“Josh, just calm down” Amy said softly.
“I know that coming here and apologizing isn’t enough. I need to show you, to prove to you, just how much I love you and how much you mean to me.”
Amy wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Aside from saying that he loved her, what did Josh plan on doing? Was she going to be told to look outside, and in the clouds would the words Josh Loves Amy appear?
Suddenly, Josh got down on one knee in front of her and Amy’s heart began to race wildly in her chest. Surely this wasn’t happening? This was the sort of thing that happened to princesses in fairy tales, not college teachers.
All the students also fell silent, sucking in their breath in excited anticipation.
“Amy Prince, I love you. I’ve loved you since the moment I walked into you out on the parking lot. You are the most beautiful, accomplished woman I’ve ever known and I need to know if you’d make me the happiest man in the world,” Josh delved into the pocket of his hooded top and produced a small Tiffany box which he then popped open to reveal a stunning white gold, Princess cut diamond engagement ring.
“And do me the honor of agreeing to marry me and be my wife?” he concluded, glancing up at Amy over the box with nervous, anxious eyes.
“Oh my God,” Amy whispered, unable to take in the magnitude of what he was asking. It felt as though the whole world had stopped, waiting on her answer.
Amy suddenly saw her whole romantic life flash before her eyes, and in that moment she knew that Josh was the man for her. She knew that she too had loved him since their first fateful encounter.
“Of course I’ll be your wife! Yes! Yes!” she blurted out in delight and Josh rose up off his knee and they embraced as behind them the students broke out in thunderous applause.
“I love you,” Josh whispered in her ear as he held her tight, not wanting to let her go.
“I love you too,” Amy whispered back, tears of joy pricking at her eyes.
****
The on-looking students were quick to tweet the happy news and soon the whole world knew about the engagement of Josh Roberts and Amy Prince.
That night, as weary working women read their newspapers over their evening coffee they would read the story about Hollywood heartthrob Josh Roberts and college teacher Amy Prince and it would instil hope in them that sometimes, fairy tales really do happen to normal people. It happened to Amy Prince, what’s to say it couldn’t happen to them too?
Epilogue
Josh looked first at the tape and then at his agent.
“So there is it, the identity of the guy who assaulted you,” his agent said, his tone apologetic.
“I’m sorry it took us so long to uncover their identity,” the uniformed officer also in the room quickly added. “These things, they can take time and the college only recently contacted us about the footage on this tape. Apparently they don’t review security footage on a regular basis. Especially since no police report was ever filed. But it’s all there, the whole attack.”
“And Amy knows the guy?” Josh’s agent’s tone was questioning.
“Her ex.” Josh answered abruptly.
“So will you be pressing charges?” the officer queried.
Josh took a moment to think. He thought of his wounds, how brutal the beating had been. Then he had remembered how Amy had come to his rescue and how that one incident had ultimately bonded them together.
“I don’t think so,” Josh shook his head.
“What, seriously?” His agent sounded appalled. “This guy jumps you, unprovoked, and beats the living crap out of you?”
“Yeah but I kind of pity the guy. He’s got nothing, and me, I’ve got Amy, which means I have everything. Him losing her is punishment enough.”
“You’re a lot nicer than they make you out in the papers,” the officer noted.
“Yeah, I get told that a lot lately,” Josh smiled.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Epilogue
Author Info
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