Daily Prompt: Race the Clock
Here’s the title of your post: “An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse.”Set a timer for ten minutes, and write it. Go!
I had to rush this one at the end lol.
You asked me to marry you
A few times in fact
I said no each time
If I were truthful
It’s because you were shaking
Like you thought you might die
How could I take you seriously
Looking as if the end of the world
Had come falling down around you
You knew I loved you
It is why I kept saying no
Asking for my hand
Was your way of saying
Please don’t leave me
I want you to stay
But subtext emotions
Blazed from your eyes
But for how long, I don’t yet know
I wanted to get married
Earnestly in fact
And after four years
You finally made up your mind
And you purchased a ring
And without proposing
You took my hand
Slipped it on my finger
Smiled and without a word
We both knew
This was an offer
I wouldn’t refuse
Awww. I love it… and you.
splendidly beautiful..:)))
the magic of love
Sigh! Beautiful! I’m so glad you wrote this!!! Smiling all over the place here!
Did he give you a three dollar mood ring too? That you had to loan him two bucks for? I swear, that was one of the funniest things he’s ever done. You should have seen the girl behind the counter that waited on us. She probably thought we were the biggest dorks in the world. Because we are!
I love how romantic that is! My ring is locked up because it is way too big for me. I locked my husbands up too and made him a ring…it was beautiful and fit perfectly but he lost it….broke our hearts. Then I bought him another he lost…so no more…lol. Thinking about tattooing our fingers haha.
It gets better-after I’d been wearing that mood ring for so many months that it was just gross, Mr C had to leave home for a funeral. On the way back he did some shopping. He sent me a text that said something like “I got a replacement for that mood ring”. Of course I was all excited! When he got home, he got in his bag, and told me to close my eyes. When he told me to open them, he was down on one knee with a new ring. I gasped like a teenager-only to see that he was slipping ANOTHER mood ring on my finger. This one with my name on it. While my two teenagers who happened to be there thought this was the height of hilarity, I was naturally more than a little disappointed. It was a few more months before I got my much deserved and hard earned princess cut beauty.
Yeah, and you guys think I’M the cheeky one? Not so much. We both started laughing at our wedding, like right in the middle of our vows, and the minister (who knows us pretty well) stopped the ceremony and said “You two really do have fun together, don’t you?” Barf! Romance just ain’t romance without the fun, if you axe me.
I won’t confirm or deny if happens at our house, but I will say there’s a lot of laughter going on under our roof, no matter what’s going on.
just brilliant, So romantic
Awwww I love the word brilliant…especially from such a brilliant person!
you’re making me blush!
lovely
Well done.
i so love your story
and that you were both so sure of it at that exact same moment 
We were just talking about rings today… thinking of upgrading our wedding bands… Mrs. Hotspur said the sentimental value of our rings was worth more than new ones. She’s right! And I went on and on about how rings were just a money grab, and a silly tradition, and a waste of money… before surprising my wife to be with a nice princess cut engagement ring. We only knew each other for 3 months before getting married. Why wait, you know?
I could re-size mine but they are better off in the safe. I would die if I lost mine and I lose everything eventually….including losing my mind at the moment.
We actually wore rubber gaskets for awhile haha. We should tattoo small hearts on the inside of our wedding fingers.
You should tattoo ‘Married’ in huge letters across your foreheads!
Whoa! This blog looks exactly like my old one!
It’s on a totally different subject but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Excellent choice of colors!
I love this so much. It’s definitely one of my favourites of all that you’ve written.
This is very cute, love the twist at the end from couldn’t to wouldn’t, nice subtle shift there and heartwarming too – very happy for you both