Chapter 16

Important chapter!

Weeks pass and it is now the end November starting fall break for Thanksgiving….

Grace POV

After my classes I go straight to the grocery store to buy stuff to make dinner at Shane's. I go home to get showered and change then drive over to his house. Once I get there and he answers the door I say, "Are you ready to cook baby?"

He laughs and says, "Oh yeah!"

I say, "Yay!"

He grabs the bags from me and says, "I'll get these for you my lady."

I say, "Thank you."

He says, "What are we making chef?"

He smiles and says, "Look, I got you this hat and apron for tonight?"

It's a chef's apron and hat.

I laugh and say, "That is too cute. But where is yours mister?"

He says, "Baby, I couldn't wear that. I would lose my man card."

I say, "You are joking right?"

He says, "I thought you would say that so yes I bought me a set too."

I say, "Yay, Facebook pictures here we come."

He asks, "What are we making?"

I reply, "My Mom's recipe for stuffed peppers."

He says, "mmm I love stuffed peppers."

We have a blast cooking dinner together and taking pictures.

While we are eating dinner Shane says, "I got you something."

I say, "You shouldn't have!"

He says, "Oh yes I had too."

He gives me a Tiffany's jewelry box and I open it and it is a beautiful heart locket necklace with a picture of us in it. On the back it is engraved with "Forever."

He says, "That's not it."

He hands me a key and says, "Please move in with me?"

I get super excited and say, "Yes!"

He says, "Oh yeah, I'm luckiest guy in the world. I will call the movers tomorrow to get all your stuff."

I say, "I need to pack it up first silly."

He says, "I can have them do that too."

I say, "Only one thing has to happen before I move in."

He says, "What's that?"

I say, "You have to meet my family, and I don't know. Would you want me to meet your family?"

He says, "Yes, Thanksgiving would be the perfect time for us to do both!"

I say, "My family does Thanksgiving around lunchtime."

He says, "Perfect, my family does it for dinner."

Amy POV

It's Tuesday and I don't have class until next Monday because of fall break. I'm not working at the restaurant anymore after what happened. I did save enough money to keep me on my feet while I look for another job.

I haven't heard from Jay.

John begged to stay the night at my Mom's so he can play with Robbie, so I let him.

Ashley and I have dinner, and afterwards I clean up the kitchen.

My phone rings and it is Jay, I get excited but nervous as well.

I answer, "Hello."

Jay says, "I'm flying to the Cayman Island's tonight for vacation, please come with me? I want us to have some alone time so we can talk and hopefully work things out?"

I say, "I don't know because John, I don't know who would watch him while Ricky works and then spending Thanksgiving without him."

Jay says, "I understand, if you find a way to make it work and want to come. You would need to meet me at my house in about an hour because my flight leaves in 1 and a half."

I say, "Thanks Jay, I would love to come. I'm not sure if it is possible but I will try."

He says, "Well I really hope you can."

After hanging up I think for a few minutes, I'm trying to figure out what I should do.

I tell Ashley about my conversation with Jay.

Ashley says, "You should go if that's what you really want. I can watch John when Ricky is at work."

I say, "I don't know, but what about Thanksgiving? I love spending it with John."

Ashley says, "I know, you have a tough choice and you need to make it fast."

I decide to go; I get my suitcase and pack my clothes and everything I need. Then I realize I'm missing all my swimwear. I left it at Ricky's apartment when I left at the beginning of summer.

Once I'm finished packing I give Ashley a hug and say, "Thank you so much."

She says, "You're welcome."

I say, "Wish me luck."

She says, "Good luck Ames."

I leave the condo.

It looks cloudy like it might rain, I wonder if our flight will be delayed.

I drive over to Ricky's and knock on the door.

He opens it and says, "Come in."

I say, "I was just going to let you know that I'm going away for fall break and Ashley has agreed to take care of John while you are at work. I just wanted to make sure that is okay with you?"

Ricky says, "That's fine with me, you came all the way over here to tell me this?"

I say, "I needed to get some of the stuff I left here."

He says, "I gave all that to your mom after you left."

I say, "Okay, I will go to my Mom's and get it."

He asks, "Where are going?"

I say, "To the Cayman Islands."

He asks, "Let me guess, with Jay?"

I say, "Yes Ricky."

He says coldly, "That's fine, go have fun."

I ask, "Why are you so pissed off?"

He says, "Oh nothing is wrong Amy. You just take off and enjoy your holiday break with your new boyfriend while I take care of our son!"

I say, "It's your fault that Jay and I are having problems in the first place! We wouldn't have to go on some special vacation to fix things if you wouldn't have got in the way!"

He says, "I'm so tired of you blaming me for everything! You wanted to have sex just as bad as I did. You didn't even try to stop me and you enjoyed every minute of it!"

I say, "I'm so stupid! He actually loves me and is crazy about me!"

He says, "He doesn't even know you! I love you more than anything!"

I start to cry and say, "Don't say that, you just love me because of John! I heard your conversation with my friends!"

