Aiden and Sam looked up as Jaime and Kimberlee came walking down the steps.
"Is everything okay?" Aiden wondered.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked.
"Nothing," Jaime answered. "Kimberlee can't sleep, so I told her I'd stay up with her."
Aiden and Sam exchanged a glance. "We will, too," they both said.
"If its okay," Melanie began, "we'd like to stay over."
"We'd have to ask our mom, but—" He stopped. "Hey, where did Mom go? And Nathan?"
"Mom said she forgot bread, or something, so she and Nathan went to the store," Sam explained. "Said they'd be back later."
As soon as he said that, the front door opened.
"Oh, hey, girls," their mother said with a smiled as she walked into the house.
"Hey, Mrs. Hamilton," they all greeted her in unison.
"Mom, is it okay if the girls stay over tonight?" Aiden asked.
"Of course, hun!" Diane told him. "They're welcome to stay over whenever they want. Are you going to have a contest again?"
The boys looked at her. "What do you mean?" Jaime wondered. "What contest?"
"The one you had ten years ago, the first time the girls slept over," Diane started. "The one where you bet who can stay up the longest. Remember? And wasn't it Melanie who won?"
"Oh, yeah!" Melanie laughed. "You guys fell asleep at, like, midnight. I stayed up all night."
"And then you got in trouble by our teacher for falling asleep in class," Sam reminded her.
"Hey, you try falling asleep after watching tons of horror movies."
"They weren't even that scary." Jaime laughed.
"I was six!" Melanie protested. She smiled. "And I still won."
"I bet you can't win again," Jaime told her.
"Wanna bet?"
"Yeah, actually, I do."
"Fine. First one to fall asleep has to—" Melanie stopped, trying to think.
"First one to fall asleep has to call the principal up and say, 'I think you're sexy,' in the most seductive voice you can."
"The principal is ninety!" Melanie told him.
"Psh, he's not THAT old."
"Close enough!"
"Whatever. Are you in? Or are you too chicken?"
"I'm in," Melanie told him. She looked at her friends. "Well, guys?"
Her friends looked at each other and backed away.
"Count us out," they all said.
Melanie smiled at Jaime. "Guess its just you and me, huh, Jay?"
"You're gonna lose," Jaime told her.
Melanie rolled her eyes.
"Hey." Deanna looked up at Aiden. "Do you want to go for a walk?"
"Dee, it's almost midnight."
Deanna shrugged. "So?"
Aiden smiled. "All right."
Deanna got off of his lap and pulled Aiden up, too.
"We'll be back," he said to his friends.
Sam threw him a flashlight. "Be careful."
Aiden nodded. "We will." He grabbed Deanna's hand. They both walked outside.
"So," Deanna started.
"So." Aiden looked down at her.
"When were you going to ask me to marry you?"
"Not for a while," Aiden admitted.
"Why not for a while?"
"I wanted to make sure you would say yes before I made a complete idiot of myself," Aiden told her.
Deanna stopped, pulling on Aiden's hand to get him to stop, too. "I love you, Aiden. Did you have any doubt in your mind that I would say anything but yes?"
"Actually," Aiden admitted, "I did."
"Why?" Deanna looked up at him.
"Because you're perfect."
"Perfect? Aiden—"
Aiden cut her off. "You're smart, and you're funny, and you're kind, and you're...beautiful. You're so perfect, and I'm just...me."
"Yeah, well, I think being just you is pretty damn great."
"You do?" Aiden looked into her eyes.
Deanna nodded. "I do." She kissed him lightly. "And just so you know," Deanna added as she pulled away, "nobody's perfect."
Aiden smiled at her, moving a strand of hair from in front of her eyes. "Then you're perfectly imperfect."
10 comments?
do yu have dont forget part 10
Jyoti4Ever 2 years ago
No, I'm gonna work on it tomorrow.
xUnderneathThisSmile 2 years ago