Unconditional Love by: Scott Allen
What’s that smell? What time is it? 9:30? I usually don’t wake up until 11:00 when I want to sleep in!!! I’ll go back to sleep. (A half an hour later) Uh. Got an itch on my cheek. Ha Ha!! That tickles! Who’s there? Your eyes open, and you see him, clean shaven, holding a dozen roses in one hand...... Wait a minute! How did all of these flowers get all over your room? On the dresser, flower petals on the floor, even on the bed. Wow are they soft. White ones, yellow ones, purple, red, what colors aren’t here? Oh, your room smells like a flower garden, but without the bugs! And the petals. They’re just so soft. Sort of like his shoulder when you use it for a pillow. You begin to go ecstatic! Look at all of these soft rainbow petals covering you like a warm velvet blanket!! How did he sneak in here and do all of this without me waking up?

“Good morning princess. I can’t believe how long it’s been since I last talked to you, let alone held you close to me in my arms. I miss you more ....(you now begin to see his tears, his glasses can’t hid them as well as he thought)....everyday. I can’t believe I’m here with you again. I’m so happy!” Unable to control himself any longer, he lightly touches your face once again with his gentle fingertips. Oh how long it has been since he’s tickled your face like this. His hands are so soft; you begin to wonder if his fingers were tickling you or that rose he just put down when you first opened your eyes. He then embraces you for the first time in what seems like years. You can feel tears falling down on your shoulder. You can’t believe you’re holding him again. You in his arms, strong, secure, but gentle. He continues to caress your face, and tears still begin to fall. You reach out your arm and let your fingers flow in his hair. After a few moments, he turns his face toward you. You could swear that he looked just like the prince in “Sleeping Beauty”, only with wet streaks from his chin to his eyes. All of a sudden, he leans forward, and touches his lips with yours. You don’t remember this kind of a kiss though. You close your eyes, and you feel as if you’re flying away. You have breezes blowing your hair around. You then have this vision that you’re sitting down at a beautiful bluff that overlooks Lake Michigan. The sunset is just beautiful. Orange, yellow, pink, gold..... What beautiful colors. His kiss is almost like God breathing life through your entire body. Your heart begins to beat a little faster, and you feel the blood in your body warming you up even more. Oh what a kiss. The emotions, feelings, everything, just completely overtake your body. It’s almost like your whole body goes limp and lets your emotions and his emotions pass through your entire body, filling it up with a love greater than any you’ve ever experienced in your life. Minutes pass by, then hours, years, decades. This love goes on forever and ever, just as strong as the first day you met him. If only we could keep kissing each other forever........... Your lips separate unfortunately. Your eyes still closed, you feel dazed, almost as if you’ve just woken up like a princess does in a fairy tale. You open up your eyes to make sure you aren’t dreaming. There must be something wrong. The clock only reads 10:15. Oh what a nice slow and memorable day this is going to be. Maybe the more you kiss him the slower time will get. You try. Right back up to the pearled gates of heaven, you feel like you can overcome anything. Walking on clouds, you look down, and see the beautiful blue planet we only call earth. You swear you could see right through space and into your room. You and your sweetheart are there, kissing for hours and hours. Wait, what’s that? He has something in his pocket. It’s a little silver-colored velvet b....

He suddenly pulls away from you. Cold he see what you did? He motions toward the kitchen. Petals lead a path right to it! This man did a lot of work! Oh! That smell again! He didn’t, or did he?? You walk out to the kitchen, and all you see is a big mess in one area (after all, he is a male cook!), but you then look at the dinner table. Doughnuts, scrambled eggs, sausages, ...... a gourmet setup!!! You lightly chuckle to yourself, “Thanks mom for helping him!”. He pulls out a chair for you, and there’s an envelope on the seat. You almost immediately open it, but a big sign on it says, “READ THIS WHEN I LEAVE TONIGHT”. Ahhh!! Oh well. You sit down, and he scoots you in. He playfully every once in awhile feeds you a spoonful of fruit salad that was also made. “What a joker!” you think to yourself. “Hey, this isn’t bad at all! Mom MUST have made it. He couldn’t possibly be this good!”

