by Shelly Jones
“Can’t be that bad, is it?” I ask. Him and I never got along before and this is the first actual conversation we’ve had more than hi and goodbye.
“Dude, I can’t even make the bed right. I love her, but holy fuck! Get that kid out!”
I start laughing, “Well, I do know she snapped at Em the other night over the phone. Em hung up on her and tossed her phone. No clue what that was about, but Em mumbled something about being crazy psycho pregnant bitch.”
“Oh yeah, that was because of some family recipe. Mel said it was one thing and Em said it was something else.”
“Couple more weeks and then you’ll have sleep deprived Mel.” I get up and smack Scott on the back and laugh.
The girls come back and Mel is bitching about something, “Yeah, I’m going to get her home.” Scott gets up.
“Yes, take her home, have sex with her and get that baby out. I miss my cousin!” Emily says loud enough just for us to hear. Mel flips her the bird. “See, I miss my cousin!”
“I’ll see what I can do.” Scott says and walks Mel away.
“I think I’m ready to go too.” Blake says.
“Hey, what are you guys doing tonight?” Reese asks us.
“Babe, we already have plans.” Blake says.
“We do? Since when?”
“Well, it was a surprise, but whatever. Just chill and relax. I’ve got us a night planned.” He wraps his arm around her waist. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t and he’s probably cussing me right now.
“I’m ready to go home too.” Emily leans into me.
“Me too.”
When we get home Emily starts making dinner, while I unload the pumpkins in the backyard. I counted twenty-five pumpkins. “Who the hell gets this many?” I say out loud.
“Well, whatever we don’t carve, I’ll make fresh pumpkin with it, so I can make pies and breads with it.” She says walking out.
“Ok, we really didn’t need that many.”
“Yeah, but you said there was no limit. Never say that to me.” She grazes the front of my pants. Yep she’s in a mood, tonight should be fun.
We eat dinner and go into the backyard. We each pick three pumpkins to carve tonight. Harlie doesn’t seem to care. She helps us both clean out the seeds and guts.
Harlie, Emily and I are sitting at the table carving out pumpkins.
“Contest on whose pumpkins are better?” I say sitting across the table from her smiling. She looks at her three pumpkins and looks at her stencils. “You’re on!” she smiles.
“So, what do I get when I win?” I ask her.
“Umm, a kiss on the cheek.” She sticks her tongue out, “But that won’t be happening. When I win I get date night, chick flick movie, dinner and you have to dress up as whatever I want for the Halloween party!” She says all confidently.
Yep I got this! “Oh honey, I want more than a kiss on the cheek. I like your idea of the Halloween costume. So yeah, I get to dress you for the party.”
She puts out her hand. “Game on!” I shake her hand and we start carving.
Harlie is giggling and looking at both of our pumpkins. First pumpkin, “Will” with hearts on it, second pumpkin “You” I add a couple more hearts, my third pumpkin is large, and so I carve “Marry Me?” with hearts on it. Yep I got this.
Emily was so focused on her pumpkins, she didn’t even look up at me.
“Getting scared, Babe?” I ask her.
“Nope, not at all. I know I’m going to win this!” She looks up at me and smiles.
After about two and half hours of carving, we are both done.
“So who’s going to judge?” I ask.
“We will.” She says simply.
“Alright, then. Who goes first?” She asks.
“Ladies first!” I smirk. She turns her pumpkins around one by one. Her first pumpkin was all cute and sweet. “Emily + Xander = 4Ever” second pumpkin a heart made out of hands, her third pumpkin, I’ll give her credit was pretty amazing. She did a whole cemetery scene. It was badass. “Awe baby. ‘You and me forever.’ I like it, but I’m still gonna win.” I tell her.
“Well then, by all means . . . Show me what you got!” She tells me.
I take a deep breath Here goes nothing, this moment will change the rest of our lives. I blow out the breath. Pumpkin one, “Will . . .” She says looking confused.
