This is the story of Darleen Vabe, who was the honorable mention in the Swan to be contest. She was nicknamed Darleen the Duckling before, but now she's vibrant Vabe!
Note: This is my first story. Also in this First Chapter, I speed through the months, because I felt like I had to do it in order to make this chapter interesting.
Chapter OneSmilesSpeaker: DarleenSmiling. Smiling has been what I've been doing for the past 8 1/2 months. My life seems to be a fairy tale right now, for it's been so very wonderful! I'll start from the day that after the contest ended, and end it 9 1/2 months later.
The contest ended last night, and I placed in 4th place(or, more officially, the honorable mention)! And, guess who was in the daily Strangetown news? If you guessed me, you were right. I find it very weird that Strangetown made such a big deal of it...well, it's
Strangetown, and I guess they don't call it
Strange - town for nothing. Also, someone moved into town today, his name is Greg Wallis. He's a very charming man. I feel like I'm falling in love. (Hey, just because I didn't get Christophe, doesn't mean I won't get someone!)
After Greg and I had known each other for a few weeks, we started to talk more, weather it be in person, on the phone, or on the computer. One day, Greg invited me over to his house, I accepted and came over. "Hi." "Hi." Silence. Greg decided to be the polar bear and break the ice.
After that day, Greg and I were in constant contact. If there was a chance to phone each other or email each other, we'd take it. Greg came over to my house every week, and I'd usually go over to his house everyone other weekend for a few hours. The week after we had officially known each other for 7 months, Greg didn't contact me. On Friday of that week, he called me and invited me to his house. He said he had been planning something all week. I wondered what it was. I rushed over. Greg greeted me, and surprised me by kneeling down and pulling a box out from his pocket. "Darleen Vabe, will you make me the happiest man in the whole world by agreeing to be my wife?"
I couldn't move. I couldn't talk. The whole world was moving around me, and I was frozen. When I unfroze, I took a deep breath and screamed "YESS!". I was worried that I might have made Greg deaf, but the worried feeling passed as I slipped the ring on my finger, and stared at it. I couldn't believe this had happened. No one pinch me if I'm dreaming, please.
After that we lay in each other's arms, just hugging. Then, it began as just a kiss..but became something more.
I left his house 1 hour before midnight, smiling foolishly.
When I returned, I payed the nanny and tucked in Lizzie. "Sleep tight my dear daughter, may your dreams be happy..."
To be continued