"Open your eyes," Said Bradly leading Janet up a hill where nothing sits at the bottom but open meadow with nothing but purple flowers that grow knee high. Janet only smiled as she opened her eyes. "Just picture it, in the future, there will be a great big house in this meadow, and it'll be ours." He stated with a smile. Janet only pushed Bradly over playfully which ended up a big tumbling mess, because she and Bradly ended up falling and rolling down the hill, Janet on top of Bradly once at the bottom. "Oops..?" She laughed. Bradly laughed lightly and helped her stand as he did, "So, what do you think?" He asked picking grass and flower pieces from her hair. "It's beautiful. Too beautiful for words." She replied looking over the field, watching as the flowers waved in the spring breeze, listened as the birds sung their peaceful songs.
"What if I asked you to stay with me? Help me build a perfect house, just for you and I?" He asked. Janet looked back to him and paused, "What are you asking..?" She asks herself, pretty sure she knows where this is going. Bradly chuckled to himself and smiled lightly to her taking out a box from his jacket pocket. When he opened it, the pink and purple diamonds shimmered in the sunlight, "Marry me." He stated. Janet brought her hands over her mouth as Bradly knelt down on one knee and looked up into her sapphire blue eyes, "You're the only thing I want right now, I want you every moment of everyday. So, will you make me the happiest man alive and marry me?" He asks with a grin. Janet nodded and tried keeping herself from crying, "Yes. A million times, yes." She said. Bradly stood and slid the ring onto her finger, she smiled lightly at it. It was definitely original, she had looked at engagement rings before, just to look at them. She's never seen the one Bradly got for her. It had a light pink diamond in the middle with three smaller light purple colored ones surrounded by tiny clear diamonds. It was beautiful and unique, for sure.
The current day.
Janet woke from the memory and sat in her bed for a moment, trying to collect her thoughts. She rubbed weakly at her eyes and blinked a few times before she was finally able to focus; then climbed out of the bed and walked to her dresser where she opened a drawer pulling out a small cheery-wood box she had since she could remember and took the lid off. Inside was the same ring she saw in her memory. It was still able to glisten in the sunlight as she she held it in the light. She had it all this time and she couldn't believe she didn't know where it came from before. Honestly, she thought it had come from her mother, but the fact about that matter was she doesn't remember her mother ever giving it to her. Now, she has a real answer. The right answer.
The sounds of a muttering argument down stairs made Janet curious so she quietly walked to the door and set her ear against the door, "Well, they can't just leave, John will just likely track them down." A voice said, Allie's voice. Okay, Allie's down stairs but who else? Janet wondered. "There might be one place we could go..? He's always hated Switzerland," Said Bradly. Janet raised an eyebrow slightly. Who could hate Switzerland? It's perfect there, or at least until winter. "Don't ask me why, he's just always hated it there." He adds suddenly. Janet decided to slowly open the door and walked down the stairs, at the bottom stands Bradly, Liliauna, and Allie all seeming to be trying to figure things out until Liliauna hits Bradly in the chest getting his attention and motioning to Janet. All the talking suddenly stopped, Bradly turned his attention to Janet as she continued down the stairs, "Is there something going on that I should know about?" She asked raising an eyebrow slightly taking a final step down the stairs. "We'll be in the kitchen."Allie says to Bradly motioning for Liliauna to follow her into the kitchen. "What's going on?" Janet asks as the others leave the room. It was strange, really. Everyone stopped talking and walked off expect for Bradly when she walked down the stairs. It was like they were looking at a ghost that was still able to be seen and was able to communicate. "Nothing you need to worry about. How do you feel?" He asked concernfully. "Okay, I guess," she shrugged. Apart from the room slowly spinning around her and practically starving, she was okay. "Hey, does this look familiar to you..?" She asked frowning lightly holding up the ring so Bradly can see. Janet knew the tone in her voice obviously gave it away that she knew that it looked familiar to Bradly, but neither he or Janet did anything about that matter, in fact, Bradly sighed heavily carefully taking the ring from her fingers, "Do you remember who gave you this?" His tone had a hint of hope as he looked to her and asked her this.
"You did," She replies simply. "Tell me something; did we ever build that house that you kept talking about?" She asks with a joking tone.
The house, oh she could just see it. A big white house with navy blue panels for the window's surrounded by oak trees with flowing green leaves, a balcony hanging over the pained black door which was still wet. And the meadow, the purple flowers glowing off the white paint at sunset. It was perfect. Bradly only chuckled with a nod, "We got about half way done with it until a harsh winter came through and screwed things up," He said. "But we managed to finish it when spring came along. It was beautiful and we were a mess." He continued shaking his head at the memory. Janet could only laugh, she could only imagine Bradly standing in front of the house covered in white and black paint, possibly a light blue color that being one of her many favorite colors and saying, "We're only halfway done," and as much of a mess either of them were it was just the beginning.
