My Heart Says Yes (23 page)

Marta and a few other
students from my design class also went to the opening.  Marta and I completed
our books at the end of the school year and we put together some really awesome
mock campaigns.  We worked together all throughout the school year and we had
developed an incredibly complimentary working relationship.  We really
respected each other’s ideas, and we always listened to each other and bounced
ideas off of each other.  We scored interviews as a team at Ogilvy &
Mather, Leo Burnett, Digitas and few other smaller agencies.  We were offered
positions with a few companies but we accepted the position at Ogilvy &
Mather.  We were so ecstatic because it was our dream job and we made that
dream come true with our hard work.

A week after the gallery
opening, Caleb and I were lying in bed when he turned to me and told me that he
had something waiting for me downstairs.  We went down to his art studio, and
he walked over to the easel that was always covered whenever I would go over to
his place.

“I’m giving this to you
today because it is exactly the one year anniversary of the first time I saw
you.  I knew that you were different from any girl I had ever met in just those
few brief minutes we spent chatting, and you made a huge impression on me
Emma.  I never expected to meet anyone as incredible as you, you have really
changed my life in the best way possible.  I hope you like it.”

He removed the canvas
and staring back at me were my own eyes.  He had painted a portrait of me and
he completely duplicated everything about me that first night that we met right
down to my jeans that fit just right.  It was amazingly beautiful and I was so
flattered.  Tears stained my eyes as I turned to him in awe.

“Caleb, I don’t know
what to say, this is absolutely gorgeous.  You painted all of this from memory,
didn’t you?”

“I did.”

“How did you do that? 
You didn’t even see me for very long.”

“Something about you
intrigued me from the first second that I saw you, so while you were standing
talking with your friends, I studied you and committed everything that I could
about you to memory because I knew that I wanted to paint you.”

“Well you did an
incredible job, thank you for the gift.  I will cherish it forever.”

I reached up and pulled
his face down to mine for a kiss.

“I love you Caleb.”

His smile reached his
eyes as they searched mine.  “I love you too.”

~*~*~*~

It's funny how life
works out sometimes, isn't it? After I broke up with Jordan my whole plan was
to just focus on me for the year, really get to know myself and focus on doing
well in school.  I never, ever expected that I would meet someone as incredible
and gorgeous as Caleb, but I did, and he turned my world upside down.  I tried
to ignore my feelings for him in the beginning.  My head was telling me no, I
thought he was just a playboy…a big flirt…but my heart knew better.  So while
my head was saying no, my heart was saying yes. And my heart won.  Jack was
right when he told me that life has a funny way of making choices for you and
not the other way around. 

Caleb gathered me in his
arms and held me close. “You know, even if I had not met you at that party, I
would have met you volunteering.  I really believe that it was fate that
brought us together. There is no doubt in my mind about that.”

“I think that you just
might be right about that, Mr. Morgan.”

“I like having you in my
life Emma, I like having you by my side.  You’re a perfect fit for me.”

I looked up at him and
smiled.  “Ditto.”