I maganes to write this chapter before my gym class, now I'm leaving and I hope that when I come back, I'll se many new reviews! -kidding.
Three chapters until the end of the story.
Enjoy.
I needed to show her that I really loved her.
I needed to show her that I really loved her and that I wasn't afraid of commitment.
I came back home and changed my clothes; now I was wearing my most elegant black trousers and a white shirt. I was kind of nervous but happy to do this... Well, I would be happy if she said yes, I still couldn't get to eager about it... I was going to ask her to marry me. This was my last chance to do everything as I should have from the begining. Actually, I didn't even know if I still had a chance, but I couldn't give up, she wasn't just my best-friend anymore, she was my soulmate.
Emma didn't pick up the phone when I called her and it didn't suprise me either. I drove to Danny's house, he was the last person I'd seen with her.
"Hi, Dougie" he said. He didn't look happy to see me, but didn't look angry either.
"Is Emma here?" I asked him. I could feel the little box with the ring inside my pocket.
"No" Dan said.
"Danny, please, I need to talk to her"
"I'm serious, dude, she's not staying with me"
"Is she... Gone?" fear took me by surprise, I hadn't thought about the possibility that she had came back to France until then "Is she back in France?"
"No"
Then anxiety overpowered me again.
"Then were is she?" I asked without patience.
"She doesn't want to see you, dude..."
"Danny, please!" I showed him the ring and I would have laughed at the look on his face if I wasn't so damn worried inside.
"Are you serious?"
"It's Classic and not too blink. The centre stone is a 1.21ct round diamond and there are 0.4ct pears on either side of the center stone. Total weight of the ring is 2.01ct... It's amazing and I know she will love it, she has always liked these kinds of things, but she always said it was too much money for one little ring."
"Doug, this is no joke. If you ask her to marry you, you can't change your mind later"
"I wont, she the one" now that I was actually saying it out loud, I felt even more and more confident. "Please, tell me where she is"
Danny sighed "She's staying at Tom's house"
That annoying feeling crossed my mind again, but I ignored it, I couldn't screw up anymore for just a hunch.
"Thanks Danny!" I ran back to the car.
"Hey, Doug!" he called me from his ohuse "I hope she says yes!"
'So do I' I thought kind of scared.
I drove to Tom's house. Giovanna was watering the flowers of the front garden and looked at me in the same way Danny had; not happy but not angry either.
"Hi, Gio" I said.
"Hi"
"Can I come in?"
She hesitated "I dont think that's such a good idea, Doug..."
"I just want to talk to her, please..."
I showed her the ring hoping it would make the same effect on her that it did on Danny.. And it worked, she almost burst out into tears.
"Oh my God, Dougie!!!"
"I know" I couldn't help smiling "Let me in, Giovanna, let me see her.... I'm begging you..."
She hesitated again...
"Alright. Go in, the door's open"
"Thank you so much!" I kissed her cheek and kind of ran inside.
I closed the door behing me quietly. This was weird; whenever I came here, everything was about fun and usually music, but this time the house was empty and quiet, I could hear nothing, only weak voices that came from upstairs. I went up the stairs [author-note: is that how you say it when you go to the stairs? remember I speak Spanish, not English :D] and walked toward the only slightly open door. Yes, Emma was there, I could hear her voice... Abd Tom's too.
"... He wouldn't have done it it you had told him from the begining" Tom was saying. I had the feeling they were talking about it.
"I tried to tell him, Tom" Emma said, her voice sounded sad "I just couldn't hurt him that way... You saw how Giovanna reacted!"
"He deserves to know. How long are we going to pretend nothing's going on?"
"I dont know!"
"Just tell him, Emma!"
"He will freak out and hate me for not telling him before"
I walked backwards, with tears in my eyes; it was true, it was fucking true, they seriously were together, she'd chosen Tom and had been with him all along, she'd played with me all this time... And I was the one who had felt guilty all day long, the one that was stupid enough to be about to ask her to marry me...
"Did you talk?" Giovanna, who had just appeared, asked me.
Tom and Emma must have heard her because they both came out of the room. They looked surprised to see me.
"Dougie" Emma said "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing" I was trying to hold back my tears, I couldn't even speak properly, no one had ever hurt me this much "I'm leaving"
