Hope

[Ollie]

My apologies to the fact I haven't had an update in a while, but here we go!

The days following the verdict was spent in an awkward silence. I guess Zach didn't want to upset me in my very fragile state.



As we sat down to watch some TV in peace, Zach seemed on edge and nervous, as if he were about to do something he would regret.



"Look, I Know you're upset about this whole situation, but you've got to get it off your mind. How about we travel a little? Just a short trip?" Zach pondered.



I stared at him blankly and shook my head, "I don't know, I guess I'll think about it, where would we go anyway?"


"Well, I was thinking maybe France, I found some cheap plane tickets online, just tell me yes or no and I'll make it happen. Anyway, I've got to go to work, we'll discuss it later, okay?"
"Okay."

So I continued to stared at the glaring TV screen thinking, wondering, should I? It was a difficult decision, if I left I'd feel like I was leaving my daughter, but I had to lift the stress off my shoulders.



Before I knew it I was off to work, my performance wasn't the best, but I needed to save up money for more custody battles in court over my daughter.



Later in the evening we arrived home from work. Zach managed to convince me to head to the local bar with him.


"So what's the answer then?" Zach pondered.
"Yes," I blurted out with no thinking. "Well maybe-okay, I've been thinking about it all day, I need the time away, but I feel as though I will be abandoning Cherry, no guarantee's that I won't pull out at the last minute but for now, I think the answer is yes."
It was a tough decision, but I made it-there was no way that I could.
"Great! don't worry about a thing, I'll organise it all, just relax."

Days of slow packing passed and it was nearly time to leave, Zach had managed to coax me in to a lovely slow dance which was nice and sweet.



Time had passed extremely fast and finally BANG! IT'S FRANCE!



The place was already begining to steam up, it was so lovely here.





On our first day we went out to the nectary and I began making some nectar!



In the meantime Zach was getting to know the local, getting to know a romantic song so he could sing it to me, how sweet.



Soon enough I made my first bottle of nectar, something that I would treasure forever-well maybe not forever considering it was some damn fine nectar indeed.



Later in the evening, we went out for dinner and little did I know that Zach was planing something very sneaky indeed.



"What on earth are you doing?" I asked in a worried state.



"Will you-Gracie Hope-do the honors of becoming my wife?"


"HELL YES!" I replied with joy.

"How much did that ring cost you?" I inquired.


"You don't need to worry about that," Zach smiled.

Mwah. I hugged him.



We stayed up a little late and Zach went a little crazy with over excitement, I know you wanted to see him in his fire outfit, but I've got something better...



Even with all this exciting I felt really stressed out, so I had a smoke.



After a long night of *cough* sleep *cough*, Zach and I went out to visit the museum.



Sadly the interior wasn't as French as I had expected (not to mention that fact that it appeared we didn't have a roof).



I decided to be a little sneaky and had a closer inspection at some of the art.



We had an earlier dinner than the night be fore but it was still fun.



We had a much more quiet night for our final night, staring at the stars.



I should say this hotel we were staying in wasn't very tight with security.



Unfortunately, reality hit and we were back home.