"I told Lash that it would be a surprise but I never told you that," I whispered to Frankie before shutting the door and locking it.
"So you're going to reveal the secretive future to me?" She sat the cupcakes down on my dresser before sitting on one of the bean bag chairs on the floor. I nodded and sat on the bean bag chair beside her.
"First of all, Amelia is back." She looked away from me as if trying to remember and then nodded. "I got to meet the Fates."
"You mean they're actually real?"
"Yes! May is the oldest, Evangeline is the middle child, and Alyson is the youngest and what appears to be the one that hates me the most."
"Now go on; I want to hear about what you saw!"
"I'll tell you this first; I saw Bobby and Speed holding hands." We both squealed like little girls and then giggled at our reaction.
"Wait, how old was she?"
"About twenty-five."
"Meaning we were thirty?" I nodded and grinned.
"Now for me; Lash and I are married... and have two kids, with one on the way. I have a little girl who was about eight and a boy whose four."
'Tell her your daughter's name!' Amelia shouted with glee, I could imagine her jumping up in down.
"The girl's name was Amelia, I didn't get to find out about the boy's though."
"How cute!" I nodded and grinned.
"She had Lash's power."
"So mini-stretchy?" I laughed and shook my head.
"Yes, mini-stretchy." Her eyes filled with excitement as she lent forward, getting closer to me.
"Now tell me what you saw about me!" Her grin widened and it looked as if her face was about to burst.
"You and James were sitting in the yard, a wedding band sitting on your finger," I pointed to her left hand ring finger. "You were pregnant."
"I marry James?" Her voice was light as she rubbed the back of her neck, staring at the ground. A smile appeared on her face as she looked up at me. "I never thought that he and I would take things that far. We're in love, yes. But marriage? Wow."
"I know how you feel," I whispered, rubbing her shoulder. The future was pretty much our nightmare coming true. Frankie and I both shared one common fear, growing up. The main reason for said fear: changing. We feared getting older because with age comes responsibility, and having responsibilities changes you.
"Promise me something," she said, fixating her gaze onto her bracelet.
"Sure."
"We'll keep in touch." I laughed and shook my head.
"That's going to be the least of our worries." I stood up and led her towards my balcony, the both of us sitting down on the bench outside. We talked for another hour until the sun started to set. The guys were finished putting markers in the ground and would start on the pool tomorrow. I stood up against the bars and stared across the yard. Frankie's snoring broke me out of my trance and I laughed silently underneath of my breath. Before I could even think about taking her to her room James came out onto the balcony and lifted her with ease. "How did you-?"
"I know her well enough to have expected this to happen," He answered, I nodded and smiled. I bent my arms across the bar once more and looked up at the stars that were starting to appear in the sky.
"I knew that I'd find you here," Lash's voice interrupted my roaming thoughts and I kept my gaze on the sky, only giving him a simple 'mm-hmm' as an answer. He walked up to me, mimicking my pose and bumping my hip with his own. "Here's your cupcake." He threw it to me and I caught it with ease, just missing the icing. I glanced over it and scrunched my eyebrows together.
'Open it!' Amelia demanded in my head. I bit into it, feeling the inside hollowed out. I chewed and looked inside of the cupcake. There was a folded piece of paper so I sat the cupcake down and took the paper out. It read 'Look at me.' I looked up to see Lash's intense gaze on me. I let out a laugh and smacked his arm.
"Nerd," I mumbled, sighing a little.
"We've been dating for a few months, correct?"
"Correct, five to be exact." I looked over his expression and noticed he was slightly nervous.
"Okay, this is kind of hard for me to say. But," he pulled me closer to him. I looked up at him as I wrapped my arms around his middle. "I love you." He whispered, making me smile. I kissed his chin, and put my nose against his jaw bone.
"I know," I pulled away from him and he shook his head pulling me closer. "And I love you too." He kissed me as my hands gripped the back of his shirt tightly.
"Reach into my back pocket," he whispered, kissing my ear. I giggled and looked up at him questioningly.
"Why?"
"Don't ask questions!"
"Fine!" I slid my hand into his back pocket and felt something round and metal like. I pulled it out and backed away from him. I scrunched my eyebrows together as I stared down at it. "Is this?" He nodded and took it from my hands. He bent down onto one knee making me gasp.
"Amazon, will you-"
"Are you stupid!" I shouted, picking him up by the shoulders and backing him up against the bars. "You don't even need to ask, dimwit." He slid the ring onto my finger and lifted me up. I wrapped my legs around his waist and ran my fingers through his hair. "Who gave you the idea to do this?"
"My mom." I looked down at him in shock.
"You got in touch with your mom?" He nodded and smiled.
"She divorced Harvey."
"Congratulations Elizabeth." I whispered to no one and then giggled.
"But she thought that since you were quite the unique one, that this would be the best way to ask."
"I love your mom, but you really didn't need to even ask." He nodded.
"But I'd prefer to be proper about it."
"I'm sure you would."
"So the wedding...?" He wouldn't look me in the eye.
"What about it?"
"When?" I sighed and thought about it, contemplating on everything.
"How about March?"
"March?"
"Yes, March."
"I'm good with it if you are." I nodded and narrowed my eyes at him.
"You better be." I lifted myself from Lash and dropped to the floor of the balcony.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to wake Frankie's ass up and tell her the good news." I picked up the cupcake and walked back into the room.
"That's my Mazy-bug," he whispered, following me into my room.
"And don't you forget it!"
The finale to the sequel. : )
Review thanks to:
RandomRiter,
Alya Kihaku,
and InkShaper- Hoodsies? Just the name itself makes it sound good. haha. I'm going to have to look that up.
And fin-eek! (I purposely spelled it like that)
I'll be working on the third installment very very soon. *grins*
Thanks to all of those readers who added this story to their story alert or favorite stories and me to their author alert and/or favorite authors. : )
-Cwarnic93
