My jaw hung down and I gasped quietly looking at Val pondering whether he had hit his head or if he had completely lost his mind. I was waiting for him to change his mind before he lost his chance, but he did nothing. Absolutely nothing, he just stood there looking at me dumbly.
"Val... Um... Are you feeling okay?" I asked him timidly looking at Rose occasionally out of the corner of my eye at the same time. I was uneasy and mad. Why was he doing this to me? He was putting me in a very uncomfortable situation and he knew it.
"Rapunzel... You know I'm fine. I'm more than fine, I'm happy... Happy with you." He said not looking away at anything else. He walked closer to me and knelt in front of me reaching out his hand for mine.
At this point I was crying and hysterical, I put my hand in his and waited for him to say something. I looked up at Rose quickly and saw her with her jaw dropped and sputtering to herself. Val turned to look at her too and turned back to me. He started to talk to me.
"Rapunzel, I ran all the way to get this for you." He said as he pulled out something from his pocket. It glistened in the setting sunlight, the deep golden ring with the large diamond in the center surrounded by smaller rubies. It was his grandmother's wedding ring, I remembered him telling me about it...
I want to give it to the girl I'm in love with, even if she isn't my wife. I want to give it to someone special...
He held the ring out to me on his bended knee and talked to me. "Rapunzel... I know now that you are the one... The one that I want to spend my life with." He said softly so that no one could hear but the two of us. I looked up at Rose again quickly and looked back at Val into his deep green eyes, the ones that were so kind to me. The ones that had explored my body the night before, I remembered that night and I would never forget it.
I have heard stories of couples that had done what we did and ended up splitting up with a nasty, heart breaking end and then I had also heard the ones where the couple ended up living 'happily ever after'. As cliche as it is, I had always wished it would happen to me. I had hoped since I had read my first romance book, the one that my mother didn't know about. I just didn't think that it would happen with Val.
"Val, I know. You have always been so good to me and I don't even deserve it. But if you want me that bad, I suppose I want you too." I told him quietly, and slid off the seat I was sitting on and onto his bent knee.
"Rapunzel..." He said trailing off and tucking my loose hairs behind my ears. He leaned in and trailed kisses down my neck. "Rapunzel..." He said moving down to my shoulders. "Oh, Rapunzel..." Trailed down my arm...