We slept together, down there in that beautiful tunnel. When I woke up, I could feel the warmth from Robin's chest on mine. I thought he was still asleep, so I tried not to move. When I fully opened my eyes, I saw that Robin was staring at me, with his beautiful bandit eyes. He smiled, and I smiled. We stayed like that for what seemed like hours.
Robin got up after a while, and motioned for me to follow. I did. He grabbed my hand and led me over to where the names on the wall were.
"I was looking at this after you-passed away" he said slowly. "And I now know why they say this."
I looked closely at the wall, and saw what was written underneath my name. I gasped and put my hand to my mouth. How could this be?
"And so, now I want to ask you something," he said kneeling down. "Would you, Maria Merryweather, want to do me the honor, and marry me?"
I stared at him. He was proposing, oh god. "Robin. . ." I began to say.
"We can wait if you want. A year, or two, or three for all I care! I just know I want to be with you." He said.
"Robin. . ." I said again. I pulled him into a deep kiss. "I would love to!" I said against his mouth.
Robin pulled away from me, but still held me close. "Now I have to get permission from your uncle"
I nodded, and understood. We lifted each other from the stop on the floor that we sat in, and made our way back to the surface. I hadn't realized that we hadn't seen sunshine since yesterday. We came out of the root in the ground, and instantly I felt the sun warm my skin.
I stood there for too long, because Robin came over and put his hands under my knees and a hand around my shoulder, and lifted me off the ground. I laughed and screamed for him to put me down.
"What's in it for me?" he asked.
"You'll just have to wait and find out tonight" I said.
"Then I will not put you down until then"
I gave up, he had won. He wasn't going to put me down even if the world exploded. I would have to live with that.
When we neared the manor, Robin managed to put me down, in fear that my uncle would see us. We laughed and we talked.
We went up the stairs and into the manor. I led Robin down a hallway, toward my uncles office, were we could get his blessing. But something was off, there was already to people in there, males by the sound of it.
I told Robin to wait in the hall, in case my uncle was busy. I went in the room, and the person I saw, made me gasp. The man standing there, was the man that I was betrothed to when my father was alive.
That man's name was Jesse Alcock. I just stared.