The Story of my grandparents

By: Carley

 

One day, a young girl named Audrey was walking to the market with her parents and two of her Parents good friends. When she realized that they had a son about her age hiding behind his father. She went over and started talking to him, she found out very little but she found out that his name was Jack; he was three years older than she was and that his parents were coming into a bit of money very soon. She was a little surprised that he would share that at their first encounter, but she knew that they would be good friends.

 Jack and Audrey did become good friends. They were practically inseparable at certain points. They both had a secret crush on each other; neither telling the other, for the fear of losing the wonderful friendship fate had brought them. They didn’t want to try to make a new friend that was perfect with their personality.

One day, Audrey was looking around while having a picnic with Jack. She noticed the plants and their shiny green leaves; she noticed the light morning sky and the way the yellow orange sun raised above the mountains like a small yellow dot an a blue dress, in the plains far off she saw how the animals were playing and how the farmers and herders were working hard. She was surprised that Jack did not bring her to their regular picnic spot. She was waiting eagerly to begin the meal and she almost took the basket from Jack and stared eating while he was setting up. Audrey’s family didn’t have a lot of money and Jack’s did, (It turned out the bit of money was a lot, and their parents didn’t talk anymore because of it.) but they were really good friends anyway! After what seemed like forever to Audrey, the picnic was finally all set up and there were candles and expensive food, and good porcelain plates, and wine glasses and the picnic cloth they were sitting on was silk, it made her wander if this was how his family packed picnics, or if everyone did this, or if it was just him. She wandered if today would be special or if he was always like this.

They were eating and talking about their families when all of a sudden Jack said,” One day, you and I will get married. We will have children and they will grow up, and if they are half as elegant as you, they will be perfect. I love you and you are the most wonderful person I have ever met. Please, say you will even if I have to wait, I would wait one million years if I could be with you! Please say yes. I will not hide my feelings for you anymore! I just can’t stand it anymore. I love you, please, please say you will!” She didn’t know what to say, and when he just sat there waiting for and answer she had to say something so she said, “Jack, you know I love you and I would do any thing for you so, yes I will marry you, but I am only sixteen and you are nineteen. I don’t know if your parents or mine would approve!” She was scared that since her family was poorer than his, their families would not approve. “You don’t need to worry about what our parents think. They will have to do what we want. What makes us happy, don’t you see Audrey?”  “Jack, don’t you see. We have to think of what our parents want for us. They will want the best for us and if they think we are the best for each other, then we will get married. Jack, you don’t know how you are going to feel in four years. I will get married when I am twenty years of age. In four years, if we still love each other, I will marry you. Jack. I love you know, but in four years, you just don’t know. You could meet some new girl into Stapler and you could fall in love with her while I am on vacation at my grandmothers, and she could be much prettier than I. Jack, I just don’t understand how could miss that concept. We might fall in love with other people. Its four years. You just don’t know how your going to feel then.” ”Audrey, I will never fall in love with someone else. I will never meet anyone as beautiful as you and I will never want to leave your side. I want to spend as much time as possible with you. I will never stop loving you.” She told Jack she had to go and she went home, very fast by the way, so she could think about what she was going to do.

When she got home her mom asked her what happened at the picnic and she said, “Nothing mom, Jack said I could leave and he would clean up. I am going to my room.”  “Darling, do the dishes and then we will walk to Jack’s house and give him a melon from our garden. I will bring his family the biggest one because they accept the fact that you have less money than them and Jack is your friend and nothing will change that. Absolutely nothing will change how good of friends you two are.”  “ Yes Mama” she said and went to do her chores.

When she got done with the dishes she went to the garden and picked the biggest, heaviest melon she could find. Jacks family was wealthier than any family in the little town of Stapler, and she knew that they would not accept anything that weighed less than two or three pounds. She finally found one that weighed at least four pounds. She called her mom and they went on their way. They were walking to Jacks house. She was thinking, Jack is the man that just asked me to marry him. How would he feel about her being there, after she just left him sitting there, dumbfounded and alone? She didn’t have a clue. How would she feel there? Scared, alone, strange? She just didn’t know.

On their way there, she told her mom about what happened and her mom just smiled laughed and said, “Well Audrey, what you say?”  She told her mom about telling him that they would wait until she was twenty. Her mom looked at her and said,” Audrey, you two are in love and I think everyone knows it, if you want to marry him, then get married. It doesn’t matte what his parents think. Yes, you are poorer than them, and no, you are not used to their world and you don’t have to be. You just have to be in love and know it. Follow your heart. Do what you think is right for you. Sometimes Audrey, I think you are really smart, but sometimes, I just don’t know. Do what you think is right!”

Audrey was having a hard time finding out what she was going to tell Jack when she got there. She thought of the perfect thing right as she knocked on the door. She knew he would answer with his whole family behind him. And she didn’t care if they heard. He opened the door and she was right. Then, before everyone, her mom, his parents, his three little sisters and one that was older than him, and his five little brothers, even their two dogs, she pulled him closer to her with excessive force and kissed him. You would have to see their faces to know that they both wanted that to happen for the longest time, and now that it happened, they were thrilled that it happened here.

When they finally let go of their tight bear hug, she said “Jack. We will get married next week! It is the perfect time of year and it is the perfect time for us. Next week, we will man and wife. I love you!”, and then they kissed again. Everyone in the town was invited and everyone in the town was happy for them, everyone except Jacks mother. Jacks mother was considered the “wicked witch” of the town. She wanted him to marry someone with the same amount of money. She thought that all the poor girls loved him because of his money! She protected him so that he wouldn’t get hurt by one of the poor, snotty, little town girls. She didn’t want him to be his big boy, she still thought of him as her baby boy even though she had eight other children that were younger than him and one older sister. She did NOT approve.

“I do not approve of this!!!” she yelled after he got home from the dress and tuxedo makers. ”I will not let you marry that poor little snot!” She is only mooching off our money! You will NOT marry her. Forget it!” “Mom, I love her. I will marry her six days and you will not stop me. We already told everyone where it was and invited them. Her family is paying for some of the wedding things, like the cake and the dress and tux. She is paying for more than they can afford. She is doing it for me! Nothing you say will stop me from marrying her!” “Who does she think she is, she just came up and asked you to marry her, you are supposed to ask her that!!!! Who does she think she is?”  “ I asked her to marry ME! Why won’t you just accept the fact that we are in love!!! If you can’t accept her in your heart, then just don’t go to the wedding!!!! I’m leaving. Bye.”  Jack yelled. Jack left to go to Audrey’s and he stayed there until the day of the wedding.

At the wedding they saw everyone they invited. Jack’s mom came up to him before the wedding and said “I’m sorry, you have my blessing, and I love you. Now go get married!”

After the wedding Jack and Audrey had a very wonderful life. They adopted a baby girl, and named her Penny Renee Lambert, and they had one son, whose name is Scott Richard Lambert. They grew up and each had children and now their children are growing up. And here I sit, writing about my grandparents and telling you their story. The way they fell in love over their childhood years, and no matter haw many times they fought, and how they always made up an hour later. The way that they tried to hide their feelings for the longest time and ended up telling each other anyway, a lot sooner than they thought not to mention.. And the way they went weak at the knees when they heard each others voices, and the way they still do. They will always be in love. They will be in love until the very end.

 

The End!

This story was written and dedicated to my grandparents. It is extremely fictional and I hope it is very close to how it actually happened.