Giselle Galas - One week later
My sisters Fleur and Serena called to apologize. While they really had nothing to apologize for. But being with Rainer maybe me realize that maybe they did have something to apologize for. They never stood up for me. Neither did my father. Nobody stood up for me ever , except for him. Maybe it wasn’t fair to expect my sister to stand up for me, since they also had dealt with my mother. But I always got it worse.
Even before I started to rebel , my mother just didn’t like me. Maybe she loved me. But she never liked me and realizing that , hurts like hell.
Serena gathered some of my things and I’ve been staying with Rainer at his place. My father has only tried to call me once. Leaving a voicemail telling me I needed to come home so that we could all “deal” with this. I didn’t call him back.
Fliers wedding is in a week and I keep telling her if she doesn’t want me there that I understand. She insists I come and I wonder what my mother thinks of that or if Fleur has even had the balls to tell her I’m still coming as a bridesmaid. I’m stressed and scared and of course Rainer has been at my side , loving me and wiping my tears, because there’s been a lot of them. Too many. Yet he wipes every tear and just holds me till it stops hurting and then keeps holding me.
Watching him now in his kitchen , with loose gray sweats hanging around his hips as he puts together a small plate of snacks for me, because he said I need to eat something. And spent fifteen minutes listing different things he could make for me until something sounded good. Then the man went to the store a brought back six different types of cheese and four different kinds of crackers and a brand new wooden serving board and I had to go to the bathroom and cry over it , because he loves me so much and treats me so fucking well that it hurts. Because nobody else has ever cared for me the way that he does.
The man who drove me insane and annoyed me to the point of madness, and I’ve only recently realized it’s because I’ve loved him all along and I was trying to ignore that time and this fucking man , even as kids, our love was written in the stars or something.
When he turns with a proud smile on his face and the cheese board in his hands he lifts his eyes to me and starts to walk and pauses.
“Uh oh” he says as my eyes are filled with tears all over again.
He rushes over and sets down the board on the coffee table and then sits on the couch and I pull him into me and grab his beautiful face and kiss him hard.
“Oh, okay, good tears then?” He asks against my lips that refuse to give his up. I nod.
“I love you” I whimper as my tears my fall. “I love you so much”
He kisses me back.
“I love you too Galas, but if you think your pretty kisses are gonna get you out of eating , you’re wrong” he says and I give a little laugh.
“Aren’t you sick of taking care of me?” I ask with a little laugh and kiss him once more before pulling back and looking at him.
“Are you crazy? No. I want to take care of you. You have no fucking idea how fucking happy it makes me that you even let me Galas, I know you’ve always been the one to take care of yourself and you’re so used to it, and the fact that you don’t fight me on it, and let me take care of you, it’s a fucking honor to be the person you let take care of you. So, no. I’m not sick of it. I’m only getting started Galas.” He says and my heart races like it does everytime he gives me his reassuring speeches and promises.
“Will you marry me?” I ask and he blinks several times.
“What did you just say?” He asks and I laugh through the little tears in my eyes.
“Marry me.” I say softly and he swallows.
“I’m supposed to ask you that” he says.
“Then ask me. I want to marry you. I want to marry you right now.” I say and take his face in my hands.
“Ask me Rainer, please , I want to be your wife” I say and his eyes water.
“You’re sure?” He asks and I nod with a little smile at his surprise.
“Hold on” he says and then stands.
“Rainer what are you-“
“One sec!” He says holding up a finger and then is dashing through his house as I sit there with my heart pounding in my chest until I hear his bare feet coming down the hall and back to me and pulling out the coffee table and getting on one knee. My cheeks hurt with how hard I smile and he lifts a tiny ring size box. Made of wood.
“Okay, first of all, you kinda really threw a wrench in my plans for this baby” he says and smile at him and grab his face and kiss him.
“Yes.” I say and kiss him again.
He laughs and kisses me.
“I haven’t even asked yet” he says
“Oh right” I say and kiss him again and nod. “Okay go ahead”
He laughs and shakes his head and looks at me with a smile that I know will eventually heal every single part of me that struggles to deal with the insecurities my mother bred inside of me. Because the way he looks at me , makes me feel worthy of everything I know he’s already promised me.
