Hi everyone! Sorry about the wait for this chapter, I've just had a whole lot of things on my plate and experienced a bit of writing block from it. This is the second part, I will try and have the third and final part of it up sooner than I did this one. I hope you like it.
Bonzo was scuffing down his second sandwich, watching Zed curiously as the other hadn't even touched his own one, yet alone glance at it. "Na hongaza?" he asked around a mouthful, eyes trained on the lonely ham and cheese sandwich. After their success with ring shopping they had decided to go looking for somewhere they could enjoy some early lunch, mainly because they couldn't ignore the growls Bonzo's stomach was making, even someone miles away wouldn't be able to ignore it with how loud it was. "Hm? Oh, no. Here you have it." Zed replied after a second when he registered Bonzo was speaking to him. His mind was elsewhere, elsewhere was somewhere a million miles away.
"Are you seriously worried about what Addison is going to say right now?" Eliza spoke up, narrowing her eyes at him.
"How can I not be though? It's nothing like when I asked her to the school dance when we were 17 or when I asked her out on first date! This is a whole lot different than anything I have ever asked her!"
"You have nothing to worry about Zed though, she loves you and if she didn't want to be with you then I'm 99.99% sure that she wouldn't have stuck around with you for the last 5 years, yet alone just the first month." She deadpanned, leaving out very little room for Zed to start up an argument. Zed would never admit how nervous he actually felt to anyone else than Eliza and Bonzo, trusting his friends to not laugh at him.
"But Eliza what if I'm too early? What if she is not where I am? What if she doesn't even like marriage and I'm just going to make our relationship a whole lot of awkward after tonight? What if I'm-"
"She will say yes Zed."
Addison stretched her arms above her head as she slowly woke up with a yawn. Turning onto her side she went to give the usually still sleeping zombie next to her a kiss, only to discover the his side empty. Frowning she sat up, scanning the room she could tell Zed had already gotten up and dressed, whenever Zed would get dressed he would never remember to close his drawers, always leaving a least one open. So when all three of them was left wide open she was sure the guy had been in a hurry to get out. She felt slightly upset Zed wasn't there with her when she woke up, feeling even more upset that he had left without telling her.
Turning her eyes away from the dresser and instead moved them to the clock above it. To make this morning even more strange than it already was she figured the zombie must have gotten up unusual early for him as it was only 9:45 now. On a Saturday she was lucky to have him up by 10, Sunday being even worse. Running a hand through her tangled hair she decided on taking a shower, hopefully the hot water would calm her down and wash away the worries that was starting to arise in her mind.
It wasn't long after she had finished her shower and just wrapped herself up in a towel that she heard the doorbell's ring echo down the hall.
As far as she was aware neither her or Zed had planned anything for today that meant guests coming over, and then again she hadn't expected to wake up in bed alone so perhaps anything could happen today. She shouted for the one outside to hold on as she fumbled around the room for anything descent and easy to throw on, which at the moment seemed a lot harder than it usually was for her. For what was probably closer to five minutes did she managed to find a pair of lounge shorts and one of Zed's t-shirts.
As soon as she had opened the door and was about to greet the guest she felt the impact of them throwing themselves at her, squeezing loudly and hugging her tightly as if their life depended on it.
"Hi Bree, I didn't know you were coming over today!" she felt a bit more excited and relaxed now that Bree was there, if she couldn't have Zed there then at least she now had her best friend.
"What I can't spontaneously decide to surprise visit my best friend?" Addison swore that she had never seen Bree not happy, the girl was always in high sprits, even more than Addison thought of herself to be, and she never ever wanted to see the girl anything other than happy.
"It is a surprise! A nice one and well planned, I have no idea where Zed is and I just don't feel good about it." She explained, leading the two of them into the kitchen to make them a drink. "Tea, coffee, juice?" she offered as she turned on the kettle and rummaged around the cupboards for a snack to go with it.
"Tea please, I'm trying to cut down on coffee, I swear drink far too much of that at work now. Oh, isn't this in Zed's writing Addy? It has your name on it." Addison turned around to see Bree holding out a small envelope towards her, turning it over in her hand she could see it was indeed Zed's writing. At least I might have some answers now she thought to herself as she opened it, for some reason feeling slightly nervous about what it could say.
