something missing." Lucy lit a cigarette. Simone was feeling a bit guilty; she had been spending all her time with Todd. Maybe she was neglecting her sister? "Im sorry, I've been all selfish. I'll tell you what; let's go out this week, just the two of us." Simone sat there and smiled at Lucy, she shook her haed in agreement and the both of them walked in the house.
Hoot walked in the door and dropped his gear; he was so tirrerd it wasn't funny anymore. Todd walked out of the kitchen. "Excuse me? You would be who? I already have a roommate; he's just gone missing the past couple of months...." He laughed as did Hoot. They both sat down; Todd looked at him. "Man you look like absolute crapp! You ok?" Hoot nodded. "Fine, it only hurts when I move..." He could barly manage a grinn. "But hey, im the one that wanted to become Delta so its nobodys fault but my own... How have you been? I haven't seen you in a week." "Oh, Im fine! Nothing much, target practice and runs but just the basics, and of duty I spent most of my time Simone. Were going out tonight actually, I have something I need to tell you." Todd's face had gone quite serious. "Tonight is the night me and Simone have been together for 6 months, and I have planned a great night! But what I wanted ask and tell you is this; Im gonna aske her to marry me tonight, and I would like you to be my best man, if you want to that is....." Tood went silent waiting for Hoot's reaction. Hoot looked at him amazed. "You're getting married?? And you want me to be your best man?? Hell ya I will! Congratulations man!" He got up and huged his best friend. "Hang on man, its not like she has said yes yet!" Todd smiled. "I hope she does though!"
Simone and Lucy were sitting in the back garden when Todd came in; Simone stood up and kissed him. "Hey you, what happened? You're late." Todd still held her hand. "Im sorry sweety but Hoot was actually home, so we caught up a bit before I left." Simone smiled. "As he is your best friend you're forgivven, how is he anyway? I haven't seen him for a while." Todd kissed her again. "He's ok just beat that's all, the Delta training is getting to him." Lucy nodded. "I remember my own training, it was absolutelty grewling, but once that is done your fine. They just like to make you work hard in the beginning." Todd looked at her. "You already did all the training? I thought you only did basic Delta training." Lucy lit a cigarette. "No I did it all in one go wanted to get it all out of the way, actually the younges to ever do it." They talked a bit more and then Simome and Tod left.
Later that night, Simone was sitting on the hood of Todds at Table Top Mountain looking at the night sky, her hand in Todd's. "You know I can't believe its 6 months since the first time you brought me up her...." She sighed. Todd looked at her; he was so nervous he felt like he was going to throw up. "You know...." He started his sentence but as soon as she looked at him he stopped. Simone looked into his eyes, something wasn't right he had a funny look in his eyes. "Whats wrong?" Todd stood up. "Ok just let me do this ok, don't interupt me or it will never go right." Simone threw him a curious look but nodded in agreement. Todd now stood facing her. "You know you are so very beautifull it actually hurts when I look at you. Everytime you smile at me my day gets better, if I have to say goodbye to you I feel like my hart will be ripped out of my body the second I leave you." He leant in to kiss her. "And that brings me to what I actually wanted to say, well ask you." He got her hand and helped her of the car, and then he bent down on one knee and took a small box from his pocket. "Simone MacArthur, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"
Simone's hart didn't just skipp a beat, for a few seconds it actually stopped beating all together. Tears welled up in her eyes while he got out a beautyfull white gold ring with a little row of diamonds on top and put it on her finger. Unable to say a word she looked at him and franticly nodded yes. Todd smiled widely before getting up to take her in his arms. "Thank god! I was so afraid you were going to say no!" He looked at her for a second before kissing her pasionatily, putting all the love he felt for her in that one kiss.
They sat on the mountain for a few more hours before he finally brought her home.
When Simone got to the house, she ran straight to Lucy's room. Lucy was already a sleep as she jumped onto the bed. "Wake up! Wake up! Come on wake up!" Lucy shot up from her pillow. "What! What happened is anything wrong?" Simone smiled whidly. "Absolutely nothing! Everything is perfect!" Lucy rubbed her eyes. "Then would you mind telling me why you woke me up in the middle of the fucking night?" Simone said nothing but just put up her hand and showed her the ring Todd had givven her. "Oh my god! Is that... No he didn't, did he? Did you..?" Simone shook her head franticly. Lucy bent over and huged her sister. "Congratulations! Oh im so happy for you!" Still holding on to eachother Simone sat back and told her sister everything that happened.
Todd walked into the appartment still floating on a cloud, she had said yes! When he got to the living room he saw Hoot streched out on the couch; fast a sleep. "He man, wake up and go to bed." He touched Hoot on the shoulder. Hoot jumped as Todd touched his shoulder. "Hey! Oh it's you? And how did it go? Do I have to go and buy me a pretty suit??" Hoot asked with a smile. Todd said nothing but smiled at him in a way which told him that Simone had said yes.