“If I knew a cheeseboard was all it took” he says still shaking his head.
“Rainer” I say urging him and he laughs.
He smiles up at me and keeps his eyes on mine
“I wanted to plan this, make it something unforgettable and romantic , I didn’t expect to be doing this in a pair of sweat pants on my living room floor.” He says
I shake my head. “I don’t care. I just -“
“Hush Galas. Let me finish” he says softly. And I bite my lips together with a smile and nod.
“But everything I thought of, it wasn’t good enough, because none of the plans I was dreaming up were even close to being worthy of how I should ask the girl I’ve loved for my entire life to marry me…nothing was good enough Galas, because you deserve so fucking much baby” he says with tears starting to form in his eyes.
“I want a life with you Giselle Galas because I know the best life I could ever have would be one where I have you as my wife.” He says and I swallow the lump in my throat.
“I want to wake up to you every morning, I want to make love to you everyday and make a family with you. I want a billion kids with you” he says and I laugh through my tears.
“That number always seems to go up every time” I tease him.
“Because you’re going to be such a great mother Giselle. You fight for yourself and for others , you’re so tough, but you’re the sweetest fucking girl deep down and I want you as my wife because I know our kids will be smothered with our love, I’ve dreamt of a life with you for as long as I’ve known you Giselle. I want to make all your dreams come true like you have made mine come true just by allowing me to love you as much as I do.” He says and I can’t help it. I kiss him again and he smiles as both of us cry just a little.
“I had the box made…from the wood…of the tree” he says in between my mouth raining down kiss after kiss on his mouth and then I pull back and look down at the box.
“The tree with our swing, where I first kissed the love of my life, the tree where a girl stole my fucking heart for life and then pushed me flat on my ass” he says and I laugh and kiss him again and then look at the box.
“I’ve chased you for so many years Giselle, and I’d have chased you for the rest of my life if necessary, because I’ve known since that kiss , that the pretty girl with red hair and my favorite freckles, was the girl of my dreams, I’ve loved you my entire life Galas, and I’ll love you till the end of it, and after that too. You’re my life Galas. The love of my life and just simply, my life. Will you do the boy who fell in with you at that swing , the honor of being his wife?” He asks with a tear running down his cheek and opening the box with our initials craved into the top as if he did it by hand, showing me the emerald ring with the emerald cut on a silver band. It’s simple. But not simple at all. He knows it’s my favorite color and I know it’s his favorite color on me.
“…you can answer now baby” he whispers and I laugh and grab his face again and the kiss him hard as I nod.
“Yes, yes, Yes” I cry as I keep kissing him as I cry and he groans.
“I’m gonna marry the fuck out of you Galas” he says and I laugh as we keep kissing.
“I’m gonna gonna marry the fuck out you Rancourt” I say and he smiles as I keep showering him with kisses and he moans.
“Let me put my ring on your finger” he says and I nod and keep kissing him and he laughs.
I pull back and hold out my hand. My legs bouncing with excitement as he slips the ring on my finger. I stare at it and then look at him. It’s a gorgeous ring but I can admire it more later. My eyes want the man in front of me.
“It’s perfect. Thank you. I love you. I love you” I repeat myself as I hold his face again and kiss him and he groans.
“I promise to eat the food you made Rainer but I-“
“Yeah” cuts me off “there’s no way I’m not making love to you right this fucking second Galas” he says.
“Oh thank god” I heave a breath and he chuckles.
He stands and picks me up sweeping me up into his arms honeymoon style and hold out my hand.
“You did good Rainer” I say.
“The box was. Beautiful” I say and look at him and he smiles.
“Yeah. I know” He winks and I laugh and kiss him as he carries me into our bedroom and lays me down.
“Seriously. That’s the sweetest thing Rainer” I say.
“I’m glad you liked it Galas” he says and then grabs my leggings and pulls them down.
“I’m gonna marry you” he says with a big smile. “Fuck I can’t believe I get to marry you”
He grabs my shirt and I sit up as he lifts it and then his mouth is everywhere on my body raining claiming kisses over my skin as I bite my lip and moan his name.
“I can’t wait to call you my wife Galas” he whispers. “I can’t fucking wait to be your husband.