"Has Jack ever given you a reason to not marry him?" Stephen probed.Sh.e.l.ly shook her head, "Jack is... well, Jack! He"s perfect. Sometimes I wonder why he even wants to marry me. I"m far from it, but yet he still wants to marry me. What if he decides one day he doesn"t want me anymore? And this day turns out to be the worst mistake of our lives? What would I do then, Stephen?"
Stephen gave her a sympathetic smile, "Whoa, whoa, whoa now. I think you are getting a little ahead of yourself. From what I"ve known of Jack, he"s always been infatuated with you. Do you remember the first time you introduced him to us?"
Sh.e.l.ly"s eyes met his own, breaking out into a smile, "How could I forget? He was so nervous that he spilled his coffee all over your mother"s table. It was adorable."
"I"m pretty sure he ruined that tablecloth, too," chuckled Stephen. "When you went to the bathroom, he told me how nervous he was because you were unlike any girl he"d dated in the past. I could tell even then that he was all in for you, Sh.e.l.ly."
Sh.e.l.ly just smiled back, and then looked back at the ground.
"Grace and I just ran into him right before we came over here. He asked us to give you this." Stephen handed the card over to his cousin, who began to pull it out of the envelope.
"When I asked him how he was doing today, do you know what he told me? He said he was great. And that this was the easiest decision he ever made," said Stephen. "I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was being honest."
"He"s probably the most honest person I"ve ever met," giggled Sh.e.l.ly. "He can"t even tell a lie. His body language gives it away immediately."
"The most honest person ever, and he"s head over heels for you. Sounds like an easy decision to me," agreed Stephen.
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Sh.e.l.ly took a moment to open up Stephen"s envelope, her eyes scanning from side to side as she read his words. The small smile on her face gradually widened, accompanied by equal measures of happy tears as she came to the end. Taking a tissue to rub at her eyes, she finally mentioned, "That"s just beautiful."
"I take it he knew just the right thing to say?" Stephen asked, watching his cousin.
Sh.e.l.ly nodded, before pressing it against her chest.
"Seems like you really are making the right decision then, Sh.e.l.ls."
Sh.e.l.ly pressed forward and gave her cousin a long hug. "I"m sorry to have you see me like this. You must think I"m pretty foolish right now to be acting this way."
"Not at all. Sounds like the wedding jitters to me," chuckled Stephen.
"You"re right, though. Jack is the man I"m supposed to be with forever," grinned Sh.e.l.ly, before turning to look him directly in the eye. "Thank you, cousin! Thank you for helping me get out of my head just now. It"s so much appreciated."
"What else are cousins for?" laughed Stephen.