As they entered my quaint little three-bedroom house, I hugged them all and greeted them with an excited smile.
"I am starving and your chicken enchiladas smell SO good!" Ashley exclaimed as she walked through the door.
"Come on in, girls!" I could barely keep my excitement contained. I swear my voice almost cracked.
As the girls sat down around my brand new, ultra modern dining room table that I had set with my best dishes and place settings, I grabbed the chicken enchilada platter and set it on the table. I had already put the chips, salsa, and Mexican fiesta salad on the table. I served my guests and then sat down to serve myself.
"Whoa, this is delicious, Sadie. Did you really make these from scratch or did you have your mom make them and you just heated them up in the over?" Cheyenne said jokingly.
"Ha ha very funny. Of course I made them ALL BY MYSELF, but it is my Granny's recipe." I paused for a minute, debating on when would be the perfect time to tell them my super exciting news. "Okay guys, I can't hold it in anymore. I have something to tell you!" I exclaimed not even trying to hide my smile any longer.
"I told you guys she had a hidden agenda for having Girls Night. She was so eager I just knew something was up," Ashley chimed in.
"So you remember the guy I was telling you about, Reed, who I met at Starbucks a few weeks ago, one morning before work?"
"The hot one that you almost spilt your frappuccino on because you weren't expecting it to burn your tongue?" Ashley blurted out. We all giggled.
"Yes, that's the one. Did I mention to you guys that he's running for Senator of California in the upcoming election and his mission in life is to one day become President of the United States? I think that is so respectable and charming." I said with a dreamy smile on my face. "Well, anyway, you know how we've been dating for a few weeks now?
"Yes, get to the point," Danielle said impatiently.
"Well, I think I'm going to marry him!"
"WHAT?!" They all exclaimed at once.
"How can you be so sure, it's been what three weeks?" Cheyenne questioned me with a very concerned look on her face.
"I'm in love. We have been spending all our free time together since our first date. I just know he is the one I am supposed to be with. Reed is the man I am supposed to spend the rest of my life with."
Smiling sweetly, Cheyenne began to mother me like she always does. "Well, honey, I am so happy that you are so happy, but don't you think it is a little too soon to be planning your wedding to a guy you just met?"
"I'm not planning my wedding, Cheyenne. He hasn't asked yet."
"Then what the hell are you so excited about?" Ashley, who is the queen of brutal honesty, asked with a frown on her face.
"I just am. I know in my heart that I have found the man I am supposed to marry. And the exciting part is, I know he feels the same way. He told me three nights ago that he loved me and that he had never felt this way about anyone in his entire life."
"You guys didn't do the dirty did you?" Cheyenne asked with a disgusted tone in her voice.
"No, we didn't. He's a gentleman."
All of a sudden there was a knock at the door. I got up to answer it and Reed was standing at the door holding a dozen red roses.
"Reed!" I exclaimed extremely surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I know you're having Girls Night and I wanted to meet your three best friends."
So I introduced Reed to the girls and they chatted for a little while. All of a sudden, Reed turned to me with a loving gaze in his eye and proceeded to get down on his left knee.
"Sadie, I wanted to ask you this in front of your best friends because I didn't want them to think I was crazy. I just wanted them to know how much I love you and that I want to spend every minute of every day for the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?" As Reed asked me this monumental question, he pulled out the most beautiful two and a half carat diamond engagement ring.
"OMG, yes!" I couldn't believe it and apparently neither could my friends. This was the start to an amazing love between two crazy individuals, or so I thought.
The next day, I called my parents to tell them the excited news, however, my parents weren't as thrilled as I was. You see, I'm daddy's little girl and my dad was furious that not only had he not been introduced to Reed, but Reed didn't ask his permission before he proposed. I told my dad to meet Reed and I at my favorite restaurant Zio's for dinner. That way, he and my mother could meet Reed.
When we got to the restaurant and sat down at the table with my mom and dad I thought everything was going well because my mom was so super excited to meet Reed. I had spent the night before describing every perfect detail of Reed to my mother. But my dad had a different idea. He thought that any guy I was going to marry had to be good at one thing at that was golf. So my dad challenged Reed to a round of golf the next day. Luckily, Reed was successful in beating my dad at golf and so in return we were given his blessing to get married.