“She said yes,” he whispered, as he looked deep into my eyes.
Then he leaned forward, kissing me passionately. I placed my hands on his face, dragging my fingers over his trimmed beard. We kissed for along time, standing there on the grass with the stream in the background and the sun setting in the horizon.
After a while, I gently pulled away, looking him over.
“Oh, my God, baby,” I said. “We’re getting married!”
I was still in shock. It didn’t seem real.
“Yes!” Steven said, pulling me in for a hug. “God, I’m so happy you didn’t say no.”
I laughed as I wrapped my arms around his neck.
“How could I have said no?”
Steven kissed my cheek and then walked me back over to the blanket where we laid down. He crawled next to me, wrapping his arm over me and placing his hand on my belly.
“I love you, Kelsey,” he said. “And I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”
I closed my eyes, just soaking up the moment. I placed my hand over his, holding it close to my stomach, where our child was growing inside.
“I can’t wait either,” I said. “And I love you too, Steven. Thank you for everything. This has been the best day of my entire life.”
And it was true. It was the best day of my life. My entire world was there on that blanket in the park. Everything I needed was there underneath those orange clouds on top of that grassy hill.
I was still in total shock that Steven had proposed to me. Once again, he had caught me by surprise. But I couldn’t have been happier. I was going to marry the man of my dreams!
And sure, we would end up running into some controversy with friends and family about the marriage. I mean I was positive that some members of society would wonder how stepsiblings could marry. But to be honest, I didn’t care about that stuff any longer. I had spent the majority of my life trying to fit in, trying to appease people that I didn’t even know or care about. And I was done with all of that. I knew that the only thing I needed in this world was Steven and our baby. That was it. And nothing, and I mean nothing, could ever stand in the way of us being together.
You know, life has a funny way of working out. Sometimes it’s the smallest things that have the biggest impact. And as we laid there underneath the sky, I began to feel so utterly grateful for everything. I felt grateful for my parent’s divorce and for my mom meeting William and for William having the most amazing son in this world. But most of all, I felt grateful that Steven had decided to take that seat next to me at our parent’s wedding on that fateful day. I didn’t know it at the time, but that little moment was the real beginning of my life. Because it was in that moment when everything changed for the better. It was in that moment when my whole life turned around. And it was in that infinitely delicate and precious space in time when Steven and I began to fall deeply in love with each other. And that was something that nobody could ever take away from us.
...And Steven and Kelsey lived happily ever after. Sure, they met a little bit of resistance from some friends and family who thought it was strange that a stepbrother and stepsister had fallen in love. But neither Steven nor Kelsey let it get to them. Not even close. Their love was hard earned and therefore, hard to take away. In fact, some might say, that their love was invincible.
The end.
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