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gathering that we’d had with both families. Everyone got along as if they’d
known each other for years. I was in the kitchen seasoning some meat for Dee to
put on the grill when his mom walked in.
    “You know”, she started out, “Darrin ain’t never done nothing
like this. Doing stuff for the family like. He come ‘round when we have stuff
but he don’t invite nobody to his house for nothing. I’d like to think it has
something to do with you. Ever since he met you he been doing a lot of stuff he
never did before. My baby is enjoying life for a change and in a good way.
Thank you for what you doing for him. He done dated plenty women, now, but it’s
something special about you. He like you”.
          I couldn’t respond
because I didn’t want to start crying in the middle of the kitchen, so I just
hugged her. As she was walking back outside, Darrin came in for the meat. He
smiled, kissed me on my nose and went right back outside. Little did she know,
I liked him too. In fact, I was in love with him and I couldn’t imagine being
with anybody else.

 
          The party ended and
Darrin had just walked the last guest to the door. I changed out of my shorts
into an old sundress that I left over there one time before. All the leftovers
were packed neatly and put into the refrigerator, and I was just about done
loading the dishwasher.
    “You don’t have to do that, baby”, he said walking into the
kitchen.
    “You know I’m not gonna leave this mess for you to clean by
yourself, sir”, I replied.
    “Who said you were leaving”?
    “I have a hair appointment at five in the morning, on the
other side of town and seeing to the fact that you’re not gonna get up that
early on a Saturday, I think I’ll be leaving”.
    “But what if I don’t want you to go”, he said as he wrapped
his arms around me from behind. “I’ll be back when I’m done. Plus, you promised
me a movie date anyway”.
          He leaned his head
around, looked directly into my eyes and said, “I don’t want you to go
Kamerai”. I knew then that I wasn’t going anywhere. “You look cute in your lil
old lady dress too”, he chuckled, “Gone get in the shower, you staying with me
tonight”. I put down the dish towel, went upstairs and got into the shower. I
was tired and I didn’t feel like driving way back on the other side of town
anyway. I had fallen asleep by the time Darrin came to bed. He pulled me close
to him and as I laid my head on his chest he said, “So, tell me, what would you
say if I asked you to marry me?” At first I thought I was dreaming but just to
be sure I asked him to repeat himself.  
    “I said, what would you say if I asked you to marry me?”
    “I’d say Hell Yeah!!”, I replied thinking he was joking.
          He reached under my
pillow and pulled out a teal green box with a pretty white bow and said,
“Kamerai Jai Lawson, will you marry me”?
    “Huh”, I replied, trying to gather my thoughts.
    “See. You said you’d never lie to me and you just lied. You
said that if I asked you to marry me you’d say ‘hell yeah’. Huh sounds nothing
like hell yeah”
    “Hell Yeah I’ll marry you”, I managed to get out through my
tears.

 
          I can’t exactly
tell you everything that happened that night, but, I definitely didn’t make
that hair appointment or my movie date for that matter.
          Yeah, that was an
awesome night. I’m getting goosebumps now just thinking about it. I was really
looking forward to marrying him next month, but, with everything that’s going
on now, that doesn’t seem too likely. Some things are just too good to be true.

 
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          Sitting in my
office, minding my own business, when my dad comes in and says he had some
exciting news. He received a call from a potential client with a scouting
agency in New York. They wanted us to help them expand their brand
internationally. All I’d have to do was go to New York