This is just a short fanfic I wrote with a Valentine's Day theme... hope you enjoy!:)
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in this fic, much as i wished i did. It's not meant to offend anyone in anyway and all the ideas just came from my head :)
Rating: PG/12
Valentine’s Day
“Karen honey… wake up baby…” Chris whispered into his girlfriend’s ear as she slept peacefully dreaming away in a deep sleep. “Happy Valentine’s Day… I love you so, so much…” he continued as Karen began to stir from her sleep, and she turned around so she was facing Chris, opening her eyes, squinting slightly as if the light was too bright. It was 6am, half an hour before the normal time they got up on a weekday to get ready to get to the ice rink. “Morning my baby…” she replied sleepily, trying to look at him. As soon as her eyes were open Chris leant towards her and kissed her soft lips gently, only for a few seconds before slowly pulling away from her embrace. “You wait there… I’ll be back in a minute, don’t go back to sleep though? Wake yourself up a bit, I’ll be about 15 minutes max…” Chris said, getting up off the bed. He was just wearing his Calvin Klein boxers, he got his dressing gown that was hanging on the back of the door and put his arms through it, not bothering to wrap it around his body or do it up.
He went downstairs leaving Karen to wake up a bit more, and put the kettle on. He then put the bacon under the grill and fried two eggs. 10 minutes later he returned upstairs, slowly balancing two trays on his forearms, bacon, eggs, beans and a fried egg each, with a bit of carefully buttered bread on the side of each plate, and a milky coffee balanced on the edge. “Here you go sweetheart…” he said, holding the tray out for Karen while she rearranged the pillows behind her and propped herself up against the head board. “Thank you baby…” she said taking the tray from him and balancing it on her knees. “What did I ever do to deserve all this…” “Well being my Valentine does pay a large part of it..!” Chris said leaning over and kissing Karen’s lips again, and then popping an extra one on her forehead. “I love you so much…” Karen said looking up at him lovingly.
“Come on then finish up Jayne’ll get mad if we’re late again… we have been the last 3 Valentine’s Days, and on each of our birthdays” Chris said chuckling, getting up to take his own tray back down to the kitchen. “Thank you…” Karen said again, before passing the tray back to Chris. “Right I’ll let you get in the bathroom first today how’s that? Just don’t take too long… you don’t need all that slap you always put on, you’re beautiful enough without it!” Chris said taking Karen’s tray out of her hands and making his way downstairs with him, casually smiling to himself, just because he was with a woman as fantastic as Karen, that he just loved so much, he couldn’t imagine life without her any more.
While Chris was waiting for Karen to get out the bathroom he went to wash up, and then made his way back to the bedroom, expecting Karen to be at least out the shower by that time. But surprise surprise, she hadn’t even got that far yet, she was standing under the hot shower water dripping down her body, wondering how she should be so lucky to deserve a man like Chris, she’d dreamt of being with him for so many years, and since the pair finally came together near enough four years ago, she had never been happier. After 10 minutes of lying on the bed waiting for Karen, Chris gave in and lightly knocked on the bathroom door. “Karen you’ve been in there nearly 20 minutes!” he said. “Sorry baby… why don’t you come and join me…?” came Karen’s sweet offer from the other side of the door. Chris hesitated for only a couple of seconds before entering the bathroom, dropping his dressing gown on the floor, removing his underwear and climbing in the shower next to Karen, holding her body close to his, kissing her passionately.
“We’re so going to be late again… I don’t even care anymore, every second I spend with you is so special” Chris said, it turned Karen on even more to see Chris talking to her with water dripping down his face, down his cheeks and slipping off the bottom of his chin as they stood under the running water together.
Half an hour later they’d finally resisted the temptation of each other and were in the bedroom, Chris was dressed within 5 minutes of getting out the shower but for Karen it wasn’t that simple. She was standing in front of the wardrobe with the doors flung wide open, a towel wrapped loosely around her body and one wrapped around her head. “It’s 7:30 come on we’ve got to be out in 15 minutes,” Chris said, he was sat cross legged in the middle of the bed, he had blue jog bottoms on, a plain black long sleeved top and had his body warmer next to him ready to put on when they did leave. “Well that’s never going to happen I’ll tell you that now” Karen said giggling as she flicked through every item in her wardrobe. “Just hurry up honey… does it really matter that much what you wear, it’s not like we’re going anywhere special is it, it’s only work!” But of course to Karen it did matter, because it always did. She was very particular about how she looked, and that had definitely come out in her more as a quality since her and Chris had been together, she always made the best of efforts for him, no matter where they were going.
Eventually she picked out a pair of slightly see through black leggings that came down to the middle of her calf, and had a few inches of lace at the bottom. She picked out a black vest top to match that fitted her slim figure perfectly showing off her curves, and also had a bit of lace along the neckline which was a revealing one, much to Chris’s delight. She then quickly blow dried and straightened her hair standing in the mirror, secretly peering at Chris in the corner as she did. “I’m ready…” she said turning around after she’d unplugged the straighteners and balanced them on the basket next to the mirror, then climbed on the bed toward Chris, putting her arms around him as soon as she was close enough to reach, kneeling up to kiss him. “You look so sexy baby…and we’re only going to work” he said laughing as he kissed her back. “I can’t wait to see what you’re wearing later…” “Ooooh where are you taking me?” Karen asked, taking hold of Chris’s hands. “You’ll have to wait and see won’t you… just a little place I found… we have reservations for 7 o clock” Chris told her, picking her up and carrying her down the stairs ready to go.
