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  “Forgive the cheesiness,” Sawyer laughs. “The music wasn’t my choice.”

  I look around again and see everybody watching us expectantly – likely wondering why in the hell we’re on the ice alone. The lights all around us go out, plunging us into darkness – mostly.

  “What the – what’s going on?” I ask.

  But then a spotlight flares to life, landing on Sawyer and me.

  I turn back to Sawyer, only to find him down on one knee in the middle of the ice. I gasp. My heart swells to the point of bursting in the blink of an eye.

  The spotlight glints off the diamond ring in the box he’s holding – though I can barely see it through the shimmer of tears in my eyes. I look around us and everything seems especially vibrant. My senses seem unusually heightened. I can see, smell, and hear everything in brilliantly sharp detail – and I’m pretty sure I’ll never get John Legend’s voice out of my head at this point.

  “Berlin, you have turned my entire world on its head. You have opened my eyes to things I didn’t understand, and you’ve made me feel things in ways I never would have believed possible,” he says. “You’ve not only made my world a far better place, you’ve made me a better man – and you’ve given me the most beautiful little girl in the world. I love you, Berlin Roth. I love you with everything in me, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So I wanted to ask – will you do me the honor of marrying me?”

  I clap my hands over my mouth, the tears rolling hard and fast down my cheeks as I look at the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen, down on his knee, offering to spend the rest of his life with me. It all seems so surreal, and I literally pinch myself to make sure that this is reality and not some sort of fever dream. The pinch doesn’t work too well with my gloves on, but well enough to let me know that I am, in fact, awake.

  I look deeply into Sawyer’s eyes and see the love he feels shining through. It melts my heart. I can’t keep the silly smile off my face as I think about the crazy twists and turns my life has taken over the last year and a half. Eighteen months ago, I could have never even imagined being where I am right now – and I’m not talking about being on the ice at Rockefeller Center.

  All I know is that whoever said fairy tales aren’t real was wrong. Dead wrong.

  “Yes,” I whisper. “I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Sawyer.”

  The smile on his face wide and warm, he gets to his feet and scoops me up. Even on skates, he manages to spin me around gracefully and without dropping the two of us onto our asses – something I consider a minor miracle. I’ve never been great at skating and am always amazed by those who are.

  All around us, the people waiting outside the rink cheer and applaud for us. Sawyer kisses me and continues to spin me around as John Legend’s voice starts to fade out and the song ends.

  “I never knew you were so good on skates,” I laugh.

  “Better than anybody in an Islanders sweater.”

  I shriek with laughter. “You are horrible.”

  “Yeah, but you love me.”

  Looking him square in the eye, I nod. “I do. I really do.”

  “I’m looking forward to the rest of my life because of you,” he tells me.

  I smile as fresh tears roll down my cheeks as I realize, for the first time in my life, I too am looking forward to the future – and spending it with this amazing man. I never thought life could be this incredible. I never thought I could be this happy.

  And possibly for the first time in my life, I’ve never been happier to be wrong about something.

  THE END

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