So I wrote a lot and I really liked it, but then clicked something and it all was erased. Cool. I'm so freaking brilliant. I amaze myself.
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"What the hell were you thinking?" Stephanie yelled at me.
Uncle Daniel put me in front of the fireplace and started to take my clothes off. Jazzie ran upstairs and came back just seconds later with a pile of towels and her bed cover.
"Is he going to be alright?" she asked.
My body was shacking uncontrollably, I could barely think, I couldn't feel some parts of my body but I did feel my heart beating way to fast inside my chest, I thought it was going to explode.
"Call a hospital" Daniel told his wife "Dammit, Dougie..." he mumbled as he put the towels over me.
"What on Earth were you doing?" mum said nervously.
I couldn't asnwer then.
Stephanie knelt down and put her arms around me.
"You're so cold" she sobbed.
"You could die of hypothermia, you ass!" Jazzie yelled at me.
I swallowed as I tried to think.
"Th- The d-dog" I managed to say. Where the hell is that dog? I didn't want the others to notice the dog, they'd see the ring, but I had to know, I had to know it was safe. I could see George in a corner, the girls behind him, holding the dog in his arms, but I couldn't quite see if the ring was still there.
"Does it even matter!" Jazzie yelled.
"Forget about the dog!" Steph said. Well, at least they have something in common now.
"How did it get out anyway?" uncle Daniel said "Did you let it out, George?" he asked George.
"No!" he assured him. He's not so tough now, is he?
"Why weren't you in bed anyway?" aunt Ivy asked "You could have get hurt!"
"Give me the dog, I'll take it to the garage" he said.
"No!" I shouted, horrified. No, it wasn't the time yet, none of them was ready for that... "I'll take it" I tried to stand up but Stephanie pulled me down.
"Are you freaking crazy? Do you want to tie!" she said, hysterical. I'd never seen her like this before.
"Dont be stupid, Dougie" uncle Daniel say "Make sure a doctor comes quickly" he said to Ivy then walked towards George. I felt sick. I thought I was going to throw up.
George looked at me for a moment, we'd agreed this had to be a secret, and now everyone would know...
Uncle Daniel took the dog in his arms and inmediately -obviously- noticed the rope. He untied it and took the ring in his hand. He observed it for a moment, like everyone in the room, then looked down at me.
"Is this what you were looking for?" he said, racing an eyebrow "This is an engagement ring, isn't it?"
"Well... Yes" I said in almost a whisper.
Stephanie looked at me, surprised.
Nobody talked for a moment.
"You were going to... propose to me?" she asked without blinking her eyes.
"You were going to propose to her?" uncle Daniel said, he probably couldn't help himself.
"Dougie, this is marriage we're talking about!" my grandmother said, just as horrified "You haven't thought it through... She is... Well, she is..."
Stephanie looked down. Oh, God.
"Stop it, will you?" I said, my body still trembling "I'll marry whoever I wanna marry!"
"Dougie, are you sure?" Jazzie asked, burying her hands on her pockets "I mean... You could wait..."
"You have to think about your family too!" uncle Daniel said.
"Can't you just be freaking happy for me! I'm getting married, I'm finally settling down!"
"Wait" Steph said in a whisper "Dougie, can we talk about this...?"
I looked at her in surprise, I didn't like the tone of her voice.
"Talk...? Talk about what?"
"Well, I... I don't think I'm ready for marriage" she said, looking incredibly uncomfortable, whispering "I don't think you are really either, at all... I mean, come on..."
"See?" grandma said "And she even dares saying no to you!"
"Shut up!" I yelled, then looked back at Stephanie "Stephanie, love... Don't you wanna marry me?"
"It's not that, it's just... We'll, I've never thought about it, you've always been so... Distant, careless... I just... I never saw it coming"
"Well, it was supposed to be a surprise!"
She didn't anything else. I didn't know what to do. I felt so humiliated, so sad aswell.
"So..." I said. I knew everyone was staring at us.
"I think I need some time" she said, looking down.
"But, I dont understand... Are you going home? To London?" I asked.
She stood up and I did the same, afraid she'd disappear or something.
"I don't know, I need to think. I- I'll get in touch with you, ok?" she said. She hesitated, then walked pass me, towards our room. Just a couple of minutes later she was gone to God knows where. I just stood there, frozen. I didn't understand- What the hell had just happened? Was I single? Did this really just happen? Did she really say no?
My relatives where still there, staring at me awkwardly, without knowing what to do.
"Dougie, I'm so sorry-" Jazzie whispered.
"Don't" I said, raising a hand "You're not sorry. None of you are sorry. You did everything you could to make this happen... Just was you always do"
"Don't talk like that" mum said "You know we love, we're just a complicated family..."
"Girlfriends come and go, family's what really matters" uncle Daniel said and came closer to me to rest his hand over my shoulder, but I leaned away, the towels falling down my shoulders.
"Well, if this is what a family is supposed to be, then maybe I don't want one!" I yelled at them, all of them "You don't care about me! All you care about is you! What you think, your believes, your feelings! None of you has ever stopped to wonder what the hell I am thinking, what the hell I am feeling! And now, look what you've done!" I moved my arms hysterically, tears in my arms "You've done it again!" I laughed without humour "You've manage to scare away another of Dougie's girlfriend! The one I loved the most! But what the hell do you care, right?"
They all just stared at me. I was breathing heavily. Even George looked like he couldn't say a thing.
"This time..." I said as I took a deep breath "This time I'm leaving too. I rather be alone during Christmas than being here with the people who's made my life a living hell."
"Dougie, please-" Jazzie reached forwards.
"Don't" I raised my hand again "Don't ever talk to me again"