You want to hear about Romance? (Engagement Stories)

Member Name: Cammij

Product:	Engagement Stories
Date:	19/06/06 (263 review reads)
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Advantages: We will cherish these moments for a lifetime

Disadvantages: Most marriages end in divorce anyways

I grew up dreaming of romance, waiting for the day that I would go down on one knee before the woman I knew in the deepest well of my soul that I wanted to share my life with forever, and ask her to be with me for eternity. Of course it would be in a romantic ancient city, maybe Prague or Central park in New York, or at the grand canyon. Of course I would ask her father for permission to marry her. And we would have one of those carriages at our wedding and maybe even have everyone dress up like civil war re-enactors.

See what I mean? You have to understand that I grew up reading romance novels. I had to practice reading a lot because the other kids at school made fun of me when I had to read aloud. My father would not let me go to the library because he said that books and reading was for sissies so the only books I could get my hands on were the romance novels that my babysitter kept in this big basket next to the davenport. I could escape all the yelling and cockroaches at my house and sneak away to the wild west, or medieval France or even the dark congo where people fell in love and were able to demostrate love to each other.

I dreamt of the day I would be able to propose to a woman, or a man because I wasn't really sure about what I was into when I was younger because us poor kids got to go to scouts for free, and you know how that goes. I dreamt of shining rings, of glimmering gold in the sunset. How it would feel to look into her eyes and slide a ring onto her finger. I believe in magic.

Anyways I proposed yesterday. It wasn't that nice. I had been living with these two girls; lady Gwen and Andrea. We had this small council flat and we got along good. I got caught up in the fast lane and we have a lot of fun. We like to take pictures and won a lot of money from a few of the amatuer websites where you send in pictures. Lady Gwen is like 37 years old and works as a usher at the theater and Andrea is 19 and takes classes to be a nurses aid and works at the pizza shop. We have all been carrying on for about 6 months now.

So I come home from work the other day, I have been working steady at the nursury, no not with kids, but with trees and I get kinda dirty at work so I go into the bathroom and I see there are these empty boxes laying there for pregnancy tests. I notice there are two of them and I figure that someone thought they were preggers and took the test twice to be sure, because these were cheap ones from everything's a dollar store. I figure I was going to get blamed for all of it and was mad because whichever one of them went and got herself pregnant was going to be a real bear to deal with when she tried to cut back smoking and drinking. Then they don't want you smoking in the house and doing ceramics in the house, I have been through that before. At any rate i figured I was going to have to fork over all my money for doctors and prenatal vitamins which sucked because I had been setting back money from my pay and was going to get a whole bunch of these really cool Al Pacino Scarface t-shirts when they got more in at the shop.

You would not believe it, both my dames had gone and got themselves preggers. I guess there is like science to it that like how they told me if two women were clocks and they both had different times on them if you put them next to each other they would start ticking together. I don't believe it either but that is what they said.It looks like I done got myself two busted clocks. I was just starting to get ahead too. I am working almost 35 hours a week and all that and now they both go get in the family way.

So we tried to talk it out and Lady Gwen said she wanted to get this rich older guy on a UAW pension to marry her anyhow so it was okay, and as long as they could be married when the kid was born the guy would be stuck paying support because if you have a kid while married the husband gets stuck with it. So she was happy because she said she had been trying to trap him for awhile and now she could. I felt really bad when she said this because she was like telling Andrea and me that she was cheating on us.

Andrea then says to me that I have to marry her because she won't have a bastard kid and if I wasn't going to marry her I had to pay for an abortion. I don't want to go to hell when I die so I told her we will get married. So now we are going to get married as soon as I cash in my dooyoo miles and can get the $55 I need for the marriage licence. Somehow it just doesn't seem so romantic as dashing knights riding up to castles where ladies await them and proclaim their love. Jsut standing there in this crowded little kitchen with a pot of yesterday's spaghetti sitting there and a few empty pea tins sitting around while she's crying and he mascara is running down her face and she's screaming how she ain't gonna be left alone like her momma was. And it isn't even like I got to pick like nice music to set the mood. The person in the next flat is hard of hearing and had Montel williams on real loud in the background.

Summary: Just like the romance novels....almost