Simone put her haed on Lucy's shoulder. "Im so happy! But He's coming over tomorrow morning to tell mom and dad with me. What If daddy is against it? What if he won't let me marry Todd?" She actually looked scared. Lucy still had her in her arms. "Don't worry, he likes Todd, he can't forbid you to marry him as you are a legal adult. And if he is againts it then tough on him, he'll come round in the end, I'll make sure of that. And else he will just disown you, and I'll be an only child again." She said smiling and stroking her sister's hair. Simone looked up at her. "Thanks you, by the way will you be my maid of honor?" Lucy smiled. "I would have gotten very upset if you hadn't asked me that, of course I will."
The next morning Simone waited for Lucy to go in for breakfast. She feared to tell her father by herself. She hoped Todd would get there in time.
At the agreed time Todd showed up. When he walked in Lucy greeted him with a smile that told him she knew. The general greeted him and they all sat down for breakfast. Lucy kept looking over at Simone trying her best to urge her with her look to tell their father about her getting married. After a few more minutes she put her knife and fork down, took one look at Lucy and turned to her father. "Dad, Todd and I have something to tell you and mom." She looked at her parents. She felt Todd grab her hand under the table and turned to her parents. "Sir, Ma'am, I have asked Simone to marry me and she has accepted." For a few seconds there was total silence. Her father put down his knife and fork and put his hands on the table, and looked at the both of them. "So you think you want to get married?" Her father said in his most superior voice. Todd stared at him for a moment. "No sir, we don't think we want to get married. We ARE getting married." Their father had now lost his cool. "You obnoxious little shit! Were do you get off asking my daughter to marry you without asking my consent? I will not have it, I forbid it!" He hit the table with his hand which made them all jump. Simone looked at her father. "I don't actually need your consent dad. I am old enough; I hoped you and mom would be happy for us." Her father looked at her. "You're too young! The both of you! It won't happen!" He stood there looking from Todd to Simone. Lucy decided this was the part she should step in. "Dad listen, they obviously want to get married. There are a few scenarios how this could go down. The first on is you don't want them to and they will elope and you will mostlikely not see them for a long time, or ever. The second is that Simone could get pregnant so you will make them marry, or you could just congratulate them and be happy for them." Lucy looked at her father's inner struggle, he knew she was right but he didn't want to admit it to himself or her. He and she were so alike. Eventually he sat down and said; "Ok if you want to then that's the way it shall be!" Simone walked over to him and hugged him while her mother congratulated Todd. Lucy sat back in her chair, she was happy for them both.
That night Lucy, Simone and Todd went out for a celebration drink. They had loads of fun and it was late when they stepped out of the bar. Todd looked over at Lucy. "I think you've had a bit enough to drink to be driving." Lucy swayed a bit. "Oh yeah! How am I supposed to get back then? You gonna drive me back?" Simone rested her head on Todd's shoulder. "Tired; do we have to go all the way back to the base? Can't she also stay at you're place?" Lucy looked at Simone. "Oh I get to lie on a lumpy couch?" Todd thought for a moment. "That's not a bad idea! You could take Hoot's room! He's out on exercise and won't be back till tomorrow night." They all agreed that it was the best idea, got into Todd's car and drove to his apartment. When they got there they said a quick good night and went to bed. Lucy looked across the bedroom, everything was in perfect place. Neat and tidy. She looked on the shelf and saw a stack of green shirts. She decided to borrow one to sleep in, changed and got into bed.
Hoot opened the door. He was beat but happy at the same time. He and his team had finished the exercise in record time! All he wanted now was a shower and his bed. When he got out of the shower he put on a pair of shorts and climbed into bed. When he pulled on the sheets they seemed to be stuck on something. He pulled harder, now the sheets moved but a figure appeared from underneath them. He lit the light beside his bed and looked at the figure in his bed. Amongst a sea of curls he recognized Lucy's face. What was she doing in his bed? He sat up and touched her arm to wake her. Lucy felt herself shaking, someone was touching her but she was alone! She shot up and punched her assassin in the face. The person fell back of the bed; she jumped out of the bed and switched on the lights. Hoot lay on the floor holding on to his nose for a second then looking at her. "Well hi to you to." Lucy looked at him. "Oh my god I am so sorry." She walked over to him and helped him up. When she stood in front of him she put her hand on the side of his face to see the spot where she had hit him. A red mark started to form by the side of his eye. "I'm so very sorry! We should put some ice on that!" They walked to the kitchen where she made him sit down in a chair while she got a cloth and put some ice in it. She walked towards him and gently put the cloth on his face. He flinched the second the ice hit his eye. "Oh sorry, does it hurt badly?" Lucy asked still standing between his legs. Hoot looked up at her. "No not that bad, you have a good right hook. If you wanted to get even you could have gone about it different you know." Lucy looked puzzled. "Get even?" "Yeah for the bruise I gave you when we first met." He smiled as did she. He sat there looking at her, and then he noticed she was wearing one of his shirts and nothing else. He got up and took the ice pack from her hand and put it on the table. She looked at him while he still held onto her hands. Her mouth was slightly open and he couldn't tare his eyes away from hers. Her face had haunted him for months in his dreams at night or every other moment his brain's hadn't been occupied with something else. He had even avoided going to the range when she was there, because his average went down with each time. If he knew she was there he couldn't concentrate. Lucy look up at him, his eyes seemed to be looking straight through her. Her anxiety had reached its peak. Was he going to kiss her?
