Chapter 5

The Proposal

Lloyd awoke to the sound of birds outside singing amoungst themselves. Lloyd shook his head as his eyes began to focus. Colette was still fast asleep, her head bobbing up and down with each breath he took. the way she slept so soundly with that smile on her face just tugged at his heartstrings.

" YOUR SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN YOU SLEEP COLETTE..." HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. "I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ALL OF SYLVARANT"

As if she had read his thoughts she murmured in her sleep "I love you too Lloyd"

Lloyd could'nt resist to smile at that. "I love you Colette."

He decided to lay there a while longer before he woke her up, so he quietly watched her sleep. Slowly retreating into the cortex of his thoughts. As the time passed by, Lloyd thought about his life up to this point. all the memories he shared with her. there was too many to count. while he was lost in thought Colette was starting to wake up.

"Good morning Lloyd" she yawned and wiped the sands of sleep from her eyes. It was unexpected as it made him jump out of his skin. She giggled. "Heehe did i scare you?"

"I just was'nt expecting it." He said as he sat up with her. Colette covered herself from the chest down with the blanket as she sat up. "You ready to go back home?"

"yep" she nodded. "Lloyd...I wanted to thank you for last night."

"what is it you wanted to thank me about last night...showing you how much I love you seemed like the normal thing to do."

"no, not that...." she smiled softly "I wanted to thank you for being so thoughtful....I mean, we could have just had sex and end up getting me pregnant but you did'nt cause you did'nt have a condom...thats what I wanted to thank you for."

"I felt it was,nt my choice to make..." he then changed the topic "lets get dressed."

"Okay" she agreed as she gave him a kiss and got dressed along with him.

An hour later they made it back to Iselia and returned to thier homes for awhile.

"Welcome home Lloyd" Dirk greeted as Lloyd walked through the door. "How was your date with Colette?"

" it was great"

"Lloyd, I made something for you to give to Colette" Dirk said as he pulled a object out of his pocket and held it in front of Lloyd.

"Dad...." Lloyd said as he looked at it. it was a beautiful gold ring with the words 'I LOVE YOU' etched on it in angelic language on each side of a sparkling emerald gem.

It was then Lloyd realized what he truly wanted in life...

"Where you going now son?" Dirk asked as Lloyd was about to leave again.

Lloyd grinned as he looked at his father. " I gotta ask Colette something"

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Colette was just about open the door to her house when she heard someone say her name. it was in the direction of the path

into the forest. she immediately knew it was Lloyd. she walked over and stood there at the mouth of the path as Lloyd ran up to her.

"Colette...there something i want to ask you"

"what is it Lloyd?" she asked curiously

"I love you Colette...I love the way you smile, how you put others before yourself, your love for life, I even love how you always apologize for nothing..." he knelt down and pulled the ring out and held it up to her as he gazed into her eyes.

"L...Lloyd, are your proposing?"

"Colette, to me your the blood that flows through my veins...I could'nt begin to imagine life without you" He said as he scraped up the guts to say the final words "W...Will you marry me?"

Tears of joy began to stream down her face. "L...Lloyd" she studdered as she wiped the tears away "Yes...yes I will"

Lloyd smiled as she hugged him. the tears still streamed down her face. "I love you Lloyd"

"Me too Colette" Lloyd said as they kissed.

and from that moment on they began a life together, hand in hand.......

The End