My dear Addy. I'm so sorry I wasn't there when you woke up this morning, I wish I was! Bonzo messaged me quite early this morning that he needed me urgently and since it was so damn early I couldn't bring myself to wake you up. Hope you're not too angry at me, I'll make it up to you ;) I've asked Bree to come over and spend some quality with you, I know you miss her so I thought since I can't be there today it was the perfect opportunity for you two to have some girl time. I love you!
Ps. Be ready to go out for 6 tonight, I've asked if Bree could drive you so you can't sneak a peak at where you're going until you are there.
Pss. I love you.
Zed.
"Zed asked you to come over? You know what's going on?" she fired question after question at Bree who merely shrugged her shoulders, not saying anything that could give her any hint to what was happening, but something was defiantly up she could tell that much.
"So what do you want to do? Bree asked, completely ignoring Addison's questioning look she was giving her, sipping on her tea with a smug look on her face. It wasn't easy to hide anything from Addison, Bree always told the girl anything, she was the first one she went to when she had something to share. Zed had made the girl promise not to say a thing, as he wanted Addison to stay completely unaware up until the moment so it'd be that much more of a surprise.
"Uh I know, let's watch that movie, oh what's called, You Got Mail! I love that Tom Hanks." Bree grinned, finishing her tea, putting the cup away and disappearing into the living room, leaving behind a very much confused Addison.
"Wow Zed this is amazing!"
"ZA!"
"How long did you spend on this?" Eliza asked, her eyes wide with awe as she took in the small garden Zed had led them to. The large oak tree in the middle has fairy lights wrapped all around it's trunk and continuing up to weave around it's branches. Rose pedals was scattered carefully to form a pathway that lead up to the three in a heart shaped circle, candle lights to be lit up later in-between each pedal forming the shape.
"Only about a day off at work, I didn't want Addison to be suspicious that I would go out on my own, so I booked a day off without telling her so she'd think I'd be at work." He explained, taking in the scenario himself. He felt happy with the outcome of his hard work, he knew Addison had loved the garden since he first took her there and they had continued to go there since so he had decided that it was the perfect place to propose.
"So what's Addison doing today? She must be going out of her mind by now." Eliza asked, raising her eyebrow at him. Having known Addison for years now she knew that the girl absolutely hated not knowing what was going on, and what was happening today was huge and Zed had not given the girl any clues at all. She was happy she wasn't the one he had sent over to entertain the girl, she could imagine she was grilling Bree right about now.
"Do you know what it is Bonzo needed his help for?"
"No."
"Is Eliza there too?"
"I don't know."
"Where is he taking me tonight?"
"I can't tell Addy."
"Is he-" she was cut off rudely as Bree hit her with one of the couch cushions. Bree loved Addison and spending time with her but the girl was driving her nuts and had been for the past three hours. They had watched the movie but Bree had had a hard time concentrating on it as Addison would come up with a new question every five minutes. Looking down at the little gold watch on her wrist she hoped it would be time to get ready so the questions could end soon. She flew up as she saw the time, pulling Addison up with her. "Oh my, look at the time, we've got to start getting you looking amazing for you date, we're going to have Zed's jaw drop so hard I can hear it from where I live when it hits the ground!" Bree promised as she rummaged through the girl's wardrobe, turning dress after dress until she spotted one that still had it's tag on. "Is this one new Addy?" she pulled it out, holding it enough for the other girl to see. "Oh no, I think I bought it about a year ago, it was on sale and just bought it without really thinking about it. I do like it but I've never worn anything like it, it's way out of my comfort zone." Addison explained, eyeing the dress up and down uncertainly. It was a very nice dress indeed and she had mainly bought it to wear on date nights with Zed, but she hadn't quite felt as confident wearing it as she had hoped so she had put in the wardrobe and forgotten about it.
"Oh you are defiantly wearing this Addy, it's gorgeous, you just need the right shoes and have your hair done up nicely and you'll see!"
With that the girl set to work on transforming Addison.
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