proposal
an offer or suggestion of marriage: Would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?

outfit of the chapter
walking in London

Bella waited on Max’s porch when she finally got home, and she looked so happy. Like there was no tomorrow and her life was complete.
"Where did you go?" she asked and smiled. The fact that Alex had spoken to her, known her name, was still on her mind and she would stay happy for days because of it. Max smiled and laughed a little.
"I was bored, so I left" she lied and Bella jumped out.
"And you got Alex to say my name, God… Thank you, know he knows who I am. I might even have a shot in meeting him again" she said and looked hopeful. Max looked at her and unlocked her door, and Bella hurried inside.
"Meet him again?" Max asked, a bit curious.
"Yeah, I am going to be the future Mrs Gaskarth you know" she teased and lightly punched Max on the arm. Max bit her lip and wanted to tell her the whole truth, but she didn’t want to ruin Bella’s moment. So she stayed quite.
"Should I have a white dress, or a black and white?" she said and looked at herself in the mirror.
"Whoa, slow down. You haven’t even met Alex, and you’re already planning your wedding?" Max asked.
"Well duh, I am the future Mrs Gaskarth, or didn’t you hear me?" she said and looked at Max. Max laughed and shook her head.
"So just because you talked to him you’re now engaged?" she asked.
"Well yeah" Bella said with a teasing grin and laughed. Max shook her head again and noticed she still had Alex jumper on.
"Where did that jumper come from anyway?" Bella asked and started to clean of the ruined makeup on her face.
"My denim shirt was ruined, so a guy handed me his jumper" Max shrugged.
"How nice of him, maybe you are going to marry that guy" Bella said and winked. Max looked at her and bit her lip. Bella, I am marrying that guy. And with that Max started to realize what she had agreed on. She was going to be Mrs Gaskarth, and when Bella found out she would be furious.
"What?" Bella asked, when she saw that Max frowned a little.
"Nothing" she said and shook her head. Bella looked at her and then she sighed.
"Max, relax. You are going to get married someday, don’t worry about it" Bella said. Bella knew that Max had a complex about her big scar on the neck and down to her shoulder. A lot of boys had been disgusted by it, and because of it Max had never really found someone that didn’t see it.
"I know" Max muttered.
"I mean it Max, one day you are going to find someone that sees beyond the scar and sees you. You and all the lovely things underneath" she said and gestured towards Max. Max smiled and nodded.
"If you say so" Max said and shrugged.
"I know so" Bella said and smiled.
"Are you sleeping here, or are you going home tonight?" Max asked and kicked off her shoes among all her other vans.
"I think I’m going to stay here, so we can go out and roam town tomorrow" she teased.
"Sorry Bella, I have something to do tomorrow" Max said and smiled.
"You do?" Bella asked, a bit surprised.
"Yes, I am actually going to meet up with a boy" Max teased and shot her a small grin. Bella stared at her.
"A boy? And you are worried you won’t get married?" she teased before she headed for the bedroom. Max laughed and looked at herself in the mirror. She pulled back her hair and looked at the scar. It was her biggest secret, and complex, about herself. She hated the pink and red skin that really stood out against her really pale skin.But with a sigh she jumped out from her clothes, into the pink pajamas shorts and big white tee, and joined Bella in the big bed.

She woke up and saw that Bella was still sleeping next to her, with drool all over her face and the pillow.
”Very charming Bella” she thought and got up from bed. Today she would meeting up with Alex, and maybe Jack if he was coming as well, to get some rings.
"I am actually going to be engaged" Max whispered and poured herself some juice and sat down at the kitchen table. It was a really weird feeling knowing that just in a few hours she would be engaged to her childhood crush and best friend. To a person with a lot of fans that probably would give her a lot of hate. And one of those fans happened to be Bella. How would she react when Max came home and told her she was engaged to Alex Gaskarth? That she would be the future Mrs Maxine Gaskarth, even if it was just a pretend and fake marriage to get rid of the Megan Fox copy to ex girlfriend Alex had. All this was like straight out of a big drama movie.
"Is my life really going to be a big drama movie, where I am Selena Gomez, Alex is Channing Tatum and Brianna is… well Megan Fox?" Max muttered and drank up the last of her juice. Then she giggled when she thought about the movies what movies Channing had done.
"Alex being a super soldier, undercover police or a dancing stripper? That is something I would like to see" she giggled and grabbed a banana.
"What are you giggling about?" Bella said and joined her in the kitchen with a big yawn. Max jumped a little but looked at Bella and shrugged.
"You are a bit nervous and happy about going on a date, aren’t you?" Bella teased and made herself some coffee and a sandwich.
"Not really" Max said and shrugged.
"You totally are" Bella said and laughed. Max smiled and decided to play along, and just as she was about to say something her phone went off and she saw Alex name on her phone.
"Alex? Who is Alex?" Bella asked and handed her the phone. But when she didn’t answer she just grinned a little.
"Is that the boy you are meeting?" she teased and pouted her lips. Max rolled her eyes and got out from the kitchen, and pressed the green button.
"good morning love, have you slept well?" Alex said with an exaggerative british accent. Max laughed.
"Well honey, I slept very well. Thank you for asking" she said back.
"Did you drink tea, eat scones and enjoyed some bacon?" Alex asked, and continued with the british accent.
"But Alex dear, I am not that british. I just had a banana and some orange juice” she laughed and Alex gasped.
"What kind of fucked up british woman are you?" he asked.
"Well sir, let me ask you this then. What did you have for breakfast?" she asked, and took a bite on the banana. Alex sighed.
"I had some cereal, some juice and some scrambled eggs with bacon" he said.
"At least scrambled eggs and bacon are a bit british of you" Max said.
"Well I’m not british, I’m ‘murican " Alex said and made a very fake texan accent instead. Max laughed again and saw that Bella was looking at her, listening at her conversation.
"Gex, you are british from the beginning you know" she said.
"I moved away from the UK at the age of 8, remember?" he said.
"Oh I do remember, you never called" she said, frowning.
"Well anyway… Would you like to join me and Jack on an adventure in town today?" he asked.
"I thought you’d never ask" she said and shook her head.
"Should I come and pick you up, or should we meet somewhere?" he asked.
"Why not meet somewhere?" she asked, and they both agreed to meet up in town.