Hoot bent down and kissed her, first a simple soft kiss on her lips, not knowing how she would react. He looked in her eyes for a moment and then bent down for a second kiss, this one a bit longer than the first. Again he stepped back to look at her, he half expected her to hit him again but she just stood there looking at him with a glazed over her eyes. She let her tounge slide past her lips asif trying to taste him on them, the second he saw that he was lost; he took her in his arms and kissed her again, this time passionately. Lucy wrapped her arms round his neck, she felt herself get soft in the knees, the longer their kiss went on. They stood there kissing until eventually Hoot pulled back, his breathing was fast, as was hers. "I've waited so long to do that wasn't funny anymore" He said stroking the side of her face. Lucy looked at him but didn't say anything, her brain was still trying to grasp the concept that he had kissed her; she put her hand towards her lips and gently touched them with the tips of her fingers, they were a bit swollen from their kiss, her hand was shaking. Hoot took hold of her hand and brought her fingers to him mouth and kissed them one by one. "Are you ok?" Lucy looked up at him as if coming out of a trance. "Im fine... I think. What just happened here?" Hoot looked at her and smiled. "I think it was something allong the lines of this..." He said before kissing her again. It took them a bit longer to break appart this time; when they did they just looked at eachtother. "Ok so that really was what hapend." Lucy said with a faint smile on her face. "Oh yeah it was, and quite nice too if I might say." Hoot said with his hands still on her hips. Lucy backed away from him a bit, when he was so close to her she couldn't think. "It was but......... oh I don't know! Were does this go now? What is going to happen?" Hoot could feel her pulling away from him both fisically and mentally, was she that afraid of what might happen between them? "Nothing that either of us doesn't want to happen, I sugest we get a drink and sit down for a while." He turned round to get some beer from the refrigarator, then took her by the hand and led her to the couch. They sat there for a while, the both of them to deep in their own thoughts to say anything. "You know we should get some sleep, it might be weekend but still." Lucy said looking at Hoot. "Well im not actually that tirrerd anymore, are you?" He had sat up and looked at her. "No not really, but we can't sit here like a couple of idiots for the rest of the night." She gestured to the both of them. Hoot got up. "I know, we'll watch a movie or something, I have Dickens David Copperfield on tape." Lucy nodded in agreement so Hoot got the tape and put it on.
The sat beside eachother watching the movie, after an hour or so Lucy fell asleep. She streched out and ended up with her head on Hoot's shoulder. When he felt her head softly collide with his shoulder he was surprised, but didn't want to move, in fear of waking her up. Not long after that he also fell a sleep.
Hoot felt something go past his chest, ho opend up his eyes thinking he was dreaming. When he looked down to his chest he saw a sea of curls there. Lucy had laid herself agianst him, her cheek on his chest and her hand next to her face. His arm had slid down of the back of the couch and it rested on her back and side. He felt himself get warm inside and stroked some of the hairs out of the way so he coulds look at her face while she slept. He put his hand on hers and closed his eyes again.
Simone woke up and looked at Todd. Goodmorning, what are you doing exactely?" Todd looked at her again and smiled. "Nothing just looking at you sleeping." Simone gave a graet yawn. "Im still so tirrerd you wouldn't believe." "How can that be?" Todd kissed her forehead. Simone kissed him on the lips. "That might be because we didn't do much sleeping last night. Would you be a truelly sweet man and go and make me some coffee?"
Todd put on his yeans and looked at her. "The things I won't do for love." Simone looked at him from the bed with a twinkle in her eye. "The things you won't do for a kiss." She laughed when he walked out of the room. Simone laid back down, she still couldn't believe it, she was engaged to be married!
