“I am. Things are going good,” William told her. “My friend David said I should try
moving the relationship to the next level.”
“Why that's a wonderful idea,” Patty said. “Go into the jewelry box on the
dresser.”
She pointed at it. William stood up, walked over to the dresser, and opened the
box.
“There's a dark blue ring box in there,” she told him. “You see it?”
William grabbed the ring box and walked back to his grandmother. He sat on the bed
and opened it. A beautiful diamond ring sat inside.
“That was my mother's,” Patty told him. “You've been with that girl a long time.”
“I have,” William confirmed.
“Well, ask her to marry you,” his grandmother told him.
“I don't know,” William responded while looking at the ring.
“I know a lot about this stuff. I can tell how much you two mean to each other,”
she confided. “She's the perfect girl for you.”
“She is?” William questioned.
“Yes, I always liked Casey,” his grandmother said.
“You mean Emily?” William asked, confused, since she had been around Emily dozens
of times.
“Yeah, that's what I said,” she told her grandson.
“I had a dream you two were together. You had the most beautiful baby girl,” she
coughed again. “So beautiful.”
Patty lay back down and fell asleep.
William kept staring at the ring and wondered how Emily would react to him
proposing. He didn’t know if he should tell her about his grandmother’s dream about