Page 73 of Overture
Then I met you, and I fell
but you showed me the way
to open up my heart
and learn what it means to stay
It’s all a leap of faith, love
jumping into the race
It’s a leap of faith, love
I want to see you in lace
Now I can’t live without you
since you’ve stolen my whole heart
but I don’t want it back now
I gave you all the parts
Stay with me forever more
never leave my side
it won’t be easy by any means
but we’ll make it worth the ride
It’s all a leap of faith, love
let’s jump into the race
It’s just a leap of faith, love
I want to see you in lace
I knew Cooper could sing because I’d hear snippets of him here and there, but I’ve never heard him sing an entire song solo like this. His voice has a whisper-like rasp that is so intriguing that it does something to the song to make it more meaningful.
More special.
“Mr. Davies…” I start, stepping toward him on wobbly knees. “Are you asking me to marry you?”
Cooper laughs, but it comes out strained. He runs a hand through his hair and rubs the back of his neck, glancing at the audience gathered before looking back at me. “Oh, shit. I’m back to Mr. Davies, huh? Yes. I am. And I want you to be Mrs. Davies.” He hesitates, suddenly distraught. “If you want. You can keep your name, of course. If you’d rather do that. I’d never make you--”
“Of course, I’ll marry you, you idiot,” I say, wrapping my arms around his neck.
His guitar either gets taken or thrown or magically disappears, and the next thing I know, he’s lifting me off the ground and twirling me around, and I don’t think my feet were touching anyway. I don’t think I’ve felt the ground since we met.
When Cooper Davies came into my life, I thought for sure it was a disaster in the making. He would vanish like any other shooting star in the sky. I had no idea how much he would change me. And I certainly had no idea how much I would care about him.
Falling for a rockstar was not on the agenda this year, but marrying one just might be.
epilogue 2
A Reason to Fight
