~Chapter 1~
“Wow, this is so much fun!” Kristy exclaimed as she splashed in the waves of the ocean. She had never been to a beach until now.
“I’m glad you are enjoying yourself, Kristy!,” said Brad with a smile.
Bradley McDaniel had been Kristy’s steady boyfriend since they met in the fourth grade back in New York. They were always inseparable and were always being seen together wherever they went. He loved her very much and had something he’d been aching to tell her for such a long time, but had never had the courage to.
Brad was lying on a towel on the slowly warming sand, the sun blaring down on his athletic, tanned body; the smell of the salty ocean air filling him with a sense of relaxation. He had almost fallen asleep, when Kristy came up to the spot where he lay, and quietly lay down beside him, reaching over, kissing him passionately on his slightly wet lips.
“Hey baby,” he said, in a sleep-like state.
He sat up slowly, and said, “Sweetie, would you like to go up to our hotel room and take a shower, then we could go do some shopping, if you like.”
“Oh Brad,” Kristy said with a hug and a kiss, “I would love to go shopping!” “I will go up and take a shower and then I will be ready to go. Thanks honey.”
With a big hug and a quick kiss, she quickly and happily jogged up the beach towards the hotel lobby doors. Brad, still standing on the beach, watched her jog up the beach, smiling and thinking to himself, “I must be the luckiest guy on Earth to have found such a wonderful girl like her.”
~Chapter 2~
About an hour later, Kristy had showered, dressed, and taken special care in putting on her makeup. She grabbed her tiny sequined purse and put the strap on her shoulder, turned out the hotel room lights, and proceeded out the door and down the stairs to Brad’s red metallic convertible.
Waiting for her with the passenger side car door open, was Brad, who smiled as she entered the car.
They drove off down the endless strip of hotels, bars, clubs, casinos, and the other various places of life at the beach. When they arrived at the shopping mall, Brad went to Kristy’s side of the car and opened the door for her, taking her hand in his as she stepped out of the vehicle. They went through the mall, and she found many outfits she liked, and she bought them. Brad told her he would be back in a second; he had to take care of something. She stood, browsing through endless shelves of CD’s and DVD’s, waiting for her boyfriend’s return.
Meanwhile, Brad walked quickly towards a jewelry store, looking back to make sure Kristy did not know where he was going. She didn’t. “Good,” he thought.
He went into the store and gazed at the many diamond engagement rings in the display case. “So many to choose from,” he thought.
After a little while of looking at the rings, he decided on one that had double twisted golden rings on it, with a medium-sized heart-shaped diamond in the center of the two rings. He took it up to the clerk and purchased the ring. The ring totaled out to be four thousand dollars.