Chapter 8
It's been a few days and it's Friday night. We are sitting around one of the bonfires, hanging out with everyone and celebrating him getting his rocker. I'm sitting in EZ's lap and Dana is in Creeper's lap. Music is playing and I hear a song I love. I start to sing along, in my own little world with EZ and don't realize that all of the guys sitting around have stopped talking and were listening to me. The song ends and EZ cups my face and says "That was beautiful babe." before kissing me softly and deepening the kiss. When we separate, he puts his forehead to mine and says "I fucking love you." I smile softly and say "I love you too baby." and we are just lost in our own world for a bit. When we finally snap out of it, hearing Dana say "Sing another." I look at her and see everyone looking at me and I shy away and hide against EZ's neck. "Nope. None of that." Bishop says. I look up at him and Dana moves to put on a new song. "I know you know this one." she says and it's I'll Always Love You by Whitney Houston. I start to belt it out and feel EZ hold me closer and by the time the song is done, everyone is smiling at us and he's looking at me with so much love that it makes me feel like everything in my life is finally perfect.
A little later, I am sitting next to Dana and we are talking and laughing while the guys are talking. Angel walks over and asks EZ he they can talk. I look at them concerned and EZ kisses me and says "I'll be back." I nod and he walks to his trailer with Angel. As they walk inside, they sit at the table and Angel asks "I need to ask you something but I already know the answer. How serious are you about her?" EZ looks at him confused and says "I plan on marrying her and having a family with her. Already been looking at rings." he tells Angel. Angel reaches into his pocket and says "We both know I'm nowhere near ready to settle down and mom would have loved her. You should give her this one." and slides their mom's engagement ring over to EZ. "Are you sure Angel? Mom wanted you to have it." he says. "I'm sure. Golden Boy found his Golden Girl. She's worthy of it." EZ takes the ring and puts it in the inside pocket of his kutte and the stand and hug each other before walking back out to where I am sitting.
The entire time they've been gone, I've been watching the trailer for them to come out. "Stop stressing." Dana says. "I can't help it. I know they've had their issues and I'm just worried…" I ramble and Creeper stops me. "They've worked through that shit. It's all good." I look at him and nod my understanding. A few minutes later, they walk over and EZ pulls me up from the chair and before he can sit down, Angel walks up and pulls me into a hug. "Take care of him." I look at him and smile before nodding and taking my seat in EZ's lap.
After a while, we decide to crash in the trailer and once we are stripped down and in bed, we start to make love nice and slow until we both reach our release. I turn with my back to him and doze off in his arms. The next morning, I wake up and am snuggled into his chest. One hand is on his chest and the other is wrapped around him. I pull my arm to place my other hand on his chest and see a ring on my left ring finger. "Zeek?" I ask and he starts to wake up. He sees me looking at my hand on his chest and he smiles softly. I look up at him and he asks "Marry me?" I smile softly and whisper against his lips "Yes baby. Yes." before kissing him deeply. He moves to hover over me and we start to make love again. When we reach our release, he holds me close and I ask "When did you get it? It's beautiful." I tell him. "Remember when Angel and I came in here last night?" he asks and I nod. "He gave it to me. It was our mom's." he says. I look at him shocked and he says "It was Angel's idea. Said mom would have loved you and he's right. He also said you were worthy of it and coming from Angel, that's big." he tells me. I kiss him softly and say "I don't really have any family here. Can we go to the courthouse?" I ask. "You gonna wear a white dress?" he asks. "Whatever you want Boy Scout." I tell him before he kisses me again and we just enjoy our quiet morning together celebrating our engagement before telling the rest of our family.
