FIFTY SEVEN

NORA

He’s been proposing to me every single year without missing one, even though he left with my brother to another country years ago, he would often call and make proposals on the phone and for the past ten years of my life, none went by with Theodore expressing his love for him. But I won’t lie, I wasn’t expecting this.

If I was asked, I would say it’s finally over one reason why I was surprised to see him right on one knee as I let my car door ajar. His chest nut eyes started right through me with hope, and it should be obvious, I rejected him all those years; ten times to be exact, yet he isn’t backing out.

“Will you please stand up? What if Liam comes out to meet us in this position?” I grumbled under my breath as I climbed out of my car and looked at the front door.

Liam wasn’t aware his best friend has been asking me out and I know if he does, he would be forcing me to give in, because I can see it in him how he’s been indirectly shipping us together for years. That aside,