Author's note
Hey everyone! I continued to write the third chapter of this story a while back and over time got caught up with other things. I saw it recently sitting in my notes, so I continued. There's not much sex, and this chapter is pretty short, but very important! (Please read previous chapters first) I will continue their story soon.
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"An intense feeling of deep affection" is one of many ways to define the word love. Love is a very special word because you can use it when describing how much you enjoy a dessert, or something as different as the way you feel about your mom. My personal favorite form of love is being in love. Its such a magical thing that luckily isn't only in fairytales.
"It's 2015, and I, Mary Jensen stand here at the age of 29 able to coach, counsel, and mentor all of you young ladies on dealing with relationships, finding yourselves, and any other situations you may have to deal with. Don't look at me as some lady thats getting old and doesn't know what you're dealing with cause I mean c'mon, thats bullshit! (I laughed) I'm still young, some of you are around my age, so just come to me with whatever you feel you want to talk about. This group isn't just about talking about your gender or sexual orientation, but about being with people who are in now or have been in the position in life you're in. I chose to take leadership in this particular group of the LGBT groups because I'm a lesbian as well as all of you, and as well as my beautiful fiancée Angela (points to Angie sitting across the room)."
The look on Angies face at this moment was priceless. She was sitting there in her tight blue jeans and floral print shirt, long brown hair waved down her back, legs crossed in her chair, and a smile on her face that remained but became a bit of a confused look. My class became silent and all turned to Angie with sincere grins on their faces.
"What do you mean 'fiancée'?" Angie asked with a bit of a giggle.
"Angie you are my everything. Ever since that night that you took me in 3 and 1/2 years ago I knew you would forever mean the world to me. We've had our ups and Lord knows we've had our downs, but those have only made us stronger. I love you so much, you're my real life superhero. So, Angela Nicole Michaels, will you do me the biggest favor in the world and marry me?"
I heard a few gasps in the crowd, but it was mostly silent. Angies face was red hot as she stared at me then around the room with tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. Standing up and approaching me she says,
"It would be the biggest honor in the world to be your bride Mare. Of course I'll marry you baby."
My class all started clapping and cheering for us as I hopped into Angela's arms with joy. We hugged and shared so many kisses in that moment, and as our tears subsided I presented my fiancée with an engagement ring that she's deserved for years.
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Here we are again, another gorgeous autumn season. I don't know if its just in my life, but it seems as if a new year begins in the fall (September) and New Years eve/day are just another random 2 days off. But anyhow, my life has been pretty amazing, I have no complaints. Angie and I have been engaged for a month now and we plan on marrying on Valentines Day next year. That leaves us with 5 months to not only plan our wedding, but really see how compatible we honestly are. Now don't get me wrong, I know that I'm in complete and total love with her and without a doubt she's the one for me, but with any couple about to marry, this is the testing period. You get to find out how well you work together under pressure, bring eachothers stress levels down, and even start living together if you don't already. The last you've heard I was moving back into Angela's house, but long story short, we needed our space so that we could fix our problems and move forward easier. Obviously we remained a couple, but we just weren't roommates and haven't been since.
Now its September 14th and we're in the process of moving me out of my apartment and in with Angie.
"Babe do you need these things that are in this black tote?"
"Ummm not sure" I called from the other room "just go through it and you decide".
About 10 minutes passed and Angie was silent the whole time which came as a shock to me so I went to check on her.
"Hey was that tote junk?" I asked,
Ang was sitting down looking at some papers with a faint grin on her face and then looked at me,
"You know what this is?"
I just shrugged.
"Its the emails to David from three years ago" she continued,
I walked over to her, sat down, and sighed heavily,
"Shit" I said.
"We sure have come a long way" she said, I agreed "but why'd you keep these?"
"Well at first I wanted to hold on to them to remind me of how stupid I was and how I almost lost you for good. That was my reason for about a year, but honestly over time I forgot I had 'em" I told her.
She stared at me unknowingly for a moment then states "So lets trash them!"
I wasn't sure if thats what I wanted, but I feel like that was the best thing to do. We know what happened and we know how we got past it, so why rehash the painful past?
We decided to have a house warming party at the end of the week because I should be all moved in by then. Angie and I kept the email papers along with other papers, cards and pictures that were no longer needed in our lives to burn on a bonfire during our get together on saturday. We invited a few of our close friends, my cousin David, and Angie's step sister Amanda. I was really looking forward to a great night!
Saturday...
I'm extremely happy because Ang and I are officially moved in together for good and nothing could ruin my mood! Days are still somewhat warm, but the nights are getting chilly, so we set up the back yard accordingly. We hung lantern lights throughout the yard, and since the fire pit was a heat source on its own, we figured we could just set a sort of tent thing up around the deck. Beers were in the coolers all over, and music started through the speakers as our guests arrived.
The doorbell rang and the first to arrive was Amanda. Angie was still out back making sure everything lived up to her standards while I answered the door and invited her sister in.
"Amanda, hey how are you?"
She barged past me, hands me a bottle of champagne while dancing to the music playing and states,
"Oh my God this house is so beautiful!" then turns to look at me "but I'm fantastic how are you?"
I was a little set off by how rude she was being but overlooked it.
"I'm happy" I smiled and then there was an awkward silence "but umm you can follow me, Angies out back."
We walked through the kitchen and as soon as I opened the screen door to the deck, Amanda shoved past me and damn near jumped on Angie in excitement.
"Sister!" kisses her on the cheek "I've missed you so much Angela!"
Angie didn't look equally as excited, but smiled anyhow, hugged her, and told her "Likewise". Amanda said a few more things and then took a beer as she went down by the fire pit to answer an incoming call on her cell, so we took that chance to talk before the rest of our guests arrived.
"What the fuck, is she drunk already?" Angie asked me.
"I have no idea shes your sister..."
"Watch it" Angie cut me off,
