The Official Proposal

David and I have been planning to get married for a month now, but he hadn't "officially" asked me to marry him. For the last two weeks David and I had been looking for rings together. The first place we went to was Shane Co. in Southcenter and we only found one ring we liked there, but we really liked it, it automatically became both of ours favorite. David was the one that had actually spotted it, I had passed it by. We spent a lot of time there looking at the ring with different diamonds. I thought that was it, but David had said that he wanted to still look so I went along with him. We briefly looked at Fred Myers only because David could get a discount there, but all their rings were ugly. A week from the first time we had went ring shopping we went to EE Robins also in Southcenter. We saw a couple of rings there, but weren't too excited about them. We decide to go back to Shane Co. to relook at the first ring, but when we went in the store the ring had been sold to a guy that had been interested in it the day we were there. The same guy that helped us out told us to look around to see if we could find the ring in white gold instead of platinum. We looked around, but we couldn't find it. The guy then went in the back to look on the internet. He came out and said that he couldn't find it and that he didn't want to be sure, but he thought that the ring was discontinued. As we were walking out David was clearly upset that he hadn't moved in on the ring sooner. To make him feel better I told him that it didn't matter, that I didn't even like the ring that much, even though I had loved that ring. We went to one more place, Jared's also in Southcenter. There we found a cute engagement ring with a matching wedding ring that also had a matching male wedding ring. I told David that that was what I wanted. It was on Tuesday that we looked at those rings and I hassled him every day about getting those rings.

My story continues to last night. I stayed at his house. (Just staying, I'm keeping my virginity until David's and mine wedding night, which makes both us very proud.) He didn't get off until 1 in the morning. We were up for a while because David had to do his homework. At one time I was sitting down and he was standing shuffling papers. I got up and said I loved him before I gave him a kiss. About ten minutes later I said something else that upset him. He got quite. I figured at the point it was best I went to bed before I said anything else that upset him. On my way he said, "We need to talk". It worried me. We went to bed and we started to talk in the dark. He started to tell me all these good things about me. He kept saying, "You know I love you, right." I thought that he was trying to break up with me. I kept thinking how could he do this to me. I love him so much, not only would I feel heart broken but I would feel so humiliated. My five bridesmaid had just paid for their $150 dressed this weekend. One of the last things he said was, "I think God has brought us together." It made me mad for him to say something that meant so much to me while he was breaking up me. I started to cry a little. I heard him get up to turn on the light. I turned my head away so that he couldn't see my tears. After I didn't hear him say anything I turned around and saw him just kneeling beside the bed looking intently at me. He then pulled out a ring box and then as he opened the box said, "Will you marry me Michelle Schiffner." I didn't answer right away because my eyes were on the ring from Shane Co. The ring that had supposedly been "discontinued." I was in shock. He had managed to trick me and he had done it well. He said that he had to order the ring from New York in order to get it, since the one we had looked at had been bought by someone else. The day we had went back to the store he had skipped school to go down to find out if the ring had gotten there yet. He told the guy that he was going to bring me back and to just go along with whatever he did. God, those guys were good! If we were in a movie the two of them would when Oscars. I didn't think he would be able to surprise me but he did. Not only did he surprise me by proposing to me at two o'clock in the morning after I thought he was breaking up with me, but he also surprised me with the ring. One funny thing was that David had bought the ring when I was trying to cheer him up by saying I didn't like it anymore. He told me after he proposed that he was so bumed out when I said that. Well, that's what he gets for tricking me.

I really have the greatest guy ever. I love him so much. He's my whole world from beginning to end. I can't wait to marry him.