Rob Allen arrived at the Andersons house and was talking to Ken and Linda, his girlfriend’s parents, in the kitchen, and after a few minutes Marcia arrived to find the three of them standing in close order on one side of the room.
“Hello babe” she said as she walked over and kissed
Rob.
“I didn’t know you were here I didn’t hear the bell”.
She didn’t hear it because he didn’t ring it, but she
didn’t know that, but she did realise something was amiss.
“Why are you all huddled over here?” she said
suspiciously and tried to peer behind them.
“Well, there is something we want to do before we
leave for the restaurant” Ken said falteringly and with military precision and
not unlike the red sea, they parted to reveal a pile of birthday presents and
an enormous cake.
“What’s all this?” she said, “I already had my
present”.
She had wanted tickets to Covent Garden to see Madame
Butterfly, which were like gold dust so wasn’t expecting anything else.
“We wanted you to have something to open” Rob said.
So, she set about the task and as she ripped off the
paper her eyes widened with delight, and she smiled broadly.
“You shouldn’t have, you’ve already spent too much”
she said with a frown that lasted a nano second and then she was smiling again.
Ken and Linda were hugging as they watched their
daughter’s joy, no doubt remembering long passed moments from her childhood.
Then Marcia hugged and kissed her parents and when she
turned to Rob, he was expecting the same but instead she poked him, hard.
“As for you” she said sternly and poked him again “all
that tosh you spouted about how lucky I was to get those tickets”.
Then he got another poke
“And all the time”
Poke
“You were planning this”.
Poke
“Pretty much” he confirmed, then he got his hug and
kiss.
“I love you,” she said.
“Steady” he said you’ll make me blush.
“I love you too”.
That kind of set the tone for the rest of the evening
and they had a lovely time.
Midway through the evening while her mum was in the
loo and Ken had gone in search of the wine waiter, she leant over and kissed
him moistly on the lips.
“I really do love you, Rob” she said.
“And I really do love you too” he replied.
“I hope so” she said, that was what he thought she
said anyway, she was a little drunk and slurred a bit, so he wasn’t sure.
Rob was going to ask her to say it again but just at
that moment her parents returned to the table and the moment was gone and it
was such a great evening that he didn’t think of it again, until the next day.
When he could think of little else, why would she be
unsure of his sincerity? He had no answer, but he thought that he was going to
lose her if he wasn’t careful and then he’d be sorry.
So, he pledged to himself that loving her was not enough,
he had to demonstrate that love so she would never doubt him again.
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