You finish this God-made breakfast dish, and you go to take a shower, get changed, and get ready to go. You think to yourself, “I’m sure he has the whole night planned. I wonder what he DOES have planned?” You walk outside, and you see him beside the best looking Mercedes Benz in the world. It’s solid white, well taken care of, and it looks very appealing. “This CAN’T be his car, can it??” He opens up the passenger door for you, and asks for you to hop on in. You comfortably sit down, he closes the door for you, and steps inside the driver’s seat. Decorations of Jesus Christ, angels, incense to make the car smell wonderful, and other religious symbols are placed all over the car. Maybe he really does love God? Nevertheless, this earns your trust even more.

He drives you down secluded roads completely out of his way just so you could see all of the leaves changing color on the trees. As you engage in a decent conversation, your eyes wander from one side of the road to the other. How could you possibly keep up? From shades of red, yellow, and orange, you wonder if this is an actual forest, or a permanent sunset. It’s just beautiful. How could he have found this road without getting lost? He must have learned a lot more than you thought at college.

At last you arrive at a place you’ve never even seen before. He replies, “No this isn’t exactly a mall. I think you’ll love this place a lot more.” He leads you down what seems like a never-ending trail that you swear leads you right in the middle of the woods. “Put this on”. He hands you a blindfold. “What! Just what are you trying to pull here Mister?!?” “Just put it on. It’s a surprise. And I will know if you are peeking.” You put it on, accepting this game that adults still play now. He leads you along a little more, and finally he has you sit down on a bench? You think to yourself, “How did this get here in the middle of the woods?”

Catching you off guard, he gives you yet another, and even better kiss than the one he gave you at your house. This man just keeps getting better at this! As you two continue to kiss, he slowly and carefully removes the blindfold. So caught up in the kissing, you totally forgot you had one on. Oh he’s good. You really don’t care about opening your eyes yet. You pull him closer and hold him really close to you. Enjoying the kissing more and more with each passing second, your body becomes engulfed with intense heat and passion. He really loves you more than anything. You can feel it in every kiss he gives you.

“Baaaaaaaaa!!!!!”

Your eyes quickly open, and you stop kissing. You find yourself on a private little farm in the middle of nowhere. A goat nudges your hand as if it wanted you to pet it. You look to your left, and you see deer, foxes, chickens,....... On the right you see a few barn kittens, their mothers nearby, a tame wolf?, some turkeys, and even a snowy owl resting on his shoulder. The goat nudges your hand again, as if it were reminding you that he wanted to be petted. You begin to pet it and itch it, but still remain totally overwhelmed and in a state of shock. “Do you like it?” he just had to ask you. You take a quick smell of the air. Everything is clean, varieties of animals everywhere, leaves of all different colors....... Wow. This place is so beautiful you almost want to cry. “What kind of a question is that? Dear, I love it!!!!” You never in your whole life seen so many different animals, let alone all of them appear to be friendly and tame. You wonder if he led you to the Garden of Eden, but you don’t see any gates or angels guarding them.

“They are all friendly. They live in peace with one another, and also with my guests and I. They are in danger of nothing, for anything that should want or accidentally hurt them will be lost in the woods forever never reaching this place or home again.” “What!!? How did you find this place? We’re not in heaven, are we?”

