This is Wonderful as Loving Goes
The Rumors are True!!!!
As of October 21st 2005 at approximately 11:30pm, we are engaged!! We shall no longer keep any of you in suspense as explode with joy and excitement and share with you all the illicit details of the night of all nights : ) Are you ready?
He Said:
So the night started out with us getting in the car to go to our nice romantic dinner. As we were pulling out I realized I forgot my cell phone(I needed my phone to call Gaz to get the setup in motion). So I say tell Sarah I have to go back to the house because I forgot something that I needed. So I took the chance to play her all night. I go back in the house to get my phone but I made it look like I was getting the ring so she would think I was going to ask her at dinner. I get back in the car and immediately she's asking me what was going on. She was saying I was acting very strange and she said I was making her very nervous. But I played it off as nothing. So we get to the restuarant and all night I'm playing as if I'm nervous. I keep checking my coat pocket and looking around at the server and playing like I'm going to ask her at the restuarant. So I start playing with her ring finger and she starts freaking out. I just play like I didn't know what I was doing. So it comes time to pay the bill and I'm asking Sarah if she wants dessert. She says no but I keep pushing the issue like something was going to happen at dessert. So she says yeah sure if you want some but I counteract it with a big fat NO! So as we're leaving I go to the washroom to call Gaz to see if all is set up the way I want it. Low and behold Drew and Cho haven't even gotten to the house yet! So I start freaking out. Now it's time to stall. So I come out and ask Sarah if she would like to take a nice ride along lakeshore with me. Off we go. We are driving for about an hour and then we decide to go home. By this time any hope Sarah had of this night being it was completely shattered. All this was the plan baby! We pull in the driveway and come in the house. There's nothing stirring not even a mouse...except of the faint glow of 100 candles flickering on the wall. And the beautiful sound of a cd made of her favorite love songs. Sarah by now is wondering what is going on. So I take her hand and say I have one more surprise up my sleeve and lead her down the stairs. We follow a trail of rose petals down stairs to the basement glowing with candles and resounding with love songs. Now her mind is blown and all I hear out of her mouth is the girly giggles and squeels. Sitting there was a bottle of champagne and a bouquet of flowers. I take her and we start dancing. As I try to break away to get the ring she grips me even tighter and squeels that she won't let me go. But I convince her to let me go. I pull the ring out and get down on one knee and ask her to marry me. She said no....just joking she definately said yes. I never doubted. But all the same I almost wet myself because I finally realized that the night you think about all your life has finally come.
I kept saying that it felt like Christmas when i was a kid. The best night of my life. It was the perfect night, nothing could have made it better. I'm forever going to remember that night. Always. I couldn't have written, edited and then re-written a better story.
She Said:
Oh to say he had me going is a gigantic understatement!!! And I quote "So I took the chance to play her all night" and that is exactly what he did....I was soo nervous from the moment he forgot "the ring" (a.k.a. the cellphone). So the night begins as we leave for dinner and as Billy said he pretended to forget an unmentionable object in the house...from that moment on I didn't quite know what to do with myself and my mind started going crazy as i was trying to prepare and brace myself for one of the biggest moments of my life...and as many of you know that is pretty impossible...it sent me on a wild goose chase guessing game that was on fast forward in my brain from the moment we left until the moment we got home...so as he ran back in the house I started picturing all the possible scenarios that lay before me...and I was convinced he was going to ask me at the restaurant. We begin driving and low and behold we hit traffic...8 o'clock on a friday night..only in Toronto...he starts getting worried about being late for dinner which is making me even more nervous than I already am...during our drive he asks me to turn off my cell phone which only increased my suspicions.....we finally get to the restaurant....we sit down for dinner, but he seems to not like the restaurant so then I'm getting all worried cause I'm thinking oh no he's going to ask me to marry him in the middle of this restaurant and he doesn't even like it....the waitress takes us to our sits and we sit down the retaurant is really busy and so there are tons of people very close to us and of course I start going through all the scenarios in my head of what are all the people aound us going to do if he gets down and asks me to marry him in front of everyone...and then I'm thinking what the heck am I going to do if he asks me in front of everyone...where is he going to get down on one knee cause there is not very much room around us....maybe he's given the ring to our waiter...Billy at this point is totally playing it all up and looking all anxious and scanning the restaurant constantly looking at our waiter looking around....running back and forth to the "washroom"....I'm asking him if he's okay because i'm slightly worried at this point and totally on edge....so we order and like any normal restaurant our waiter begins bringing our food...however I feel the need to thoroughly scan any and all plates that come to our table to make sure I don't accidentally ingest my so called engagement ring....eventually we make it through our meal with no mishaps until dessert time comes and Billy asks me if I want to order dessert...not wanting to have him spend gazillions of dollars i automatically say no but then quickly retract that
decision thinking that oh no what if he's got it all planned to come out with the dessert and I've just said I don't want any..so quickly I add in oh sure I would love some dessert if you would like some dessert and he hums and hahs for a moment and then says nope I'm good ( i must preface dessert with the fact that he is sitting across the table telling me how much he loves me while playing with my ring finger so I am totally convinced that it's about to happen any moment...as he plays with my finger I should add that I kept losing my train of thought and trying to maintain normal coversation was getting quite difficult) so we get up to leave the restaurant and he says let's go for a ride by the lake....at this point I breathe a sigh of nervous relief because I am not sure that he is not going to ask me tonight and I shall enjoy a nice relaxed drive along the lake...so we drive...and then we drive some more...and then some more...then I start falling asleep and Billy seems tired too and tired of driving so we decide to head home...by now I am totally convinced that it's not happening tonight so I sleepily get out of the car and go into the house, all the lights are out except for a glow coming from the basement...and then I hear music and I turn around and say to Billy what is that music and he takes my hand and says I have a surprise up my sleeve so he leads me down the rose petal covered stairs and takes me into the basement that is completely covered in petals and candles and all of our favorite songs are playing he takes my hand asks me if I want to dance (at this point I TOTALLY know what's coming and so I begin laughing almost uncontrollably because that's what I do when I'm nervous) so we start dancing and I keep laughing and we are hugging but I was soo nervous so I didn't want him to go, I wouldn't let him stop dancing hahahaha.....he tells me he has to go for a second and he gets the ring (which he hid in a plant in my basement) and gets down on one knee and asks me to marry him and I said (to be exact) "I WILL" and then we jumped around and ran around the basement like little kids and he grabs this huge bouquet of flowers and champagne and then we danced some more....my parents were waiting up stairs so we ran up to tell them and then we called our families and then we came back down into the basement and layed on the floor full of flower petals and listened to our CD for the rest of the night...it was so beautiful and wonderful and perfect and everything we could have ever imagined that night to be...I have to say the CD was an awesome touch because now we get to listen to it over and over again and relive the night....the whole thing felt just like Christmas!
So that's the whole story..it was all very special and we are very excited!!!
Love Billy and Sarah
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