Part 4

On the way into work that morning she indulged and splurged for a white chocolate peppermint mocha. As soon as she delicately received it in through her car window from the drive through attendant's hands the car filled instantly with a calming aroma that soothed her nerves and excitement before she had to occupy her normal parking space at work. Once her car assumed its normal position among the others, she turned the key out of the ignition, gathered her purse that her sister gave her on her 21st birthday and cupped her hand just above the steam rising from the strategically cut hole on the plastic top that fit snug on the rim of her mocha and waved the sweet scent of peppermint into her lungs like it was her final breath. About to get out of the car she paused and before placing her left hand on delicate silver handle to open the car door she raised it to eye level and gazed wonderstruck by the ring’s exquisiteness and its reality.

Slow-motion like she shuts the door to the car and she imagines the red carpet leading her to the front of the building with all of her friends and office girls shoving microphones in her face asking questions with poofs and burst of light flash.