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Chap 1

I lift my head from its resting place on the bed next to her, our hands still entangled as she sleeps. Her position the same as when I dozed off the only difference is her beautiful face is now facing away from my line of view. I raise my body to a sitting position in the chair my back muscles achy from my second nap of the day. Who knew when you got this age all the naps that you would take.

I take a moment to stare at her while she sleeps. My lips drift upwards to form a half smile as my mind races with memories new and old. Her face looks so peaceful and content and it makes me wonder what she is dreaming. I stand up and make my way back to the window in which I was resting at earlier. The sun as now fully set giving its self away to the night. Now there are more stars than one man can count and a full moon that covers the lake like a blanket.

My mind slips into the past as my eyes take in the site before me. I go back to the night I proposed to Haley. It was a night like this the moon full and bright dancing over the water. After we had a nice dinner I had taken her down to the lake. I had taken her there because I knew it was her favorite place I would sometimes find her there her legs hanging over the pier her feet resting in the water a glass of lemonade by her side and a book in her hands. It was the middle of April the air was chilly but not so much it was a typical April night in North Carolina. I had set a blanket and a little hand held radio in a little boat I often used to go fishing in early on Sunday mornings. The boat wasn't that big but I was sure it was sturdy enough to hold us both. Oh boy was I wrong. Of course I knew when Haley saw the boat she would protest. She knew the boat wasn't going to hold both of us. But after what seemed like hours of assuring her that it would she relented and joined me in the boat. It rocked a little and I could tell she was ready to bolt at any second.

I knew this is where I wanted to do this but if she got out it would be ruined. I quickly grabbed the tiny radio at the bottom of the boat and tuned it to one of the few stations it would pick up. As soon as the song reached my ears I knew this wouldn't be such a disaster after all. Her face that was just full of worry and discomfort soon turned thought full as she listened to the song playing on the tiny box radio. As the words of I'll be seeing you reached her ears her face turned into a big smile as she began to sing.

I began to row us away from the pier at that moment before she had the chance to change her mind. Finally I was satisfied with a location I stopped placing the ores inside the boat. The song still softly placing on the radio but I couldn't care less I was mesmerized at the beauty sitting before me. Her auburn hair pulled up in a loose bun a few soft curls gracing her shoulders. As her head swayed back and fourth her lips parted just slightly as she sang along with the song. I didn't realize the song was over until I hear her mumble my name I lift my head to look at her and when I do I can't help but take a sharp intake of breath. The moon's rays cast on her porcelain skin her dark brown eyes boar in to mine. Those eyes that I love so much, the eyes that tell me when she is sad, when she is happy, when she is mad at me. They eyes that let me look deep inside her soul. When I hear my name again I shake my heard trying to clear it from the thought of her that are always looming. She asks me the reason for this little trip out on the lake. I tell her I wanted to just be with her at a place that brings us both comfort. She smiles again her eyes casting down at her hands in her lap.

It is now or never. I take a ragged breath and reach out to take her hand intending to tell her how beautiful she is, how much she means to me, how much I love her. But I can't find the words to express it so I find my self making up small talk and ramblings. When I decided to just do it, Will you marry me slips out of my lips before I can stop it and she looks at me once again. And for once since I met her I can not read her eyes. I can't tell what she is thinking and I start to get worried. She opens her mouth to speak but instead begins to laugh.

With all the thoughts running in my head with what she would say this was never expected. I ask her what is so funny which only makes her laugh harder. Now this really wasn't what I was expecting. Soon her laughing dies down when she notices that I am not laughing with her.

"I could have sworn you just asked me to marry you" she says eyes bright and shinning.

"Well I did so what do you say are you going to marry me or sit there and laugh about it all night"? My voice gives out more anger than I intended to give.

Her smile fades as she is quick to apologize.

"Your series" she asks her eyes wide.

"Yeah I am series you think I brought you out here as a joke" I say my sarcastic side starting to take over.

"Oh god" her face is once again filled with pure joy as she screams which I can barley comprehend before she leaps up from her seat in front of me and jumps into my arms I feel the boat sway and before I know it or can stop it the boat turns over landing us both into the lake. After a few seconds out heads pop to the surface of the water our hands grasping for each other.

My hand grasps her waist to make sure she stays next to me. My lips are opened ready to ask if she is alright before her hands come to wrap around my neck in the water.

"Yes" she mumbles bringing her we lips to rest upon mine.

"Yes" I questioned

"Yes I will marry you… Oh god yes" her lips crash against mine once more. We soon tare away from each other when we realize that we are still in the water.

She rests her forehead against mine she doesn't say anything for a while our bodies just float for a few seconds until I hear her laughter fill the air.

"I told you that this boat wasn't sturdy enough"

We both begin to laugh until I kiss her again which cuts off all laughter.

"Let's see if we can get this boat turned back over and head back to the house" I say after she finished leaving kisses all over my face.

It takes us only a few short seconds to turn the boat back over I get her safely into the boat then me and row us back to the pier. We get out of the boat and run back up to the house.

That was just one of the many memories I have burned in my brain of our life together. I tare my eyes away from the window my and rest them upon the book I had earlier. I run my fingers over the worn leather and pick it up to study it more closely.

I turn and make my way back to the chair once again and sit down. I open it to the first page. I look at her sleeping once more time before I grab my eyes glasses from my shirt pocket and slip them on.

I know she is asleep but I know she can still hear me.

So I begin to read as I have hundreds of time before

"It was the night of the Carnival…."