I turn the second one around, “You” she says, still looking confused. My stomach is doing weird things and I’m starting to sweat. “Ok so, ‘Will You’” She says. Harlie starts to giggle. Emily’s eyes look like they’re starting to tear up.
I turn the final pumpkin around, “Marry Me?” she whispers.
“Will You Marry Me?” she says out loud.
“Xander?” She asks, Tears flooding her eyes. I stand up and walk over to her and get down on one knee.
“We met a little over a year ago, I swear Emily when your eyes connected with mine, my whole world changed. Then you offered that deal to me. I knew it was the wrong thing, cuz I knew you would find your way into my heart. It scared me, but I took the chance and that was the best thing I have ever done.”
I take a deep breath and look at Harlie who’s smiling. I look back at Em “It’s been almost year ago since the first time you spent the night here. I told you I would be anything you needed me to be. Since that night though, you became everything I needed and I fell in love with you.” I say holding back the tears.
“I love everything about you. Your smile lights up the world, your touch calms me down instantly. There’s just one thing I don’t love, and that is, that you’re not my wife. I know we haven’t known each other a long time, but Emily Grace Hayes, Will you marry me and be mine forever?” I say letting a tear fall from my eyes. I reach in my pocket and pull out a box and open it.
“Oh my god! Are you for real?” She asks me.
“Yeah, I am.”
She’s looking at the ring, tears are flowing out of her eyes, and “A year ago you proved to me what kind of man you really were. I tried so hard not to fall in love with you, but do you know how hard it was? It was brutal. That night I offered that deal, I was already falling in love with you, but I couldn’t let you go. I was going to do anything I had to do to be with you.” She wipes the tears from her eyes. “You and I coming together, that was fate, it was written in the stars. In my heart, I know it’s the reason I moved here.” She takes a deep breath, “Yes, Xander. I will marry you!” She finally says giving me an answer.
“I love you.” I say putting the ring on her finger.
“I love you more.” She tells me, leaning in and kissing me.
She’s looking at her ring, “I know it’s not the traditional ring, but I wanted something that was different.” I start saying.
She lets out a laugh, “Baby, we are far from traditional and the ring? It’s perfect. When I pictured my ring when I was little, I always pictured it being in color.”
“So I did good?” I ask.
“My baby did real good.” She smiles. Her face changes and I know what she’s thinking.
“Don’t worry, your dad gave me his blessing. The only thing he wants is to be the one to marry us.”
“You asked him?” She says almost shouting.
“Yeah, Babe. I asked him.”
“Not sure it’s possible, but I think I just fell more in love with you.” She leans in to kiss me.
Harlie comes around to us, “So does Daddy win?” She asks.
“Baby, I think we both won!” I tell her.
“Yeah, we did.” She kisses her on top of her head.
“Can I go tell Grandma and Grandpa?” She asks.
“Yeah, go ahead!” I tell her. We watch her leave and that’s all it took.
We both stood up and our mouths were on each other. “Think your mom will keep Harlie for a little while?”
“That’s the plan. Mom knew what I was doing. I told her I’d send Harlie over once you gave me your answer.” I say against her li
ps.
“Good, then make love to me now!” She says undoing my belt. I stop and take her hand and lead her to our bedroom. I close the door and lock it then pin her up against it. I have her hands above her head pinned with one hand while my other hand runs down her body and cups her pussy.
“Don’t tease me, Xander.” She warns.
I start laughing and release her hands.
“Come on, let’s take a bath.” I say pulling her into me.
“Ok,” She says, taking off her shirt and pants. “You’re slow.” She walks past me and gets to the bathroom before me. I rip my clothes off and come up behind her, pinning her to the tile wall spreading her legs with my knee, sliding my hand between her legs and my fingers tease the opening of her wet pussy. “Always wet for me,” I say turning her around and lifting her up and pinning her back against the wall, the tip of my cock sits at her opening, she moves just a little and I slide in.
