The Date (Part 2)

As she was walking out of the store she heard, "Baby?" The voice belonged to none other than Nate and she froze to her place. He came to her and asked, "You okay?" She hesitantly turned towards her and as she did it only added to Nate's worry. As she was standing there with her eyes completely filled with tears which were threatening to fall any second now.

Out of blue he hugged her and hide her face with his large arms. As he patted her head, she calmed down. He finally unhugged them and looked in her eyes and confessed, "I promise, I won't ever leave you." Her eyes started to fill again but this time not with the tears of worry, but with the tears of happiness and she nodded and he wiped her eyes with his thumbs.

He smiled and said, "Now, now, now, don't you ever cry, okay babygirl?"

His sentence ignited something inside her and she felt heat travelling up to her cheeks. She looked down on her shoes to hide her embarrassment. He chuckled and patted her head saying, "Now let's buy that cute dress for my girl." He empathises on the word 'my girl' to make sure she knows how much she is to her.

She, out of utter shock looked up and saw he had that dress that she was looking at. She understood that he went to buy that and felt kinda silly for both overacting and overthinking. She started to follow him closely with her heads down as the heat just increased by the realization of such a silly mistake.

He paid for the dress and they started walking to the exit but not before he placed her hand firmly on his forearm and made sure she understood not to let go of it. She simply followed him. They finally went to had their lunch.

The time at lunch and the other shopping went away so fast they didn't notice when it hit 6 O'Clock in the evening. As soon as he saw that he took her hand and rushed to the exit. She asked over and over why but he just replied with a simple, "You'll know when you'll reach there."

So she let him be and just went with him to the car. He turned the engine and rushed to an unknown road. She was completely confused by the sudden hurry but she couldn't say no. As it seemed really important to him and she just didn't want to break such a sweet moment of him trying to do something so hard. It was not a sadistic thing it was lovers thing for her. She didn't know what it was but looking at him trying that hard for her made her heart flutter with all the butterflies.

Although the driving was rough but sure was cautious, as he couldn't risk her girl getting a single bump on the road. After like an hour, the breaks were finally applied and they stopped. He took a deep sigh which he didn't know he was holding and smiled at himself with proud. He said, "Finally I made it."

She looked at him and asked, "That's great." He looked at her with complete confusion because as far as he knew he didn't remember telling her something. He just shrugged the confusion and said, "Let's go." She nodded as they both came out of the car.

She noticed it was black but not the night pitchy one, it was dark blue mixed with little light. They were on some kind of green area, sure a hilly one as the road make sure to make her understand that. There were little grass and so many hills around it. He went to the very edge of the cliff and she followed.

They stood there while the air was blowing on its high, even being summer the wind was cold enough to make her shiver. He looked at her, in her eyes and she looked at his. Both their eyes wanted to say so much but both knew words would never be enough.

Nate said, "Do you remember, the very first day that you came to the stage?" She nodded. He placed his hands on her shoulder and started going on her left side as he said, "As soon as you stepped on the stage, it was the moment, where I lost the track of time. On that very instant I felt that the universe itself broke on me and gave me the world's most precious thing."

With his little talk she felt the heat again flowing to her cheeks but this time the sensation spread through the whole body. It was a warm feeling, a cosy one which she has missed for maybe lifetimes.

He continued, "I knew you are my the one and I am yours. I cannot guarantee our future always happy. But I can guarantee our future bright and together."

he hugged her from behind and she could feel the warmth of his body transferring into her body. She felt at bliss, she knew this moment was theirs and she knew that no one can end it now. She has always saved her for someone. She didn't know who it was, but sure she knew it was someone, someone really special as Nate is.

He unhugged them and said, "I wanted to ask you something." She nodded saying, "What is it?" Suddenly she felt something dropping in her neck and she looked down and held the thing in her hand and saw that it was rose quartz along with an 'N' letter written on a round hanging along with crystal.

The pendent was so beautiful in itself but the gift was too much for Grace not to cry and as the tears started to fall she heard Nate whispering in her ear, "Will you be my girl?"

She shocked for an instant. She couldn't believe it was happening and she knew she couldn't be much happier. She realized he is waiting for a reply. She tried her voice but it gave up on her. So she did what she had the last option left she only nodded.

As she nodded a huge wind came and hit the grass, making it dance along with it and making all the fireflies come out. There was a huge wave of fireflies as they all came out at once and it seemed like the stars had hit the surface. He came in front of her and looked in her eyes and said, "Believe in me." She nodded and he finally added, "I love you."

Old tears hadn't stopped yet the new ones started to fall along and she hugged him saying, "I love you too." Hearing those words even he can't remain his cool as his eyes filled with tears too. They both sat down and Nate took Grace on his lap. He wrapped little Grace in his a little too large jacket. It seemed Nate brought the jacket on purpose. Grace asked, "Did you know?"

He frowned as he asked, "About?"

She replied, "About the cold."

He started nervously laughing but she said, "But anyway, I loved it."

She went deep into his lap, closing even the least area for the wind to come in. He only smiled at her cute reaction. For a normal person, there was no word exchange, they just sta still there. They didn't ask any questions or discussed something. They just sat there enjoying the view and taking in each other's warmth.

After sometime when it hit really cold Nate purposed, "Should we head back?" But before she could reply, her tummy growled like crazy. Nate chuckled and said, "Sure we can get it some food too." This time blush couldn't make it to her cheek before the laugh. It was a genuine laugh.

They both head back to the car and as they sat inside, Grace said, "Thanks." Nate looked at her and asked, "For what?"

She looked at him with her signature smile and teary eyes and said, "Thanks for coming back into my life."

He nodded as if he understood what she was talking about. Finally, they both started towards home.

They finally had a simple chit chat about various stuff of their lives before they met. Nate pulled the car in front of a hotel, where both of them get to know each other's favourites. Soon after their dinner, they started home. But not before stopping place to place to enjoy the weather and have some fun.

Like in an empty park they swang together. In an abandoned building they wrote their names and many more. It was 2 in the morning when they finally pulled at Grace's place. They, without making any sound reached home and opened the lock. But as soon as they opened the lock the view was kind of odd.

There was a sleeping Mika in Noah's lap. Before they could ask anything, Noah shut them up with shouted whispering, "She just slept!" They nodded and Grace opened their bedroom's door. Noah picked her in baby style to which she started to wake up but Noah patted her to deep sleep.

Grace chuckled silently at the sight and whispered in Noah's ear, "Sleep with her. We have extra bedding for this room." He nodded and went in the room along with baby Mika sleeping soundly...