by A. Cramton
Her eyes narrow. “What’s wrong?” Dammit she knows me too well.
Nervously I run my hand through my hair. “You know I love you, right?”
I wince as soon as the words come out of my mouth. Fuck, this is already turning into shit.
Madison frowns and tilts her head. She doesn’t say anything. I can see the wheels turning in her pretty little head.
“I love you so much.” I hurriedly continue, stuttering. “An...and I know we haven’t been together for too long bu... but... but.” I take a deep breath. Get it together.
Without thought I sink to one knee and pull the box out of my pocket where it was mocking me.
Her grey eyes lock on mine, they widen with shock as she gasp. Her perfect mouth making an ‘O’.
Licking my lips I taking a deep breath. “Madison Nicole St. Cruix. I love you more than I love my belt, and I love that belt a lot.” She laughs, tears starting to form in her eyes. “But I would give it all up for you. I know we didn’t have a great start. We had a rough road, but here we are, and I want this forever. I want the jokes, the carb-filled pasta and that ugly ass dog. I want you to be my wife.” I grab her left hand and kiss it. “Just say yes, baby doll.”
Her eyes narrow again. “I can’t believe you asked me this right now!” She motions to her face. “Seriously El. This is so like you.”
My stomach drops. Oh shit. I knew this was a bad time.
I told you to wait. My mind chimes.
Frowning I wait for her to turn me down, but instead she starts to smile.
“But that’s why I love you.” She starts laughing. “Of course I’ll marry you!”
Thank fuck. I smile relieved as I pluck the three carat princess cut diamond ring out of the box and slide it on her ring finger. She jumps off the chair and into my arms. Standing up I swing her around, carrying her into the bedroom. She’s kissing me all over my face, smearing her fucking gunk all over and I don’t give a shit.
She fucking said yes.
I’m about to lay her on the bed when there’s a knock on the bedroom door. I already know it’s Chris and I can’t wait to tell him the good news.
Madison slips off the bed and opens the door for him to walk in, but I can tell by his face something is up.
“What is it?” I ask.
He gives us a weird look and I figure we look crazy with all this shit smeared on our faces.
He frowns and holds his phone up. “I just got a call from Marcus’s manager.”
Madison straightens up at the sound of his name. He hasn’t tried to reach out to her at all. He hasn’t even done any interviews since the fight.
“What does he want?”
“Wait is that a fuckin ring?” He lifts Madison’s hand and inspects it. “Nice job.”
I nod, “Yeah, thanks. Now what did he want?” I wanted to know why the fuck his manager was calling mine so I can get back to fucking my fiance.
Chris lets out a short laugh, dropping her hand and looking at me. “El, he wants a rematch.”
What. The. Fuck.
First I want to thank my husband, best friend and soul mate, Josh, for pushing me to write this story and putting up with the late nights, the constant brainstorming, random questions, and being the mom and dad for a while. You are the best. I love you.
I wouldn’t be here without Naughty Smutty Book Blog. Thank you girls for taking me in your group and being a big part of my life. Cherry and Chantel ; thank you for everything, you’ll never know what your friendship means to me.
To Jodi Drake, Maria Pham, Carina Soliz, Mayra Statham and Stephanie Alcala: Thank you for reading my scraps and horrible grammar, and giving me great feed back even if I didn’t want to hear it.
Kim Ginsberg, thank you for fixing my horrible grammar and spelling. Also thank you for making me question how on earth did I pass English and graduate.
Melissa Gill for my amazing cover. I’m still in love every time I look at it.
To my amazing ever supporting family and friends that have pushed me along even though they have no idea what I’m talking about.
And to the readers, thank you for taking a chance on my story and me, you’ll never know what this means to me.
Table of Contents
4 am- Melanie Fiona
Sunrise ft. Dev- The Cataracs
Focused ft. Kid Cudi- Wale
Say It- Tory Lanez
If- Beyonce
She Ain’t My Girl- Trey Songz
I Knew You Were Trouble- Taylor Swift
July ft. Jhene Aiko-Drake
Fire Meet Gasoline-Sia
Come With Me- Sammie
Florida Kilos- Lana Del Rey
Love Remix Ft. J Cole- Drake
This Love- Ellie Goulding
Stop This World- Ne-yo
Same Old Love- Selena Gomez
Something-Drake
Love Yourself- Justin Bieber
Restless Heart Syndrome- Green Day
Almost Lover- A Fine Frenzy
Let Her Go- Passenger
Back To Me Without You- The Band Perry
Til I Collapse- Eminem ft. Nate Dogg
Try- Colbie Caillat
Good Enough- Empire Cast
I Almost Do- Taylor Swift
Meet Me Halfway- Tim Benson
Littlest Things- Lily Allen
Trust- Justin Beiber
Little Do You Know- Alex & Sierra
Battle Scars- Guy Sebastian ft. Lupe Fiasco
The Lonely- Christina Perri
Energy- Drake
Mirror- Justin Timberlake
Begin Again-Taylor Swift
Purpose- Justin Beiber
Acknowledgements
