Sarah

 Tom and I met through his brother  Chris. Chris and I went to high school together, through the years after graduation he and I had become very close. When Chris moved into his new apartment in 2008 he introduced Tom and I to each other at his house warming party.  I wouldn't say we exactly hit it off, Tom kept picking on me and teasing me. After that day Chris would invite the two of us over every Friday or Saturday night to play cards. As the weeks and months went on Tom and I developed a friendship. We started to go out on our own for drinks, play pool and to see a movie. I was very nervous about getting involved with my friends brother and started to pull away. At a wedding one of Chris's friends Judy decided it was time for her to play matchmaker. She asked me if Tom and I were there together and when I told her we were not she told me we should be. In the mean time Tom's Aunt Irene was telling him to ask me to dance we look good together, later on Judy was telling Tom that he should dance with me because I had a crush on him.  Finally the two of us gave into the emotions we were feeling and we have been inseperateble since then. Tom and I started dating on April 10 2009. Tom Proposed to me on Christmas eve 2010 at 6am right before I had to go to work. He gave me my mothers diamond, and designed a new ring. One week before Christmas Tom came home with a 3 foot box and placed it under my tree telling me this was my Christmas eve gift. The whole week before Christmas Tom tormented me with this huge box to the point that we were actually fighting. He called me at work in the beginning of the week to tell me that my mothers diamond was broken and could not be used for the ring, I was so upset that he told me I did not want to know any of the planning. He told me I had to open the box early on Christmas eve because this gift would help us. I told him the night before Christmas eve that I no longer wanted to open the box. At 4:30 am on Christmas eve I decided I wanted to open the box Tom told me I had to wait till he got home from work. By the time he got home I had fallen asleep. when he woke me up I was to tired to open my gift. When he laid down in bed I was wide awake and asked to open my box.  We went into the living room I stood in front of this box ready to tear it open like a child but the paper was taped down with packing tape. I grabbed a scissor and slashed right into it, when I opened the box it was filled with shredded paper. He told me to dig. I was elbow deep and found nothing, I reached a little further and I got a hold of something, I looked up with a smile and Tom told me it was more packing. I dove in head first legs in the air digging in a box of shredded paper. I scratched my finger on something and asked if there was wood at the bottom of the box he told me no and keep trying. I grabbed both sides of this heavy, something, and realized it was to heavy to lift. I asked if it was a brick. Tom starts laughing and says yes. I pull myself out of the box, shredded paper stuck in my hair and all, slapped him in the chest and said  "I hate you" His response, " I know, Will you marry me?"   I have never been speechless before in my life.