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The Earrings
As I walked down the street, I suddenly knew what to get Lucy. “David, David,” I yelled, “I know what to get Lucy when I propose to her!” “What are you going to buy her?” David asked. “A pair of pearl earrings I saw her looking at the other day,” I answered. When I walked into the store with David, I saw that there was only one pair of the pearl earrings left. “I’ll take those,” I said to the clerk, pointing to the earrings. Suddenly I had a feeling someone was watching me, so I turned around and was surprised to see Lucy looking in the store window! Quick I thought; I have to get out of here! I saw the back door and walked out. As soon as I got outside I started to run to my apartment. The next day I went to Lucy’s house with the earrings. I knocked on the door and Lucy answered right away. “Hi, Jesse, why don’t you come in?” she asked me. I went in and told her I needed to ask her something important. “Sure,” she answered. I started to kneel and said, “Lucy will you marry me?” Suddenly Lucy’s face grew pale. “Well Jesse, I don’t know. I don’t think I’m ready for this. I’ll have to think about it.” “Oh,” I said as I walked down the stairs into the street. When I walked into my apartment, David was waiting. “Well, what did she say?” David asked. I didn’t know how to explain it to him so I just said, “She said she would think about it.” On Monday I went to Lucy’s apartment to see if she had an answer. I went in without knocking and found Lucy on the couch. “Lucy, have you made up your mind?” I asked. Lucy took a moment and then said, “Yes. I thought about it, and figured out you were the right one for me.” After I heard her answer, I took out the earrings along with the ring I had gotten her that week. “Oh, they’re beautiful!” she exclaimed. On February 19th we decided to get married. The months flew by and finally it was time. The wedding was held at a big church with lots of our friends in it. When Lucy came out, she was dressed in a beautiful white wedding gown wearing the pearl earrings and the ring that I had gotten her. When the wedding was over, Lucy and I rode in a sleek black car back to her house because it was decided I was to move in with her. Two years later, Lucy’s sister Maria had her wedding and Lucy passed down her earrings to her. Maria wore the earrings to her wedding just like Lucy. Then Maria had a child named Letisha. Unlike Lucy and her mother, Letisha did not wear the earrings to her wedding. Letisha then gave birth to Christina and Letisha passed down the earrings to her. At college, Christina met a man named Saul Montelongo. A few years later they got married. Like her grandmother, she too wore the earrings in her wedding. Christina was about twenty-one years old when she had her first daughter, Elizabeth Montelongo. (That’s me!) Christina and Saul Montelongo are my parents and I am waiting for the earrings to be passed down to me. |
