BEAUTIFULLY UNFINISHED novel Chapter 64

SIXTY-THREE

M I R A N D A

The golden engagement ring was massively beautiful. It was too beautiful that I'm too embarrassed to wear it on my finger. I can't even take my eyes off of it.

The diamond was an oblong-cut and has a large cutlet facet being surrounded by little diamonds too. The entire ring was wrapped with tiny and remarkably shiny diamonds on it but as I look at it, the ring sparkled beautifully. It looked really expensive as hell.

My tears flooded my cheeks and Louis was still kneeling down right before me. He was waiting for me to answer him and my lips were trembling because I was too surprised.

"Miranda?" He asks.

I smile at him.

"Yes Louis. I will marry you." I answer him happily. Without any doubts.

He pulled himself up and throws himself at me. He holds me tight and I hugged him back. The people around us were even happy for us. Some were clapping and most were taking photos and videos of us. I was just holding Louis close to me and I know I was sure of my answer. I was so sure of marrying Louis.

"I love you." He whispers.

He releases me and cupped both of my cheeks while he pulls me in to kiss me on my lips. His kiss was long and deep as I kiss him back in return. I feel smiles creeping in between our kisses and the crowd's applaud was getting louder. He pulls himself away.

"God I love you." He says.

"I love you too."

•••••

As I stare at the ring on my hand, I still can't believe it that I'm engaged. I can't believe I'm actually wearing a real gold diamond ring. When I talked to Vivian, she was insanely too happy for me that she wasn't able to talk well. She was even crying cos she's too happy for me and I cried along with her. It was funny though cos I never thought she'd cry that I'm already engaged. Louis told his mom and stepdad about it too and they congratulated us via Skype.

Everyone were happy for us and I was very happy too.

I don't know if Louis told the other lads about it but as I think about it now that I've really said yes to Louis, there's no backing out. This is it. We're really going to get married. We're really going to end up together. I'm really engaged to Louis. Im engaged to the man that I had a huge century crush on back when I was seventeen. This has always been my dream. This is a dream come true. I'm too happy to even think about the other stuff.

But as I looked out at the windows of my plane, Harry came into my head. I wonder if he knows about this already. I wonder what he's gonna say now that I'm engaged to Louis. I wonder how he will react to this. I wonder if ever he'll talk to me and tell me to stop this. But as far Im concerned, he's got nothing to do with my answer even if he is the father to this child inside my womb. And besides, he's married too.

He's like Audrey's puppet. I wonder what Audrey holds against Harry that he seems to be scared of her so much.

I need to move on and be a good fiancée and soon to be wife for Louis.

"Here you go." Louis came back with a cup of hot milk on his hand.

I smiled to thank him. "Thank you."

"Ben's fast asleep." He says to me.

"I'm sure he's tired." I tell Louis.

"Have you talked to Vivian? Did you tell her the good news?"

I nodded right away. "Yeah. She was insanely happy for us. She even cried." I chuckled and Louis joins with me. "She said I owe her for this one and I sort of do."

Louis continues to chuckle. "Shall I give him and Art vacation tickets to Naples?"

My eyes beams wide. This man gives out vacation tickets like it's a penny to him. But the heck, he's got tons of money so I think he's not worrying about anything that involves money.

"I think I'll treat them out for dinner. I wouldn't want you to waste more money on me." I say.

"What are you saying wasting? I'm not wasting it my love. I just think the same thing too that we kind of owe Viv and Art." Louis says to me.

He pulls me closer to him as we sit on this long couch. "I'll book them a flight and give them a hotel reservation as our thank you gift."

"Louis."

"Love, it's fine." He holds my hand to stop me from talking.

I stare at him.

"I won't run out of money. Viv and Art aren't just nobody to me." He kisses my temple.

I smiled anyways before taking a sip from my cup. "Have you told the lads?" I asked him.

"I'll tell them soon. Niall's birthday is coming up and he's planning to have a vacation along with the others. So I'll tell them during that."

Vacation with the others? That means Harry is going to be there. Shit.

"And you agreed on going?" I asked.

"Yeah." He snapped.

I wasn't surprised to that answer.

"It's Niall's birthday and it's all on his expense. Wouldn't miss it for the world." He smiles.

"But Harry's going to be.... There."

He goes quiet for a couple of seconds but then smiles at me again. "There's no need to worry about him being around. I trust you this time."

I sigh.

"Louis, I'm sor--"

"Don't apologize." He cuts me off.

He looks at me intently. "If you're thinking again about what happened before, forget about it. I really want to forget about it. Just forget it even existed, that it even happened to us. We've moved on right?"

He tries to smile but it breaks my heart.

I slowly nodded my head.

"We're strong. Together you and I are strong. You make me strong." He says to me.

"Hey that's a line from your song." I smirked.

He smiles. "It is, isn't it?"

I chuckle as I lean closer to him and kiss his cheek. I'm too lucky to have Louis and I always think that I don't deserve him. I rested my head on his shoulder as I run my finger over the rim of the cup on my other hand.

