Cheers To My Beautiful

Chapter 40: Proper protocol

Autumn's standpoint

I kicked off my shoes immediately. Cai shut the front door of his mansion. It was the first time I was at his house, and I have to say the house is something, really, really something. He lived in a castle-like mansion with shadow blue, shadow gray, cadet gray, ghost white, and Cambridge blue paintings, tiles, and stones. I didn't see it clearly since it was dark, though the countless lights illuminated the exterior. The interior was glorious, sumptuous, and a clever mixture of floral white, Roman silver, Laurel green, peach-orange, or whatever that pale color is. Some furniture had light shades of maximum blue purple and pastel purple. The colors to me were amazing and suited my taste.

"Nice colors," I said tiredly as I threw my purse on one of his expensive vintage couches.

"If you want, I can add peaches," I looked over my shoulder and glared at him. He chuckled with an innocent raise of his hands.

"What am I doing in your house anyway?"

"Weren't you horny fifteen minutes ago?"

"Fifteen minutes is a very long kill," I said accusingly. "I still think you should have let me hump you in the car while you had the chance. Right now…" I threw myself on one of the chairs, "I'm completely turned off,"

"Don't worry, I think I can fix that. But first, I brought you here for something completely different," he ran his eyes around nervously.

"Okay…?" I arched a brow at him. Cai swayed on his feet before walking over to where I was sitting. "Cai, are you alright?"

"Proper protocol," he went on his knees, kneeling between my carelessly opened legs. "So I'm going to go straight to the point without adding any cheesy speech to weird us out," he dipped his hand into his pocket and brought out a wedding ring. I sat up straight though my legs were still open.

"Do you have to do this?"

"Autumn Glenda Peaches Newton, even if you will laugh it off, I love you and wish to marry you. So, will you marry me and change that last name of yours to Gabriel? Really, will you marry me?"

If it was before, I would laugh it off, but now I knew what he actually felt, I wasn't going to laugh. I wasn't expecting him to propose, but it was very thoughtful of him. So, with a flex of my shoulders, I smiled at him and said:

"Yes, Cai, I'll marry you for real," He didn't get what I meant, but he was going to later. He smiled, took my left hand, and slipped the ring onto my finger.

"There, we will look more original now," he dipped his hand into his other pocket and brought out another ring. I gasped, my eyes widening as I saw the ring. I snatched it from his hand.

"How did you get it?! I've been looking for it for so long!"

"You dropped it that day at the alley. I knew it was yours because it smelt like you. The design of the ring looks like a seal, I knew it would be important—"

"It is! It is important!" I shouted as tears of joy ran down my cheeks. "I thought I'd lost my family ring forever, I was so sad and afraid because when I need it, I won't have it to show. This ring is a seal, now I can properly seal all my documents. Thank you so much, Mordecai, you just saved me." I threw my hands around his neck and cried. The ring was everything to me, I was lucky enough not to have been asked about it to seal any important documents.

"You are making me feel bad, stop crying,"

"I can't, you don't know how important this ring is, you don't know how," I choked on my tears.