Beautiful Lies{Sidney Crosby}

“Where have you two been?” My mother asked looking at us suspiciously. Then, Mrs. Crosby gasped and pointed to my hand.

“Barb! Look!” She grabbed my arm and pulled me over to them. I looked back helplessly at Sidney, who stayed rooted to the spot where we had stopped before I was pulled away, looking helpless and maybe even a little scared. Mrs. Crosby grabbed my hand again, not letting me hide it behind my back,and pulled it up so my mother could see. Shockingly, Mrs. Crosby's grip was strong, and I couldn't get my hand down and away from her no matter how hard I tried. “Isn’t that the prettiest ring you’ve ever seen?” She had tears forming in her eyes as she smiled at me.

“That’s a pretty special finger and a pretty nice ring. Do you have something to say honey?” My mom was smiling at me with her arms crossed. Sidney’s face lit up into a smile, pulling himself out of his stunned trance and walked up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist pulling me to him.

“Yup. She’d like to tell you that she agreed to marry me.” His joy was contagious, not like I wasn’t already ecstatic, but I was nervous before, now nothing could keep the smile off of my face, and the blush from apearing afternoticing my mother had tears in her eyes.

“I’m so proud of you.” She hugged me tightly. “You picked a good one.” She released me and hugged Sidney. “Thank god! You finally did it. Don’t lose her ok?” She kissed his cheek before releasing him again.

“Welcome to the family Katherine.” Mrs. Crosby gave me a hug. “Keep him in line ok? And I’m so happy to finally be able to call you my daughter. I’ve wanted to be able to do that since Sidney first came in and was so completely utterly in love with you. Love at first sight I've always said, that's what happened between you two.” She kissed her son on the cheek and walked into the living room.

We followed them after a minute of staring into eachother's eyes beaming. “Everyone! We have an announcement.” Sidney yelled standing on a chair. The room went quiet and everyone looked at us. I did my best to hide my excitement, as did my mother and Mrs. Crosby.

“WE’RE GETTING MARRIED!” Sidney jumped off the chair and spun me around again.

This time the fathers came up. My dad gave me a hug. “I couldn’t be happier for you honey. Nor could I have picked a better man to marry my daughter.” Then he turned to Sidney. “You’ll be good to her. I know. Welcome to the family.” He hugged him. Then Sidney’s dad gave his son a hug. “You picked a great girl son. You’re mother and I are proud of you.” Then he hugged me, andit was a little weird hugging Mr. Crosby. “I couldn’t be happier that he asked you to marry him. We were all just waiting for it. For years now.” He released me.

“Thank you Mr.-” I was cut off my Mrs. Crosby.

“Please, you’re more apart of the family now than you were already, Trina and Troy. Please.” She laughed lightly.

“You can call my parents by their first names too Sidney.” I kissed his cheek. My parents wouldn’t care. He looked at them for approval though.

“Don’t worry about it Sidney.”

“Oh shit. Sorry about the language.” He rummaged in his pocket.

“No more presents Sidney!” I laughed hoping it wasn’t anything else. Everything was becoming too much.

“No this is really good. And we need this.” He pulled out a small box. “Open it.”

I took the box and opened it. There were two keys inside. “What’s this Sidney…” I looked up a little confused.

“Houses.” He smirked.

“Two?” I was shocked. He nodded unable to control his excitement.

“One for the house here, and one for the house in Pittsburgh. I just bought them yesterday. But I’ve been searching for so long. You’re going to love them. They’re amazing! We’ll go see the one here after dinner.”

“YAY!” I jumped up to hug him, again. I kissed his cheek and sat down at the table ready for dinner. He sat next to me and held my hand while my mom sat next to me on the other side, and then of course, Kati sat across from me.

“Congratulations.” She smirked at me. To bad I was way to happy to let her bother me again today. NOTHING could bring me down. I repeat. NOTHING!

“Thanks Kati.” I smiled and looked over at Sidney. I couldn’t stop smiling and I couldn’t stop looking at him. I also couldn’t get close enough to him. I’ve always had that feeling though. He squeezed my hand before dropping it so I could eat. I frowned for a second knowing he wasn’t touching me anymore before looking at my ring again and smiling. I couldn’t help it. Then he placed his hand on my thigh and gently rubbed it to comfort me. Sidney ate about 3 platefuls of food while I ate one.

“Ok! To the house!” He stood up grabbed my hand and tried walking to the door.

“Wait, what about dessert?” His mother called from the kitchen.

“Oh yeah!” He ran back into the kitchen for a minute before running back to where I was by the door.

“Nice Sid.” I couldn’t help at laugh at him. He had two cookies in his mouth, and both of his hands were full of cookies.

“An oo ge he oor?” He mumbled with a mouth full of cookies making me laugh harder as I grabbed the door. I couldn't beleive that I understood what he said, it was quite shocking.

“After you my manly man.” I closed the door and jumped in the car grabbing a cookie from his hand.

“Hey! Those were for me!”

“SIDNEY! You have so many! And there are more at your house.”

“SO? You made them! How many did you have earlier?”

“None.” I lied.

“You’re such a liar. I know you had at least one.” He laughed as he pulled out of the driveway and maneuvered around 8 other cars.

“Maybe.” I turned towards the window to see where we were going.
“Sidney. Where exactly is this house?” I asked impatiently, getting gittery.

“It’s like a…15 minute drive maybe?”

“Really? I swear we’ve been driving for 15 minutes.” I smiled at him.

“And we’re almost there. Chill.” He squeezed my hand and stopped.

“Are we there!” I went to open my door but he grabbed my hand again.

“No. Put this on.” He handed me a blindfold, which I reluctantly put on. He started the car again, but only for a minute. “Ok.” He ran around to help me out of he car.

He untied the blindfold and I gasped. The house that I was in front of was amazing. It was HUGE and white. It had a large front porch and a three-car garage.

“Do you want to see the inside? There really isn’t anything in it yet.” I nodded and grabbed his hand. I looked around as we made our way up to the front door, there was already a nice garden, I would probably end up killing that (not on purpose of course.) and the pathway was adorable. He opened the front door and turned on the lights. The front hall had a shiny wooden floor. To the left was a large room with a fireplace and to the right was another large room. There were stairs against the right wall and a balcony type thing on the second floor. We walked into the kitchen, which was huge. AGAIN! There was another set of stairs in the hall. We went up the stairs and looked around up there. There was an extremely large room with an attached bathroom and TWO walk in closets.

“Sidney! I love it.” I hugged him tightly kissing his cheek.

“There’s a pool outside, but its covered in snow.”

“Ok let’s go back it’s getting late and I still have to give you your present.” I jumped around excitedy making him laugh.