When We Fall: The Promise Ring
David must have been staring at the star shaped blue topaz ring for nearly ten minutes, his fingers trembling a bit as he held the sparkling ring. "Maybe Rose would like the garnet, more?" He wondered. He swallowed feeling slightly nervous, god this was hard.
He felt a tap on his arm. "Are you going to buy it or what?" Mickey asked growing impatient as he and David stood over the jewelry store counter. "I am, I am." He replied but he still seemed reluctant. A promise ring was a pretty big deal.
Mickey groaned. "David, we've been standing here for fifteen minutes. He sighed. "I know, I just want to make sure I get this right."
Mickey looked at him. "You're not having doubts, are you?" He glanced at him. "No, of course not," David lowered his gaze. "I'm just worried she'll say no." He admitted softly.
Mickey gave him a look. "Oh, please you know she'll say yes." David slowly glanced at him. "You think so?" He scoffed. "Come on you two are crazy about each other. You were practically meant to be together like Romeo and Juliet, minus the drama, of course." Mickey quickly added.
David smiled slightly and studied the ring again and decided this was the ring. He paid for the topaz ring and walked out of the store feeling good. The ring was nice, a bit pricey, though, nearly four months allowance but he really loved her and in his heart he could handle a long distance relationship with her after all Rose was worth it.
Now all he had to do was give it to her.
David and Rose were sitting outside on Rose's front lawn, it was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the grass tickling their bare feet and a nice breeze was blowing. It was perfect.
He glanced at her, noticing how beautiful she looked dressed in denim shorts and a yellow t-shirt. Her blond hair in a messy pony-tail, her face free of makeup except for the pink shimmer of her lip gloss. She looked flawless like an angel.
She noticed him staring. "What?" He shrugged shyly taking her hand. "Nothing I just like looking at you."
She scoffed. "I don't why. I'm not even wearing any makeup." He smiled. "You don't need it." Rose blushed as he was about to kiss her cheek when Tony's excited voice interrupted the moment.
Tony rushed out the house grinning and jumping. "David, David," He said happily squeezing in between them. She groaned slightly irritated about the interruption. She had forgotten they were baby-sitting while her parents were out shopping. David just smiled as Tony held up a toy stethoscope and a Doctor's bag. "Look what I got!" "Well, that's very nice." David said looking at the plastic object.
Tony grinned. "I'm going to be a Doctor when I grow up!" "Really," David said slightly surprised. "I thought you didn't like Doctors." He shrugged. "Well, you're going to be a Doctor so they can't all be bad." Tony replied simply.
David smirked. "I'll take that as a compliment." "I got the same tools that you use," He said. Tony continued to search through the bag and pulled out another tool. "I even got an oto-oto..." He struggled to say.
"Otoscope." He finished for him. Tony nodded. "Right, that... ear and nose thingy." He said giving up on the name. David laughed. "Ear and nose thingy, I like it." Tony just smiled and showed him more. Rose smirked watching them. Those two were so cute together.
After a few minutes Rose gently pat Tony's back. "Tony why don't you go play where we can see you, yeah?"
Tony sighed heavily. "Okay just don't start kissing." She blushed. "Tony!" Rose warned while David snickered. He made a face at her and moved to the middle of the lawn and started playing.
Rose sighed. "Sorry, about that." He smirked. "It's okay, I don't mind." She smiled hugging his arm. "He really adores you." "Well, he's a good kid." He replied.
David felt the ring in his pocket, it had been there for three days. It was now or never. He sighed heavily. "Rose how do you feel about me? I mean really feel about me?"
She slowly pulled back and smiled tilting her head. "I think you're wonderful and I love you, why?" He lowered his gaze. "Well, I know you'll be leaving soon and I-"
She stopped him shaking her head. "No, no, don't even want to think about that." David sighed. "Rose, we're going to have to sooner or later." She groaned and rested her head on his shoulder. "I know, I just can't imagine saying goodbye to you." He smiled slightly. "I know but we can still write and call."
"Yeah," She sighed. "Still it won't be the same not seeing you every day." Rose replied softly stroking his arm "Well, we can visit each other every now and then." He pointed out. Rose grunted.
He smirked taking her hand. "Now, we can make this work." She glanced at him. "You think so?" He nodded. "Yeah," He said. David then looked at her shyly remembering the ring. "In fact I wanted to ask you something." Rose looked at him curious. "What?"
David swallowed as the butterflies returned in his stomach and his heart pounded. He took a deep breath before speaking. "Rose Tyler-"
Before he could finish Tony called out to him. "David come play with me!" Rose smiled sympathetically. "I think your needed 'uncle David'." She teased. He sighed and smiled. "Yeah," David glanced at her. "I guess I'll ask you later." He said with some disappointment.
Rose nodded and watched him go over to Tony. He briefly glanced at her and smiled as she gave a small wave. All fear slowly disappearing. He had definitely made the right decision and he couldn't wait to finally give her the ring.