He chuckles a little. “No, we’re not. This is planet earth still. All of your questions will end up getting answered at the end of the night. That also is a surprise. Shall I show you around?” He reaches out for your hand, and you happily accept by embracing your hand with his. He leads you down a hill, and you notice that the animals you saw earlier follow you, and the snowy owl on his shoulder is still resting there. You quickly come up to a huge barn. It looks as if it was just finished yesterday, and the retailers haven’t even had enough time yet to put up a “For Sale” sign. The owl on your beau’s shoulder begins to hoot and holler excitedly, as if he already knew what treasures were inside. “I know you’ll just love this one.” He slides the gigantic doors open, pouring even more light into the barn. Running forward at you with great speed, a blur of orange and black lunges at you and knocks you down. “AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!” you scream out at the top of your lungs. You are thankful that the ground is considerably softer than what it appeared to be. You then feel paws stepping on you, and see a big red tongue licking your face. “Her name is Yikes, and now you know why.” This little, errrr, big tiger cub lays on top of you and begins to purr. You swear it weighs about a thousand pounds, but strangely enough you find yourself in a very comfortable position. Maybe it doesn’t weigh as much as you think. The young man stands next to you, and you see the owl from his shoulder fly into the barn. “What else is here, a bunch of cougars, lions, cheetahs,....” Politely cutting you off, he responds, “Actually, yes. You know me ooohh too well. This place is filled with nothing but cats.” Yikes rolls off of you and slowly walks back in the barn. You sit up, dust yourself off, and jokingly trip your date on the ground next to you. “What was that for!!???” He asks you. You respond with a little attitude, “You knew you she was going to do that, didn’t you?” He smiles, winks at you, and whistles. Quickly two white Bengal tigers come out and lay down next to him. “This is Tasha and Morris. My how big they’ve gotten, don’t you think?” He laughs, and you know he’s kidding around with you. You look through the barn door, curious to see if there are a whole bunch of cats in there. Cheetahs, tigers, lions, panthers,.......... he wasn’t joking. “These two will help us get to places faster. Just sit on top of their back, and they’ll do the rest. You won’t hurt them, they’re quite strong and trained to do this. Oh, and hold on. Tight. Very tight.” You jump on Tasha, and he gets on top of Morris’s back. He whistles again, and they take off like a criminal speeding away from a police car! You practically fall off at first, but regain your balance within a few seconds. “This is pretty fun!” you think to yourself. You guess that you’re probably riding at about 35 miles per hour. Not bad for a tiger. He whistles again, and they take off even faster. You don’t want to guess how fast you’re going now, you’re enjoying the bumps and the speed too much. You start to see an even larger building than the barn that you saw earlier with the cats. He yells, “O.K. slow down.”, and Morris and Tasha obey. They slowly trot and finally come to a stop at the entrance. He motions for you to get off, and he steps off of the large feline. You do the same, and both of them lie down. They look as if this was just a simple exercise, and were actually expecting a further workout. He really has these guys trained!

You walk into the building with him behind you, and you see a small little changing room with bathing suits and scuba equipment. You go off into separate rooms to change, and meet back together in front of what looks like a house-sized aquarium. He looks at you and asks, “So, you want to jump in first, or do you want me to go in?” Leaving himself wide open, you promptly push him in this enormous aquarium. After a few chuckles, you jump in after him. Diving down deep, you see some unique fish swimming past you of all sorts of colors and shapes. He points his finger in a general direction, and you look over. You see a small school of rays flapping their fishy wings that head your way. It soon flies over your head creating a shadow much like an eclipse. He grabs your arm, and pulls you onward as you look up at this creature with awe. Onward and onward you both swim, bypassing different types of aquatic life. You see some coral, sea anemones, squid, colorful fish, and a lot of different types of kelp and seaweed. Eventually the two of you reach an underwater cave. Obviously this tank must go way below the surface of the land. He turns on his flashlight and shines it into the cave. Suddenly as if a burst of lightning shot in the water, a swarm of small sharks shoot out of this gray murky cave like a hive of bees. You practically scream in the water, but his comforting arms hold you and relax you instantly from this sudden excitement. The sharks swim close to you, curious of what you are. Your man pets one of the sharks as it slowly swims by, and signals you to do the same. Although greatly intimidated, you slowly move your hand across its smooth but scaly skin. The shark, almost like a cat, circles back around as if it noticed that you missed a spot. You continue to pet it, but it soon swims away back into the cave with the rest of the toothy water-like dragons. Your man checks his watch, and notices that time will soon be up on the apparatuses, so he motions for you to follow him out of this life-sized fish bowl. Eventually you reach the surface again, and you both crawl out. Again you both change back into some dry clothes, walk outside, and meet Morris and Tasha still waiting for you. Getting rather late, he asks if you would like something to eat. Your stomach growls as if it were speaking for itself, and you reply that you really could use a nice hot meal. “Alright, let’s go then.” he says, as he hops back upon the great feline’s back. You jump upon Tasha’s back following his lead, and prepare yourself for another bouncy ride.