Todd walked back in to the room with an even bigger smile on his face then when he left, "You cant have made me coffee this fast, or did you miss me that much?" She watched him pointing towards the door. "You really shoold come and see this..." "See what? Simone asked. "You wouldn't take my word for it anyway; just go into the livvingroom and look." Todd crossed his arms and waited for her to get up, wrap the sheet arround herself and walk out of the room talking to her self. "I can't believe what is so fucking important I have to get out of bed to go look at what he cant tell me.... O my god!" The minute she heard herself speak she clapped her hand on her mouth. There on the couch laying arms wrapped arround eachother were her sister and Hoot. She turned round and walked back to Todd's bedroom, almost fallign over the sheet a couple of times. "Did you see the two of them? Tell me you didn't know he was going to be home!" Todd shook his head. "He as far as I knew he wasn't going to be back here until at least tonight. But what do we do know? I would like to take a picture of this... that's the nicest I've seen them act towards eachother since they met, not counting the almost kiss we interupted." Simone walked up to him pointing a finger in his direction. "Don't you dare!? Leave them alone, if they are not up by the time we are done we can wake them." Tood looked at her. "Done with what?" "What do you think? Im not going back to sleep that's for sure." Simone awnserd back with a sneaky smile on her face before kissing him.
Lucy was awake but she didn't want to open her eyes, she just laid there listening to the steady beating of his hart and the constantness of his breathing. Her hand was on his chest and she felt his arm round her waist. I she would move he would wake up and this moment would be over and she really didn't want it to.
Hoot opend his eyes for a second, she was awake because the tempo of her breathing had changed. He had lay there listening to it for the past couple of hours. He had woken up early but hadn't wanted to move, the feeling of her arms round him had felt too good. When he had heard voices in the living room he thought that I all would heve been over but Simone or Todd had just turned round and left them again, he was very gratefull to one of them.
Simone put on Todd's bathrobe and walked out of the room. "Where are you going?" Todd asked opening his eyes. "To get the coffee you were supposed to make for me...." She smiled and walked out of the room. When she got to the living room she looked round the corner to see weither Hoot and Lucy were still both a sleep. When she looked, Hoot was awake just staring at her sister while she still slept, with her head on his chest. She mouthed hello to Hoot and made her way to the kitchen to make coffee. Hoot knew that he had to wake Lucy up, so he softely slid his fingers down her cheek. "Time to wake up." He kissed her forehead and looked at her to see if she had opened her eyes. Lucy opend her eyes and looked at him. "Goodmorning." She sat up, pushing herself of his chest. He looked at her for a moment and then kissed her softly. "Did you sleep ok?" "Fine, I hope I wasn't too much of a problem, you could have woken me up and gotten in to your own bed instead of sittign here." She said quite embarresed. "Naw I was ok right here." He smiled at her. Simone waited until they had finished there goodmornings and then walked out of the kitchen. "Ha, your awake... You'd better get a move on, dad 'll flipp if we're not in church." She handed them both a cup of coffee and dissapeard in the shower.
When they all had breakfast the guys drove them to their house so they could change for church. Their father never mentioned the fact that they had both stayed away all night and just smiled a small smile when he saw Lucy getting out of Hoot's car.
Later that day their father had gone to the officers club with the guys, Simone and Lucy sat outside basking in the sunlight. "So what happened last night? I meani was expecting to see you this morning but not in Hoot's arms." Simone looked at Lucy. "Well he came back from the exircise early and found me in his bed. I punched him in the face cause I thought he was a burglar, after I saw it was him I took him to the kitchen and put some ice on his eye. We wernt sleepy anymore after all the commotion so decided to watch a movie and fell a sleep on the couch." Lucy looked at her feet; this was a sign for Simone that she was keeping something from her. "And?" She urged her. Lucy looked at her sister for a second, not sure weither to tell her what had happened. They had never kept anything from eachother so she decided to tell her. "Well we kissed." Simone smiled. "Well this has turned out to be a week of unexpected things......"
6 months later Simone and Todd were closer then ever, they spent every free moment they had together. Her father had accepted the fact that they were together and found out that he could actually get allong with Todd very well. He was a real army man after all, he had lots of potential to make it far in this mans army. The only thing that wasnt right was that Lucy looked more surley with each the day that went by, he had hoped that after that 1st time she hade gone out with Hoot they would grow towards eachother, he was a good man, and her father hoped that he would have a good influence on her.
After the night Hoot and Lucy almost kissed they never went out again, not that they didn't want to but Hoot was caught up in trainig with Delta most of the time and Lucy worked most of the days he was off. The only time they did meet was when Simone and Todd were arround or on the shooting range were they couldn't really talk, with his team hanging arround him most of the time.
Lucy had gained respect on the base by still maintaining the record on the shooting range; nobody had been able to break it but herself, each time raising it by a few points. This usually happened on days when she had seen Hoot the day before, she still didn't know what to think about what had happened between the two of them.
Simone, who had gotten tirrerd of counting bullets at the ammo depot, started training for communicationspecialist and was very pleased with her new job.