"Did-did we ever get married?" She asks. "Officially, I mean." She adds trying to keep her face from becoming a light pink color, but she knew she was failing at that. It seems the more she tried to keep from blushing, the more of a pink color her face gets. "Um," Bradly hesitated rubbing the back of his neck. "No. We never got the chance. We wanted to though, everything was in a green light except for one thing." Bradly explained. "And that was?"
"It doesn't matter anymore. It's all in the past." He replies. Janet nods and lets out a half laugh and half light scoff rubbing her forehead, "So, technically, we've been engaged for almost seventy-nine, years, right..?" She questions with the slightest hint of happiness in her voice. Bradly could only chuckle, he couldn't believe that it's almost been eighty years. "Sounds insane, huh?"
"No, not really. It's kinda sweet that you waited and came back for me." She tells him with a smile beginning to form. No matter how much it reminded her of her great grandmother, Amelia Pond, it was romantic and just proved that he was willing to wait for the right time. Even for seventy-nine years. The thought of that just made him seem...perfect. Just absolutely perfect. "Well, you're worth the wait." He said to her softly. Janet sighed lightly, "How come I didn't remember you until now? I had no idea who you were, where you came from. Yet, I trusted you instantly and felt like I've known you all my life. I just couldn't bring myself to remember anything about you." She said, her tone filled with both curiosity and happiness. It was hard to separate the two emotions, because Janet was just happy to remember and see Bradly again after so long and yet, at the same time, she has so many questions to ask. Like, why was he gone for so long? Why didn't he try and tell her who he was? It might have helped her gain her memory back, actually, she already knew the answer to that one. But, there were so many other questions to be asked, she didn't know where to start.
"Reasons that don't need to be worried about now. Just as long as you're okay-." He finally stared but Janet shook her head and stopped him from speaking, "I'm not okay. I mean, I am, it's just," She started with a heavy sigh. "...I don't understand anything that's been going on. I didn't know you now all of a sudden; I do and I'm getting these memories of you and I together. Dinner together, the engagement, almost everything, I'm sure. What's going on? Why did I not remember you before now, Bradly?" She interrupted questioningly.
"It's hard to just explain. But, I promise you don't have to worry because whatever happened before will never happen again." Bradly promised. This was it. Bradly always knew that this subject would eventually come up sooner or later, it's not going to come up just once either. Before anything else was said, Bradly cupped Janet's cheek softly in his hand leaned down slowly and kissed her lips carefully.
"Aw!" A voice was heard from the kitchen opening after a minute. Bradly pulls away quickly and cleared his throat facing Allie, Janet was a bit surprised but she managed to keep it hidden. Allie laughed, "Sorry guys. Couldn't help it." She says. Bradly nervously cleared his throat and chuckled, "Sorry. That was, uh- Old habits." He says to Janet with a heavy shrug. "No, it's okay. I understand," Janet says somewhat quietly before looking to Allie. "How much did you hear?" She continued questioningly. Allie looked to Janet innocently and tried not to smile, "Everything..?" She says hiding it under a cough. Janet just shook her head in amusement.
"So, what was all the talk about Switzerland?" Janet questioned as Allie and Liliauna made their way back into the conversation. "You heard all that?" Allie asked looking to Bradly before looking back to Janet. "Kinda..?" Janet answered.
"How about a vacation? Just you and your kids..?" Bradly offered, actually, it wasn't really an offer. He's already decided that either way, Janet and her kids were going to have to stay away from the city in order to be safe from John. "What about you? I mean, technically, we are kinda still engaged." She says, and Bradly knew she made a good point. He couldn't just drop them off at the airport and then leave them to fly to Switzerland then drive to the vacation house. "Wait! Engaged? When did that happen?" Allie suddenly asked, her tone thick of surprise. "Uhm, well, seventy nine years ago.." Janet says biting her lip lightly. "...Wow."
"I'll go but only if you want me to." Bradly says to Janet simply. Janet nodded and smiled lightly, "If you don't mind..?" She says.
On normal circumstances, this would probably be extremely awkward, but since Janet and Bradly are still - in a way - engaged it makes things somewhat simpler and less awkward. "Then it's settled. We'll leave as soon as I get plane tickets." Bradly says letting out a small breathy sigh.