Our eyes never leaving each other, I fuck her against the tile wall, “I love you.”
“I love you too,” She moans and comes at the same time. I thrust hard two times and come. “God damn.” I pant. I move us into the shower and turn on the water.
I wash her and get her to come with my hand in her pussy and my mouth on her tits. She returns the favor by giving me a hand job and then finishing it with a blowjob.
We get out of the shower and dry off, she goes for clothes and I stop her. “No clothes.” I demand.
“Ok . . .”
“I don’t want anything in the way when I fuck you again.”
“Oh, so we’re not done?”
“Not even close, Baby, not even close.” I whisper in her ear and kiss the spot on her neck. “And you’re wet again.” I walk away and go to the bed. To say our night was hot, would be an understatement. One of the best nights we’ve had.
I WAKE UP to the sunlight shining in my face, a warm body wrapped around mine and a ring on my finger. I bring my left hand to my face and look at my ring again. Looking at all the details of it, it’s perfect. I love everything about it. It’s going to sound corny and cliché, but I really do feel like I’ve won the lottery being with Xander.
I look over at him and he’s still sleeping. I slide out of bed, not waking him, and put some clothes on. I grab my phone and walk out of the room. I get the dogs outside and go sit on our swinging bench. The sun makes the stones dance and shimmer.
I turn on the camera on my phone and take a picture of the ring and the pumpkins.
I post the pictures on Facebook with the caption, “I said Yes!!! So in love, He’s mine and I’m his 4Ever!” and hit post. “Yep, that should get the people back home talking.” I giggle. I call my parents to tell them.
“Hey Mom.” I say all chipper and happy.
“Emily, everything ok?”
“Everything is perfect. Is Dad around?”
“He’s right here.”
“Good. Put me on speaker.” I tell her.
“Ok,” She says “You’re on speaker now.”
“Hi Daddy!”
“Hi Emily.”
“So, Xander asked me to marry him, and I said yes.”
“Good, he finally did it. I was wondering if he was having second thoughts.” My dad teases.
“Nope, he carved pumpkins out, ‘Will you marry me?’ It was perfect.” I tell them thinking back to last night.
“Well good, I’m happy for you. So when do we get to see you again?”
“Oh crap, that’s right. How about Christmas?”
“Really? Yeah that would great.” My dad smiles through the phone.
“Good, well when it gets closer, we’ll let you know what the plans are.”
“Sounds good to us. So all three of you right?” My mother asks.
“Yeah, it’ll be all three of us. We might get a hotel, still not sure about it. But when it gets closer I’ll let you know.”
“Ok, well just let us know. We’ve got to get to church. So, we’ll talk to you later ok?” My dad says.
“Ok, love you guys!” I say and hang up.
My phone has been blowing up with Facebook notifications. Congratulating us and telling me how much they miss me and blah blah blah! “Yeah and you all have my phone number and no one calls me. So fuck off!” I say looking at my phone. I get a new friends request and I click on it to see who it is. ‘Chad Fisher’ I bust out laughing. “Are you fucking kidding me?” I look at my phone. I don’t respond to it. I’ll just let it sit there.
“Who’s that?” Xander says scaring the shit out of me.
“This guy? This is the guy I left to come here. The guy that I fell out of love with and left.”
“Oh, so this is the guy?”
“Yep, the one and only, Chad.” I roll my eyes.
“So, I guess we should go shopping for our costumes today?” He asks.
“Yeah, I think we should.”
Harlie already has her costume, I’ve got everything I need for my costume for school, but Xander and I need something for the costume party at the bar. We can’t find shit at the Halloween shops, “This is what we get for waiting til the last minute.” I say to him as we’re going through the racks. “This sucks. Now what?” He asks.
“Maybe not even dress up this year.” I shrug my shoulders.
“Whatever you wanna do, Em. We’ll make it better next year.” He wraps his arm around my shoulder and we start to walk out.
