Pick Me Up!

DEAD OR ALIVE

Gathered around with my parents as we were having somewhat of a last supper before the big move, after just a month together, Chris suddenly got down on one knee.

‘Vicky, I love you so much. Will you marry me?’ he asked, holding a ring in his fingers.

‘Yes!’ I beamed.

This is it, I thought. This is finally my time.

‘If you are happy, then we are happy, too,’ Mum and Dad smiled at me.

And flying the nest just weeks later, I couldn’t contain my excitement.

‘You can start to put your own stamp on the place,’ Chris suggested as I moved in.

Only when it came down to it, Chris was very particular about how things had to be.

Splitting the cleaning duties, I carried the cleaning bottles to the bathroom before giving it a good scrub.

‘You haven’t put the products back in the same order,’ Chris shouted.

Feeling stressed and like I’d done something majorly wrong, I made sure to snap a photo of

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