Aletta chose a ring after much pleading and pushing from Joshua. She had wanted to let it be when she noticed that the rings cost more than triple her yearly salary. How could she think of wearing something that fancy? He had to take a lot of convincing from him to be able to make her decide to take a ring. She finally picked one. "It's so beautiful but I don't know if it fits my finger," she said taking her hand up into the air and admiring the huge rock in her hand. "Of course, it fits your finger, it's as though it was made for your finger" Joshua said opening the door to the car and waiting for her to get in. She slid in her eyes still fixated on the ring on her hand. Joshua closed the door with a huge smile on his face as he turned over to the driver's side. "You do know you did not ask me to marry you right?" Aletta said as he slammed his door shut. "What?" Confusion climbed his face as he turned to her. "You did not get down on one knee and ask me to marry you, you
As they entered into the apartment they had decided to move in together Aletta was sure that those pictures were already circulating the net and that she was probably already receiving a lot of hate already. Joshua has convinced her to let them spend the night together at the house they wanted to live together. She did not mind even though she had no change of clothes it was okay because she wanted to be with him even if it was for a second more. "How bad are we trending right now?" Joshua asked as she came to plop on the couch beside her. He handed her a bottle of water that was already opened. "What do you think?" she asked shooting him a death glare before dropping her phone and chugging down the water. "I was only joking about the proposal and you knew that, did you have to do that in the middle of such a busy road?" she asked nudging him in the hand. "What, I thought you liked it" "I did like it" Aletta confessed and Joshua made a sound. "But..." she trailed off raising her
"Hello Mom," Joshua said over the phone. "Mom ? I did not realize that I was your mother" Jessica said. Joshua rolled his eyes and of course, his mom had to be dramatic. "Mom, why are you doing this?" "Why am I doing this? Xavier hear what your son is saying to me. I can't believe it" Jessica screamed and Joshua heard some shuffling before a grunt from his father. "Mom, I am sorry, it was unplanned," Joshua said. Yes, he had it in mind to wed Aletta but his proposal plan was not anything like this, he did not even know what his proposal plan was, he was waiting for her to come to him and she did without him having any time whatsoever to think it through. "You mean you proposed to a girl without thinking about it" Jessica asked with a gasp. "Mom , I will explain later when we see. I would also bring Aletta along so you can hear her own side of the story" Joshua said. "Are you with her?" Jessica asked about ignoring her son. "Of course" Joshua replied. "I thought as much, I m
"That was my mom's welcome speech to you, asking you to join our family" Joshua said sitting beside her and then slipping the phone to the table. "You already asked me I did not know it before but it seems like I really needed to hear that from your mom" "Of course, it's so important that after we see my mom in the morning we go see your mom as well. I am sure she has a lot she'd want to tell me" Joshua continued. Aletta was going to bring it up but she did not want it to be as though she was pressuring him. "Really?" she asked her face lightening up in excitement. "Of course, how could I think of going on to marry you without first speaking to your mom" he inched closer to her. "Joshua" she let out breathlessly as his heavy breath kept landing on her face and her ears kept on picking up the sound. "Aletta, I know what you are thinking but it's not it," he said withdrawing. "I definitely told you I was going to wait for you and you can take as long as you want, I mean if you ev
"I never expected to hear about your engagement from the media" Jeanne said as soon as Aletta's leg entered into the house. It was as though she had been waiting for her to come. Aletta jumped startled a bit before her eyes landed on the girl in front of her flashing the huge diamond on her finger. "And I did not think you would get engaged so secretly either" Aletta shot back at her. Jeanne flashed the ring in her face with the giggle of a high schooler. "He asked while we were out for dinner at a park, what could I have said? No? I love that man too much to refuse to spend my entire life with him" Hearing him Aletta could not help but agree, she understood every word Jeanne said and the ones she left unspoken. She was not sure how she was supposed to go on with life if she lost Joshua for any reason whatsoever. "Your ring is nice, and your brother has been standing here for the past minute without a single word from you to me" Joshua said cutting through the conversatio
"Anette, did you see this?" Leslie asked sliding the phone over the table to her daughter. Since the incident with Brian, she has been very quiet that no one could imagine what she was thinking. Anette still went on with her wedding preparations which were going to be held in about three weeks. Anette took up the phone and read through it. "Seen that already," she said throwing a grape to her mouth. "And?" Leslie asked gently. For every reason within her, she wished that Anette would feel something from the news of Aletta and Joshua and realize she was meant for him and not Richard. "I am so happy for them, I mean this must be huge for them," Anette said with a shrug. "You are okay with this?" Leslie was surprised this news did not stir up some kind of emotion within her. Was her daughter finally crazy? Did she not have any sense of reasoning because of the baby she was carrying? "Yes Mom, I am getting married to Richard so I don't need to know what is going on with Aletta an
"I had no idea that this would turn into our families meeting" Aletta said standing in front of Joshua as he buttoned up his shirt. "Why does it matter?" Joshua asked sensing the fear she was exhibiting. "I did not mean it this. way, I mean our families meeting each other just makes it feel so fast track" Aletta responded walking towards him. "And so what? I love it that way" he said wrapping his hands across her waist and pulling her in. She raised her hand to his neck to straighten his tie. "I only meant to call Alethea did not know my mom would tag along as well" "She is here already so why don't we just play along, they get to meet and we get to plan our wedding" Joshua said planting a quick kiss on her lip. "Plan out a wedding?" Aletta said with a giggle. "Yeah plan our wedding?" Joshua said again. "You and I? plan a wedding, are you sure you won't just leave everything to me?" Aletta teased. "Well, I might not be great at planning but I would do my absolute best" Joshu
"So sorry for barging in here and disrupting your breakfast time" Eunice said as she stood awkwardly at the table waiting as Jessica went back and forth between the table and the kitchen. "What do you mean barging in? We are practically becoming a family" Jessica replied with glee. "Oh please do make yourself comfortable and feel at home" Jessica said before she turned back to the kitchen door. When Jeanne had told her that Aletta's mom and sister were coming over, she had so spontaneously changed her breakfast plan and had mandated that everyone attended including Joshua who just wanted to get to work on time. She cooked up a storm and with her movement back and forth from the kitchen to the dining table she was yet to get out the entirety of what she had cooked. "Are you sure you don't need help from me?" Eunice asked feeling awkward that all she was doing was standing there. "I would be done in a few seconds," Jessica said dismissingly. "Don't bother trying to help