“Xander?” A female’s voice calls from behind us. We both turn and there’s tall red head with big tits smiling at him. “Hey Lexi.” He says and we both turn to walk away.
“Hey!” She says getting in front of us.
“What?” He asks.
“I haven’t seen you in a long time and every time I go to the bar you’re either not there or you’re too busy. I’ve missed you.” She says running a finger down his arm.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t think we’ve ever met.” I speak up and offer her my hand, “I’m Emily, Xander’s fiancé.” I glare at her.
“Your what?!” She says loudly and almost in a stutter.
“My fiancé.” He smiles.
“Wow, what did she do, get pregnant to tie you down?” She asks looking at me.
“Excuse me?” I snap at the bitch.
“Honey, don’t be stupid. He ain’t gonna marry you. This guy fucks and he fucks good, but he don’t do marriage. So, I don’t know what you did to brain wash him, but game over.”
I start laughing, hysterical laughing, “Wow! You’ve got balls, Bitch. Are you sure you aren’t a dude?” Xander grabs my arm and tries to pull me away. “No, you’re not making me leave now.” I glare at him.
“Lexi just stop your shit.” He snaps at her.
“Don’t. Let me take care of this!” I snarl at him.
I turn my attention to the redheaded bimbo “So, when did you two fuck?”
“What does it matter? He’s had me many times and I know how to please him.”
“Lexi, honey, my God are you fucking dumb!” I giggle, “I’m guessing the last time you two fucked was last August, early September of last year. Am I right?”
The bitch stands there, not talking.
“That’s what I thought. So history lesson for you, Lexi, and make sure you’re paying attention.” I take a deep breath. “This guy and I have been fucking every week since September 15, 2013. So it’s impossible that you had him after that cuz I was enough for him and will always be enough for him. Him fucking you and every other whore, was just his way of waiting for the right girl, and that right girl, is me.” I take a deep breath,
“What . . .” She starts to say.
“I’m done. I am and will always be enough for this man. No one, and I mean No One will tear us apart and if they even try, well you’ll meet a side of me you’ll regret. And no, I’m not threatening sweetie. I’m making a fucking promise!’
She gets close to me, “I will fucking beat the shit out of you.” She snarls at me.
I s
tart to giggle and turn to see everyone staring at us, “Ladies and gentleman, you heard it. She just threatened my life.” I smirk at her. “Game over, Sweetie.” I wink at her and walk away.
Xander says nothing to me, he just stares at me, “What?” I snap.
“Nothing, never seen that side of you before.”
“Yeah, well it takes a lot to get me there and the bitch bimbo took the short cut.” I let out a breath. I’m coming down from the adrenaline that was pumping hard through my veins.
“You ok?” He asks.
“I’m fine, just hope she isn’t right.” I say getting into the truck.
He gets in, “What is that supposed to mean?”
“You not being the marrying kind. That I’ve somehow have tied you down.”
“Don’t let that bitch get in your head. She’s just pissed off because she’s been wanting me for years. She even went as far as faking a pregnancy right before school started. She’s jealous.” He reaches for my hand, “You were right, you are and will always be enough for me.”
“Ok, good.” I give him my best smile.
Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, and thank God we don’t have school tomorrow. I think having school the day after trick or treating is just stupid. Kids come back to school after a major sugar high and no sleep. It sucks.
I finish getting my “costume” on for school, it’s not even really a costume, since it’s everything I own. I’ve got on a denim skirt, blue and white plaid shirt, brown cowboy boots and a straw cowboy hat. Yes, this isn’t dressing up, this is me being me. I finish curling my hair and getting my make-up on. Xander is up getting Harlie ready for school. She wanted to go dressed like me. It was fun getting her western ware.
“Damn!” Xander says as I’m walking down the hallway.
“What?”
“Nothing, that’s just hot.” He smirks.
“Funny thing is, this is how I use to dress almost daily in Wisconsin.” I walk past him to get my coffee.
“You could dress like that now, its ok. I won’t argue.” He says, kissing the back of my neck.