He says, "When Madison and Lauren asked me about being in love with you. I was so afraid of losing you. I had to toughen up so I could prepare myself for you leaving. So you know what I didn't fight for you, you know why? Because I was so in love with you that I wanted you to be happy and have whatever you wanted. I hoped you would realize that you loved me just as much and would come back to me."

I say, "You say that but if you were in love with me, you would have fought for me! You would have tried to move with me or something!"

He says, "I didn't try to move because you kept the whole school thing a secret from me until I saw the letters! You know why you kept it a secret because you didn't want us to go with you! You wanted a new life because we weren't good enough for you! Then you bought that joke of wedding dress!"

I start to cry some more. Then I go to the bedroom and towards the back of the closet I grab my altered wedding dress off the zipped hanger bag. Then go back to the living room and I throw the dress at him.

He catches it.

I say, "Oh you know everything Ricky! Look at the dress and tell me that I wasn't planning on us getting married!

He takes a look at the dress out and looks completely shocked.

I say, "I'm leaving Ricky, there's nothing left to fight about! It's over already!"

Ricky POV

She takes off slamming my door, I go after her and when I get outside it is raining hard. She is parked to the opposite side of the butcher shop. I run to her and when I reach her I softly grab her arm to get her attention before she gets into her car.

I say, "Amy wait."

She says, "Why?!"

I say, "It isn't over Amy, it can't be. I can't live another minute without you. I can't go to bed another night and not wake up to your beautiful face! I am madly in love with you Amy!"

She says, "When I came back I wanted us to be together but I saw you with Clementine. Why did you wait so long to tell me how you feel?"

I say, "Because I wanted to wait until you felt the same, I felt like you had to date other people to get more experience and then you would see that you feel the same about me. It killed me to see you with Jay, but I told myself that you had to be with him to know for sure what you would want. I wanted to wait for you to come back to me because I couldn't handle losing you again."

She says, "You've never lost me, I've always been in love with you."

She leaps into my arms and we start kissing passionately.

We are just here making out in the pouring rain.

After a couple minutes she pulls away and says, "Why do you love me?"

I say, "The list is endless Amy. I will tell you but first let's go inside before you get sick."

She starts laughing and says, "That's probably a good idea."

I scoop her up in my arms bridal style and carry her back to the butcher shop and to the apartment.

Once we are inside I put her down and kiss her softly

I say, "Let me get you some of my clothes to wear."

I give her a white t-shirt of mine and a pair of my pajama pants.

She says, "A white t-shirt, how convenient?"

We both laugh; once we both have changed we sit on the couch. She is wrapped up in my arms, I kiss her forehead.

I say, "I love your sweet smile, I love that you are so innocent that you can't get away with telling a lie. I love your goofy laugh, your beautiful hazel eyes, your long legs, all of your amazing lady parts, I love your lips and the way you kiss, you are an amazing mom, you would be an amazing wife, you are the first person to truly believe that I could change, you always encourage me to be the best I can be, you gave me inspiration to go to college to begin with, you are strong. "

She says, "Okay okay, I don't want to get a big head or anything."

I say, "I told you I could go on forever if that's what you need to hear?"

She kisses me tenderly and says, "Make love to me."

After making love we lay in each other's arms.

She says, "It feels so good to finally be home again."

I kiss her forehead and say, "Now and forever."

I reach into the drawer by the sofa and get out her engagement ring.

I stand up and get down on one knee, "Amy, my life would never be complete without you. Please make me whole by becoming my wife?"

She says, "Yes!"

Before I can get up off my knee she wraps her arms around my neck and kisses me while pulling me back onto the couch with her.

I say, "What has gotten into you?"

She laughs and says, "Nothing, besides you."

I say, "Wow, that was hot."

We spend the rest of the night making love and talking about anything and everything.

Adrian POV

I'm almost done packing to go home for fall break, I'm so excited. I love spending Thanksgiving with my family. Our flight is leaving in an hour and a half so Omar should be here any minute. Once he gets home.

He says, "Baby, I need to talk to you?"

I say, "Okay."

He says, "Tomorrow I have a huge meeting with another company that is interested in my program."

I say, "So you aren't going home with me for Thanksgiving?!"

He says, 'Babe, I will be home in time for Thanksgiving dinner. You would just fly to LA and I will meet you there on Thanksgiving evening."

I say, "Fine, where is this meeting?"

He says, "The meeting is here, but the company is based in Florida. Don't be mad, I won't miss anything."

I say, "Yes, you going to miss a whole day with me."

He says, "We spend every day together Adrian."

I say, "You know I'm talking about our vacation."

He says, "I know, I will make it up to you."

I say, "You better Mr."

We laugh and I say, "Good luck with your meeting."

He says, "Thank you, be careful at the airport."

I say, "I will, my Dad is going to pick me up."

I give Omar a big hug and a kiss.

He carries my luggage out and into the cab for me.

If you would like to see Amy's altered wedding dress, you can go to my profile and click the link to view it.I'm excited about Ramy's reunion, what do you guys think? Not as many reviews or talking going on. Hope I didn't mess anything up for you guys. Let me know and I will fix it ; ) Hope everyone is doing great!