Torrance opened her humungous closet. She was lucky to have a friend like Darcy who had a generous dad. Darcy, Casey, and Torrance had all moved in together, after Darcy's dad had bought her a 5-bedroomed mansion just around the corner from the college. Torrance's bedroom was huge, overlooking the local park. It was painted a bright, zingy pink, and her duvet was a deep purple. Her walk-in closet was so big you could practically class it as a bedroom itself.
"Hmmm." Torrance thought to herself. What should she wear? Her eye caught her old Ranche Carne cheerleading uniform, its bright red triggering loads of memories. But she couldn't wear that to a party! No, she picked out a short white mini-skirt, and her white high heeled sandals, and decided on her black halter-neck top to top off her casual, yet sophisticated look. She slipped on her clothes, and looked in the mirror.
"AHHH! My hair!" her hair was a complete mess, and she only had half an hour to do it. So she got to work, styling. She decided to curl it, and put it in a side parting so she could clip part of it back. She added some periwinkle blue eyeshadow, which she knew complimented her eyes, and added some of her new sparkling lip gloss. She looked perfect, and she hoped Cliff would think so too. She grabbed her silver handbag, placed her phone in, and her lip gloss. She checked the mirror one last time, and then rushed down the stairs. To her surprise, she found Darcy in the lounge, studying.
"Hey, Darcy, aren't you coming to the party?" Torrance questioned, and sat down on the edge of the sofa.
"Don't.Even.Ask." Darcy growled. "I have to study for this stupid test, when I could be out partying, I hate Math!"
"Geez, it's a hard life!" Torrance laughed. "Where's Casey?"
"Oh, I think she's out with her boyfriend."
"Casey has a boyfriend? Aww that is so cute!" Torrance said, smiling at the thought of it. Suddenly the doorbell rang.
"I know!" Darcy replied.
"Anyway, I have to go, OK?" Torrance waved, grabbed her front door keys from the shelf and opened the door.
"Hey." Cliff said. "Woah, you look beautiful!"
"Thank you, you look great too!" Torrance smiled at her handsome boyfriend, and climbed into the car.
"Erm, Tor, do you know where the party actually is?" Cliff grinned playfully, as he made his way out of the driveway.
"No! I thought you knew!" Torrance giggled. "What are we going to do?"
"Well....seeing as we can't find the party, why don't you just sit tight and I'll find some other place for us to chill out?"
"But....Cliff..." Torrance smiled. Her boyfriend always had good ideas up his sleeve, she wondered what he was planning. She tucked a stray bit of hair behind her ear, and leant back in her seat.
"No buts... Tor... no buts..." Cliff leaned over and kissed her.
"You planned this, didn't you?" Torrance leant forward, with a playful, suspecting face.
"Now, Miss Shipman, why would I do a thing like that?" Cliff laughed as he pulled out onto the main road.
"Hmmm, I wonder." Torrance said sarcastically. Giggling she reached over and turned the tape player on and 'Just What I Need' started up. "Oh, have I ever told you how much I love this song?!"
"Well, you should seeing as I wrote it for you, and about you." Cliff replied, pulling to the side of the road. "You know, Tor, I meant everything I said in that song, you really are my everything."
"Aww, Cliff, come here." Torrance leant over and he wrapped her up in an intimate hug which seemed as thought it lasted for ever. As they pulled away, Cliff couldn't resist kissing Torrance's cute little nose.
"Oh, and Cliff, I didn't really want to go to that party anyway!" Torrance laughed, but was silenced with a long, romantic kiss from Cliff.
"Torrance can be so naïve sometimes." Missy laughed to Jan as they drove through Mr. Frosty downtown.
"Aww, she can be kinda sweet." Jan replied, pulling into a parking bay.
"What, so you don't think I'm sweet?" Missy said, pouting.
"Come on, Miss, I think you're sweet, cute, beautiful, what more do you want?" Jan smiled and hugged her. "But I don't even think I would fall for that trick! I can't believe Cliff made the party up so he could propose."
"I know, being that romantic is kinda unlike my brother." Missy laughed. "It's about time though they have been together for, like ages!"
"Yeah." Jan replied, handing Missy her Vanilla ice cream. "Do you think you'll get married one day?"
"I dunno." Missy replied. "Hopefully."
"Oh, this is a bit off the subject, but do you remember that necklace we saw the other day in the mall?"
"What, the one with the two hearts like intertwined at the bottom?"
"Yeah." Jan said, nodding, leaning over and opening his glove box. "Here, um , I bought it for you."
"Jan! It's beautiful!" Missy smiled as she opened the blue velvet box, finding the diamond necklace sparkle.
"I had it engraved to, see?" Jan said, carefully pointing to one of the hearts, where one said Jan and the other said Missy. "I just wanted to tell you how much I love you."
"Jan, I don't know what to say, it's perfect. I don't know what I would do without you." Missy leaned over and gave Jan a passionate kiss, which just confirmed everything they both had said.
"Cliff, where are we going?" Torrance asked as Cliff drove down through a deserted road.
"I thought you would have guessed by now." He pulled into a parking bay, and suddenly Torrance realised they were at the beach. It looked stunning in the evening twilight, and there was not another soul in sight.
"Well, what do you think?" Cliff said, as he turned off the engine, and jogged round to open Torrance's door.
"It looks ... beautiful." Torrance took Cliffs hand, and stood up. They walked down the wooden board walk, and sat down in each others arms, sharing their body heat.
"Tor, the reason I brought you here, was I know you like it here..."
"I love it here." Torrance turned, and gave Cliff a reassuring smile, before turning her head and resting it on his chest.
"Well, I love you with all the love in my heart, you're my everything you know...?" Cliff struggled to find the words, and became even more nervous. "...I want to be with you forever, for you to have my children, for us to grow old together. Just seeing you or hearing your voice makes me smile, and your touch makes me feel complete. I don't know, I guess I feel like we were just made for each other." Cliff leant down, and saw Torrance crying, silently smiling through her tears. "And, ...will you marry me?
Torrance nodded through her tears, as she was too touched to form words, and was immediately swept up into a long kiss with Cliff hugging her as if he would never let go.
"Oh Cliff, I love you so much." And the couple stayed wrapped up on the beach until dawn.
