Page 50 of Oops, I'm Having My Best Friend’s Baby!

“It’s an actual yes, Kai. Yes, I will actually marry you, seriously and not in a joking way.”

With that she leaned down and kissed him, her hand on his cheek, and Kai knew he had picked the perfect moment. He knew with crystal clarity that he would remember this for the rest of his life. Kai jostled around enough that it finally woke Mikey, who held his head up with wide eyes and an open mouth. His surprised face looked so similar to his mother right beside him that Kai couldn’t help but laugh. Mikey joined in, gurgling with a big, gummy smile and crawling off of Kai’s chest to give Amy a hug.

“It’s definitely not a joke?” Amy asked, settling Mikey into the nest of her crossed legs.

“Why do you keep asking if it’s a joke?”

“Because it just came out of nowhere,” she said, in a little bit of shock but laughing and grinning the whole time regardless. “We were just on the floor, and Mikey was making a puddle on your shirt. I wasn’t expecting it.”

“It was the right time to ask,” Kai said with a shrug, knowing that there would never have been a better time. “Wait here. I’ll be right back.”

What with it being a completely spontaneous time to propose to Amy, he didn’t exactly have the ring on hand that second. But it was close by in his office drawer, in a small navy box with gold trim. He padded back into the living room where Amy and Mikey still sat, and oh, man… He could have broken down and cried right there with how perfect they both looked. Instead, he managed to stay composed, somehow, and sat opposite them.

At that high school reunion so long ago, they had joked about getting the imaginary engagement ring resized, about how obnoxiously large the diamond was, and how you could sucker punch someone with it, it was so big. But a ring like that wasn’t the ring Kai had bought.

He opened the box, and he knew he’d picked the right one when Amy let out a soft little gasp without realizing it. It was a soft, warm gold with a deep blue sapphire right in the center, surrounded by diamonds, yes, but small ones creating a border around the blue stone. It was dainty and simple but beautiful, nonetheless. As soon as Kai had laid eyes on it, he had thought of Amy, and that’s how he’d known it was the one. It seemed like the strategy had paid off because she was speechless again, the second time in one day. That must be some sort of record.

“Here,” he said encouragingly and took the ring out of its box. “It’s yours.”

Amy still said nothing, just watching him with a soft smile on her face and Mikey in her lap as Kai reached over and took her left hand in his, slipping the engagement ring onto her ring finger.

“Do you like it?”

“I love it,” she said, her voice coming back to her. “And it’s the perfect size.”

“I maybe measured your finger while you were asleep.”

“You didn’t?”

“I did.”

“Oh, my God.”

“Are you impressed?”

“I really am, actually. That’s very stealthy of you.”

“It was Jason’s idea. That’s what he did before getting Jess’s engagement ring.”

“Well, speaking of Jess,” Amy said. “I better go call her because she will want to know immediately.”

“Every minute that passes will be taken as a great insult,” Kai agreed, only half joking.

“Right? Come on, bub,” she said, hoisting Mikey up with her as she stood. “Let’s go and video call your auntie and prepare your eardrums because she’s absolutely going to lose her mind.”

Kai sat there for a moment longer, soaking it all in, committing this moment to memory and making sure to savor it before it slipped away. The sound of Mikey gurgling, Jess’s voice over the phone and then her squeals of delight, the afternoon sun floating in through the windows and the knowledge that someday soon Amy would be his wife. It was all perfect, and even though he didn’t quite know how he deserved it, he was never, ever going to let it go.

The End