Margarette could barely believe how far she and James have come as she wiped her happy tears and placed her hands on the table. Sure, they haven't been together as a couple for very long, but Terra knew him for more than half of her life! No one knew her more than him. He knew her vulnerable side and he knew her confident side. He knew of her weaknesses and strengths. She didn't know what she was feeling, but she knew that she would not be able to stand losing him. She was attracted to him even only when they first met and though she thought that those feelings would fade through time and separation, they didn't. In fact, it just made them grow and made their reunion all the more sweet. They weren't like the other couples who went on for years and married and finally had their own children. Nope, Terra and James had only been together for a little over than a month and two of those weeks were spent with both of them either half-dressed or undressed, but they had talked about a lot of stuff that they already knew a lot of things from the other. Terra knew not how many minutes or moments had passed before James suddenly met her gaze and she knew he was serious. Her jaw dropped open.
He loved her? And he was... Proposing? She could barely believe the speed at which the events were closing in on her. There were two parts of her that were having a disagreement inside. One was ecstatic and wanted her to agree immediately and the other was hesitant and worried, almost scared even, that he only wanted to marry her because of the baby. It hurt to think that it was possible. Then she thought about it. Love. Was that what she felt about him all along? Love? She didn't want to lose him and if it weren't for the baby, she felt that she would die if she lost him. If that was love, then yes, she would admit that she was in love with him. That she had fallen so deeply in love with him. But his proposal made her half-scared and half-ecstatic. Which one should she follow she did not know. She was in a mix of internal turmoil as James held her hand and she held his a bit tightly, not wanting to let go, then she looked up at him and finally decided to speak. "James, you don't have to marry me for the baby," she said with a sad smile. She wanted to marry him. But she needed reassurance that he was marrying her for her and not for the child she carried.