Chapter Twenty-One
Grace
"I have to tell you what I did without you today," Sam said sitting me down on the bed. He knelt down on one leg and took a box out of his pocket. He told me to close my eyes and put out my hands. I felt something rectangular and heavy put in my hands. "Open," he whispered. I opened my eyes and looked at my hands.
"What?" I couldn't finish.
"It's over nine thousand dollars."
"Why?"
"So you can have these," he took a paper out of his other back pocket, he pointed to a paper that said,
Prosthetic Leg
$6,000 per leg
Order yours now
"Sam," I gasped, "Where did you get the money?"
"Cole talked to Isabel and they told me to return their ring so I could have the three thousand dollars it was worth, Paul and Lori did the same." I was in shock I didn't think that they would do that. "Let me go thank them," Sam picked me up brought me to the couch. "Cole, Isabel, Paul, and Lori, thank you so much,"
"What did I do now?" Cole asked.
"For what?" Lori asked.
"Money for me, well my um," I pointed to my stubs.
"No problem," Cole said. Rachel walked over and rubbed my back.
"You told her?" Paul asked.
"I felt like the time came." Sam said shrugging.
"Sam wait, you said it was a little over nine thousand dollars but the rings are worth three thousand. The two rings combined are six thousand dollars, where did you get the other three thousand?"
"Well Grace I had one other ring for someone, I was going to give it to them when they came home from college for her birthday."
Sam
Grace shed a few tears after I told her where I got the extra money. I got up from where I was sitting on the floor and sat on the couch next to her. Everyone walked away and let me and Grace have some private time. I picked her up and brought her to our room. I laid her on the bed and I got up onto the bed next to her. I stroke my hand through her soft hair and I looked into her glossy brown eyes.
Grace looked so beautiful with the lamp light shining on her. I wanted Grace right now and that's what I was going to get. Before I could kiss her she leaned in and kissed my lips. I moaned, this was so good, why did I let her go? I loved Grace more than anything and I was glad that she like what I did with my money.
"Sam?" Grace asked.
"What's the matter?" I said.
"Should we just get engaged without a ring, and just say that you're my fiancé instead of my boyfriend."
"Grace I mean if you want to-"
"I don't know if it's what I want, what if we date our whole lives?"
"You know we wouldn't do that." I saw her lay the back of head on the headboard. She was starting to get flustered. Grace was a simple girl and all she wanted was an easy life away from her parents, and me. All she wanted was to be with me.
"Then what will we do?"
"I really don't know, Grace." I wrapped her in my arms and kissed her head. "I really don't know," I whispered. She looked at me with her eyes glossy. She nuzzled her head into my neck and I just placed me head on hers.
"All I need to do is love you," She whispered back. She shifted so that her whole body was facing me and then she kissed me with soft lips. Then she sat back and laid her head on her pillow. I held her in my arms for a little but then we got under the covers together. She pressed her body up against mine and I held her tight.