Chapter 12
As they waited on their food to arrive they started catching up on their daily gossip that they missed out on since they all had their personal lives to deal with. But having Shelby calling all of them together for a lunch meeting made all three of them suspicious about what she's hiding, and the fact that she smiled from ear to ear the whole day only made them more suspicious. Seriously, they're all in the FBI they know when a person is hiding something and Miss Wyatt definitely had something up her sleeve. "Okay, let's get to the bottom of this what's going on Shelby?" Natalie asked as she poured grabbed the water jug in the middle of the table pouring some in a glass while adding a few ice blocks. "Yeah, enough with this weirdness just spit it out." Alex said as she grabbed an ice block out of Natalie's glass with a spoon popping it into her mouth, ignoring Natalie as she shakes her head at Alex's gesture. "Wait!" Nimah said, the last time my grandma had all of us over for dinner it was when she told us she was sick and the doctor's didn't know if she was going to make it. You don't have some terminal illness or something right? Like you're fine nothing is wrong, you're still a spring chicken and you're gonna be around for a quite some time before you kick the bucket?" Nimah asked without even breathing while Alex and Natalie looked at Shelby with worry in their eyes. "You guys relax! Nothing is wrong with me I'm fine, no I'm not terminally ill I will still be around for a few more years." She answered all their unanswered questions while they all sighed with relief.
"There is something I have to tell you guys." Shelby said as their food arrived. They all thanked the waiter and waited on egg shells for Shelby to break the news. She didn't say anything. She bent down to get her bag, scratched around for something and laid the diamond ring in the middle of the table. They all stared at it while their mouths hung open. "Waaiit!" Natalie said when she was the first one to recover from the few seconds of shock. "Is that what I think it is?" Nimah asked. "You and Daddy's boy are engaged?" Alex asked while Shelby just sat their smiling and nodding. They all got up and moved over to her side of the table and gave her a group hug while congratulating her, looking as happy as she was. "Well, don't just sit there looking like a smiling weirdo, we want details!" Nimah said as she nudged her friend in the side with her elbow.
Looking at the watch on her wrist she saw they only had 30 minutes of their lunch time left, they would have to leave in about 15 minutes to make it back to the office in time but with Alex behind the wheel they would be there in time no doubt about that. Which gave Shelby enough time to give them the details on how this all happened.
"It wasn't much and it wasn't as romantic as they portray it in the movies, but to me it was perfect." She said looking dreamy eyed as she relived the moment of the previous night. They went jogging and made a bet that they would make it to the beach just in time to watch the sunset. And somehow they did, although they took some shortcuts they made it there eventually. And just as the ocean was glowing golden due to the sun setting, Caleb got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. "There weren't even many people on the beach which made the moment even more special." She concluded as they were all listening to her intently. "Daddy's boy got some style. Why didn't you tell us last night when it happened?" Alex asked thinking that if it were her she would tell them the moment it happened. "Because…..we had more important things to do than announcing it to the world at that moment." Shelby shot back as her face turned red. "Oh my god please don't tell me you guys did it on the beach! Shelby!?" Nimah said while Natalie laughed uncontrollably on the opposite side of the table. "Sheeelllbyyyy?" Alex asked smiling broadly while waiting for the blond to answer the question. "More like that Ocean View Diner's bathroom." Shelby answered as she grabbed her purse, ready to pay. Since she didn't want her friends to see how extremely red her face was turning. "You're a freak!" Natalie said still amused as the four of them walked back to the car.
On their way home Alex told Ryan she wasn't in the mood for cooking and they stopped to get the usual pizza they both liked. Actually they needed to do some grocery shopping she realized since they've been eating fast food for the last three days. Alex wasn't really that much in favor of doing it, but if she didn't go within the next two days they wouldn't have anything in their cupboards. So they stopped to buy a pepperoni pizza since was Ryan's favorite , she didn't like it that much but didn't have a problem eating it and fighting him for the last slice.
They were watching some comedy show on TV but Alex's mind kept drifting to Shelby being engaged and she found herself smiling whenever she thought about it and how happy her friend was. "What's on your mind?" Ryan asked when he noticed she wasn't paying attention to the TV anymore. She didn't know if she was allowed to tell him, Shelby didn't say it was a secret anyway so she might as well just tell him. It wouldn't be long anyway before the whole office knew about it. "The girls and I went for lunch today. Actually Shelby insisted and we she took this diamond ring out of her bag and laid it in the middle of the table and told us she and Caleb got engaged last night." She said while Ryan didn't look as happy or excited about it as she thought he would be. Surely he should be happy he and Caleb had grown close over the last few years after they resolved the beef that happened between them years ago. "What? Aren't you happy for them?" She asked him concern now growing since it looked like Ryan knew something she didn't.
I'll just leave it at that. Sorry for the long wait to update again after the previous chapter hope everyone is doing good. What do you think actually happened? What does Ryan know that the rest of them doesn't? Thanks for the read and all the follows I really appreciate it and I'm hoping you're still enjoying the story thus far. Read, Review and let me know what you guys think. Lovies-S