Lucy came home from work on night, she was very tirrerd, as the new trainee's had come in this week she had been very budy indeed at the range. She walked in and greeted her mother then took a shower; she was to tirrerd to eat so she planted herself on the bench outside and just sat there.
When Simone came home she saw her sister sitting in the bench in front of the house. "Hey are you ok?" She asked whil sitting down next to her. Lucy looked up at her "Yeah im fine, just tirrerd that's all. I can't believe how fast time has gone past." Simone smiled. "Yea I know, it's been 6 months to the day that Todd told me he loved me........." "So I guess that you two will be going out then tonight? Again." Lucy said looking at her shoes. Simone turned to her. "Whats wrong with you? You've been acting funny for weeks now?" "Nothing, I think I just feel kinda left out that's all. I mean you have Todd now and its been ages since we did anything together. I mean, its good that we've outgrown our childish little pranks and stopped pissing dad off as much as we could but I feel like im in a wrut. Everything is the same day in day out. We work, come home, you'll go out with Todd and tell me all about it when you get back, we go to bed and get up to go to work again. I don't know I just feel like there is something missing." Lucy lit a cigarette. Simone was feeling a bit guilty; she had been spending all her time with Todd. Maybe she was neglecting her sister? "Im sorry, I've been all selfish. I'll tell you what; let's go out this week, just the two of us." Simone sat there and smiled at Lucy, she shook her haed in agreement and the both of them walked in the house.
Hoot walked in the door and dropped his gear; he was so tirrerd it wasn't funny anymore. Todd walked out of the kitchen. "Excuse me? You would be who? I already have a roommate; he's just gone missing the past couple of months...." He laughed as did Hoot. They both sat down; Todd looked at him. "Man you look like absolute crapp! You ok?" Hoot nodded. "Fine, it only hurts when I move..." He could barly manage a grinn. "But hey, im the one that wanted to become Delta so its nobodys fault but my own... How have you been? I haven't seen you in a week." "Oh, Im fine! Nothing much, target practice and runs but just the basics, and of duty I spent most of my time Simone. Were going out tonight actually, I have something I need to tell you." Todd's face had gone quite serious. "Tonight is the night me and Simone have been together for 6 months, and I have planned a great night! But what I wanted ask and tell you is this; Im gonna aske her to marry me tonight, and I would like you to be my best man, if you want to that is....." Tood went silent waiting for Hoot's reaction. Hoot looked at him amazed. "You're getting married?? And you want me to be your best man?? Hell ya I will! Congratulations man!" He got up and huged his best friend. "Hang on man, its not like she has said yes yet!" Todd smiled. "I hope she does though!"
Simone and Lucy were sitting in the back garden when Todd came in; Simone stood up and kissed him. "Hey you, what happened? You're late." Todd still held her hand. "Im sorry sweety but Hoot was actually home, so we caught up a bit before I left." Simone smiled. "As he is your best friend you're forgivven, how is he anyway? I haven't seen him for a while." Todd kissed her again. "He's ok just beat that's all, the Delta training is getting to him." Lucy nodded. "I remember my own training, it was absolutelty grewling, but once that is done your fine. They just like to make you work hard in the beginning." Todd looked at her. "You already did all the training? I thought you only did basic Delta training." Lucy lit a cigarette. "No I did it all in one go wanted to get it all out of the way, actually the younges to ever do it." They talked a bit more and then Simome and Tod left.
Later that night, Simone was sitting on the hood of Todds at Table Top Mountain looking at the night sky, her hand in Todd's. "You know I can't believe its 6 months since the first time you brought me up her...." She sighed. Todd looked at her; he was so nervous he felt like he was going to throw up. "You know...." He started his sentence but as soon as she looked at him he stopped. Simone looked into his eyes, something wasn't right he had a funny look in his eyes. "Whats wrong?" Todd stood up. "Ok just let me do this ok, don't interupt me or it will never go right." Simone threw him a curious look but nodded in agreement. Todd now stood facing her. "You know you are so very beautifull it actually hurts when I look at you. Everytime you smile at me my day gets better, if I have to say goodbye to you I feel like my hart will be ripped out of my body the second I leave you." He leant in to kiss her. "And that brings me to what I actually wanted to say, well ask you." He got her hand and helped her of the car, and then he bent down on one knee and took a small box from his pocket. "Simone MacArthur, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"
Simone's hart didn't just skipp a beat, for a few seconds it actually stopped beating all together. Tears welled up in her eyes while he got out a beautyfull white gold ring with a little row of diamonds on top and put it on her finger. Unable to say a word she looked at him and franticly nodded yes. Todd smiled widely before getting up to take her in his arms. "Thank god! I was so afraid you were going to say no!" He looked at her for a second before kissing her pasionatily, putting all the love he felt for her in that one kiss.
