Okay everyone this is gonna be an awesome chapter- I can feel it in my gut! So yeah... Enjoy!
Until one day Simon found something in the mail. . .
That morning had been one of the best so far for Simon. He had not woken up from one of his usual nightmares, but instead from a sound coming from down the hall. He had made his way to check on his brothers in their room. He had, instead of finding them in their usual feverish slumber, found the boys jumping on their beds, something he hadn't seen them do in a while. "Get down! You'll hurt yourself!" he had cried and as they (unenthusiastically) sat down on their beds he had searched them for the bumps on their underarms, and the normal clammy and feverish look in their eyes, but they were entirely well. All signs of their previous illness had vanished as if overnight. Simon soon realized that they were all better and began to dance and shout, "Praise the Lord for he is Good!"
After a bit he had happily gone outside to check the mail. Only one letter.
Simon gulped reading the label that showed where the letter was from. He quickly grabbed his hat and special box and ran out to Jeanette's house. The Sky was still fairly dark and so he wouldn't wake up the rest of her family he threw rocks at Jeanette's Window.
"What? huh, Simon? Is everything alright?" Jeanette asked panic evidence in her voice. Why would he be her so early?
Simon motioned for her to come down, which she did (after quickly getting dressed) and he lead her out to an old familiar clearing in the woods behind the house.
"Wait, this is where Simon and I'd always play. I'd sit on that old stump as a maiden in distress. and He'd come and rescue me. Then we'd switch!" Jeanette thought. Simon sat on the old tower-stump and handed her the letter.
"Jean, could you read this for me? If it's okay read it back to me, if not just break it to me gently. . ." Simon asked, his face was full of confusion, and the torment that only comes with the ignorance for the future.
Jeanette nodded and read the letter to herself before reading it aloud:
" Dear Seville residence,
Got you didn't I son. I thought I would, me sending it through the general instead of my usual return address. You were always a bit of a pessimist, Simon. But there is no need to worry. They are bringing in new men in a few weeks. And my head officer is letting the men with families go home. I miss you boys awful but I'm coming home.
Lots of Love,
Dave Seville"
Simon's smiled couldn't have been any wider. He jumped and danced around like a mad man (or a man who just learned that his father was alive.) Then he got down on one knee (A/N:you all know what's coming:) and said,
"Jean you are my other half. My brothers and father, they're both alright now. But as much as that makes my life a ton easier. I would struggle each day if I didn't have you by my side. So Jeanette? Would you be so kind as to marry me?" Jeanette smiled a few tears rolling down her cheek,(A/N:you all knew this was coming too) she nodded. Simon smiled and wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear as soft as he possibly could,
"Thank you. First we'll find some way to tell your family, and I'll introduce you to my dad. And. . . God knows I don't care about the rest as long as we're together for eternity." Jeanette nodded into his shoulder. At the sound of something in the bushes the pair looked up to a group of people who Simon had heard whispering horrible things about him before in town. He whispered softly but also in a frightened voice,
"Then we may have to tell them. . ." Brittany was standing in the group and when she saw her sister in Simon's arms she went, in a word, berserk.
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF MY SISTER OR I'LL-" a man came forward as she continued to yell and ripped Jeanette from Simon's embrace. Then while the couple was still in shock, they took him away.
Good right? You just gotta love the cliff hangers! I had to use an online thesaurus a few times. The I had to re-type it twice because I hit the wrong button a fwe times. . . ha ha. .. imagine me doing that =^D