February
Alex and Julie
may not have thought they were mad, or what they were doing was crazy, but their
respective families certainly did.
A week into the
New Year and both mothers were still in shock, the news of Julie’s proposal and
the subsequent engagement had taken all their friends and families completely
by surprise.
Though Alex’s
mother had apparently come to terms with the fact that he would not end his
days as a bachelor, and Julie’s similarly that she would not finish up a
spinster, however they remained skeptical that it would last and still doubted
it was a genuine engagement.
There were
times when neither Alex nor Julie could quite believe it themselves and fancied,
they were in some kind of waking dream, albeit a wonderfully delicious dream.
But they were in
love, and they were engaged, and the majority of their family and friends seemed
to be as pleased about it as they were.
The mothers
were confirmed skeptics whereas the fathers were a little more stoic on the
subject.
However, once
the dust had settled and as February approached, plans began in earnest with
both mothers jockeying for position even though a date hadn’t even been
set.
Julie and Alex
decided to just let them get on with it, for the most part, but they would rein
them in later when they were clear what they wanted themselves, besides by the
end of the month they had more immediate plans to finalize.
Although they
hadn’t yet set a date for the wedding, they had set another significant date on
the calendar which was fast coming up on the horizon, which they hadn’t yet
told the families about, Julie was moving in with him.
Alex had a
house in the Village, which was bigger than her flat, so it made more sense for
her to move in with him rather than the other way around.
They were going
to spend February packing up her place so it was ready for renting from the 1st
of March when she would officially move in with hm, with as many of her possessions
as would fit in.
When he asked
her why she wasn’t selling her house, she said
“I want to keep
it just in case”
“In case of
what?” he asked
“In case you
turn out to be a swine” she replied
“Cheeky cow” he
said
In truth she
had been spending all her time at Alex’s, when they weren’t packing in her
flat, and for the most part things went without a hitch, the age-old bone of
contention the toilet seat being the exception, but that was the only issue,
apart from his lucky pants.
It was when she
had been commandeering drawer space in the bedroom that he discovered that his
lucky pants were missing.
Julie was
sitting in the kitchen drinking her tea and he walked in and asked
“Have you seen
my lucky pants?”
“Oh yes I threw
them out” she replied
“You threw them
out?” he asked
“Yes, I did, they’re
in the bin” she replied
“But they’re my
favourites” he said indignantly, as he fished them out and Julie chuckled as
she stood up and then from the doorway she said
“Well, you can
either stay down here with your lucky pants or you can come upstairs and get
lucky in mine” and she went out the room.
About thirty
seconds later he got up and followed her, pausing briefly by the kitchen bin to
dispose of his former lucky pants.
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