SSA Scottley - A collection - S.R.

Proposal

Warning: Cheesy as all hell. Possibly the cheesiest thing I have ever written. I wrote this when I was 15 or somethingz and I pretty much hate it now, but, oh well...

It was a long day at work, but thankfully, it was only paperwork day. After saying her goodbyes to the team, Lily drove home, happy to arrive at the comfort of her house before nine o'clock that night. When she opened her door and realized the alarm wasn't active and that Fred hadn't ran over to her just yet, she assumed Claire was home as well.

"Claire?" She called, as she turned the key on the lock.

"Hey, Lily!" She called back, her voice muffled since she was upstairs, possibly in her room. "How was work?"

"Boring, thankfully." She replied with a giggle. "Have you eaten?"

"No, not really." She answered. "Busy with homework."

Lily nodded, as she slipped off her heels and walked toward the kitchen to grab herself a glass of water. Meanwhile, Claire was upstairs, struggling with trying to restrain Fred and pin the sunflower to his leash, like she and Spencer had agreed on.

"Be quiet buddy." She whispered. "The sooner I'm done with this, the sooner you get to see Lily."

"What do you want for dinner, then, Sweetie?" Lily's voice snapped Claire back to reality as she lifted her head up, in order to make herself heard all the way to the kitchen.

"Oh, Lottie invited me to have dinner with her, is that okay? Can you drive me there?"

"Sure. What time?"

"Hum... I'm just finishing getting ready, so... In a few minutes."

"Okay."

"Oh, something else." Claire added, as she smiled at the job she had finally manage to finish with Fred. "There was a package for you when I arrived. I left it at the center table."

"Okay, Claire. Thanks."

"No problem."

Placing the glass down on the sink to wash it later, Lily went over to the living room. Once she reached the couch, she smiled at the sight of her favorite hoodie laying there - actually, it was Spencer's but who cares anyway? She put it on and glanced at the box carefully, but smiled as she saw Eleanor's address stamped on the lid of it. She quickly opened and frowned once she saw what was inside.

A sunflower and a blue tiger lily. Each one with a beautiful white bow adorning it. Lily picked up the flower and analyzed it carefully before noticing something attached to the white bow. A picture. She reached out for it and smiled. It was the picture they had taken the first time Spencer had gone to visit her family as her boyfriend. It was a dinner, about three years ago. At the end of the table, were Eleanor and Shawn, smiling. Beside them, Spencer, in front of her dad and brother. At the other end, was Lily, with a radiant smile, holding her cellphone so she could take a picture of them all. She chuckled as she recalled that day.

"Oh, my God, Georgie. Go on with that." Lily had laughed since her brother was taking forever to take the picture.

"Yeah, my cheeks hurt from smiling." Eleanor added.

"It's not my fault you're not used to that, sis." He chuckled as Eleanor groaned and threw an olive lump at him. "I'm just trying to find a good angle."

"You know... I guess the best angle to take this picture is with the phone about twenty degrees west." Spencer had said, as George frowned and looked back at him confused.

"Oh, fuck it." Lily rolled her eyes, before getting up and snatching her phone from his hands. "Sit. I'll take the damn picture."

Lily graced her fingers over all of the faces, before stopping them for a second over James'. She smiled as she turned the picture around, only then noticing the small note wrote with Eleanor's beautifully neat handwrite.