They sat on the mountain for a few more hours before he finally brought her home.
When Simone got to the house, she ran straight to Lucy's room. Lucy was already a sleep as she jumped onto the bed. "Wake up! Wake up! Come on wake up!" Lucy shot up from her pillow. "What! What happened is anything wrong?" Simone smiled whidly. "Absolutely nothing! Everything is perfect!" Lucy rubbed her eyes. "Then would you mind telling me why you woke me up in the middle of the fucking night?" Simone said nothing but just put up her hand and showed her the ring Todd had givven her. "Oh my god! Is that... No he didn't, did he? Did you..?" Simone shook her head franticly. Lucy bent over and huged her sister. "Congratulations! Oh im so happy for you!" Still holding on to eachother Simone sat back and told her sister everything that happened.
Todd walked into the appartment still floating on a cloud, she had said yes! When he got to the living room he saw Hoot streched out on the couch; fast a sleep. "He man, wake up and go to bed." He touched Hoot on the shoulder. Hoot jumped as Todd touched his shoulder. "Hey! Oh it's you? And how did it go? Do I have to go and buy me a pretty suit??" Hoot asked with a smile. Todd said nothing but smiled at him in a way which told him that Simone had said yes.
Simone put her haed on Lucy's shoulder. "Im so happy! But He's coming over tomorrow morning to tell mom and dad with me. What If daddy is against it? What if he won't let me marry Todd?" She actually looked scared. Lucy still had her in her arms. "Don't worry, he likes Todd, he can't forbid you to marry him as you are a legal adult. And if he is againts it then tough on him, he'll come round in the end, I'll make sure of that. And else he will just disown you, and I'll be an only child again." She said smiling and stroking her sister's hair. Simone looked up at her. "Thanks you, by the way will you be my maid of honor?" Lucy smiled. "I would have gotten very upset if you hadn't asked me that, of course I will."
The next morning Simone waited for Lucy to go in for breakfast. She feared to tell her father by herself. She hoped Todd would get there in time.
At the agreed time Todd showed up. When he walked in Lucy greeted him with a smile that told him she knew. The general greeted him and they all sat down for breakfast. Lucy kept looking over at Simone trying her best to urge her with her look to tell their father about her getting married. After a few more minutes she put her knife and fork down, took one look at Lucy and turned to her father. "Dad, Todd and I have something to tell you and mom." She looked at her parents. She felt Todd grab her hand under the table and turned to her parents. "Sir, Ma'am, I have asked Simone to marry me and she has accepted." For a few seconds there was total silence. Her father put down his knife and fork and put his hands on the table, and looked at the both of them. "So you think you want to get married?" Her father said in his most superior voice. Todd stared at him for a moment. "No sir, we don't think we want to get married. We ARE getting married." Their father had now lost his cool. "You obnoxious little shit! Were do you get off asking my daughter to marry you without asking my consent? I will not have it, I forbid it!" He hit the table with his hand which made them all jump. Simone looked at her father. "I don't actually need your consent dad. I am old enough; I hoped you and mom would be happy for us." Her father looked at her. "You're too young! The both of you! It won't happen!" He stood there looking from Todd to Simone. Lucy decided this was the part she should step in. "Dad listen, they obviously want to get married. There are a few scenarios how this could go down. The first on is you don't want them to and they will elope and you will mostlikely not see them for a long time, or ever. The second is that Simone could get pregnant so you will make them marry, or you could just congratulate them and be happy for them." Lucy looked at her father's inner struggle, he knew she was right but he didn't want to admit it to himself or her. He and she were so alike. Eventually he sat down and said; "Ok if you want to then that's the way it shall be!" Simone walked over to him and hugged him while her mother congratulated Todd. Lucy sat back in her chair, she was happy for them both.
That night Lucy, Simone and Todd went out for a celebration drink. They had loads of fun and it was late when they stepped out of the bar. Todd looked over at Lucy. "I think you've had a bit enough to drink to be driving." Lucy swayed a bit. "Oh yeah! How am I supposed to get back then? You gonna drive me back?" Simone rested her head on Todd's shoulder. "Tired; do we have to go all the way back to the base? Can't she also stay at you're place?" Lucy looked at Simone. "Oh I get to lie on a lumpy couch?" Todd thought for a moment. "That's not a bad idea! You could take Hoot's room! He's out on exercise and won't be back till tomorrow night." They all agreed that it was the best idea, got into Todd's car and drove to his apartment. When they got there they said a quick good night and went to bed. Lucy looked across the bedroom, everything was in perfect place. Neat and tidy. She looked on the shelf and saw a stack of green shirts. She decided to borrow one to sleep in, changed and got into bed.
