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The question took Melissa off guard; she hadn’t been expecting it at all. "I’d like to think so, yeah." She heard him sigh, and she would’ve sworn that the handsthat were still massaging her shoulders had begun to tremble. "Honey, are you sure everything is ok?" "I’m trying to figure out how to explain to you…" he sighed in frustration. She turned to face him once more. "Explain what to me baby?" He smiled at her, and ran his finger along her cheekbone. "Explain how you’ve changed my life. How you have changed ME." He paused for a moment, contemplating, then continued. "I don’t think it’s something I could even put into words. Ironic, huh?The songwriter not being able to express himself in words." Melissa took his hand and kissed it. "It’s ok… I understand…" "No. You don’t. I don’t even think I understand it myself, so how could you?" He stopped abruptly and closed his eyes. "I’m sorry Mel. I’m really just not any good at this." Melissa didn’t know what to say. She knew he was trying to tell her something, that much was obvious,but she had no clue what it was. She decided to just keep quiet a little longer. To let him get outwhatever it was without interruption. "Ok… I guess what I want to say is this. I love you more than I thought it was possible to love anyone oranything. You are the first thing I think of in the morning, and the last vision I have in my head beforeI fall asleep is you. When I am sad or upset, all I have to do is think of you, and I smile. Then itoccurred to me… I never want to even think of my life without you in it. You ARE my life Melissa. Not themoney, or the fame, just you. So…" He paused and reached behind her. When his hand returned, it was holding a small velvet box. Melissa felt her heart drop in the pit of her stomach, and she began to tremble uncontrollably. Thetears in her eyes were immediate. "Oh… God…" she whispered. "Melissa, honey, I love you. I want to know you will always be here, by my side, forever." He opened the small box to reveal the most stunning diamond ring Melissa had ever seen. "Baby… will you marry me?"
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