Title: Worth It
Fandom: Xiaolin Showdown
Characters: Rai, Kim, Rai's Mom (my oc)
Prompt: 046:Star
Word Count: 814
Rating: PG
Summary: The perfect way to ask the question.
Author's Note: So this idea popped out of no where. Certainly not my style, but I like the fluff none the less. So, enjoy and holy crap! One more:D
Tonight is the night. Underneath the stars. The very same set star where he sat with her to talk, when he asked her to be his girlfriend, and where he is going to ask her to take him as a husband. Sure it was a corny idea but the romantic in him says that she's worth every bit of it.
He stared at it for a long while. Thinking back to how he got it when he barely had a dime on him. Oh no, he didn't steal it if that's what you think. It was actually a couple months ago when he called his mother (like he did every so often.)
"What is she like, Raimundo?" his mother asked. He could hear her voice etched with eager. He could only smile.
"She's unbelievable, mom. She's nothing like the other girls I've been with," he replied, still gracing that smile but for a different reason. "She's smart, strong, beautiful... I think it's only fair to warn you that I can go on like this for days." He heard laugh on the other line.
"I cannot believe that you have actually settled down for once. Do you know how much I wanted you to do so in the past?" He recollected on the memories. Thinking back to the various woman that he had been with that never seemed to be around more than a couple weeks. Until he met Kimiko. Sure she was just another girl to him, but when he started to pursue her, did he find she was actually a remarkable woman and capable of catching him off guard. It was only a matter of time that he fell in love and to find that she felt the same way. Ever since, he wasn't able to keep his hands off her as well as his roaming lips. A smile graced his lips at the thought.
"I know, mom. She surprised me too," he responded.
"Are you going to marry her?" The question got him off guard and he wasn't prepared for it when the phone suddenly became numb against his palm. He nearly dropped it but got his senses back enough to hold on to it.
"U-uh... Um... I..." he stammered. Trying desperately to answer but found the words to be all jumbled up in his mouth.
"You love her, don't you?" he let out sigh of defeat.
"Yes, more than anything."
"Than what are you waiting for?" He cocked an eyebrow as a thought flashed his mind.
"Are you looking for more grandkids or something?" He replied with a hint of his smart alec self still lingering within him. Knowing well that his older siblings have already supplied his mother with enough grandchildren to spoil them rotten.
"There is that and the way you talk about her, I never heard anyone talk that way until your father graced my life." He let on a bitter look. Not wanting to admit that she had a point. He settled for a sigh as he tangled his hair through his fingers.
"Well... If I did ask her, I don't have enough for a ring." Somehow, he sensed his mother giving him a look that told him not to worry.
"Don't worry about that, you can have my ring instead." He stared dumbfounded at the wall in front of him. Not really sure he heard her correctly but decided to take a chance and ask her.
"Mom, are you sure about that? Won't dad be upset?"
"Don't worry about your father, he'll understand once I explained it to him." He still gave an uneasy look.
"I dunno..."
"Raimundo, if you love her as much as you say you do, than I want her to wear my ring." He rubbed the back of his neck.
"Why me though? Why didn't ask you the others to have it?"
"Because your brothers and sisters wanted their own rings and the fact that you were always my favorite." He listened to her giggle as he let on an easy smile. But he still kept on thinking about proposing to Kimiko using his mother's ring. Sure the idea seemed crazy and yet romantic, but he hadn't really thought that much about marrying her and now here he is. Considering the idea of spending the rest of his life with the woman he loves. Actually, that didn't sound bad to him at all. The simple fact of her being his for the rest of their lives is now appealing to him.
So he set up the arrangements and it was only a couple weeks ago that he received the ring in the mail. He asked Master Fung, Dojo, Omi, and Clay to step out so he'll be alone with Kimiko. Two months of planning and now it has come to this. Now he can only hope that she would say yes.