Off again, the oversized cats take off with great accelloration and eventually stop at a small little hut. He jumps down off of Morris and freindily helps you off of Tasha. You together holding hands walk into the small hut, and into what appears to be a large dining room. Over in the corner of the vast room right next to a large window overlooking the animals as they play is a table set for two and a candle in between both plates. “Come on in and sit down next to me.” he says as he pulls you a chair for you to sit down in. You nestle yourself in the cozy chair, and he respectfully pushes your chair closer to the table. “I’ll be right back, don’t go anywhere!” he playfully says, and leaves the room into another room that appeared to be a kitchen. You look around the room you are in and notice that the ceiling is painted with the face of Jesus Christ. You smile at this beauty as he enters the room with a tray full of hot food. “He must have prepared ahead of time.” You ponder to yourself as he serves you a nice hot dish of something or another. “What is this?” you ask, but he simply says, “Just try it. You’ll love it. Besides, it’s really healthy for you anyway.” You look down at this plate of cut up meat and vegetables. It doesn’t look or smell bad, so you impale a good size piece of meat with your fork and place it in your mouth. “Not bad!” you blurt out, but afraid to ask what it might be. You trust him enough that he wouldn’t feed you just anything, so you gratefully accept it and trust his cooking for now. You continue to eat and engage in small talk, holding hands, and even once in a while give each other a nice romantic kiss. Time passes quickly by without either of you noticing until it begins to get a little dusky. Finished eating, he takes the plates into the kitchen room and tells you, “We both must leave. I must show you something truly amazing!”

Your last ride on your quick furry transportation leads you back to the entrance of this farm. “Hurry hurry! We have to go or we’ll miss it!” He exclaims as he opens the car door for you. You speedily sit down as he practically flips over the entire width of the car and jumps in the driver’s seat. Taking off, you both speed away down the trail and down a dirt road. As he continues to jet down the road, you notice a sense of happiness, yet grief on his face. “What’s wrong sweetie?” you ask him, but he avoids the question by saying, “Aha!! We’re finally here!” You finally come to a small trail that is too small for the car. From the road you know your way back home, so just in case you decided to sneak off with his car, you could, although you’re anxious of this surprise he has for you.

He takes you by the hand and quickly lifts you off of your feet and into his arms. “What the heck....put me down!!” you exclaim, but he insists upon carrying you, so you let him win. "I’m comfortable anyway. He’s keeping me warm and safe, and besides, there could be snakes on the ground! Eeeeww!!" He carries you up this small hill that clears the forest trees. He sets you down on your feet, and you look out. All you see is water and a golden dipped ball glowing different shades of red, pink, and orange throughout the sky as it sinks to the bottom of the lake ever so slowly. As the sun continues to set, he looks at you, and kisses you ever so tenderly and heart-warmingly. He holds you in his arms and cuddles with you making you feel like you and he own the entire world. After all of the kindness he has shown you and given to you, you kiss him back with all of your inner heart.

“I love you. I really (*wiping the tears from his eyes*) love you so much. You could never be replaced in all of my life. From day one I always knew that there was something special about you, and constantly you’ve always proven me right. Telling me that you love me, talking on the phone, seeing each other, and holding and kissing each other...... it just really makes me happy. I can’t explain how much you mean to me. All I can say is that you honor me. You make me so proud by having you with me in my life. You have shown me what pure happiness is all about. (*Continues to wipe his eyes, but now you start to wipe his tears and cry yourself with happiness*). You continue to hold and kiss each other for what seems like years. After one last soul-piercing kiss, he breaks away from you with tears flowing like a waterfall from his eyes. You wipe them away, wondering what could ever make him cry so much.

“Remember all of the good times we had together along with the times that we learned from our mistakes while together. You are truly a beautiful woman who cares about others just as much as you care about your own self. I will always remember that about you. Just as these stars begin to light up the sky, so will the memories of you forever light up my life. But now, I must go.........”

Startled by his last statement, you see him slowly begin to rise off of the ground. He drops you the car keys, and continues to float up into heaven. With tears in your eyes from this departure and your mind in total confusion, you slowly walk to the car, start it up, and drive home. You play back every time you’ve had with him. You wonder to yourself why he had to go, and what was he anyway? Was he an angel? Was he human? What is going on??? Eventually your tears win you over, and you cry yourself to sleep with sorrow, happiness, and confusion.

The next morning you wake up, wondering if it was all a dream, so you look over on your nightstand. There upon it is the unopened letter, the keys resting upon it, and that silver box! You remember it again! That is what he was holding in his hand when he kissed you yesterday morning! You open it up, and inside is a solid gold engagement ring with a cute and simple diamond in the exact center of this precious treasure. You continue to look at it, and just start to cry all over again. If only he could have placed it on your finger! It is so gorgeous! Why did he have to leave? You turn around to look outside at the car. White, clean, orderly, and bringing back so many memories. You turn back to your nightstand and begin to cry even harder. Then behind you someone holds you. You quickly turn around, and it is HIM!!!! He kneels down, places the ring on your finger, and asks you these wonderful words:

“Will you marry me, my most beautiful princess in the entire earth?”

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