Max squeezed herself in to her black and white jeans, pulled on a pink sweater and picked out her black vans. Nothing special but enough to not feel cold. She even added a black scarf, a cross necklace and took her backpack from yesterday.
"Looks like the sun is out today" Bella called from the kitchen.
"Really? that is unusual" Max said and grabbed her sunglasses as well.

She stood and leaned against a wall and looked out over the street. The sun was still out and she enjoyed every second of it, taking in all the D-Vitamins she could. She was just about to send a text to Alex when she heard Jack’s loud voice calling her name.
"MAX" it called and she looked to her left and saw both of them walking towards her. Alex had a black beanie on, black sunglasses a hood over a white t-shirt and tight black jeans. He shot a smile when she noticed them. Jack was dressed in a dark beanie as well, a grey tee under a dark denim jacket and black skinny jeans.
"Hi guys" Max said and smiled, and they both greeted her with a hug.
"I never thought about it yesterday, but damn your have long hair" Jack said and looked at her long blonde curls.
"Yeah, you used to have short brown hair" Alex said and nodded.
"Well I decided to grow out my hair, in the process my hair slowly turned much brighter" Max said and pulled her fingers through it.
"So it’s your natural hair color?" Alex asked, and looked impressed.
"My mother used to call it angel hair" Max said and smiled.
"Used to?" Alex asked and crossed his arms.
"Oh, my mother died a few years ago in a car crash" Max said and looked at him.
"Oh… I’m sorry" Alex said.
"It’s okay, it’s been a few years. I do miss her, but I don’t cry over it anymore" she said and gave him another smile.
"Well then, shall we go and get you two some rings, have something to eat and talk about how you two wanna do this?" Jack asked and clapped his hands together.

They found a jewelry shop and it happened to be tons of different rings. Jack looked lost and he just stared, and Alex looked a bit scared.
"You don’t have to, if you don’t want it" Max said and looked at him.
"No, we’re doing this. We’re really doing this" Alex said and nodded.
"Okay, what kind of rings should we get?" Max asked and walked over to the silver ones. Alex looked thoughtful and scratched his chin.
"I think we should get couple rings, and not just two rings that we want. We should go all out" he said.
"couple rings?" someone behind them asked.
"Yeah, we’re looking for couple rings" Max said and looked at her, and smiled a little.
"Well why don’t you come over here. We just got in a really nice pair" the lady said and walked in behind the desk. Max followed and Alex slowly walked after as well. He was a bit nervous. But when he saw the rings he smiled and looked at Max.
"Do you like them?" he asked.
"It’s a bit different, but I think I do" she said and nodded.
"Why don’t you try them on, it might be your size" the lady said and took them out from their box. And just like if they were made just for them both the rings fit perfectly on Alex and Max fingers. They looked at the rings for a short moment and then they looked at each other.
"Take it off" Alex said and Max looked confused.
"What?" she asked.
"I said, take it off" he said again and Max handed her ring to Alex. Alex paid for the rings and then he turned to Max and looked at her again.
"I said I was doing this properly" he said and knelt before her. She stared at him.
"Maxine Clayton, would you do me the honor of becoming Mrs Gaskarth?" he asked, and Max just stared at him. Then she started laughing.
"Why not Gex, why not" she said and held out her hand. He chuckled, shook his head and placed the ring on her finger.
"Well then, congratulations on getting engaged" Jack said with a grin.
"Then how about we got and grab something to eat, and figure out how we are going to do this?" Alex asked and looked at his "fiancé".
"Sure, as long as it’s not pizza, sushi or chinese" she said.
"What about tacos?" Jack asked.
"That will do" Max said and laughed.