They arrived at training about an hour late, at almost 9:30am. Jayne was already there waiting for them, she was training with their first couple of the day, Chemmy and Sean. “Oh look here’s the loved up couple” she said noticing the two of them wonder in as if it were a normal day with a touch more romance as they walked around the side of the rink hand in hand. It didn’t take them long to put their skates on and onto the ice, they were both in an incredibly giggly mood and Karen was being very flirtatious towards Chris. “Are you going to show her then,” Jayne asked once Karen had finally got into ‘the zone’ and was going through the position Chemmy had to be in for the lift she was going to do that week, the sit lift. Karen had hated it but she was risking her fears again as Sean safely lifting her up above his head, it was almost more petrifying for Karen than it was for Chemmy. But once she’d done it once, it was absolutely fine and she was perfectly happy to show Chemmy as many times as she needed to feel comfortable with it herself. “Is it all ready?” Chris replied to Jayne, he had one eye on Karen being lifted into the air by Sean who was definitely trusted. “Yes everything was here at 8:00 on the dot, I made sure I was here to get it all for you, like you requested…” Jayne continued. “Ooooh okay then, thank you so much again Jayne, you’re an absolute star do you know that” he said, giving her a quick peck on the cheek as a sign of thanks.
“Okay can we take a break? Good work everyone” Chris said, beckoning a finger toward Karen. She followed him obediently, wondering what was going on as he lead her to her dressing room. “where are we going?” “You’ll see…” was all he’d tell her as they walked down the corridor behind the rink, Karen’s dressing room was the first one on the left. “Right close your eyes…” Chris said as they approached the door and Karen was about to go in, but he stopped her at the last minute. “Okay…” she said uneasily, gripping Chris’s hand tightly as he lead her through the door and into the middle of the room. “Right…open!” he said, still holding her hand as Karen opened her eyes slowly, looking in the room all around her. There were a selection of roses on the dressing table, a mixture of red, pink and yellow ones in a huge bouquet, about 100 other red roses were scattered over the room, all around the edges the flowers were lined up against each wall, and all over the bed that was just a single at the back of the room for emergencies, or for Karen and Chris’s sake in their lunch breaks. Confetti in the shape of love hearts were scattered all over the floor, and there was a box of chocolates in a heart shaped box on the dressing table also, next to the bouquet of roses.
“Chris! This is beautiful! I can’t believe you’ve done all this… for me” Karen said, the last bit almost came out as a whisper, she was completely overwhelmed by the huge efforts he had gone to, her eyes were welling up with happy tears. “No, no don’t cry baby…” he said turning Karen’s body towards his own and tenderly kissing her lips, his arms wrapped tightly around her tiny waist. “Thank you… I love you so much… I don’t know how many times I’m going to say that today its only lunch time! I love you, I love you, I love you…” “you can say it as many times as you like baby… it just makes everything seem more real… I love you too, I love you, I love you, I love you…” he repeated before kissing her passionately again.
“Okay your time is up guys!” Jayne called, banging on the dressing room door just in time to spoil their fun begin. “Oooohhhh… I guess we’ll have to save that for later…” Chris said slowly drawing away from Karen’s lips and taking hold of her hands, looking into her sparkling blue eyes deeply. “Don’t worry we’ll continue later… there’s plenty more to come” Then the pair of them walked out of the dressing room still hand in hand, where Jayne was waiting at the end of the corridor, hands on hips. “I said 10 minutes not 20!” she said, but she had to laugh. “Thank you Jayne, I think you helped with that too didn’t you” Karen said hugging her best friend. “Well I only set it all up in there, it was all Chris’s idea” she said as the three of them walked back to the rink where the next couple were waiting, Jen and Dan.
After that training dragged on so much more than it had before, all Karen wanted was to get back to the house and enjoy Chris’s company and see what else he had in store for her, and he wanted the same, he wanted training to finish right then after lunch, it was going on so long and they had so much work to do, he just wanted to show his love to Karen.
“Right, I think its time we called it a day” Jayne said finally after what seemed like a year, not a couple of hours. Both Karen and Chris burst into broad smiles across their faces as they caught each other’s eyes from the few meters they were standing apart on the ice. “or I could just be really mean and keep you two even longer…” both Karen and Chris’s faces slightly dropped at this. “but I’m not that mean don’t worry… but you should have seen both your faces!” she laughed before skating off behind them, and the three of them sat in a line on the bench and changed out of their skates.
“Right! No distractions, no nothing, you go and get yourself ready and I’m going to wait down here while you do,” Chris said as soon as they got through the door. “Okay, don’t you need to get ready too though” “Yes I do, but you just go and get yourself ready first okay and I’ll worry about me, I know what you’re like it’ll take you ages!” Chris said doing a shooing motion towards Karen to get her up the stairs and get herself ready.
An hour and a half later she came slowly down the stairs, one side of her dress bunched up in her hand. The dress had one thin strap that went over one shoulder and crossed over her fake -tanned back, it was a ruby red colour and was tight fitting, coming to a couple of inches above her knees. That was just the under section, the skirt was a couple of layers of chiffon that was short on one side and then came down at an angle creating a handkerchief effect in the way that the fabric fell. Her feet were encased in bright red patent court heels several inches high that she struggled to walk in, but as soon as she emerged through the doorway to the living room and caught Chris’s eye he was totally mesmerised.
“You…look…stunning…words can barely describe the love I feel for you Karen…” he said, standing up. He’d quickly changed into a smart suit that had been hanging on the back of the door neatly pressed, and now he was ready to go too, the smell of cologne surrounded the room. “That’s why… I’m asking you… to marry me…” he eventually got out when he had Karen’s full attention focus, and he’d sunk down to the ground on one knee, and pulled out the most gorgeous engagement ring.
