His fingers left my hair, then he used his thumb to brush my tears away, as he whispered, “Since the night of your prom. I fell, right then and there.”
Garrick headed out of the room to let the doctor know he was awake.
Frank and Misty, hugged him, Misty buried her face in his shoulder and softly wept.
Talia followed.
Ethan hugged him.
Garrick hugged him.
Alec freaking fist bumped him.
We were all asked to leave the room as they checked him over.
However, we all heard Carter snap, “Don’t you ask her to leave ever again.”
That caused all of us to chuckle, as Garrick said, “Yeah. He’s going to be just fine.”
Alec nodded, “Still can’t believe I never saw it.”
“Because you had your dick up in anything that moved,” Garrick said dryly.
And that caused us all to start chuckling even harder, which turned into laughter.
A few minutes later, the door opened, and before we moved to go back into the room, the nurse looked at me and said, “He would like you to come in first.” Then she looked at the rest of them and said, “He asked y’all to give him fifteen minutes or so.”
They nodded, then said they would go grab food for all of us and bring it back.
I headed back into the room and did something I’ve needed.
He apparently needed it to, because he opened his arms, and his other arm, which was bandaged, came up slowly.
Carefully, I lowered myself next to him and gingerly wrapped my arms around him.
Breathing him in, with my eyes closed.
Tilting my head, I placed a kiss over his bandage that was over his heart.
And then.... I heard words I had always wanted to hear from him.
“Marry me,” he asked.
I felt the breath in my lungs catch, “What?”
He whispered, “Marry me. Did they give you my stuff?”
I nodded then pointed to the little armoire thing, or whatever it was called, and said, “It’s all in there.”
He nodded, “Go and get it for me, please.”
With that, I pressed another kiss over his heart, followed by him pressing one to the top of my head, then I got up and went and got his things.
“Black backpack.” He said.
I tagged it and brought it to the bed.
Then he pointed at a zipper on the side of it and said, “Open that.”