Hoot opened the door. He was beat but happy at the same time. He and his team had finished the exercise in record time! All he wanted now was a shower and his bed. When he got out of the shower he put on a pair of shorts and climbed into bed. When he pulled on the sheets they seemed to be stuck on something. He pulled harder, now the sheets moved but a figure appeared from underneath them. He lit the light beside his bed and looked at the figure in his bed. Amongst a sea of curls he recognized Lucy's face. What was she doing in his bed? He sat up and touched her arm to wake her. Lucy felt herself shaking, someone was touching her but she was alone! She shot up and punched her assassin in the face. The person fell back of the bed; she jumped out of the bed and switched on the lights. Hoot lay on the floor holding on to his nose for a second then looking at her. "Well hi to you to." Lucy looked at him. "Oh my god I am so sorry." She walked over to him and helped him up. When she stood in front of him she put her hand on the side of his face to see the spot where she had hit him. A red mark started to form by the side of his eye. "I'm so very sorry! We should put some ice on that!" They walked to the kitchen where she made him sit down in a chair while she got a cloth and put some ice in it. She walked towards him and gently put the cloth on his face. He flinched the second the ice hit his eye. "Oh sorry, does it hurt badly?" Lucy asked still standing between his legs. Hoot looked up at her. "No not that bad, you have a good right hook. If you wanted to get even you could have gone about it different you know." Lucy looked puzzled. "Get even?" "Yeah for the bruise I gave you when we first met." He smiled as did she. He sat there looking at her, and then he noticed she was wearing one of his shirts and nothing else. He got up and took the ice pack from her hand and put it on the table. She looked at him while he still held onto her hands. Her mouth was slightly open and he couldn't tare his eyes away from hers. Her face had haunted him for months in his dreams at night or every other moment his brain's hadn't been occupied with something else. He had even avoided going to the range when she was there, because his average went down with each time. If he knew she was there he couldn't concentrate. Lucy look up at him, his eyes seemed to be looking straight through her. Her anxiety had reached its peak. Was he going to kiss her?
Hoot bent down and kissed her, first a simple soft kiss on her lips, not knowing how she would react. He looked in her eyes for a moment and then bent down for a second kiss, this one a bit longer than the first. Again he stepped back to look at her, he half expected her to hit him again but she just stood there looking at him with a glazed over her eyes. She let her tounge slide past her lips asif trying to taste him on them, the second he saw that he was lost; he took her in his arms and kissed her again, this time passionately. Lucy wrapped her arms round his neck, she felt herself get soft in the knees, the longer their kiss went on. They stood there kissing until eventually Hoot pulled back, his breathing was fast, as was hers. "I've waited so long to do that wasn't funny anymore" He said stroking the side of her face. Lucy looked at him but didn't say anything, her brain was still trying to grasp the concept that he had kissed her; she put her hand towards her lips and gently touched them with the tips of her fingers, they were a bit swollen from their kiss, her hand was shaking. Hoot took hold of her hand and brought her fingers to him mouth and kissed them one by one. "Are you ok?" Lucy looked up at him as if coming out of a trance. "Im fine... I think. What just happened here?" Hoot looked at her and smiled. "I think it was something allong the lines of this..." He said before kissing her again. It took them a bit longer to break appart this time; when they did they just looked at eachtother. "Ok so that really was what hapend." Lucy said with a faint smile on her face. "Oh yeah it was, and quite nice too if I might say." Hoot said with his hands still on her hips. Lucy backed away from him a bit, when he was so close to her she couldn't think. "It was but......... oh I don't know! Were does this go now? What is going to happen?" Hoot could feel her pulling away from him both fisically and mentally, was she that afraid of what might happen between them? "Nothing that either of us doesn't want to happen, I sugest we get a drink and sit down for a while." He turned round to get some beer from the refrigarator, then took her by the hand and led her to the couch. They sat there for a while, the both of them to deep in their own thoughts to say anything. "You know we should get some sleep, it might be weekend but still." Lucy said looking at Hoot. "Well im not actually that tirrerd anymore, are you?" He had sat up and looked at her. "No not really, but we can't sit here like a couple of idiots for the rest of the night." She gestured to the both of them. Hoot got up. "I know, we'll watch a movie or something, I have Dickens David Copperfield on tape." Lucy nodded in agreement so Hoot got the tape and put it on.
The sat beside eachother watching the movie, after an hour or so Lucy fell asleep. She streched out and ended up with her head on Hoot's shoulder. When he felt her head softly collide with his shoulder he was surprised, but didn't want to move, in fear of waking her up. Not long after that he also fell a sleep.
Hoot felt something go past his chest, ho opend up his eyes thinking he was dreaming. When he looked down to his chest he saw a sea of curls there. Lucy had laid herself agianst him, her cheek on his chest and her hand next to her face. His arm had slid down of the back of the couch and it rested on her back and side. He felt himself get warm inside and stroked some of the hairs out of the way so he coulds look at her face while she slept. He put his hand on hers and closed his eyes again.
