Chapter Three

Clarabelle's daydreaming ended when she heard the doorbell rang. Quickly she put on her coat and ran out the door locking it behind her, Horace was waiting for her on his motorbike.

"Just like the first time." Clarabelle thought to herself.

Soon the two were off to Mickey's. The cold wind was rushing, Clarabelle hid her face on Horace's back to keep the cold wind from hitting her face. Horace blushed cherry red, remembering that this had happened before.

"Just like the first time." He thought to himself.

Meanwhile at Mickey's, Oswald was trying his hardest not to spill out the news already he was sweating nervously. Ortensia walked pass by him setting a tray of sweets.

"Ozzy, what's wrong?" she asked.

"Oh nothing," He replied. "Just nothing."

"Just nothing? Did something happen when you were walking Pluto?"

"No."

"Okay but I think, you know something and you're trying to cover it."

Mickey walked in overhearing the conversation.

"Oswald, what are you hiding?" Mickey began to ask questions.

"Gee uh Mickey, I -I don't know what you're talking about." Oswald began to grow nervous.

Oswald was now in deep sludge, this time Minnie, Daisy, Donald,Goofy, and Fanny had walked in at all the comotion and began to ask the same question.

"Aw, c'mon Oswald don't play stupid. We know you're hiding something." Donald called out.

Oswald was becoming a nervous wreck, he was so close to just breaking down and tell the doorbell rang, this stopped everyone from finishing there interrogation.

"Saved by the bell." Oswald sighed with relief.

Mickey opened the door to see that Horace and Clarabelle finally arrived. Oswald ran and bumped Mickey out of the way.

"Hey," Oswald made a very smut grin. "So how's it going?"

Mickey pulled Oswald aside. He was quite furious.

"Alright Oswald," Mickey whispered. "What are you hiding?"

"It's kinda important. But I'll tell you later."

"You better."

Both turned back to Horace and Clarabelle, smiled and let them in to join everyone else at the christmas hour passed, everyone was eating at the dinner table, Oswald was getting nervous again trying not reveal the secret. Horace glanced at Oswald with the 'hey-are-you-okay?' look, Oswald shot him the 'no-but-thanks-for-putting-me-in-deep-sludge' look.

"Oswald," Ortensia asked. "are you okay?"

"Yeah Oswald," Mickey glared at him. "Is there a problem?"

"Oh no," Oswald swallowed hard. "Nothing's wrong"

"Horace,"Clarabelle tapped him on the shoulder. "Something wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong." He quickly replied.

Later after dinner, the girls sat on one side of the room talking about their plans for the new year. But Daisy was the first to notice the ring on Clarabelle's finger.

"Clarabelle, is that what I think it is?" Daisy asked.

"What are you talking about?" Clarabelle replied, covering the ring.

Fanny notice the ring before Clarabelle covered it.

"That ring on your finger." she said pointing it out.

"Could it be that you inheirited that from a dead relative?" Ortensia asked.

"No." She said turning nervous.

"Is it for something special?" Daisy asked.

"Possibly." Clarabelle quickley

"Well then what is it?" Minnie asked.

Clarabelle was beginning to grow nervous, she looked all the way over to Horace. Meanwhile when the guys were all laughing joking around, Oswald elbowed Horace.

"Horace, I think something's wrong." He whispered.

"What's up?" Whispering back.

Oswald pointed at Clarabelle Horace looked over and gave her the 'what's-wrong-?' look. He finally realized what situation was, so quickly he got up and Clarabelle soon joined him at the center of the room.

"Everyone we have an announcement to make," Horace said, beginning to sweat. "Well uh...umm-"

Clarabelle stepped in. "Well what he's trying to say is..." She revealed her engagement ring. "Horace and I are getting married."

Everybody in the room was surprised, Oswald sighed with releif that he wasn't forced to tell. The girls were so happy, they couldn't believe that after all this time Clarabelle was finally getting hitched;the guys on the other hand were congradulating Horace for finally popping the question.

"So when's the date?" Daisy asked.

"Oh we haven't decided yet." Clarabelle replied.

"Do you know who's arranging it?" Minnie asked.

"No." Horace answered.

"Does your famillies know yet?" Goofy asked.

That made Horace and Clarabelle freeze, they knew if their parents found out there would be some kind of trouble. Since Clarabelle's Father wasn't to happy she was dating Horace to begin with, and Horace's Dad was bit skidish about him dating Clarabelle. It wasn't that both Fathers didn't hated them dating , it was because the fathers themselves had some rivalry issues. The Mothers on the other hand were always encouraging, Clarabelle's Mother was at first a little skeptic about Horace and Clarabelle dating but eventually got use to it. But every now and then she had her issues with Horace. Horace's Mother was proud that her son had a girlfriend, but had her differences with Clarabelle.

"Well we plan to visit them tommorow." Horace said pretty fast.

"Sounds good to us." Mickey said.