"When's Niall's birthday?" I asked.

"In a week."

"Where's he planning on taking us?"

"Brazil, São Paulo."

I'm shocked. "Wow." I commented.

"I've never been there though but I heard Brazil is an amazing place." I say.

"Yes it is an amazing country. I've been there before so I want you to experience what I've experienced before." He answers.

I smile.

"And they have one of the best beaches and great views in town. They have insanely fun street parties. You and I should try it." He adds.

I pulled my head up to him and my brows creasing, "If you're forgetting Mr. Tomlinson, I'm pregnant and I can't join insanely fun street parties."

He smirked. "I know. Only if you want to. We'll be careful anyways." He kissed my temple.

In a week, I'll see Harry again. I'll see Harry and Audrey again after their honeymoon. I wonder if Audrey knows I'm pregnant again of Harry's baby. I wonder how she'll react or how she reacted on it. I wonder if they had fun. I wonder if they enjoyed their time on their honeymoon. I wonder if Harry knows I had a vacation with Louis. I wonder if those photos of me and Louis in Puerto Rico are already online and are buzzed about. I wonder if Harry had already seen it.

I wish he sees it.

I wish he realizes how much he lost me.

I wish he realizes his biggest regret for not fighting his love for me.

I wish he realizes that he lost something great when he chose Audrey over me.

"Does Audrey know?" I spurted.

Louis' head moved towards me.

"Knows what?" He asked.

My eyes glued on my growing bump.

"This baby. And the father of this baby?" I asked softly.

I hear Louis sighs. "I don't know. I don't know if Harry told her. And I don't care anyways."

I pulled my head up to Louis. "Would you want Audrey to know?"

He looks back at me. "No."

"Why?" I asked.

"I don't want her to know cos I don't want to happen again what happened to Ben. When I saw you, on the verge of pain over what happened to Ben I was scared for you. I thought I would lose you too." His voice weakens.

My eyes never left Louis and he really cares for me. Be was staring at our hands that were holding each other tightly. "I don't want anything to happen to you as well and most especially to the baby." He adds.

He pulled his head up and looks back at me, but so seriously. "Miranda, this child inside of you might be Harry's..." He trails off.

I take a deep breath in and my heart pains when he mentions that.

Vivian smiles at me.

"All packed up love?" He asked.

I nod.

"Thank you Viv." Louis says to Vivian.

"Oh no need to thank me." She says.

"We'll bring you some souvenirs once we'll be back home." He chimes.

She smiles. "Thank you. I can't wait for it. When's your flight again?"

"Five in the morning." I answered.

"Well I'll miss both of you." She says.

I smiled at her. "I'll miss you too Caleb."

She smacks my arm. "I hate when you use that name on me."

Louis and I chuckle.

•••••

I glance at my wristwatch and it was already four forty-five. We just arrived on the airport and I heard from Louis that the others were already here. Both of us stepped out of the car and I stared at the plane that was before us. Louis takes my hand and smiles at me.

"Our luggages?" I asked him.

"They'll put it in for us." He answered.

"Let's go. We're the only ones that they're waiting to arrive." He adds.

Louis leads me to the plane's stairs and he helped me with every step. He wanted to be sure that I was safe until we reached the inside of the plane.

I was tensed.

When Louis and I finally got in, I saw everyone who I expected to be here.

Zayn and Perrie.

Liam and Sophia.

The birthday boy Niall and this brunette who I don't know. I guess this time he finally brought a date.

And of course, on the farthest seats, Harry, Audrey and her huge tummy.

"You both are always the ones late every time." Niall welcomes us as he hugs Louis then me.

"Glad to see you came anyways." He adds.

"Happy birthday Niall." I say as he hugs me.

"Thank you. Let's all have some fun at Brazil!" Niall chimes as he punches his fist in the air.

Louis and I greeted the others. Louis did most of the greetings while I just smiled at them. Perrie and Sophia were too friendly as always unlike Audrey who gave me a sour look.

Finally, Louis and I sat down on where I wanted to be seated which was two seats away from Harry and Audrey. I didn't want to stare at them. I didn't want to sit close to them. I didn't want to be anywhere them. I don't want to be near Harry too.

"Are you guys ready for some fun at Brazil?" Niall looked excited as hell.

All of us chimes happily. To be honest, I don't like this weekend vacation.

I don't like this idea of going with them.

I don't like the idea of Harry and Audrey being here with us.

It makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Those nights flashes before me when I see Harry. I feel sorry and guilty again for what I've done.

Once the plane began to move, I sneakily glared at Harry over my shoulder. He was talking to Audrey while she looked pretty annoyed. They were fighting over something and Audrey stands from her seat as she heads to the bathroom which leaves with a sighing Harry. He pushes his long hair off his face and sighs again when suddenly he moved his head up.

And caught me staring.

Our eyes met and my breathing instantly hitched when we locked eyes.

I quickly looked away.

This isn't gonna be a good weekend.