Page 118 (1/1)
"And she had an excellent teacher,"down atthe photo inside a t-shirt so that it wouldn’t get daht "So, are you excited?" she asked
I grinned Excited didn’t quite cover everything that I felt about this trip "Yeah, I don’t think I’ht," I admitted
"Me either," she muttered She looked atthe emotion as best she could, she obviously didn’t want to showto reat tiood for you I know I’ve been down on him a lot in the past, and that’s my problem, not yours But I want you to know that I… I like hile tear fell down her face as she spoke and she quickly swiped it away as if she was ashaer as I tried to think of so to me, so instead I reached out and placedin the case I squeezed her hand softly and she looked at our hands, alhtly and squeezed ers back It was nice Probably the nicest hteen years of life
She cleared her throat then and moved her hand away, obviously uncomfortable with the intirained in et that "You’re really taking these shorts, Ellison? Look at the state of the up a pair of worn old jean shorts that I’d loved to death "You’ll look like a hohter of rass stain on the rear of therinned - ere back to nor three point throw that would have ratulations, I realised that I was actually going to h of relief and watched her back as she walked out of my apartment What had transpired in the last two hours had been terrifying I felt so vulnerable; it ful having to relive all of that again That was the first time I’d ever let any of that stuff out, no one knew most of that, not even my mother I’d never wanted to talk about it before, always supressed it, pushed it down and tried to bury it, but right now, after telling all of that to her, I kind of felt like a weight had been lifted off ofis true, a problem shared really is a problem halved
Ellie was probably the last person that I wanted to know my deepest darkest secrets, but now that she kneas alht us closer The acceptance, the understanding, the support and unconditional love froth of Ellie’s character was so that left me in awe of her, I silently prayed that she never stopped looking at me the way she did because I wasn’t sure hoould cope without her - hopefully I’d never have to find out My love for her was terrifying; she literally was theto me in the world The only wish I had was that my little sister was alive to meet her too, because I know she would have idolised her like I do
When the door closed, leavingto have to hurry if I didn’t want to be late I headed intoup uess I was a little overeager to start my new life with her I smiled as I lifted it off of the bed and put it by the door so I could grab it easily too pick her up for the airport
All I’d left unpacked in my aparte of clothes for to onone of the two ‘et’ items Ellie had the tickets because she liked to coo over them before she went to sleep, so I didn’t have to worry about forgetting those The other essential item I picked up and rolled around in the paleht for Ellie I s to be a complete surprise for her, she had no idea - at least, I hoped she didn’t anyway I’d already asked her dad’s perreed provided we had a fairly long engagement So, as soon as I found a nice little ro on one knee Hopefully she’d say yes After what had just transpired between us, I was pretty confident that she wouldn’t turnfor the hundredth ti that I’d spent hours choosing I was very happy with my choice, and I had every faith that she’d love it, hell, it could be a crackerjack prize and Ellie probably wouldn’t love it any less I’d pluold Ellie wasn’t really a gold person, she liked silver, but I didn’t want to get her a silver ring, so white gold was as close as I could get
The princess cut diaht as I listening like that on her finger instead of the box
I really needed to go now, I couldn’t procrastinate any longer Snapping the box closed, I winced when I realised that she could have seen that earlier and ruined the surprise I’d just casually suggested that she sleep in here, and the whole tiuess it was my lucky day today