Simone woke up and looked at Todd. Goodmorning, what are you doing exactely?" Todd looked at her again and smiled. "Nothing just looking at you sleeping." Simone gave a graet yawn. "Im still so tirrerd you wouldn't believe." "How can that be?" Todd kissed her forehead. Simone kissed him on the lips. "That might be because we didn't do much sleeping last night. Would you be a truelly sweet man and go and make me some coffee?"
Todd put on his yeans and looked at her. "The things I won't do for love." Simone looked at him from the bed with a twinkle in her eye. "The things you won't do for a kiss." She laughed when he walked out of the room. Simone laid back down, she still couldn't believe it, she was engaged to be married!
Todd walked back in to the room with an even bigger smile on his face then when he left, "You cant have made me coffee this fast, or did you miss me that much?" She watched him pointing towards the door. "You really shoold come and see this..." "See what? Simone asked. "You wouldn't take my word for it anyway; just go into the livvingroom and look." Todd crossed his arms and waited for her to get up, wrap the sheet arround herself and walk out of the room talking to her self. "I can't believe what is so fucking important I have to get out of bed to go look at what he cant tell me.... O my god!" The minute she heard herself speak she clapped her hand on her mouth. There on the couch laying arms wrapped arround eachother were her sister and Hoot. She turned round and walked back to Todd's bedroom, almost fallign over the sheet a couple of times. "Did you see the two of them? Tell me you didn't know he was going to be home!" Todd shook his head. "He as far as I knew he wasn't going to be back here until at least tonight. But what do we do know? I would like to take a picture of this... that's the nicest I've seen them act towards eachother since they met, not counting the almost kiss we interupted." Simone walked up to him pointing a finger in his direction. "Don't you dare!? Leave them alone, if they are not up by the time we are done we can wake them." Tood looked at her. "Done with what?" "What do you think? Im not going back to sleep that's for sure." Simone awnserd back with a sneaky smile on her face before kissing him.
Lucy was awake but she didn't want to open her eyes, she just laid there listening to the steady beating of his hart and the constantness of his breathing. Her hand was on his chest and she felt his arm round her waist. I she would move he would wake up and this moment would be over and she really didn't want it to.
Hoot opend his eyes for a second, she was awake because the tempo of her breathing had changed. He had lay there listening to it for the past couple of hours. He had woken up early but hadn't wanted to move, the feeling of her arms round him had felt too good. When he had heard voices in the living room he thought that I all would heve been over but Simone or Todd had just turned round and left them again, he was very gratefull to one of them.
Simone put on Todd's bathrobe and walked out of the room. "Where are you going?" Todd asked opening his eyes. "To get the coffee you were supposed to make for me...." She smiled and walked out of the room. When she got to the living room she looked round the corner to see weither Hoot and Lucy were still both a sleep. When she looked, Hoot was awake just staring at her sister while she still slept, with her head on his chest. She mouthed hello to Hoot and made her way to the kitchen to make coffee. Hoot knew that he had to wake Lucy up, so he softely slid his fingers down her cheek. "Time to wake up." He kissed her forehead and looked at her to see if she had opened her eyes. Lucy opend her eyes and looked at him. "Goodmorning." She sat up, pushing herself of his chest. He looked at her for a moment and then kissed her softly. "Did you sleep ok?" "Fine, I hope I wasn't too much of a problem, you could have woken me up and gotten in to your own bed instead of sittign here." She said quite embarresed. "Naw I was ok right here." He smiled at her. Simone waited until they had finished there goodmornings and then walked out of the kitchen. "Ha, your awake... You'd better get a move on, dad 'll flipp if we're not in church." She handed them both a cup of coffee and dissapeard in the shower.
When they all had breakfast the guys drove them to their house so they could change for church. Their father never mentioned the fact that they had both stayed away all night and just smiled a small smile when he saw Lucy getting out of Hoot's car.
Later that day their father had gone to the officers club with the guys, Simone and Lucy sat outside basking in the sunlight. "So what happened last night? I meani was expecting to see you this morning but not in Hoot's arms." Simone looked at Lucy. "Well he came back from the exircise early and found me in his bed. I punched him in the face cause I thought he was a burglar, after I saw it was him I took him to the kitchen and put some ice on his eye. We wernt sleepy anymore after all the commotion so decided to watch a movie and fell a sleep on the couch." Lucy looked at her feet; this was a sign for Simone that she was keeping something from her. "And?" She urged her. Lucy looked at her sister for a second, not sure weither to tell her what had happened. They had never kept anything from eachother so she decided to tell her. "Well we kissed." Simone smiled. "Well this has turned out to be a week of unexpected things......"