You Of All People

'I swear if I turn, my face will definitely bump to him. Doesn't he know the concept of personal space', lamented Violet in her mind while not noticing the corner of her lips stretching upwards into a smile as she watched his hand on hers and his hands slicing on the plate.

"Open up" demanded King as he held the food on Violet's mouth.

"What? Are you FBI?" joked Violet.

"Funny. Come on eat up" retorted King.

"I'm fine. I can eat on my own" said Violet as she tried to grab the fork.

"Be the woman of yo-"

"Ok! Ok, I'll open my mouth" Violet quickly cut him off.

"My turn! Ahhhh" chuckled King.

"Enjoy!" said Violet mischievously as she continuously fed him spoonful after spoonful.

King sped up his chewing and swallowing to keep up with Violet's antics and to not be defeated. And in turn he copied her too. In the end, they are the first to have finished the seventh course.

Since they finished fast, both of them were left to observe the family eat. Nielle played after she finished eating her share, Neil began to eat his first plate, Ellie finished half of hers and Elleis flooding his plate with gravy. Violet decided to ask something.

"Sooooooooo Ell, how did the two of you meet?" asked Violet curiously perking her ears up for gossip.

"Hm? He was stalking me" replied Ellie while nodding and recalling their past.

"Hey! I did no such thing!" Neil retorted as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"Really? How come I remember otherwise? Then Love, please do the honor and jog our memory" teased Ellie as she poked fun at her husband.

"Ehem. Ehem. Long story short. She was never my girlfriend. I never asked her out. I never courted her. But it was just one day, something dawned on me. At that time, I was searching everywhere for that one person that I would spend the rest of my life with. And there she was, right in front of me! It was her all along!" exclaimed Neil as he reminisced with happiness in his eyes and gestured towards Ellie lovingly.

"Whenever we were hanging out, I always saw this weird spectacle. I know this may sound corny but there was this ray of sunlight always on her. Like a halo of ethereal light of some sort. It was as if God put a spotlight on her for me to see that she's different from everybody else. There was this symphony that kept on repeating in my head, 'Neil! She's your Wife! She's the one!'. Seriously. No joking" Neil was smiling heartily as he reached out to grab a hold of Ellie's hand across the table and retold their love story.

"And then we left for San Francisco. We had a business trip for the company. But before that. Leading to that. A week before, I spoke to the guys while we were out drinking. Me and Ellie weren't together then. She wasn't my girlfriend"